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Peking Opera（京剧）is a traditional form of Chinese culture. In Peking Opera, each character has their face painted in a special way. By looking at the face painting, the audience（观众）can know whether the character is good     1     bad.

Where did this kind of face painting come from? An old story told us that it had something to do     2     the Prince of Lanling. This prince was one of the four most handsome     3    （man）in ancient China. Some soldiers in the prince’s army     4    （think）that he was weak because of his good-looking face. So, to make himself look     5    （strong）than his appearance, the prince wore a mask with an ugly face painted on it.

Another face painting story was about Li Longji,     6     emperor in the Tang Dynasty. He loved opera very much. One day, a clown actor（丑角）fell ill right before a performance. The emperor planned     7    （play）this role himself. Then he covered his face with a piece of white square jade（玉）so that others wouldn’t be able to recognize     8    （he）. Ever since then, clown actors     9    （continue）to paint white squares on their faces.

As time went on, face painting started being     10    （wide）used to show the characters of different roles. It has become one of the many special art forms of Peking Opera.

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Life without fire would not be much fun. You would have to eat your food raw. There would be no fireworks for celebrations. And camping trips would be pretty b    1    .

Fire can be dangerous, but it is also very u    2    . People use fire every day. Sometimes they use fire without even knowing it. Some people have a fireplace at home. Fireplaces burn w    3    , gas, or coal. Some can now be turned on with the touch of a button. People also use fire at home to c    4    . Many kitchen stoves burn gas. Others are electric. Electric burners turn red when they are hot, but you will not see flames.

In the past, people heated water in a fireplace. Today, fire still heats water for a bath or shower, but it is e    5    . In the past, people could only burn candles, oil, or gas to make light. T    6     we use electricity, and light shines from light bulbs.

You may not see it, but you use fire every day to light and heat your home. One way electricity is made is by burning coal, gas or oil at a power plant.

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For most city people, the elevator is an unremarkable machine that inspires none of the enthusiasm or interest that Americans afford trains, jets,and even bicycles. Dr. Christopher Wilk is a member of a small group of elevator experts who c    1     this a misunderstanding. Without the elevator, they point out, there could be no downtown skyscrapers or tall buildings, and city life as we know it would be i    2    . In that sense, they argue, the elevator’s role in American history has been no less significant than that of cars. In fact, according to Wilk? the car and the elevator have been locked in a “secret war” for over a century, with cars making it possible for people to spread horizontally (水平地), and elevators pushing them toward life in close groups of towering vertical (垂直的) columns.

If we tend to ignore the significance of elevators, it might be because riding in them tends to be such a brief, boring, and even awkward experience one that can involve unexpectedly meeting people with whom we have nothing in common, and an unpleasant a     3     of the fact that we’re hanging from a cable in a long passage.

In a new book, Lifted, German journalist and cultural studies professor Andreas Bernard directed all his a     4     to this experience, studying the origins of elevator and its r    5     to humankind and finding that riding in an elevator has never been a totally comfortable experience. “After 150 years, we are still not used to it”, Bernard said. “We still have not exactly learned to cope with the mixture of closeness and displeasure.” That mixture, according to Bernard, sets the elevator ride apart from just about every other s    6     we find ourselves in as we go about our lives.

Today, as the world’s urban population explodes, and cities become more c    7     and taller, America’s total number of elevators—900,000 at last count, according to Elevator World magazine’s “2012 Vertical Transportation Industry”—are a force that’s becoming more important than ever. And for the people who really, really love them, it seems like high time that we looked seriously at just what kind of force they are.

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Basketball is a much-loved and active sport that is enjoyed by many for fun and exercise. It is over 100 years old and     1     by more than 100 million people in over 200 countries. It is believed that the first basketball game     2     history was played on December 21, 1891. Then in 1936 in Berlin, it became     3     event at the Olympics.

Basketball was invented by a Canadian doctor named James Naismith,     4     was born in 1861.     5     he was a college teacher, he was asked to think of a game that could be played in the winter. Dr. Naismith created a game to be played inside     6     a hard floor. Dr. Naismith divided the men in his class into     7     teams and taught them to play his new game. Players on the same team must work together to get the ball in the other     8     basket. At the same time, they need to     9     the competing team from getting the ball into their own basket.

Today the popularity of basketball has risen around the world, with many young people dreaming of becoming famous     10    .

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In a room at Stanford University, scientists are studying a small animal called a gecko. It’s an amazing animal because it can m    1     very quickly up and down a tree and even upside down on ceilings. The scientists are especially interested in the gecko’s f    2    .They want to use the same design on a metal robot that looks very similar to the gecko. It has four feet and can walk up walls made of glass or plastic, but it still has trouble walking upside down.

Animals and plants can teach h    3     a lot about design and engineering. As a result, many engineers, scientists, and designers spend time studying them.When they have a problem, n    4    often has the answer.This science is called biomimetics. Bio means “living things” and mimetics means "copying".

Velcro is p    5     the most famous example of biomimetics. Most people have some Velcro on clothes and shoes. It was i    6     by the Swiss engineer George inVelcroburrzipper1948. He was walking in the countryside when he pulled a burr o    7     his trousers. He noticed how well the burr stuck to his clothes so he studied its design. The result was Velcro, which became an alternative (替代品) to the traditional zipper.

