In recent years many TV shows have become extremely popular among Chinese audience. Those programs, ranging from talent or dating shows to reality shows     1    (receive) both commercial success and public attention.

Their popularity is     2    (main) based on simple facts. First, they care     3    social concerns. Second, without exception, they explore a perfect balance between the international forms and Chinese expressions.

Despite apparent highlights, much room     4    (leave) for improvement. Above all, commercial interests often outweigh     5    (education) purposes, causing many complaints about the     6    (bearable) advertisements. In addition, some sharp remarks,     7    they are eye-catching, may have misleading effects on the youth.

In my opinion, such shows should shoulder more responsibility instead of merely     8    (entertain) the public.     9    is expected, these programs should be positive in their forms as well as functions. Meanwhile, the     10    (medium) should also safeguard the values of our society.

A program called Everlasting Classics is becoming     1     (increase) popular. The program,     2     combines Chinese traditional poetry with music, was launched by China Central Television (CCTV). And it became a great hit soon after the program was shown on CCTV 1. It was hosted by Sa Beining,     3    CCTV host loved by the audience, and the Appreciation Group in the group     4     (include) Professor Kang Zhen from Beijing Normal University, Dean of the China Conservatory of Music, Wang Liguang, the famous hostess Zeng Baoyi and the well-known singer Yu Chengqing. Together, they led the audience to interpret and appreciate many classic Chinese poems, enjoying the     5     (beautiful) that the poems brought to the audience. Moreover, the poems were adapted into songs, which were sung by famous singers, like Zhang Jie, Wang Yuan, etc,     6     (make) the program more spellbinding.

In Season 1 of the program, one of the most     7     (attract) songs was Butterfly Lovers (《梁祝》). An 88-year-old     8    (piano) called Wu Yili played the music with the famous violinist Lu Siqing.The melodious music moved many of the audience     9     tears. In recent years, CCTV has produced many programs to spread traditional Chinese culture, including Chinese Poetry Competition     10    Everlasting Classics. Thanks to these programs, many people set off a craze for the study of Chinese culture.

“Du Fu: China’s Greatest Poet”, a 58-minute film released recently on BBC introduces Du Fu to the Western world for the first time     1     the form of documentary. In the film, Michael Wood, one of BBC’s most popular hosts, visited     2     number of Chinese cities to retrace Du’s steps. The documentary invited a well-known British actor Ian McKellen,     3     played Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings movies,     4     (read) 15 of Du’s poems that have been translated into English.

Born in 712, Du Fu lived through the violent fall of China’s brilliant Tang Dynasty. He had the desire to serve his country, but his life     5     (destroy) by the An Lushan Rebellion of 755. Of the many     6     (poem) he wrote, 500 have been preserved over the ages. For generations he     7     (be) the guardian of the moral conscience (良知) of the nation.

The documentary compared Du to Shakespeare to help audiences     8     (well) understand the poet’s great achievements in literature. It also highlighted Chinese poetry, noting that its 3000-year-old history makes     9     the oldest poetry in the world.

Even today, people     10     (suffer) under COVID-19 are still inspired by Du Fu’s poems.