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Most people know yoga as a kind of exercise, 1. aims at developing strength and flexibility. However, 2. yoga is really about is more than just exercise. People do yoga 3. (hear) what their bodies are telling them as well as the quiet voice inside them. In 2014, the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, asked the United Nations to create an International Day of Yoga. The United Nations agreed, and now International Yoga Day is celebrated on 21 June.

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Chinese dumplings are one of the most celebrated Chinese foods. Although the exact history is unclear, the Chinese 1. (enjoy) them since around the first century. Strictly speaking, there 2. (be) only two kinds of jiaozi: boiled and steamed. While not classified as jiaozi, other kinds of dumplings are popular in China as well. Guo tie, pan-fried dumplings called "potstickers" in North America, are a popular snack. Wontons, dumplings with a very thin outer layer, 3. (find) in soup often. Some dumplings can even have soup inside of 4.(they), like the mouthwatering xiaolongbao.

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Miss White 1. (give) a quiz on the weekend homework. Steve hurried through the test and was the first to hand 2. his paper. With a look of surprise, Miss White took his paper. Obviously 3. (puzzle), she began to look it over. Miss White's face was in total shock! The smartest boy in the seventh grade had just passed his first test.

Voluntourism

Volunteering to help people in need combined with travelling to faraway places is a new trend in the travel industry. It is called voluntourism. 1. They find it is the best way to get the best of the world.

Recent statistics show that in the past few years voluntourism has been one of the fastest-growing areas of tourism. More than 1.6 million people around the world are volunteers in other countries. They help build schools, assist in hospitals and do farming work in developing countries. 2. They keep in touch with their host families after they return home, and many return to visit.

There are many reasons why people want to engage in voluntourism. When people choose to join a voluntourism program, they are joining a global network of volunteers who are living and working with diverse cultures on projects that have a positive effect. The volunteers come from all over the world, and they will share the passion for giving back and the desire to broaden horizons. Some students also see it as a gap year after school, while others simply want to take time out from a job and do something else. 3. However, many voluntourists do not see volunteering as what it is. They think it is a cheap way of travelling and don't really want to get involved in hard work.

While voluntourism has been around for over a century, modern volunteering started with the Peace Corps, a program that the US government started in the 1960s. From then on, voluntourism has become more and more popular. Many organizations start similar projects. 4. And they have hundreds of different types of programs for people to choose from in more than 30 developing countries. The programs run year round and each volunteer chooses when they want to start and the duration they would like to stay for.

5. They say that if people really want to help those in need, there are many opportunities in their own community to do this. On the other side, volunteers are often not skilled enough for the tasks that they do. Travel experts point out that in some cases voluntourists are often taken advantage of by the organization that sets up the trips.

A. Not everyone sees voluntourism in a positive way.

B. Some of them establish lasting bonds with people there.

C. And there are those who are bored and merely seek adventure.

D. Most voluntourism organizations employ people from similar fields.

E. By participating in voluntourism, they are contributing to local economy.

F. People travel to other countries, learn languages and gain new experiences.

G. They offer voluntourism trips to suit people's interest, experience level or age.

Comedy and Psychology

Earlier this year I did a part-time comedy course. The class was taught by Ryan, a professional comedian.I had performed a show, which wasn’t originally meant to be a comedy. However, the audience laughed at my first joke, then continued to laugh throughout the routines that were meant to be serious. So it was the audience who told me I was funny, but I didn’ t understand why or how to control the comic (滑稽的) moments. So, I joined the course to learn.

“Turn off your editor that makes you say the right thing and remember how to be a child,” explained Ryan. “Don’t try to be clever. Don’t try too hard to be funny…and knowing all about the theory of humor is unlikely to help you much. Just behave in a silly way. That’s what people want to see on stage.”Ryan would help us loosen up by saying things like, “Wander around talking to others, but make sure that you’re the lowest status person here.”

I’ d say that understanding the psychology of humor has actually helped. Recently I came across the book Inside Jokes: Using Humor to Reverse-Engineer the Mind. Its main idea is that any self-directed intelligent system will need to correct its own fault. There’s a risk that the occasional error will be made. If this was boring or burdensome, we’d be less willing to do it. However, evolution has made the process fun.

Here’s a joke in the book: Two fish are in a tank. One says to the other, “Do you know how to drive this thing?” It works on the principle that we have started to imagine one thing—that the tank is the typical container people keep fish in—and, just in time, the following words tell us that our first assumption was wrong—it’s a heavy vehicle. For correctly figuring out the error, we are rewarded with a pleasurable feeling. The joke is an efficient way of encouraging this natural reaction, and comedians have become experts in slightly touching this mental funny-bone in order to make us laugh.

Ryan was right when he said that knowing the theory of humor wouldn’t help us that much as a comedy.During one exercise in the course, four of us were told to perform an opera. Susan and Caroline sang earnestly on either side of the stage, and I brought Henry to the floor, where we wrestled (摔跤) each other like out-of-control teenagers. The rest of the group was in uncontrollable fits of laughter. As a performer, I’ ll never appreciate just why it seemed so funny. But the point is that I would never have written this on the paper. It was a joyous, found moment.

1.Why did the author attend the comedy course?

A.He wanted to see how the theories worked in practice.

B.He discovered he had some natural ability in comedy.

C.He worried about how other performers would find him.

D.He got unpleasant experiences when performing a comedy.

2.Ryan required the people on the comedy course to______.

A.copy their favorite performance

B.imagine other people’ s reactions

C.help themselves feel comfortable

D.behave in a more playful manner

3.What is the purpose of the joke mentioned in Paragraph 4?

A.To discuss what humor brings about exactly.

B.To give an example of another kind of humor.

C.To prove the point about psychology of humor.

D.To show why some people are funnier than others.

4.What view does the author put forward in the end?

A.Visual humor is what appeals to people most.

B.What people find funny is often unpredictable.

C.Theories explaining humor tend to be mistaken.

D.Learning comic skills proves to be a difficult task.