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Written Chinese, a picture-based language at the beginning,  several thousand years to the use of longgu.

Today, tourists from  visit Dunhuang to see the caves.

Losing games taught him to practise harder and never .

, people who don't smoke are much healthier than people who do.

I have decided to  evening classes this term.

The Chinese New Year is now widely known as the Spring Festival because it starts the beginning of Spring. (it) origin (起源) is too old to be known. Several explanations are hanging around. But all agree that the word Nian, which in modern Chinese means "year", was (original) the name of a monster beast started to eat people the night before the beginning of a new year.

One legend goes that the beast Nian had a very big mouth that would swallow a great many people with one bite. People were very (frighten). One day, old man came to help them, offering to subdue Nian. He told people (put) up red paper decorations on their windows and (door) at each year's end to scare away Nian in case it came back again, because red was the color the beast feared the most.

Today, the custom of putting up red paper and setting off fire-crackers  (be) still around. However, people have long forgotten why they are doing all this, except that they feel the color and the sound add to the  (excite) of the celebration.

One day, my son Ryan said, "I'm going to keep working until everyone in Africa has clean water." I thought, oh, boy! But I'd heard about encouraging children to be 1 and dream big dreams. So I didn't want to say that he couldn't make a 2 .

At first, he planned to make money to build a 3 in Africa. But when he 4 his first $70 made by doing chores in neighborhood to a charity (慈善机构), he was told that it actually 5 $2000 to build a well. It was a lot of money, but Ryan didn't 6 . He persuaded his classmates and neighbors to give money. And I wrote to the local newspaper to make his story go 7 . After several months, Ryan had 8 the $2000, with which a well was built near a primary school in Uganda. The children at the school 9 needed to walk for hours to get water. They were 10 to him and invited him to visit.

In Uganda, Ryan saw the well with his own eyes and hundreds of students who had turned out to 11  him. Seeing that he really had 12  these children, he broke into a 13  smile. 

Now there is a Ryan's Well Foundation. His dream has 14 the lives of so many people, though most of whom we will never meet. Ryan has shown me what the 15 of dreams can do.