In 1982, Wilhelm Bartlott got a great i    8     studying the leaf of a lotus (莲花) plant. He noticed that water always ran off the leaf. When he had a closer look, he d    9     how it worked. Bartlott copied the leaf's special surface and now you can find it in specialized paint products that don’t allow water and dirt to stick.

In conclusion, biomimetics not only has helped to design our world b    10     shows many more possibilities. And yet, they might take a long time to develop. This isn’t really surprising: it took nature millions of years to design its animals and plants.

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Should we use artificial intelligence (AI, 人工智能) in schools? Some people may say no, but many experts think we should use it in a good way. They     1     (say) AI can help us learn better. Zheng Qinghua, president of Tongji University, said it’s important for us     2     (use) AI in education. He believed that AI could help us learn new things and get better at what we study. He also     3     (suggest) that young people should improve their understanding of the knowledge created by technology.

In fact, AI already     4     (become) more and more important for teaching and learning. Zheng stressed the widespread use of different models (模型), such as Emie Bot, an AI chatbot (聊天机器人) developed by Baidu. It     5     (write) papers, solve science problems and do homework.

Students also     6     (use) AI for their study in the past years. A survey made by online learning platform Study showed that 89 percent of students had used Chat GPT to help them do homework.

However, some people worry that it may bring the problem of academic integrib (学术诚信) and bad influence on education. Instead of simply     7     (use) AI to give answers or finish homework and tests, people should focus on using AI to help students be creative and have the ability of solving real-world problems, said Zheng.

Colin Bailey, president of Queen Mary University of London, said that as AI develops fast, it     8     (be) more and more used in our lives. Stopping AI from being used in schools is not the answer. Instead, we should think about how to use it safely and in the right way.

To achieve it, people around the world are working on rules to make sure AI     9     (use) in a good way. In the US, people     10     (make) a plan to protect people’s rights with chatbots. China also has some interim measures (临时的措施) for managing AI services.

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A drone (无人机) is a remote-controlled aircraft that can carry cameras and some other things.
New technology    1     (make) drones cheaper and easy to buy in recent years.   More people use drones as a hobby, just like flying a kite.   In Australia, drones     2     (use) to search large areas and protect animals.   "You don't need     3     (worry) about getting attacked by crocodiles,"Dr Karen Joyce said.
But they may not be completely safe. There are more and more biologists     4     (use) drones and nobody really knows if they are causing harm to the animals (by scaring them).
One day, a drone     5     (crash) at a beach in the US, frightening visitors who were there .to take in the sunset.
Most countries have announced rules about where drones can fly.   But there aren't many rules for hobby drones.   "If drones become widely used in our society, there    6     (be) a lot of problems," the lawyer Jennifer Lynch told us.

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Beijing Opera is our national opera. It came into being after 1790 and has a history of over 200 years. Its music and singing came from xipi and erhuang in Anhui and Hubei.

There are four main roles in Beijing Opera: Sheng, Dan, Jing and Chou. Beijing Opera is full of famous stories, beautiful facial paintings, wonderful gestures and fighting. Some of the stories are from history books, but most are from famous n    1    . The people in the stories usually can’t agree with each other. Because of that, they become angry, unhappy, sad and lonely. Sometimes they are frightened and w    2    . Then they find a way to make peace with each other. Everyone is usually happy in the end.

Beijing Opera is an important part of Chinese c    3    . In China, it used to be popular with old people while young people didn’t like it very much. However, more young people are becoming i    4     in it nowadays. And more people around the world are l    5     about Beijing Opera’s special singing, acting and facial paintings. It’s getting more and more popular and many people from other countries get to know more about China because of it.

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Traditional Chinese culture is catching the world’s eyes. The good traditional Chinese culture is our great treasure. President Xi Jinping says we should have a high of culture confidence. There are so many great w    1     in the course of Chinese history such as Di Zi Gui, Lun Yu, Meng Zi and so on. Xi Jinping and other leaders often borrow some wonderful s    2     from them. Dao De Jing is also one of them.

Lao Zi, a famous Chinese philosopher and the founder of Taoism, was the w    3     of Dao De Jing. There are only 5000 characters in the book, but it is considered as one of the oldest and most important philosophy books of ancient China. It i    4     two parts, Dao and De.

Dao means “the Way”. It doesn’t tell us how to choose the right way, but it really shows that one should act through naturalness and non-action.

Naturalness refers to a natural state of being, an attitude of following the way of nature. Lao Zi thought that everything in the world has its own way of being and developing. He gave advice to the people who have strong feelings to c    5     the world. He said they should give up the desires (欲望).

Non-action (无为) does not mean that one should do nothing but passively wait for something to be achieved. What he meant is that human should follow the way of nature and try not to b    6     the rule of nature.

De means “Virtue (德行)”. Lao Zi thought the great virtue is like water. And he thinks nothing in the world is w    7     than water, yet nothing is stronger than water. When it comes, it can nearly destroy everything strong. In ancient China, there is also a s    8    : Water can hold the boat, it can also make the boat turn upside down. Water is a typical e    9     of the weak beating the strong.

Of course, there are many other wonderful things we can learn from the book. Today, Dao de Jing still plays a r    10     in the development of Chinese thoughts. It is becoming more and more popular with people around the world.