This summer, have you been surprised by women wearing hanfu, or Han-style clothing, at subway stations, shopping malls or scenic areas?

In 2018, the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League of China set the     1    （three） day of March in the Chinese lunar calendar,     2    （traditional） the birthday of the Yellow Emperor as the annual Traditional Chinese Garment Day. Since then,     3     beauty of hanfu has gained more and more recognition and acceptance by common people.

Generally, hanfu refers     4     traditional Chinese clothing worn by the Han ethnic(民族 的)group before the Qing Dynasty (1644—1911). Historically, Han Chinese clothing has also influenced some of its neighboring cultural clothing,     5     (include) the Japanese kimono, Korean hanbok, and clothing of Mongolia, Vietnam and Bhutan.

Hanfu appears elegant and beautiful,     6     is not only due to the thousands of years of culture behind its beautiful design, but also because of its extraordinary craftsmanship(工艺) 3nd aesthetics(美学).Hanfu includes more than 30       7    (example) of China's intangible (非物质的)cultural heritage as well as Chinese arts and crafts under     8    (preserve).

Hanfu     9     (represent) an aesthetic for living and a continuation of traditional Chinese culture. Nowadays, more and more fashion designs look to hanfu for inspiration     10    (create) their own brand.

There is a gigantic study that’s been done in 38 cultures.     1    turns out that in every culture, both males and females desire their potential mates to be bright. But we don’t have our IQs     2     (print) on our forehead. How do we know that someone’s     3    (intelligence)? In Western cultures, at least, it’s often by the person’s sense of humor. Because creating and appreciating jokes both require us to make     4     (connect) between many separate pieces of information,     5     (have) a sense of humor shows that we possess a wide knowledge and     6     we know how to think about things in novel and creative ways.

Take a cartoon     7     example: a mouse is standing outside his house, having just pulled a gun on a cat, who pretends to give in by raising one paw (爪). “Six rounds. Nine lives. You do the math,” the cat says. In order to appreciate this joke, you need to know that mice are     8     (usual) the victims of cats, many guns have six bullets (子弹), and cats     9     (say) to have nine lives because of their ability to always land on their feet. You also need to be able to do some math     10     (understand) that the cat has the advantage in this scene after all.

Though he has only two published works, Lu Yao (1949 — 1992) is one of the most celebrated Chinese     1     (write) of the 20th century.

His stories focus     2     every ordinary young person in the great transformation of Chinese society. In his book Life, we read about the life of a young man named Gao Jialin.     3     (graduate) from high school in the 1980s, Gao wants to work hard in the city for a better life. However, due to his identity as a poor and powerless man from a small village, he loses his job and     4     (eventual) has to return to his hometown.

Lu’s     5     (work) not only feature the fates of young people but also “the heartbeat of the time”, CGTN noted. As a realistic piece of work, the story in Ordinary World     6     (span) from early 1975 to 1985. In this book, Lu presents what he saw in that era: the conflict between the new ideas of city life and the     7     (tradition) views of village life as society developed.

Nowadays, young people     8     leave their hometowns to follow their dreams in a big city face similar dilemmas (困境). “His works inspire many     9     (walk) ahead, out of passion for life, with the trends of the time, and provide     10     sense of meaning to their lives.”

In the late April 2014, a violent storm swept through the southern Unite States,     1     (destroy) more than $1billion in property and killing 35 people. But a group of migratory birds in eastern Tennessee sensed the oncoming mess and left long before the first clouds arrived. A year earlier, the team had tagged golden-winged warblers(莺) with leg trackers     2     (study ) their annual migrations to South America. Two days before the storms     3     (strike), five golden-winged warblers sipped away traveling nearly 700 kilometers south to the Florida coast.

It is the first time that the birds which normally migrate with the seasons     4     ( observe） to slip away when a big storm hits. The researchers suspect this     5     (behave ) occurs only when the threat of injury outweighs the energy costs of a long trip. But nobody knows     6    the birds guessed the storm's severity and left so soon.     7     (Puzzle)by it, the scientists initially reasoned that delicate changes in weather-atmospheric pressure, temperature, wind speed, cloud cover, or rainfall signaled the upcoming disaster. Yet when they checked weather records, none of these factors waved     8     (significant) before the storm. Instead, the team assumes that the approaching storms created     9    disorder of infrasounds --- low-frequency sound waves that bird can hear     10    humans can't.

