For the past few years, several Internet buzzwords (流行语) have gone popular, “     1     (hero) in harm’s way, “lying flat”, “nei juan”     2     (include). Once     3     ambassador to the United States told a personal story to explain why the government introduced a policy to deal with nei juan, or “involution”, a buzzword     4     (mean) irrational(非理性的) or involuntary competition, which makes people feel burned out.

“I still remember some 10 years ago, my weekends     5     (spend) rushing my kid from one training school to another, and the courses he took ranged from math to physics,” he said. And after a whole day of classes, a tutor came to his home in the evening. When the tutoring session finished, he himself still had to help his son     6     his composition homework.

Such a phenomenon is very common in our     7     (compete) society. Many parents are extremely afraid that their children will get off to a slow start, so they would rather do     8     they can to ensure that their children can have a good education, which unavoidably results in a great     9     (vary) of online or offline tutoring classes. What’s worse, it really discourages parents and children that the effort they have paid does little     10     (help) children win an edge over others.

With a timid voice, the little boy greeted his father as he returned from work, “Daddy, how much do you make an hour?”

Greatly     1     (surprise), the father said, “Look, son, not even your mother knows that. Don't bother me now, I'm tired.”

“But Daddy, just tell me please! How much do you make an hour,” the boy insisted.

The father,     2     (final) giving up, replied, “Twenty dollars per hour.”

“Okay, Daddy? Could you loan me ten dollars?” the boy asked.

Showing his restlessness, the father yelled, “So that was the reason     3     you asked how much I earn, right? Go to sleep and don't bother me any longer!”

It was already dark and the father was thinking about what he     4     (say) and was feeling guilty. Maybe he thought his son wanted to buy something. Finally, trying to ease     5     (he) mind, the father went to his son's room.

“Are you     6     (sleep), son?” asked the father.

“No, Daddy. Why?” replied the boy.

“Here's the money you asked for     7     (early),” the father said.

“Thanks, Daddy!” replied the son happily, putting his hand under his pillow and removing some money. “Now I have enough! Now I have twenty dollars!” the boy said to his father, who was gazing at his son, confused     8     what his son had just said.

“Daddy, could you sell me one hour of your time?”

Time is     9     precious to spend it all on work! Appreciate your loved     10     (one) and don't take them for granted.

According to an announcement by Sergey Kravtsov, Russian vice minister of education and science, Sputnik news reported, Russia’s national college entrance exam will include Mandarin as     1    elective foreign language starting from 2019. Chinese will become the     2     (five) elective test item for the Unified State Exam in addition to English, German, French and Spanish.

The number of Chinese learners in Russia     3     (rise) quickly in the past decade, according to a survey     4     (carry) out by a linguistic research center in Russia. Approaches    5    learning Chinese vary from person to person, with more and more people    6    (choose) university courses in Russia.

The three-hour-long Chinese test will quiz students on     7     (they) listening, reading, and writing abilities and a fourth section will examine students on grammar, vocabulary and Chinese     8     (character). Some parts in the exam are even a little bit difficult for native Chinese speakers. Insiders from the Russia education industry confirmed those    9    are with relevant professional background and Mandarin proficiency(精通) are more competitive in job application.

According to the Office of Chinese Language Council International, some 100 million people, excluding native speakers, use Chinese     10     (global).

China’s Chang’e 5 mission successfully delivered samples (样本) of the moon rock and dust to Earth on December 17, 2020. It     1    (mark) the first time in 44 years that moon rocks have been brought back to our planet, since the Soviet Union’s unmanned Luna 24 mission in 1976. 

The sample capsule landed in Inner Mongolia     2    a little after 2:00 a.m. Recovery teams in trucks and helicopters located the landing site shortly after and secured the sample     3     (contain).  

While Apollo-era moon rocks are estimated(估计) to be about 3 to 4 billion years old, the material     4     (collect) by Chang’e 5 is from a site in the northwest region of the moon’s near side. This area was formed a bit later, and the rocks here     5    (think) to be only about 1.2 billion years old. That means scientists could learn more about the evolution of the moon and test out new techniques for estimating the age of geological samples from other     6     (planet) and moons (卫星). 

The Chang’e lunar program,    7    includes landing two lunar rovers (月球车) on the moon’s surface, has been     8    (remarkable) successful. Although Chang’e 5 is a short mission, it’s one of     9     most complex projects undertaken by the Chinese space program so far. The country is far from done with the moon—Chang’e 6, a second lunar sample return, is scheduled     10    (launch) in the near future.