thirty years.

17. You'd better travel to Alton Towers in _____.

　　A. January B. February C. September D. December

18. If you are at the age of 9 and visit Alton Towers on St David's Day with your mom, how much has to be paid online?

　　A. £64 B. £40 C. £54 D. £57

　　Which Chinese character would you choose to sum up the past year? It turned out that the most popular choice for Chinese people in 2017 was the character "xiang (享，share)".

This is according to a report published on December 21 by the Chinese National Language Monitoring and Research Center and the Commercial Press.

Xiang was this year's most popular character for domestic (国内的) issues, while the most popular character for international issues was "zhi (wisdom)".

　 In addition, "chuxin (the original aspiration)" was selected as the phrase of the year for domestic issues and the phrase "a community with a shared future (人类命运共同体)" was chosen for international issues.

The winners were chosen in an online voting in which thousands of characters and words were recommended by Chinese internet users. About 200 million votes were cast (投出), according to People's Daily.

Cultural experts believe that the Chinese character and word/phrase of the year show individual sentiment (情绪) and the social values of Chinese people. The most popular character of 2017 reflects (反映) the benefits that the "sharing economy" has provided, such as the convenience brought by shared bikes.

　　Last year's most popular character and word/phrase were "gui (rule)'' and "xiaomubiao (small goal)".

19. Which Chinese character was the most popular one chosen to sum up the year 2016?

　　A. Xiang. B. Zhi. C. Chuxin. D. Gui.

20. We can learn from the passage that the character "xiang"_____________.