The traditional Chinese painting is     1     (fundamental) an abstract art form. Objects in Chinese paintings are a less direct copy of the natural world, in     2     (compare) to We stem paintings. Actually, the Chinese painting aims to demonstrate a     3     (harmony) relation between the natural world and human emotion.

What Chinese painters would like to produce in their paintings is not a visual effect of colors and patterns that Western painters tend     4     (achieve). The description of objects in Chinese paintings is by no means accurate because few painters     5     (concern) about their exact size or shape. What they want to seek is a spiritual world in their mind     6     nature provides exactly basic elements. This is how Chinese painters view nature. Remote mountains and running streams     7     (be) the primary materials of their thinking and creating since ancient times. Chinese artists often say that the artists first need to have a thorough and deep understanding of the natural     8     (exist) before drawing.

With a long history of China, generations of Chinese painters express thoughts on the material world through this unique art form and leave a valuable treasure to the Chinese. Nowadays, the Chinese painting, as     9     important part of global culture, has become increasingly attractive across the world,     10     (enjoy) great popularity at home and abroad.

7 . Before I lived in Pakistan, I was always with my grandfather. We were never _________: I followed him wherever he went. He would never get _________ with me when I wouldn’t learn to do things. He always tried to cheer me up anytime I was in a bad _________. I thought we would always live together.

However, on the morning of June 20, 2009, when I was 5, I went to _________ grandfather, but he wouldn’t open his eyes. I was _________ thinking he was just playing a game with me, but after trying for a while, I started getting _________. When my parents arrived, they explained solemnly (重地) to me his body didn’t work anymore. Slowly, I began to understand but couldn’t face the truth. I stayed _________ in my room, not speaking to anyone.

My parents had to call a psychologist (心理医生). Sonia was very kind, showing deep _________ towards me. She said it was understandable to feel sad about death, but that didn’t mean that I _________ doing things that I used to do. Soon I started playing with my friends and talking to my family. My parents were pleased with my __________. When I told them the pain I was going through, my eyes were filled with the __________ instead of tears.

Dealing with a death of a family member is __________, so it’s hard to know what the right thing to do is. My grandfather’s death made me realize that my life must move on, and that if I __________ my feelings, it would be hard for me to overcome the pain. I’m now starting to forget the __________ details of the time that he and I spent together, but I will never forget him and the __________ he gave to me.

8 . On Friday, Japanese researchers announced a population clock that showed a dangerous situation that the Japanese nation would disappear in 1,000 years if the falling birth rate kept the present level. Researchers in the northern city of Sendai said that Japan’s population of children aged up to 14, which now stands at 16.6 million, was falling at the rate of one child per 100 seconds. It would lead to a terrible result that there would be no children left in Japan in 1,000 years.

“If the rate keeps falling at that rate in our country, there will only be one child who is able to enjoy the following Children’s Day left on May 5th,3011,” said Hiroshi Yoshida, a professor at Toholu University. “But 100 seconds later, a national disaster that there are no children left in Japan will happen,” he added, “The nation’s people will disappear for the birth rate has fallen to the level that every woman has no more than two children, which started in 1975.” Yoshida said they created the population clock to make Japanese people pay close attention to that problem for their nation’s future.

Another study showed that Japan’s population was expected to fall to one third of the present population amount: 127.7 million in the next century. The Japanese government predicted that the birth rate would just become 1.35 children per parents within 50 years.

At the same time, Japanese life expectancy which is expected to ascend from 86.93 years in 2010 to 90.93 years in 2060 for women and from 79.64 years to 84.19 years for men has already been one of the highest in the world. More than 20 percent of the Japanese are aged 65 or over.

It means that Japan has become one of the countries with aging populations in the world. The problem of aging populations is a headache for the government and the Japanese economy because there are fewer and fewer workers who can make money for the country. However, the government has to face the terrible situation that it needs to offer a growing number of pensions.