The story of Chinese fashion began in 2011 when Feiyue and Huili, both Chinese sneaker brands (品牌),suddenly gained international attention. Their products     1    (see) on models all over the world then. Last year, Chinese sportswear brand LI-NING was at the New York, Fashion Week in September with new designs decorated with Chinese     2    (character). Now the Chinese brands are impressive and ambitious and can go head to head with foreign brands. And this ambition may be due to the fact that China’s young people are now more    3     (confidence)of their own culture.

Cloning is а way of     1     (make) an exact copy of another animal or plant. Cloning has two major uses. Firstly, gardeners use it     2     (produce) plants. Secondly, it is valuable for medical research on animals. Cloning plants is straightforward     3     cloning animals is very complicated. The procedure is difficult to undertake and at first it was not accurate enough. Many attempts to clone mammals     4     (fail). At last the determination and patience of the scientists paid     5     in 1996, with a breakthrough—the cloning of Dolly the sheep. Then came the     6     (disturb) news that Dolly was ill. Cloning scientists were cast down to find that Dolly’s illness was more appropriate to a much     7     (old) animal. Altogether Dolly lived for six and a half years, half the length of the life of the original sheep. Dolly’s appearance raised a storm of     8     (object) and had a great impact on the media and public imagination. It aroused an argument over whether     9     was moral to clone human beings.

At present some countries began to reform their legal systems and forbade research into human cloning, but other countries like China and the UK, continued to accumulate evidence of the abundant medical aid that cloning could provide. Therefore, scientists still wonder whether cloning will help or harms and     10     it is leading us.