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Fifty years ago, China successfully launched     1     (it) first satellite, Dongfanghong 1 , and started a new chapter in space exploration.     2    (mark) its 50th anniversary, the China National Space Administration announced the name for the country’s Mars planetary exploration program on April 24.

The mission, Tianwen, got its name from a famous poet, Qu Yuan,    3     wrote the long poem Tianwen. In the poem, Qu raised a series of questions concerning the sky, stars natural phenomena myths and the real world, reflecting his doubts on traditional ideas and his pursuit of truth.

China     4     (make) remarkable progress in space exploration. As early as 1970, China launched its first man-made Earth satellite, becoming the fifth country in the world to launch man- made satellites     5    (independent) . Over the past few years, China’s missions, including the Shenzhou and Chang’e series     6    (design) to explore outer space, expanded mankind’s understanding of Earth and the universe.

This time,     7     Tianwen series will carry out the first Mars exploration mission in 2020.

Experts consider it the start of China’s exploration of Mars,     8    (represent) a milestone for China’s move toward deep space.

Indeed,     9     the name’s deep roots in Chinese traditional culture, it has been widely accepted among the public. Tianwen demonstrates the     10    (determine) and perseverance (坚持不懈) of Chinese people to move further into deep space.

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How mysterious the night sky is! It     1    (be) an endless source of fantasy since the start of human history. But     2    reality, humans can see very little of the night sky with their eyes. With the development of technology, our power     3    (investigate) and understand space has changed dramatically. The first telescope(望远镜) was invented,     4    increased the power of the human eye. It also enabled us to understand that the universe is far     5    (large) than humans’ previous imagination.

Almost 400 years after the first Earth-based telescope was invented, the Hubble Space Telescope was put into orbit, giving astronomers     6    first beautiful images of our universe. To see even further into the universe, many countries are now engaged in building more advanced telescopes.     7    (current), China operates the world’s most sensitive radio telescope, the FAST telescope. It     8    (complete) in 2016.

    9    (use) radio telescopes, one day we will be able to look back to a time in the very early universe, before the     10    (exist) of light. So much of the universe remains unexplored that we still have a long way to go.

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Laughter is a kind of universal body language that’s shared by people of all nationalities, skin colors, cultures and traditions. But did you know that the ability to tell genuine laughter apart from fake laughter also transcends cultures?

Greg Bryant, a professor of communication at the University of California, Los Angeles, US, published a study in Psychological Science in late July     1     result mentioned that people are able to identify real laughter through slight variations in sound.

In the study, 884 people from 21 countries were asked to listen to random recordings of laughter. Some of the recordings were made up of spontaneous laughs, while others were made by people who were asked to laugh     2     the command of the research.

The study showed that people around the world have the ability to pick out real laughter,     3     the variation of their abilities from county to country. Residents of the Samoan Islands, a remote island chain in the central South Pacific, were particularly good at it, correctly     4     (identify) real laughter 56 percent of the time.

According to Bryant, people from     5     (industrialized) nations “are more accurate in identifying a natural smile” because they rely heavily on emotional engagement in order to predict the behavior of     6     and create stronger social relationships.

But how do people from different cultures detect natural laughter so easily? And what traits does real laughter have?

As Professor Jessica Wolf of the University of California, Los Angeles, told the Association for Psychological Science, in real laughter our vocal chords “produce qualities     7     higher pitch and volume, as well as faster bursts of non-articulate sounds and more non-tonal noise”.

By contrast, fake laughter will “sound like speech”. According to ScienceDaily, fake laughter is controlled by the same brain system that controls the lips and tongue.

Bryant further explained that this system has     8     imitative capacity, saying “with this speech system, you     9     make a lot of different noises, including crying, laughter or a shriek of pain. That’s     10     fake laughter comes from.”

So that’s something to think about next time one of your friends laughs at something you said. Will you be able to tell if it’s real or fake?

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According to a review of evidence in a medical journal, runners live three years    1    (long) than non-runners. You don’t have to run fast or for long    2    (see) the benefit. You may drink, smoke, be overweight and still reduce your risk of    3    (die) early by running.

While running regularly can’t make you live forever, the review says it is more effective at lengthening life    4    walking, cycling or swimming. Two of the authors of the review also made a study    5    (publish) in 2014    6    showed a mere 5 to 10 minutes a day of running reduced the risk of heart disease and early deaths from all    7    (cause).

The best exercise is one that you enjoy and will do. But otherwise … it’s probably running. To avoid knee pain, you can run on soft surfaces, do exercises to    8    (strength) your leg muscles, avoid hills and get good running shoes. Running is cheap, easy and it’s always    9    (energy). If you are time poor, you need run for only half the time to get the same benefits as other sports, so perhaps we should all give    10    a try.

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A few people have lucid(清醒的)dreams, in     1     the dreamer is aware they're dreaming and can control the experience. Some others can learn     2     (have) lucid dreams. The practice can be used to deal with frightening dreams. However, its potential has been limited by it often     3     (be) so hard to achieve. Now, researchers have developed the most effective method yet for promoting lucid dreams.

The researchers let 121 adults aged 19 to 75 pick something     4    (see)in a previous dream. It was called a "dreamsign" that can serve     5     a reminder to become lucid when met again. The     6     (volunteer) were then handed capsules. Each person got a high-dose (大剂量的) capsule, a low-dose capsule and a placebo (无效对照剂) capsule, but they couldn't tell which was which. On three occasions, they woke in       7    middle of the night, took a capsule, imagined their dreamsign and went back to sleep. The high dose was most effective, causing lucid dreams in 42 per cent of participants. About 27 per cent       8     (report) lucid dreams with the low dose and 14 per cent after taking the placebo capsule.

The potential applications are     9     (excite).“This new method has the success rate we need to be able to       10     (proper)do research on lucid dreaming," says Denholm Aspy at the University of Adelaide in Australia.