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I need to get some things to clean the house this week-end, so I headed over to a local store. While walking around, I realized that I wasn’t ______ at anyone. That was out of character. I almost always smile at strangers with the _______ that it might brighten their day a bit. But in that particular moment, I was thinking of what had _______ me earlier in the day, not really in the mood(心情) to smile.

When I went to check out my things, I met _______ a very long line. People were buying Christmas gifts. To shorten the first line, a second register (收银台) opened up. I _______ turned to it. After a few moments, I began to _______ that all the people before me had lots of things to check out. I wasn’t ______ any longer, so I returned to the first line. After a short while, all the people in the second line checked out. I was _______ standing in the first line.

At last, it was my _______ to check out. I found that the man behind the register seemed so ______! He greeted me with a huge smile.

“It’s nice to ______ see a smiling face in this store,” I commented.

He replied, “I love to smile, _______ you never know what people are going through.” At that moment, he made me think of _______.

Something in me changed, and we began _______ kindness—about how it goes a long way. There was no one behind me, so we talked and laughed for a while. What a ______ it is, to be cheered up by this kind young man! I suddenly had all the time in the world.

When I was young, I liked watching 1.______ because they were very 2._____. After I went to the primary school, I found action films 3.______ and I watched this type of films every week. When I became a secondary school student, I liked watching 4._____. I thought they were very 5._______ and they made me laugh a lot. I have studied in a high school since last year. I find 6.______ and 7.______ are not interesting, exciting or funny. In fact, they are 8._______. And I find 9._______ are very popular and lots of people enjoy watching them day and night. However, they are too long. We students don’t have 10.______ time to watch them all.

A Bite of China Season Two (《舌尖上的中国》第二季)is coming! The program is shown at 9:00 on CCTV-1 every Friday night from April 18 to June 6, 2014. There are altogether eight episodes (集), all about history and culture of food, eating and cooking in China. The directors spent one year visiting more than 150 different parts of China. More than 300 types of food are covered in the documentary.

As an old Chinese saying goes, food is what matters most to people. It plays an important role in our daily life, and the rich food culture is also one of the most important parts of Chinese culture. A Bite of China Season Two wants to show the joys and sadness's of ordinary (普通的) Chinese in changing times through food.

A Bite of China Season One was shown on CCTV in 2012. It attracted more than 100 million viewers. It is all about food, while the second season cares more about the relationship between the people and the food. For example, the first episode shows a young man spent four hours climbing a 40-metre-high tree to get something nice for his brother.

The show reminds viewers of their homes and the tastes of childhood. One Weibo user wrote, “A Bite of China Season Two makes me have so many words to say. It makes me think of my parents and my grandmother. I haven’t been home for a long time, so I have decided to go back in a few days.”

The show uses food as a window to introduce China to the world. Viewers can see how Chinese people love life by loving food. Anyone who wants to know more about Chinese culture and Chinese society (社会) should have a bite of the program.