It is well-known that silk was discovered in China. Chinese silk is wonderfully ________, light and soft. It has a perfect look and feel that no other materials can ________.

There is a(n) ________ about how Chinese silk was discovered. Leizu, the wife of Huangdi, was having tea under a mulberry tree (桑树) ________ a silkworm cocoon (蚕茧) fell into her cup. As she tried to ________ the cocoon, it started to spread and the “line” seemed endless. She ________ that the strong line could be used to make clothes. Later, Leizu taught people how to ________ silkworms and how to get silk. ________ this way, the silk industry was born and more silk was produced.

In the Han Dynasty, silk was spread to many other ________, such as Spain and Rome. The trade road was called the Silk Road. It connected China with many ________ parts of the world. Today, silk is still very popular around the world.

When Emily was four years old, her grandfather gave her a hammer (锤子) for her birthday. She loved using it to make toys from old things _________ nobody used any more.

When she was a teenager, she thought about _________ something to help others. Emily’s grandfather had arthritis (关节炎). His hands and fingers hurt _________. He had difficulty getting toothpaste (牙膏) out of the tube. So she created a product to help him, and _________ the Young Engineer for Britain Award.

A few years later, Emily learnt about the _________ that people often walk a long distance to get water in some African countries. They can only carry one bucket (桶) at a time, and they usually put it on _________ heads. Emily’s invention is a simple water carrier. The “wheel” on the water carrier is made from wood. It makes it _________ for women to transport up to five buckets each time.

Her latest project is a simple fridge that runs _________ electricity using only the energy that comes from the sun. There are now many families in villages in Zambia and South Africa using it.

Emily is now a young woman. She is the winner of several _________ for her inventions. She is named one of the world’s top ten young people. She often visits schools and encourages teenagers to __________ new ideas that make the world a better place. She wants to use her skills to make a difference.

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Instead of studying at home or in a library, more and more people in China choose to go to paid study rooms with comfortable tables and chairs.

“We hope to create a perfect learning place for people who want to study,” said Wang Yi, founder（创始人）of a 24-hour paid study room. “Over the past six months since the room opened, the market demand（需求）is beyond expectation. So we are now looking for new places.”

Feng Jia goes to the paid study room every day to prepare for an exam. “There are not enough seats in public libraries. There are also a lot of distractions, like people talking or walking around,” he said. “At home, there are even more distractions, such as phones, snacks and pets.”

The services of paid study rooms are not the same as those of public libraries. People believe that public libraries and paid study rooms are meeting the needs of different users. Readers go to public libraries for rich book resources（资源）, while they go to paid study rooms for a better learning environment.

The Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics was a great success. China has kept the promise to hold a green Olympics. Many green actions made it possible, like providing environmentally friendly smart beds, using new energy cars, supporting sporting places with 100% clean energy and reusing rain and snow water.

Take making ice as an example. China didn’t use R507a common material to make ice because it isn’t friendly enough to the environment. Through 18 months’ hard work, China independently developed the CO₂ direct cooling technology.

A net of tubes runs under the ice. High-pressure liquid (液态) CO₂ goes through them to create heat exchange. The CO₂ evaporates (蒸发) under the ice surface. The evaporation takes in heat and turns water on the surface into ice. And the CO₂ goes into another circle. This technology helps to make ice better and faster. And above all, it is much greener because there’s no new CO₂ produced. Among all the 15 ice sporting places in the Winter Olympics, 7 used the CO₂ direct cooling technology to make ice. As a result, much less pollution was caused.

Beijing did so much more to save energy. Beijing built the new sporting places with green materials. As for the old ones, Beijing used new glass walls to take the place of traditional walls to let more natural light in. 70% of the waste heat was also reused to keep warm and dry. And a large number of new energy cars were used at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics.

The Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics is the first to truly achieve carbon neutrality (碳中和), and it has set new standards in green technologies. Some newspapers say China has set an example for the world in environmental protection and green development.