When I visited China I couldn't navigate to many of my favorite websites, either. I understand that the government blocks internet sites that they think are objectionable. The block is easy to get around because the technology is not great, but please be careful. I don't know if there is a punishment if the government discovers you. Probably the easiest way to get around the block is to use a proxy server. You ask the proxy server to get the web pages you want. The proxy server gets the pages from the real server and then sends them to you. That way it looks like you're browsing the proxy instead of youtube. You should know that proxies make your connection less private because they will obviously know what sites you visit. You may have trouble with youtube videos because flash videos don't always work with proxies. I don't understand the details, I'm sorry to say. Fortunately there are people all over the world who want to help you browse the internet. Here is a website that has more details and help. If you like, you can change the language to Chinese by clicking on the flag on the right near the top. http://www.sizlopedia.com/2008/08/21/how-to-bypass-great-firewall-of-china/ If the site is blocked, copy and paste the address into the box at this address: http://translate.google.com/translate_t# This is the google website translation service and it can work as an easy proxy. Tell it to translate from Finnish to English. That won't do anything to the content of the website at all, but it will change the address hopefully enough to fool the censors.

The "at" can stay. It sounds more formal, but there's nothing wrong with that. I think the first sentence is more common and probably more what you mean to say, but the second sentence is kind of charming. When it comes to meals, at least in American English, "take" is used most often with tea. If it's used with a meal that isn't tea, the meal is probably fancy and someone is bringing the food to you. Like, if you were staying at a very nice hotel, you could take breakfast in your room at 8:00. Or if you could afford a personal chef, you could take breakfast on the patio when the weather is nice.

Both sentences are correct. You can omit "his" if you want. Both sentences are equally good, so use whichever one you like better. There are sentences where "his" should not be omitted. For example, "He sat in the front row with Miss Smith, mouth half open." That could be confusing. Whose mouth is half open? His mouth or Miss Smith's mouth? In this case it's better to say, "He sat in the front row with Miss Smith, his mouth half open."

They sure can. I'm a woman and I have a close male friend named Dan. We like to watch movies together, and we can talk for hours. Dan and I are both friends with a woman named Alice. Alice lives with her boyfriend now, but she and Dan used to share an apartment. Dan and Alice are good friends. Neither Alice nor I were ever romantically involved with Dan. I know another man named Steve. Steve is close friends with both me and my sister. When he's in town, he comes to visit. We mostly play video games, surf the internet, and talk. Sometimes Steve brings his girlfriend Jamie. Once he brought Jamie and Jamie's best friend Andrew. I'm friends with a lot of other men, too. I'm studying computers, so I meet more men than women at college. Sometimes they're interested in me romantically or I'm interested in them, but a lot of the time there's no chemistry, or the chemistry dies as we get to know each other and realize we wouldn't be compatible. Then we can just be friends. I think it would be terrible if men and women couldn't be friends, because there are so many wonderful people I would never be able to know. I also wouldn't be able to have many friends at school because there aren't a lot of women in my major.

You're right, Ning is more difficult than 李利. How about Neil? Nick is good, too. It's short for Nicholas. If your friend doesn't like any of these names, well, there's no rule that says his English name absolutely has to sound like his Chinese name. ;) Finally, I know it's not as fun, but if he just decided to go by "Ning", he's lucky because it's short and simple enough that most English speakers shouldn't have any trouble with it.

Well, is there a particular section of the test that's giving you trouble? Maybe if you practice your weakest skill, you can improve your score and regain your confidence. I recommend reading English newspapers and watching English TV news. It's good language practice, especially for the kinds of topics you see on tests.

1. A step-grandfather is probably your step-father's father but he might be your father's step-father. English words for relatives are often ambiguous. 2. Traditionally, a godfather is someone chosen by the parents to help teach a child Christianity. These days it's not always religious, and a godparent might just help raise the child. A step-grandfather doesn't necessarily have any relation to a step-godparent.

The first sentence is better. "Was keeping" is the verb. The phrase "during 10 days" describes the verb. You were probably thinking the phrase should be next to the verb because it describes the verb. That makes sense, but it's not correct. English is weird sometimes. If you're not sure about the order, put phrases that describe the verb last. That's not a rule, and not all English sentences do that, but it will help you when you're confused. "During" sounds a little strange, though. "During" can't be used to talk about an amount of time. "During" talks about a particular time: during January, during my vacation, during next week. If you want to use it with "10 days", you need to use an article or a descriptive phrase to make "10 days" more specific: during those 10 days, during 10 days in March, during my favorite 10 days. If you want to talk about an amount of time, use "for 10 days" or "over 10 days".