With a popular online comic strip （连环画），overseas Chinese artist Cao Siyu     1    （ enjoyable）sets about deconstructing stereotypes （成见）and cultural misunderstandings betweenEast and West.

After she encountered many misunderstandings and came face to face with stereotypical views about China, Cao was inspired to create Tiny Eyes Comics, an internet-based cartoon strip    2     (illustrate) the big world through tiny Chinese eyes”. Since her first illustration in late 2016, Cao followers     3     (post） more than 300 comics to her Instagram account,    4    has attracted about 41, 000 followers.

Italian magazine Grazia says ： " Her simple sketches have played    5    big part in making iteasier to understand Chinese culture."One of her comics shows the cultural     6    ( difference) behind the debate about usage of masks, which has been a divisive topic throughout the pandemic. To wear or not to wear, that is the question that has led to     7     ( expect) controversy and,     8    .some cases, even physical conflict, in some parts of the world. In the strip she explains that Chinese people wear masks     9    ( prevent) infection, as well as avoid passing the virus to others.

Many foreign readers say they find her illustrations enlightening, helping them to understand China, while Chinese immigrants have felt understood, according to Cao. This feedback and    10    (connect) with her readers has been "the biggest motivation"^， for her to keep creating.

The government has awarded $5 million to three different local nonprofit organizations. The money will     1    (distribute) over a four-year period and is aimed at helping approximately 1,000 homeless people in the county of Arvada.

One agency,     2    (locate) in Woodbridge, is expected to receive $1.5 million. The agency director says that they will focus their resources on educating the homeless. “We will probably build another school-home with this money,” he said. “A school-home is exactly     3     it sounds like. It is a school and a home. We have already built four school-homes throughout the county. We get the homeless off the street,     4     we educate them so they don’t have to return to the street. We teach them how to be     5    (garden), painters, carpenters, bricklayers, electricians, and air-conditioning repairmen.”

“You wouldn’t believe     6     success that we have had. In fact, a couple of weeks ago, our office air-conditioning went out. My secretary called a repairman. To our surprise, the repairman was one of our first     7    (home) students. He now owns his own air-conditioning business, plus two houses, two cars and a boat! He has a dozen employees. He’s doing     8    (good) than I am. He fixed our air-conditioning     9     free. I think I might sign up for the air-conditioning class     10    (I).”

On a recent Sunday afternoon, 15 young people lay cozily on colorful rugs and throw pillows       1     (arrange) in a circle, Their eyes were closed, looking as if they were asleep. Kong Yi sat cross-legged before them and     2     (gentle)hit metal bowls in front of her,     3     (arouse)a sound that echoed long inside the quiet room.

Listening to the slowly fading sounds of singing bowls, participants reached a deeper center and a semi-conscious state,     4     they were guided into imagining that they were talking to a wise man dressed     5     white, during which they could ask questions and get answers from     6    wise man in half an hour. In the final section, they     7     (encourage) to share their inner conversations with other participants. “In that session, many people asked the meaning of life at the end but everyone got different answers from the wise man-actually     8     (they),” said Kong, who runs a studio offering healing courses incorporated with art forms like painting, music and dance.

Such spiritual, meditative experiences     9     can lower stress and anxiety and case depression     10    (become)the latest option for the country’s stressed-out younger generation seeking relaxation and inward exploration in the past three years.