“Seeing printed media being     1     (gradual) replaced by new media made me feel that something precious in my memory     2     (be) lost. I don’t want them to disappear,” he said,     3     (add) that publishing marriage announcements evokes     4     warm feeling toward newspapers while bringing a sense of vintage elegance.

The price for publishing a marriage announcement differs by number of words, space and printing house. It ranges from around 100 yuan to more than 10,000 yuan. Customers can     5     pay for the service online or by phone. Globally, many newspapers also provide sections to publish marriage announcements, along with births and     6     (die).

Meng Si,     7     works for an online platform     8     (associate) with newspaper publishing services, told Xinhua News Agency recently that there has been a     9     (notice) increase in inquiries and orders for marriage announcements. The customers are predominantly young people in     10     20s, with some even making appointments one or two months in advance.

Two decades     1    (pass) since newspapers launched websites, and yet here we are. Big papers have gone under, thousands of journalists have lost     2    (they) jobs, and the idea that digital news will eventually become a decent business     3    (feel) like a rumor(谣言). The reality is this: no social network has come close to matching the success of print readership.

There are two news reports about the same event. The first one reported that the number of deaths could reached 5 and fire engines and ambulances reached the scene soon,     1     the other one reported that 4 people have been confirmed     2     (die), and the fire has also left dozens of people     3     (injure). What’s more, the second one told the readers the fire was caused by a     4     (drop) cigarette end.

Why do two news reports differ     5     each other? Firstly, journalists may have different     6     (priority). Secondly, news reports may     7     (write) at different stages of an event. Lastly, journalists may approach information     8     (differ). To sum up, we should be critical news readers.     9     is wise to read different news reports on the same event at different stages and from various perspectives. We need to be critical     10     the information we receive and remember not to blindly trust what we have read.

I first discovered China Daily a few years ago. It was the first time that I     1    (visit) China, and I was waiting for my tour guide     2    (arrive) at the hotel. I picked up a newspaper written in English — China Daily. I opened the newspaper, and     3     that day on, in every hotel I visited, when the staff asked me, “A newspaper     4    (deliver) to your room?” I would always answer, “Do you have China Dailby?” Why had I     5    (immediate) taken a liking to China Daily after just one reading of it? I think that China Daily is a very     6    (influence) newspaper for many reasons. First of all, China Daily     7    (write) about both Western and Chinese culture.     8    example to support this reason is an article I read just the other day: When the Bard met his Chinese match. This article is about     9    both China and the UK will honour their most famous playwrights with a series of     10    (event) this year. The playwrights are William Shakespeare from the UK and Tang Xianzu from China. And the article also manages to compare them in a proper way.

We rely on news     1     (learn) about things around us. However, reports on the same events contain different information. That’s because journalists may have different     2     (priority). Another reason why news reports on the same event may contradict each other     3     terms of factual details is that events in the real world are usually complicated and     4     (constant) changing. When we come across such factual differences in news reports, we should not rush to the conclusion that the news report gives false information. Instead, check when the reports     5     (complete). Because news reports written at different stages of an event could contain different information as news facts are brought to light. Therefore,     6     (check) different sources enables us to draw     7     more informed conclusion.

To sum up, it is wise to read news reports written from     8     (vary) perspectives and at different stages, which     9     (bring) us a more accurate understanding of a situation. We also need to be critical about the information we receive and remember not to blindly trust     10     we have read.

China Daily,     1     (establish) in 1981 as the national English-language newspaper, has developed into a multi-function information platform combining newspapers, websites and apps with a strong     2     (present) on Facebook, Twitter, Sina Weibo and WeChat. It is to its credit     3     it serves more than 200 million readers all over the world and is a preferred choice for people who read about China in English. The news reaches an audience readership     4     (far) than China. The group plays an important role as a channel for information exchanges     5       China and the rest of the world. China Daily cooperates with     6     (lead)global news organizations to publish China Watch,     7       supplement(补充) published as an insert in major newspapers in more than 20 countries including The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal The Sydney Morning Herald, The Daily Telegraph etc. With a combined readership of more than 5 million, China Watch     8     (publish) in English, French, German, Japanese, Russian, Spanish and Portuguese in the last five years. Popular as it is, China Daily is still serving     9     an Asia News Network member by sharing and exchanging stories and staff with mainstream     10     (medium)in other parts of the world.

The Palace Museum in Beijing released its calendar for 2022 on September 6 although the Year of the Tiger is still more than four months away. “The calendar has become a new way for many people     1     (record) their life,” Chen Lihua, editor-in-chief of the calendar, says.

Though printed calendars seem to have lost     2     (they) functionality in the digital era, the museum s delicate calendar has become     3     item to collect. On each page of the new calendar, a tiger-themed cultural relic of the Palace Museum is introduced,     4     (range) from a jade ornament (翡翠) in the shape of a tiger dating back some 5,000 years     5     paintings created by modern Chinese masters such as Qi Baishi and Zhang Daqian.

“The tiger is     6     stands for strength and energy in traditional Chinese culture.” Chen says, “We want to reflect tiger-related culture from various     7     (aspect).”

As the 2022 Winter Olympics     8     (schedule) to be held in China in February, a section of the calendar will introduce royal winter sports during the Qing Dynasty through art pieces.

In spite of the established reputation, creativity is still     9     (bad) needed for new editions of the annual calendar. Other than new design of pages, augmented (增广的)reality is now being used, making it     10     (access) for readers to have a better view of the moving pictures of cultural relics by scanning QR codes.

As a     1     (journal),     2     (write) a great news story you have to make sure it is correct, relevant and fresh. For a start, all the     3     (inform) in a story must be correct. Not only     4     (do) it involve the spelling and grammar, but also it involves the facts. Any mistakes     5    appear in a story can get a newspaper into big trouble. For example, if a newspaper said that Yang Liwei was the first man to go into space, it wouldn’t be    6    (accuracy). He wasn’t the first. The newspaper would probably be accused     7     it and lose lots of readers because of that mistake. 

A news story is not only correct, but also relevant to its readers. People are mostly eager     8    (know) about news that happens near to them. That is why you care     9     (much) about what happens at your school than at American schools. It is also why newspapers in Beijing don’t talk about much news in Shanghai or Hong Kong. 

Finally, it is demanded that news    10     (be) fresh. When you pick up your evening newspaper, you want to read about news that happens that day. You don’t want to read about news from last week!

Famous British physicist Stephen Hawking,     1     mental genius (智力天才) and physical disability made him a household name and inspiration across the globe, has died at age 76 on March 14^th, 2018.

Propelled (推动) to superstar by his 1988 book A Brief History of Time, which became     2    unlikely worldwide bestseller, Hawking devoted    3    (he) to unlocking the secrets of the Universe.

Hawking refused to accept the predictions that he would only live for a few years after developing a form of motor neurone disease (运动神经元病) in his early     4    (twenty). The illness gradually robbed him of mobility (移动的能力)    5    (leave) him confined to a wheelchair, almost completely paralysed and unable to speak except through his voice synthesizer (合成器). It was with these difficulties     6     he revised the draft of A Brief History of Time which was published in 1988.

    7     (translate) into thirty languages, the book has sold over ten million copies worldwide and lives on as a science book that continues to captivate (迷住) and inspire new readers each year.

When I came into contact with the book, I did not know much about the time and space. Was there a     8     (begin) of time? Could time run backwards? …These questions may be with all of us during our childhood.     9    (lucky), Stephen Hawking shows us the time and the space, the God and a mystery. The book, A Brief History of Time, is available in paperback and I     10     (strong) recommend it. For me, books like A Brief History of Time are more captivating (迷人的) than any novel.