High school seems bigger. There are _________ students and it’s a totally new environment. It could be a _________ time for new students, _________ in fact, it isn’t really that bad.

The first day of course is always terrifying, but, then again, the first day of middle school was probably the _________. Of course you might get lost during the first few days _________ your classes, but after a while what seems like a large school really isn’t.

One thing that’s really cool about high school is that there are so many classes that you can __________. For example, if you like _________, there are many art classes. At the same time, there are _________ classes, which you can’t take in middle-school _________ photography and psychology (心理学). There are many new things in high school that make it much more _________.

In high school, you’re able to join more clubs, play more sports and take part in more _________, and at the same time make new friends with kids with the same _________ as you. Also, these activities can give you a _________ to learn something that you might not have had the opportunity to _________ in middle school.

4 . Today, cities are getting bigger and busier, which brings us challenges. We need better transport to get around and clean energy to power our homes. How can we live more conveniently? Smart cities may help.

Imagine when you are close to your home, your smart watch tells your home to turn on the lights. The Internet of things (物联网) can help to do this. It connects everything to the Intermet. It’s like having lots of little smart helpers. They “send messages” to things in the city and let them work together.

Big data (数据) works like the brain of the city. It helps the city make decisions. For example, data about cars running in the city shows us about the tratic condition. Data about the humidity (湿度) tells us whether it is going to rain.

5G provides high-speed wireless (无线的) Internet. It makes the Internet of things possible. The speed of 5G can be up to 10 GB per second.We can download a film in just a few seconds.

AI helps to deal with the data. More importantly, it learms from the data and becomes smarter.AI can work as a teacher, a tour guide, or even help to design cars and make people work in a safe way.

Can a city “see” things? With sensors (传感器) , the answer is yes. Sensors are like a city’s eyes. They are in every corner of the city. They collect data on people and the environment.

A smart cily can be a bit like a big, clever robot. It can “think” and make decisions to make everything work in a smart way! The bins can “tell” the rubbish trucks when they are full. The buildings can “talk” to computers to help save energy. Different technologies work together to make our city smart.

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HONG KONG film     1     (direct) Wong Karwai’s first television series, Blossoms Shanghai (《繁花》), made     2     (it) first appearance at the end of December. The drama helped readers understand the culture of Shanghai better. The drama was     3     (base) on the 2012 novel of the same name written by Jin Yucheng in Shanghainese.

Set in Shanghai during the 1990s, a young man called A Bao (played by Hu Ge) who rises from small beginnings to become     4     successful businessman in ten years. Along the way, he receives help from     5     (support) such as Ling Zi, Miss Wang and Uncle Ye. The major roles were     6     (main) born and raised in Shanghai and a great deal of the dialogue was in Shanghainese. Even Wong himself spoke Shanghainese while working on set.

In the series, different kinds of objects from old newspapers     7     sewing machines, and     8     a car, were from the 1990s. Those objects had interesting stories behind them, which     9     (remind) the Shanghai citizens of the past days. Besides, the main setting of the story, “Huanghe Road”, was rebuilt at a 1:1 scale at Shanghai Film Park in Songjiang.

The drama took six years to complete. In order to get the     10     (good) shot, Wong often required actors to perform a scene upwards of ten times.

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The Yellow River is known as the mother river of the Chinese people. However, flood control and disaster forecasts (灾害预报) of the river have always been challenging for people. Now, scientists can better work on these problems by giving the river a digital twin.

The digital twin of the Yellow River uses different kinds of technologies, including big data, artificial intelligence and the internet of things. Devices(设备)are set up along the river to collect and transmit (传送) information to the center. Based on the information, a 3D model of the river is showed on the computer screen. It’s like the Yellow River has a twin that describes its real conditions.

One big thing in the digital governance (治理) is “smart stones”. A smart stone is a detector (探测器) with chips, a battery, and a signal transmitter. They are put in important dikes (堤坝) to record and report the movement of dike stones. If it feels any movement of the dikes stones, it will send an alarm to the center for quick response.

In the sky, there are flying drones (无人机). They are designed to look at the river, its dikes and flood prevention projects. The drones provide researchers with photos and information. The researchers use this information to update a 3D model to watch the changes of water to avoid disasters.

Under the water and up in the sky, intelligent systems are helping to protect the Yellow River. According to the Ministry of Water Resources, in the future, we can expect to see an even more complete digital system for the river.

10 . Many universities in China are being encouraged to start offering soccer as a new undergraduate major(本科专业)this year. The purpose of that is to improve the country’s physical education according to the Ministry of Education（教育部）.

Soccer has been set up as a new major in 30 universities in China, including Beijing Sport University and Liaoning Normal University, according to a new notice from the Ministry of Education in March, 2024.

At the same time, more universities have set up some majors related to sports, such as sports training and physical education. Some famous universities such as Tsinghua University, Peking University and Beijing Institute of Technology have also been allowed to start offering majors in physical education.

Qian Junwei, a professor (教授) at Peking University, said that setting up undergraduate major in physical education is to meet the need of the national requirement of building high-level sports teams. He said that Peking University will train more excellent physical educators to build a strong sports country. Liu Bo, the director of the sports department at Tsinghua University, added that sports majors are expected to become popular among universities. The new soccer major might help more sports students get into university.