China has been selected to host the World Skills Competition in Shanghai in 2021, an event it hopes to us for building a stronger team of skilled workers nationwide and to improve international     1    (exchange) in technical skills. Hosting the event will help guide the whole society     2    (respect) the spirit of skilled workmanship. It will also help create     3     social atmosphere of respecting labor and admiring skill. China has 165 million skilled workers, including 47.9 million who are classed as highly skilled. They were first classified by the government in 2003. They     4    (include) as one of the major State-level talent groups along with theoretical scientists in 2015,     5    (mark) a significant rise in their social status.

China’s     6    (early) modern skills training can date back to the Qing Dynasty. It was in 1866     7     the Foochow Shipbuilding Institution in Fujian province was established. In 1978, the adoption of the reform ad opening-up policy highlighted a shortage of     8    (talent) technicians. As a result, the number of students at technical institutes rose sharply. More recently, technical education     9    (receive) greater support from the central government to help shape the nation’s producing power. Every year, more than 100 million people have access     10     technical education and training.

Chinese Bullfighters Bring Martial Arts (武术) to Their Sport

Several times a week. Ren Ruzhi battles an opponent (对手)that is five times     1     (he)weight and strong enough to kill him. He is skilled in fighting bulls (公牛), an animal known     2     its aggressive behavior.

Ren teaches the Chinese martial art of kung fu. The 24-year-old’s mixing of martial arts and bullfighting     3     (worry) his mother. However, Ren has never been hurt. He says that     4     (battle) the bull makes him feel energized. “It symbolizes the     5     (brave) of a man,” Ren told the Reuters news agency in the city of Jiaxing, China.

Bullfighting may be more famous in Spain,     6     it is usually very bloody, while the Chinese form of bullfighting is not so     7     (violence). Instead it combines moves from the sport of wrestling with the skill and speed of kung fu     8     (bring) down animals weighing up to 400 kilograms.

Han Haihua, a former wrestler, teaches bullfighters at his Haihua Kung Fu School in Jiaxing. Han said the     9     (physical) demanding sport requires fighters to train intensively and they usually have short careers. Han described     10     form of bullfighting he teaches as the explosive power of hard “qigong”, saying it combines the skill and speed of martial arts with traditional wrestling moves.

Every Wednesday at 7 pm, a group of running enthusiasts from different countries gather at a bar in Shanghai before setting     1     on their 5-kilometer run. But this is no ordinary run. These people     2     (arm) with trash (垃圾) bags. The members of this group don’t simply run for the sake of good health. They do it for the sake of the Earth     3    well.

Called “plogging”, this new fitness activity originated in Sweden in 2016 and was introduced to Shanghai in 2018. The term is a combination of the words “jogging” and “plocka upp”,     4     means “pick up” in Swedish.

By the summer of 2018, just a few months after Trash Running China was founded,     5     (it) WeChat group had grown to include more than 400 runners. To make the activity more fun for both     6     (newcomer) and regular ploggers, Trash Running China also     7     (frequent) organizes longer weekend runs in the suburban areas. “We want more people to hold small ‘plogging’ groups and have a     8     (responsible) to organize trash running activities in their own neighborhoods,” says Eisenring, who founded Trash Running China. “ ‘Plogging’ is a way     9     (know) the people and the city a bit more,” says Robbin Trebbe, one of the     10     (late) runners to join the group.

Jinan, capital city of East China’s Shandong province, will host     1     international winter swimming competition at Daming Lake Scenic Area on Jan 12 and 13. A total of 956 swimmers from 31 countries and regions     2     (include) the United States, Russia and Britain will take part in the     3    (enjoy) event.    4     (host) by the Jinan municipal government, the Jinan winter swimming race     5     (hold) for six successive years. It will act     6    a warm-up event for the forthcoming Winter Swimming World Cup. It is also listed in the 2019 Sino-Finland Winter Sport Year series. Jan Wahlberg, the consul general of Finland in Shanghai will attend the opening ceremony to promote sports tourism activities in Finland and China.

“Jinan is a city of springs     7    enjoys picturesque scenery and a rich culture. Thousands of winter swimmers will have the chance     8     (experience) the beauty of spring water in the city,” Gao Liwen, the     9     (direct) of Jinan Sports Bureau, said at a press conference for the event on Jan 7.

The competition will see both open water racing     10     pool racing take place. In the pool racing competition, there will be 4x25m mixed relay, 25-meter freestyle and freestyle relay.

Jogging makes you burn fat and lose weight. In addition to increasing metabolism (新陈代谢), jogging is an     1     (effect) way to burn more calories,     2     helps you lose weight. If calories consumed in food are less than calories     3     (spend) during exercise and other daily activities, you will lose weight. It is impossible not to! Many people have learned how to lose weight by    4     (start) a running program.

Jogging     5     (help) to reduce stubborn fat. A running program can really help to cut back     6     the last of your stubborn fat. Change can take a long time to come but     7     (eventual) it makes maintaining a healthy weight much easier.

If you suffer from poor appetite, jogging will improve your appetite. Along with all other     8     (form) of exercise – the harder you work, the more you will eat     9     (repair) your muscles and refuel them. When you start to run longer, you will start to eat to fuel your body, and may even find that you need to eat more food every day     10     you did when you were overweight.

Since the United Nations declared June 21 as the International Day of Yoga in 2014，many cities in China     1     (start)hosting international yoga festivals. Last year，for example，    2     (celebrate)the festival，hundreds of yoga enthusiasts from India and China gathered on the Great Wall in Beijing．It     3     (certain)seems China’s enthusiasm for yoga isn’t going to cool down anytime soon．     4     addition to large-scale(大规模的)yoga festivals，smaller events are held in different communities，parks and also online across the nation．

There are many differences between China and India when it comes to how yoga     5       (practise)．    6     people focus on are meditation (冥想)and breathing exercises in India，but in   China most of the time people just focus on physical exercise．Locations     7     practice takes   place tend to be different as well，since Indian people tend to practise yoga outside in the   mornings while most Chinese practise inside gyms and studios．Indians start practising yoga at a very young age，so their bodies are even     8     (strong)．But in China，people start at an older age，so they should pay more attention to safety．Like many athletic     9     (activity)，yoga comes with some risk． As     10     (it)popularity has gradually risen，so has the number of yoga—related injuries．