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The Story Behind The Million Pound Bank Note

The young man in the novel The Million Bank Note is the true experience of Mark Twain,     1     experience in the “gold rush” can be called defeats. Under the “gold rush”, Mark Twain was very sensitive to new     2    (opportunity). At that time, many miners who     3     (discover) gold and silver mines since the beginning of that adventurous period were selling their shares(股份) in New York City     4    (raise) funds, so Mark Twain invested all his savings into buying shares in silver mines.

As a journalist, Mark Twain's eyes and ears were     5    (extreme) sensitive. He told himself that he should sell stocks(股票) as long as one condition was met: that he should earn a sum of $100,000, which was     6     huge amount of money at the time.

With the rapid rise of stocks, Mark Twain soon “retired” and he ceased working as a journalist.    7    (bury) himself in the rising stock price, he felt rich and content, so he came to San Francisco and lived a luxurious life that seemed to be     8    (attract) to most people. Mark Twain “fell in love” with his stock and enjoyed the feeling of    9    (it) rising. Finally, the stock price dropped, and Mark Twain became as poor    10     the young man in the novel.

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Carl: Tell me, Sandra. What makes you come to America to study?
Sandra: Oh, I think UC Berkeley is one of the     1    (fine) universities in the world. I applied for and     2    (receive) a scholarship to study there, so here I am.
Carl: Good for you! I am sure you will love it at Berkeley. I always remember my college     3    (day).
Sandra: What were they like?
Carl: It was the best time of my life. It was also tough,     4     I made it and became a college graduate.
Sandra: How did you feel when you graduate?
Carl: It was     5     proud day for me. My family attended the graduation ceremony. I was     6     nervous that I couldn’t find my cap and gown (方帽长袍), but it all worked out     7     the end.
Sandra: What did you do     8     you graduated?
Carl: I was planning to attend graduate school, but then I     9    (offer) a good job doing fashion design, so I changed my mind.
Sandra: Sounds like you are happy with that     10    (decide).
Carl: Sure, I am.

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The Chinese language is becoming more and more popular    1    young Russians in Russia Far East, says Liu Congying, director of the Confucius Institute of the Far Eastern Federal University.

The number of students who enroll (登记) at the Confucius Institute    2    (be) obviously becoming lager nowadays. According to a Russia’s job search website, Chinese is the    3    (two) most popular foreign language only after English in Russia,     4    means the Chinese language is playing an important part in applying for jobs in the fields such as trade, translation and sales.

The increase in need for Chinese-speaking talents    5    (see) between Russia and China. “The need for Chinese-speaking talents grows    6    (rapid) in the fields of economy, science and technology,” Liu said at    7    Chinese language learning -related activity on Thursday.

In the first eight months, two-way trade between the Russia Far Eastern region and China shot up to an    8    (amaze) amount. Trade between Primorsky Krai, of which Vladivostok is the capital city, and China increased by 31 percent to more than $5 billion in the first three quarters of this year.

The increasing need for Chinese speaking workforce also pushed more university students    9    (attend) Chinese classes. “In total,” Liu said,“the Confucius Institute has trained more than 20 ,000 Russian students since    10    (it) start more than 20 years ago.”

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Recently, 16 Chinese online novels have entered a     1     (collect) in the British Library, including My Heroic Husband, Up in the Heaven and so on.     2     (cover) themes of science fiction, history, reality and fantasy, these works represent the classics of Chinese online literature over the past 20 and more years.

The British Library usually collects works     3     appeal to readers or when the books’ value is considered high. Now readers can check the information of the 16 books     4     the library’s website and borrow printed copies.

As the Chinese online literature industry has     5     (gradual) matured after two-decade development, it has received increasing acknowledgment from home and abroad. It has also attracted     6     increasing number of readers from overseas. One of     7     (large) online literature platforms, China Literature Group, has authorized the digital and print copyrights of more than 800 online novels to overseas.

China Literature’s international portal Webnovel,     8     (establish) in 2017, has seen nearly 100 million readers access     9     (it) library of more than 2,600 works that     10     (translate) from Chinese. Also, more than 300,000 writers from around the world have created over 420,000 works online.

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The Silk Road was a set of ancient trade routes that led from China's ancient capital of Chang' an, all the way to Rome. All kinds of goods     1     (carry)along these routes. Some of the goods China wanted included wool, carpets, camels, gold, silver and glass. At     2     same time, China sold mirrors, umbrellas, tea, medicine and of course silk. For many years, silk was used     3     a kind of money along the Silk Road—various Chinese dynasties used it     4     (buy)horses. This silk then made     5     (it)way into Central Asia and even as far as Rome. Spices(香料)were also an     6     (importance)trade item. While a few spices came from China and India, most came from what     7     (be)now Indonesia and travelled along the Silk Road,       8     was sometimes called the Spice Road. In     9     (late)centuries, china became a significant trade item on the Silk Road.

It was not just goods that flowed along the Silk Road; arts, technology and ideas did as well. The sharing was not one-sided. All the     10     (country)along the Silk Road benefited from this flow.