With Chinese hit by quarantine（隔离期）and travel restrictions as well as just cautious about going out to the shops due to the coronavirus epidemic（流行病），companies in China are experimenting with new tricks to make sales.

Oil giant Sinopec—keen to get customers back in their cars and help farmers due to roadblocks—    1    (launch) a new project last month called "zero touch" vegetable sales at its 6,000 gas stations in 147 Chinese cities.    2    (consume) place and pay for orders on the app. When they drive up gas station, employees put the vegetables into their car trunk,    3    (avoid) any need for human-to-human contact.

"The coronavirus outbreak has made     4    difficult for people to shop as before," said Li Hong, vice president of Sinopec's convenience store sales division. "Travel demand has been falling, but demand for food is pretty rigid."

Mengniu Dairy, China's dairy producer, is racing to add more vending machines     5    the 10.000 it currently has, saying the epidemic has driven unexpectedly strong demand for the sales channel. Its system allows customers to order products like milk and yoghurt online     6    can then be picked up from their local vending machine. "The virus outbreak has decreased consumption for dairy products as people     7    (forbid) to go to the supermarket," said Meng Fanjie, head of the company's Communist Party committee. Luckin Coffee, a     8    (compete) rival to Starbucks, now also offers the sanitizer（消毒）products (e.g. hand soap) besides coffee. Liu Xingliang,     9    independent retail analyst, said, however, that Luckin's strategy would have only a modest impact. "At best some users will place an order when they buy coffee, but nobody is     10    (deliberate) choosing the Luckin app just to buy sanitizer."

For Southeast Asian shoppers, the Double 11 sales event rings much more familiarity     1     those from other parts of the world, because the region has more online shopping destinations     2     their promotion strategies are directly imported from China.

Blessed by the easy Internet access, recent years have seen the fast rise of e-commerce in Southeast Asia, a and the companies riding this wave have a rich history of bringing in an outsized promotion on November 11. Shopee, one of the top destinations in the region, is one example.     3    （found）six years ago, the company has adopted the Double 11 concept     4     it first came up. Last year, it recorded three times more orders in the first hour of the festival compared with the same period of the year before. Like other similar platforms that have swept through the region, Shopee is expected     5    （see）an enormous sales boost this year.

    6     is also fueling these companies’ confidence is the rapid     7    （ grow） of Southeast Asians’ awareness toward the shopping festival. A 2019 survey found that the awareness level among Malaysian online shoppers     8    （rise）to 65 percent.     9    （astonishing）, a recent survey even suggested that up to 86 percent of Thais planned to shop online on November 11. According to the survey, Shopee and Alibaba-owned Lazada were found to be their     10     （favored）destinations.

【推荐3】I was wandering into the small store, when the store owner received a call from a customer. The customer and his wife had shopped there several months before. When noticing that his wife really liked one thing in the store, he wanted to buy it as a surprise. Because time was limited, out     1     (go) the couple without buying it. It was not until several months later that the customer wanted to buy it.

But the customer was in Tennessee, living far away from the store which was in Maine. What was more, he had been to the store several months before, and it was difficult to believe that the store owner would remember him, or     2     it was that he was referring to. There were     3     (diversity) goods in the store. The customer’s question was whether she could do it. She said yes. The store owner advised him to describe the thing for her and so he did.

    4     (inform) what the thing was like, the store owner took a few close-up photos with her camera, and e-mailed them to the customer. Having received the photos, then the customer decided which one was the very thing.

Then the customer said, “Now it is time we discussed a price over the phone.” Apart     5     discussing the price, they also decided the time to send it. Then she took care of the credit card transaction(交易) online, and the customer proposed the gift     6     (send) that afternoon. Then the agreement was reached. The customer said. “I live far away from your place now.     7    , I would get it myself.”

The store owner was really smart. She wasn’t necessarily     8     (talent) for new technology but she was willing to push herself to find new ways to make the transaction (交易) actually happen. It was not a dramatic thing. It was the first time she had ever done it. Never before had she done such a thing.

    9     difficult it was, the store owner discovered a creative solution     10     (contribute) to a new way of doing business. In my view, we should realize that challenge and opportunity go hand in hand.

Poetry,     1     universal form of literature, plays an important role in ancient China. Poetry probably had its origins in traditional folk music tens of thousands of years ago. In that era, there were no TVs or films, and     2     (write) had not been invented, so people would sit around the fire at night and sing songs     3     (entertain) themselves. These songs reflected themes from the people’s daily     4     (life), such as hunting animals or sowing crops. Since nothing was set down, over the years different versions of these songs developed, and each area would have its own respective rhythm. In addition to this, people would recite stories of past heroes.

As these stories were often quite long, they often had rhyme and rhythm to help people remember them more     5     (easy). While in the beginning such songs and stories had a very simple format, over time they became more complicated and     6     (pretty). These were no longer the works of amateurs sitting around a fire,     7     works of true poets who cared about their art and who sometimes made a living from it.

Poetry plays with sounds, words, and grammar,     8     makes poetry difficult to write but very interesting to read. Poetry uses colors, feelings, experiences, and images to paint a picture in your mind. Today, many Chinese people     9     (become) more interested in reading poems, no matter     10     what language they are written. Translation is good, but being able to read in what language is best.

Following popular Western film and television works such as Harry Potter and Star Wars, the Monkey King from     1     classic Chinese novel “Journey to the West” has become the first Chinese hero     2     (get) his own Lego model.

The Lego company     3     (launch) Monkie Kid, its first series on Chinese culture, in Shanghai on May 15. The series     4     (create) by a Chinese team     5     (consist) of eight play sets and an animated film. Based on the story of the Monkey King, the series introduces a new character Monkie Kid,     6     is a young noodle shop delivery boy.

The introduction     7     the company’s official website says that Monkie Kid finds     8     (he) and his friends involved in adventures full of     9     (act), mystery and magic as they fight the Bull Demon King with the help of the Monkey King’s golden bar.

So far, Chinese elements     10     (accept) by more and more consumers in Western countries.

It was a windy night. I had just turned     1     the TV, brushed my teeth and was reading my favorite book, Wuthering Heights (呼啸山庄)by Emily Bronte. I     2     (absorb) in the book when Cathy’s ghost(幽灵) appeared.

As I looked through my book, some strange noises were coming from the window. I walked towards the window     3     (see) what was going on there. All I observed were     4     (branch) of trees waving wildly. All of     5     sudden, I heard the noises again. They sounded like someone was knocking at the window. But I knew that was     6     (possible) because my room is on the second floor of the house.

My heart was beating     7     (violent) as I quickly opened the window. At that moment, a cold, white hand caught my arm     8     tried to pull me out of the window. I screamed and tried to free     9     (I) but in vain.

Suddenly, I heard a gentle voice saying, “Tommy, wake up.” Then, I opened my eyes and saw my mother was standing by my bed,     10     (hold) my book in her hand. I was so glad that Cathy’s ghost hadn’t been real!