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China Media Group (CMG) showed the official theme and logo for the 2024 Spring Festival Gala several days ahead of the Year of the Dragon.

The logo of the gala uses the Chinese character , ______ “the flying of the dragons”, as the main symbol. The character is made up of three smaller characters for the word “ ______ ” written in traditional Chinese.

Some people were ______ by this character, saying, “This is the first time I’ve known this character is pronounced da. That’s so fun.” ______ said, “It best suits China, because we regard ourselves as the descendants of the dragon (龙的传人) .” Those who were looking forward to the Year of the Dragon said, “I ______ I have good luck this year.”

Shanghai’s Huanghe Road was famous for its expensive restaurants before. Only rich people could eat there. But things changed in the mid-1990s. The big and bright signs were taken down because of new safety rules. They also stopped selling fried snacks. Then, financial (金融的) problems in Asia made many restaurants closed.

    1     Lots of people are coming to see it. They are looking for old things and memories. Wang Yongfen has lived there for 35 years. She says she has never seen so many people.

A TV series called Blossoms Shanghai (《繁花》) is about Shanghai in the 1990s.     2     Wang, 60, says the TV series makes her think of the past. “The restaurants here first brought Hong Kong food to the city. Many famous cooks from Hong Kong worked here,” she says. In the 1990s, Hong Kong food, songs, and movies were very popular.

A guard says the street is very crowded now.     3     More young people are coming, too. The Taishengyuan Restaurant is very busy because of the TV series. Its online sales have gone up a lot. The Fairmont Peace Hotel is also getting more visitors. The hotel made a special menu with food from the TV series. It is expensive but sold out quickly. Online orders for food from the TV series have also gone up.     4     Other foods like pork chops and rice cakes are being ordered a lot more, too.

The TV series also reminds people of the past. Huang Jiani remembers when people set off big firecrackers (鞭炮) in the street for the Spring Festival.     5     They were very loud. Business people believed that larger and louder firecrackers would bring greater fortunes in the new year.

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6 . Since 2008, the program called “First Class Begins” has been put on the TV screen. The year 2023 was no exception. This _______ theme was “Building a Strong Country with Me”. The program was shown to viewers of all ages _______ the evening of September 1st as usual.

Guests from all walks of life, such as “Baiyi Medal” receivers, astronauts, scientists, model workers _______ to the show. They shared lessons with students across the country. For example, the Shenzhou-16 astronauts _______ were still working in the Tiangong space station, sent a special gift to students. _______ was made up of these three words “upward-mobility (上进心)”, “curiosity” and “original aspiration (初心)”. “Now I _______ a real astronaut, looking at the beautiful earth from our Chinese space station,” said one of the astronauts, Zhu Yangzhu, “Never give up, and our efforts will be paid off.”

_______ program also stressed the importance of developing a strong character. It told students that the _______ their characters are, the closer they are to success. Through _______ forms, the program turned to improve young people’s self-confidence as Chinese. It encouraged the young __________ widely, practice hard and take active part in the new journey of making our country a powerful nation. The future is bright, and we should be ready to take on the challenges ahead.

iPanda is an online channel. It provides a 24-hour live streaming (视频直播) of giant pandas.

In August 2013, China Network Television (CNTV) started this panda broadcast together with Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding and China Conservation and Research Centre for Giant Panda. They hope to provide people with a window to watch giant pandas’ real life and to solve problems about endangered animals. This panda broadcasting is shown mainly on the official (官方的) website ipanda.com and it is in English, Chinese and German.

CNTV has set up more than 30 high definition (清晰度) video cameras in Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding and also Wolong National Nature Reserve. Through those cameras, a group of program directors (导演) in the control room can watch pandas, and they will choose about 20 cameras for online live streaming. On the website, people can watch pandas in different stages of life including adult pandas, young pandas and baby pandas. Registered users can also make comments (评论) below the live streaming.

Program directors will make 30-minute videos every day as well including panda wiki, panda introductions and panda stories. Those videos will be shown on the YouTube iPanda Channel and also on other social media including Facebook and Instagram.