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New Year paintings are a special art form in Chinese folk culture. The paintings get such a name because they are     1     ( most) posted during the Chinese New Year for     2     ( decorate ) the houses and they are also accepted as a symbol of New Year’s greetings.

New Year paintings appeared around the Tang dynasty, replacing the previous door pictures and believed to be able to protect the     3     (resident) and drive away ghosts. In the Song dynasty the New Year paintings     4     (create) on a large scale.     5     the printing techniques improving, the content and forms of New Year paintings became various. The development of     6     (they) matured in the Ming and Qing dynasties when the art reached its heyday (全盛期).

There are many     7     ( tradition) printing methods of New Year paintings,     8     ( include ) woodblock printing, stone-block printing and so on.     9     is reported, woodblock-printed New Year paintings are     10     most popular and interesting ones, according to a recent survey.

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Chinese writer Hai Ya’s The Space-Time Painter won the Hugo Award for Best Novelette (中篇小说) on Saturday. He became the third Chinese writer     1     (win) a Hugo award after Liu Cixin in 2015 and Hao Jingfang in 2016.

Hai Ya’s novelette     2     (inspire) by a painting masterpiece, Qianli Jiangshan Tu, by Wang Ximeng from the Song Dynasty   (960-1279). Hai Ya has woven the story of Wang’s life into     3     thriller that combines the elements of traditional Chinese culture and history with sci-fi and detective genres.

    4     (model) on the life of Wang, Hai Ya has created the character of painting genius Zhao Ximeng, who painted for an emperor more than 1,000 years ago. After much     5     (suffer), the painter’s mind abandons his physical body and enters a space     6     a modern police officer is investigating a case     7     (involve) an ancient painting. The story reveals the political unrest of the period during which the painting was created.

Commenting     8     the Chinese winners of the Hugo Awards, sci-fi writer Han Song wrote on Sina Weibo that it shows a new force of Chinese sci-fi     9     (rise) and become a name card and a language for China to communicate with the world. But he said he also felt the need for Chinese sci-fi writers to work even     10     (hard) because of the strong position Europe and the United States enjoy in this area.

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Through a student exchange program, I got the chance to experience life in Germany. The school I went to     1     (locate) in Berlin and was named     2     the famous writer Achim von Arnim (1781-1831).

The school has about a dozen classrooms     3     are used to develop students^’interests in auto repair (汽车维修), woodwork, art design, and decoration making.

Among the many classes, the craft lessons     4     (impress) me the most. In the workshop, there was special equipment for each project. Our visiting group decided     5     (make) a padlock (挂锁). At first, all we had was a piece of metal and some bristles (刷毛). The task was to make the rough surface     6     the sharp edge smooth, then hollow (挖空) out a circle in the middle of the metal block.

Small things, yes, but they all required a considerable amount of time. Sometimes one edge was not smooth, but after     7    (sharpen) it, I found out the other side became skewed (歪斜的). It seemed like I would never be able to make a perfect padlock.

But German students could do them     8     (good). They learned to be patient through these small difficulties. They will always carry these     9     (quality) with them，and be grateful for what they get. That’s the main     10     (believe) of “craftsman’s spirit”.

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In my opinion. We should try our best    1     (realize) our goals even though there     2     (be) little hope. The efforts seems to be the lights in the darkness.

I used to be    3     shy girl in my primary school. I was weak in English at that time, especially for    4     (speak) English. So I was afraid to answer the teacher’s questions during English classes. After I entered my dream middle school, something     5     (change) . I started to read many     6     (interest) English stories and my English teacher was patient to help me a lot. I studied hard in class and practiced by watching English films and listening to English songs in my free time. Little     7     little, I found     8    more and more interesting to learn English. I could even talk with my classmates    9     (fluent) in English and I was not shy any more. At last, I got high grades in English and I had     10     (confident) to do it better in the future.

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　　David will never forget what happened to him the day before yesterday. He was eating something at home when he     1    (receive) a strange phone call from a hospital. The caller said his son     2    (fall) to the ground unconscious on the way to school and that it was he    3    took him to hospital. David hung up and rushed to his son’s classroom, only to find him     4    (listen) to the teacher    5    (attentive). He suddenly realised that he had been cheated, but he felt relieved. Just at that time the phone rang again,     6     (say), “Your son is in great danger and he needs     7    immediate operation which costs 48,000 yuan. The doctors here say they will not operate     8    your son until they are paid.” When asked from where the caller had taken his son to hospital, the caller rang off. David gave a big smile and said, “What a pity it is!” 

The cheater might have thought he could get money from David. If so, he was wrong. Such phone calls are common these days, and many of David’s     9    (colleague) have received similar calls recently. Therefore, all parents should be sensitive to such tricks as not to    10    (cheat).