Giving is the greatest kindness. Kindness is to the soul     1    sunshine is to the crop. Winston Churchill once     2    (observe) that “We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.” Through selfless service, volunteers are the glue that holds a community together. Many activities     3    (volunteer) aid the elderly, disabled and children. No one is     4    lonely island in the sunshine of joyful giving.

Moreover, volunteering is a two-way street of giving and receiving. Sometimes we get     5    (lock) into the “rat race” of life and the     6    (certain) of success discourages us. However, volunteering can be an escape from the routine of life.

Given the significance of volunteerism, it’s time we     7    (roll) up our sleeves and extend a helping hand. In respect     8    my own experience, I work as a volunteer at the local animal shelter,     9    I continue taking care of my furry friends. I hope my efforts can inspire people around me to devote     10    (they) to volunteerism and create a circle of virtue we need.

The Great Pyramid was built nearly 5,000 years ago for a king    1     (call) Khufu. It is on the west bank of the Nile River.    2    (actual), all the pyramids along the Nile River are on its west bank. The ancient Egyptians thought of the rising of the sun as the beginning of life and the    3    (set) of the sun as the end of life. This is why their bodies    4    (bury) on the west of the Nile.

    5     is very hard to realize how big the Great Pyramid is. It has over 2,300,000 pieces of stones, most of    6    weigh two and a half tons. Some even weigh fifteen tons. Without machinery, the ancient Egyptians cut, moved     7    lifted these stones. Almost all the stones came    8    the east bank of the Nile, and they were taken across the river in boats. It took more than 100,000 people twenty years    9    (build) the Great Pyramid.

The Great Pyramid is over 450 feet high today. Each of the    10    (side) of the Pyramid is 755 feet long. It is about twenty-minute walk all the way around it.

You may have heard of the Red Cross. It is an     1     (organize) that helps people who are in need no matter     2     bad the situation is ! But if not for the passion of a young woman named Clara Barton, the American Red Cross may have never been formed!

One day when she was 11 years old, her elder brother was     3    (terrible) injured. He was ill for two years. Clara cared for him     4     whole time. Through this experience she found out that she came alive when she cared for others.

Soon, Clara began taking care of injured animals. Neighbors began bringing their pets to her. And, almost always, she made them better.

When she was older, she became a nurse in the American Civil War and she helped save hundreds of     5    (soldier).

After the Civil War, Clara traveled to Europe to rest.     6     that did not last long. Soon she was caring for     7     (wound) people in battle once again! But this time, she learned about the Red Cross who worked alongside her on the battlefield. Their mission was to help those who needed it most.

She decided that the Red Cross     8     (need) in America. Over several years, she asked 4 different presidents     9     (bring) the Red Cross to America. They all said no. But then, thanks

    10     her persistence(坚持), one of the presidents changed his mind! And the American Red Cross was born.

Have you ever seen a painting destroy     1     (it)? This strange event happened during a recent auction (拍卖) in London.

Girl With Balloon is one of the most well-known works of British artist Banksy. It     2     (sell) for £1.04 million (about 9.49 million yuan) at the Sotheby auction house on Oct 5. However, shortly     3     the hammer (锤子) went down, the painting began to slide down its frame (画框) and half of the painting was cut into     4     (piece)!

In fact, there     5     (be) a shredder (碎纸机) in the frame. More surprisingly, the artist might have set the shredder in the frame himself years ago, Yahoo News reported.

Banksy is known     6     being mysterious and unpredictable. No one knows his real name,     7     his paintings are everywhere across the UK. He always plays hoaxes (恶作剧) on the art world.

People believe this is just another example of Banksy     8     (play) a trick. They think he is against the commercialization (商品化) of art.

However, the     9     (fun) part is that this hoax might have made the painting more valuable. “(The price is) possibly as high as being worth £2 million (about 18.2 million yuan) plus,” Joey Syer,     10     (found) of art website MyArtBroker.com, told the Guardian.