HOW TO PREPARE FOR A BEACH TRIP
1. Check the weather forecast before you leave. If the temperature is expected to (13) significantly, bring sunscreen and stay hydrated.
2. Pack all the necessary items. Your beach bag should (14) essentials like a towel, sunglasses, a hat, and extra clothes.
3. (15) applying sunscreen regularly to protect your skin from sunburn and long-term damage.
4. Follow safety guidelines and swim only in designated areas to avoid the (16) of accidents

Sophia used to be very cheerful, but recently she had become quiet and withdrawn. ______
a. Mia encouraged her to talk to a teacher about it.
b. Her friend, Mia, noticed the change and asked if something was wrong.
c. Sophia hesitated at first, but then she confessed that she was being bullied online.

Many cities have parks for people to enjoy. And it’s very (19) to find wonderful sculptures in them. However, some sculptures found in Fairbanks, Alaska, aren’t quite the same as in other cities. When the temperature (20) at the end of winter, they all disappear – because they’re made of ice!
Fairbanks has been the home of the World Ice Art Championship for over 20 years, and artists from many different countries come to create spectacular ice sculptures. The ice is brought from a lake (21) near the sculpture park. It’s said to be so clear that visitors can read a newspaper through it – even though the individual pieces are over one metre (22) !
Visitors also have the (23) . to make their own ice sculptures if they wish, as special classes. There’s a children’s play park, too, where absolutely everything is made of ice, (24) sculptures of favourite animals. It’s a great place to visit!

I’d worked for the company for almost ten years. They were good employers and the money wasn’t that bad. They trusted in my ability and always left me to get on with my work. And I shared an office and met some lovely people, so I certainly wasn’t unhappy there. But I just couldn’t stop wondering how better my life would be if I had my own business and could make my own decisions. And so one year ago this week I left my job.
We don’t have a spare room at home, so the kitchen table has been my office. It was difficult to begin with, but I soon got used to working in this way. I started by visiting small businesses in the area to see if I could interest them in my services. My proudest moment was making my first sale, a website for a local cake shop. Soon after, I started getting calls from other people asking for help with websites of their own and I found myself getting quite busy.
Of course, there have been challenges. I’m not earning quite as much as before but it’s enough. I don’t have to pay for transport to work anymore so that means I’m not spending quite so much. My biggest problem has been managing my time. There’s no boss to tell me what to do and I’m sometimes a little lazy. I have this rule that work stops on a Friday afternoon so I can spend time with the family at weekends, so I need to pay more attention to this.
So, I wouldn’t say it’s been easy, but I don’t regret my decision at all. I’ve enjoyed being my own boss and I’m quite hopeful about the future. During the next 12 months I plan to rent some office space as I’d like to be able to separate work from my home life. I’m going to need to earn more money to pay for it but I think it will help me to focus on my work.

Computer game exhibition
Have you ever tried playing the kind of video games that your parents played? The Museum of Science in Manchester, in the UK, has held an exhibition for the last few years, which invites visitors to do exactly that. It offers them the chance to play games from the last 40 years, in various sessions throughout the day.
These video games sessions have now become one of the main attractions of the museum. They are full of people every day, playing a wide range of games.
(37) For parents, for example, these are usually the games they used to play in their childhood.
There’s also an educational purpose to the games. For instance, some old types of computer, dating back 40 years, are also available in the sessions. They were originally used in classrooms to teach pupils to write their own computer programs. (38) Now, the museum is holding workshops that encourage children to learn similar skills – and they’re still very popular.
The sessions are also seen as social events, as people discover how much fun it is to play video games with other family members. And there’s also an area at Power Up! where a number of visitors can sit down together. (39) And nowadays, this is often how fans of video games are more likely to experience playing.
The exhibition also shows how much progress technology has made over the last 40 years. Parents can often remember playing very simple games. But the games that are played today are more complex. (40) And the players also have to use much more complicated techniques.
However, one serious side of the exhibition is that organisers also want to show that video gaming is an important industry, employing many skilled people.
So they hope the exhibition will share this message.That way, people who enjoy gaming will also understand all the hard work, talent and imagination that goes into creating these amazing games.

A And at the time, it helped lots of young people to do that.
B However, visitors often choose the ones they’re similar with.
C They have better storylines and animation, too.
D Then they can all enjoy playing the same game.