Leisure time (休闲时光) should be advocated. The main reason that leisure time is important is that it gives a person the balance     1     (need) to focus on his or her other more stressful, daily activities. Leisure time relieves     2     (sad) and stress and also improves one’s physical (身体的) and emotional health.

Taking time to do    3     (enjoy) leisure activities gives a person’s mind a rest from daily stress. Combining work     4     leisure time allows people to be more focused and efficient when working. In this sense, a company which emphasizes leisure time has a good prospect for growth. Physical leisure activities, apart from    5     (calm) the mind, also help keep the body healthy.

Quality leisure time is also vital because it has the ability     6     (improve) one’s communication skills and self-respect. By taking part in group leisure activities based    7    shared interests, such as book clubs, painting clubs or exercise groups, people can widen their circles of friends. Group activities can also benefit those    8     are shy.

Joining in all kinds of leisure activities is also    9    good role model for children. It helps to teach them about valuable life skills, such as    10     (social) acceptable behavior.

Winter in Quebec, Canada is very different from that in England. When I first arrived, I was     1     (slight) worried about the winter. I couldn’t imagine     2     it would be like to have 3 metres of snow, and what on earth I was going to do when the weather was so bad. However, here, life goes on as usual. Trains and buses continue, and people socialise and even better.     3     number of new sports take over.

For me, skiing means downhill skiing, in ski resorts (度假胜地), with ski lifts taking you up the mountain. Before     4     (arrive), I did not know there were in fact different     5     (type) of skiing. Imagine a sunny but cold day, and you have taken a chairlift to the top of a mountain     6     (cover) with snow. An hour seems like a few minutes, as you carve your way down a run to the bottom, and then do it all again. It is my new favourite sport.

Ice skating on a frozen (结冰的) lake is another     7     (excite) sport for me. Once I could hardly stand on a pair of ice skates, but now I am able to make laps (圈) of the 3 km route on the lake,     8     is frozen during January and February.

Indeed having 3 metres of snow was a bit frightening. School     9     (cancel) once because of a big snowstorm, but I was     10     busy enjoying all these cool sports that winter finished too soon!

Good morning, and welcome to your tour of Bob and Betty’s Ice Cream Factory. Here you’ll learn a lot about how ice cream     1     (make)! Let’s begin.

In this room, cream will be taken out of our large refrigerators first. Then the cream     2     (put) into this machine. While the cream is mixing, sugar will be poured ( 倒 ) slowly into the cream by our ice cream makers.

Today we are making banana nut ice cream. Right now, different kinds of nuts are being chopped (切碎) in a large chopper. It’s a very expensive machine, but it chops nuts very quickly.

When the nuts and bananas are ready, they     3     (add) to the sugar and cream in a special machine that     4     (invent) by Betty a few years ago.

The ice cream     5     (keep) in a large cold room until it     6     (send) by trucks all over the country.

That is the end of our tour. Thank you for visiting our factory, and now we’d like to invite you to go to our tasting room, where our delicious ice cream can     7     (enjoy) by all our visitors.

Camping was so popular as to even become a fashion across China during the just-concluded National Day holiday, with some joking that “half of the friends     1     WeChat were camping. Outdoor camping sites were popular during the holiday and had to     2     (book) several days in advance.

According to research firm iiMedia Research, the core market size of China’s camping economy reached 74.75 billion yuan ($10.5 billion) in 2021,     3     was 62.5 percent up year-on-year.

More market-sensitive players are plowing into the industry. In 2021, more than 20,000 new camping-related enterprises sprang up in China,     4     over 5,000 have been set up this year, according to the information provider Tianyancha.

Huzhou,     5     popular tourist destination in East China’s Zhejiang province, hosted the first Camping Conference in the Yangtze River Delta in June. It also became one of the first to     6     (official) regulate the construction standards and     7     (safe) supervision (监管) of camping sites.     8     (follow) Huzhou, Beijing and Nanjing in Jiangsu province have also introduced related policies for the healthy development of the industry.

“Consumers’ demand for outdoor activities     9     (increase) in recent years. I believe     10     (many) people will join in camping and other outdoor activities in the long run,’’ said Liang Qidong, vice president of the Liaoning Academy of Social Sciences.

Last Sunday, we went to the zoo to see some wild animals. When we arrived in the early morning, we found the gate     1    (closing, closed). So we had to wait outside. As soon as we saw the gate     2    (opened, opening), we went in immediately. How excited we were to see some animals     3    (playing, played)with each other in the zoo!

There was a huge metal cage in the centre of the zoo. As we drew near, we could see a small monkey     4    (attacked, being attacked)by a group of older monkeys. While I was watching, I heard my name     5    (called, calling)from behind. I noticed a boy     6    (named, naming)David     7    (run, running)towards me.

He told me that he had met a foreigner and the foreigner didn’t speak Chinese. So he wasn’t able to make himself     8    (understanding, understood)though he tried to make some gestures. When I learned that the foreigner wanted to have a picture     9    (taking, taken)by the side of a beautiful peafowl(孔雀), I went and helped take a picture for him at once.

Have you ever been to an amusement park? My parents and I     1     (go) to visit the biggest amusement park in our city next weekend. Actually, this     2     (be) the third time that I have visited it. Last night, I     3     (spend) two hours making some preparations. Now, I     4     (tell) something I know about amusement parks to you.

An amusement park     5     (be) an outdoor area with games, rides and shows. It also     6     (offer) restaurants and bars where customers can eat and drink. So far, most of the amusement parks     7     (replace) by theme parks. These places     8     (focus) on a certain topic of history or natural life. The first theme park, Disneyland,     9     (open) in California in 1955. It is likely that my parents     10     (take) me to the Shanghai Disneyland next summer holiday. I look forward to visiting it soon.