When I was young, I read many kinds of books, including fairy tales. In those books, heroes     1     (describe) were handsome and heroines were beautiful. I, therefore, believed I had to be beautiful if I wanted     2     (become) a great person.

As I grew up, I began to realize outer beauty was not so important to make someone excellent. I remember a friend of     3     (my). She believed that she could do everything she wanted because she was so beautiful, but she lost her friends one by one. What she learned was that inner beauty is more important than outer beauty.

Whenever I see TV     4     (advertise), I feel they make us believe beauty is very important. Although we say inner beauty     5     (be) more valuable, we often look     6     plastic surgery to make us more beautiful. There seems to be     7     boom in plastic surgery. It is surprising to realize the number of people     8     try it is increasing day by day.

We know good­looking guys usually get     9     (high) scores on job interviews than others. So, what is real beauty? I want to say that what does make one look like a     10     (real) beautiful person is inner beauty.

A company in the USA is paying its workers to sleep more. Staff at the insurance company Aetna will get $300 a year     1     (add) to their salary if they get at least seven hours of sleep a night. They will get just over a dollar for each night they sleep over seven hours. The idea behind this plan is employee     2     (perform). Human resources     3     (official) say workers will work more effectively if they have slept well. A workforce that is more rested means the company will perform     4     (well). Staff can either record their sleep automatically,     5     (use) a wrist monitor, or record by hand how long they have slept every night.

    6     number of studies warn that not sleeping enough can affect our ability to do our job. The American Academy of Sleep Medicine said that the average worker in the USA loses 11.3 working days of productivity a year from a lack     7     sleep. This     8     (cost) companies about $2,280 for one worker. It estimates (估计) that the US economy loses $63.2 billion a year mainly     9     workers do not sleep more than seven hours a night. A 2015 study by the Rand Corporation showed that staff members sleeping less than seven hours per night     10    (find) far less productive than workers having eight or more hours of sleep.

Liu Genghong, a Taiwan-born singer, has taken the Internet by storm and sparked a fitness wave with his workout livestream on Douyin, China’s version of TikTok. Liu’s workout sessions are so popular that they     1     (break) Douyin’s livestreaming record for 2022 to date. Within     2     month, Liu’s livestreams have been viewed nearly 100 million times,     3     his most popular session attracting over 44 million live views.

Chinese     4     (music) Jay Chou’s songs often serve     5     Liu’s background music. One of his most-watched fitness routines     6     (set) to “Herbalist Manual” (本草纲目) from Jay Chou’s Still Fantasy Album. “I want to slap my leg whenever I hear ‘Herbalist Manual’ now,” shared a netizen.

    7     Liu’s dance moves look simple, they are often too intense (剧烈) for his audience     8     (follow). Many netizens even joked that the 49-year-old was facing a popularity contest with Li Jiaqi, China’s “livestreaming king”     9     (know) for his sales tactics (策略). “Li Jiaqi empties our wallet,     10     Liu Genghong empties our body,” joked a netizen.

The popularity of Chinese video-sharing social networking service TikTok continues to grow among young people in the United States, especially teens and young adults.

The service lets users create and share short videos, many of     1     are within 15 seconds. The TikTok app offers a wide choice of sounds, brief parts of songs and special effects tools    2    (produce)a video. Videos often include popular songs from famous    3    (artist) and TikTok has even helped begin the careers of new music stars.

TikTok    4    (consider) a competitor to video-sharing app Snapchat, as well as Facebook’s Instagram service. Snapchat and Instagram also mainly interest young users with photos and videos centered     5     (large) on fashion, pop culture and humor.

Last year, TikTok was the     6     (two) most downloaded app from Apple and Google stores. Only WhatsApp was downloaded more.     7     was said that people have downloaded the TikTok app 1.65billion times.

While TikTok has continued to grow, some experts and parents have expressed concerns about videos     8     (appear) on TikTok that might be    9     (harm) to young users. For this reason, they urge parents to monitor what their children watch on TikTok and suggest that only those over 16 should have access     10     the service.

Li Ziqi, a short video blogger specializing in traditional Chinese cooking and handicrafts,     1    (gain) worldwide popularity so far.

It is the spirit of craftsmanship behind her works     2     makes Li’s video clips attractive. She strictly follows the authentic traditional steps and procedures in making traditional Chinese food and handicrafts. Sometimes she spends several months producing one of her videos. Li has been inheriting(继承) traditional Chinese culture     3     a rather creative way. A closer look at her     4    (video) will show that they are never with any “analysis” that makes people feel bored.