For Ren Hongjuan, the meeting with her son was short but precious.

The 52-year-old is a sanitation worker (环卫工人) in Dingzhou city, Hebei province, and had not seen her son Ren Xunming for quite a long time a she boarded at school and had been busy    1    exam preparations. On June 8, the second day of the gaokao, she managed to arrive at her son’s test site after finishing a day of work. Wearing    2    orange uniform, she stood out from the crowd. As the English exam concluded, a wave of students walked out of the hall     3    , (look) for their parents. Ren Xuming didn’t expect his mother to meet him,    4    he ran to his mother when he spotted her Ren Hongjuan handed a bottle of water to her son    5    just finished his English exam in Dingzhou city, Hebei province, on June 8, 2023. Without saying a word, he gave her a big hug and they both cried    6    (quiet). Their meeting was fleeting (短暂) because Ren Xuming had to return to school    7    (continue) his exams the following day.

The heartwarming moment was recorded on video and has gone viral receiving many    8    (comment). One read, “Hardworking mother strongly supports her son. I hope he gets a good result.” Another read, “Now, I    9    (impress) by the mother’s love for her son and his gratitude to his mother.” And another netizen wrote, “She maybe the    10    (beautiful) parent in the gaokao.”

Lindsay didn’t feel herself last month. She was a really good student, but to her     1    (anxious), her grades were falling. That was because she sometimes felt     2    (confuse) about what the teacher said and sometimes had trouble     3    (concentrate) on her study. Her behavior attracted her father’s attention. He asked what had happened     4    her, but she refused     5    (communicate) with him and just cried.

Worried that it affected her daily life     6    (terrible), the father turned to his neighbor — a knowledgeable architect for help. The architect told him     7     unique solution to the problem. He recommended that he     8    (plan) a trip for his daughter. By getting close to nature and experiencing a different life, Lindsay did recover from it.     9     you have such signs, don’t worry. Maybe travelling     10    (be) a good choice for you.

The Chinese couplet (对联) refers to two poetic lines obeying certain rules, often written on red paper for     1     (appreciate).

As a form of Chinese literature, the couplet     2     (vary) in content and style. Some express people’s love to their motherland, some describe the beauty of nature,     3     some convey best wishes for the coming year.

Chinese couplets originated in the Five Dynasties, and     4     (become) ubiquitous (无处不在) in the Ming and Qing dynasties. It was a custom for people     5     (hang) peach wood charms to drive away evil spirits during the Spring Festival. Nowadays, couplets are used     6     a similar way.

It was said that the     7     (early) couplet was written by Meng Xu, king of Houshu State and it was     8     (extreme) popular in the Northern Song Dynasty. Since the Ming Dynasty, to write couplets     9     (regard) as a mark of the cultured life of scholars.

The couplet has two equal-length lines. However,     10       number of characters in each line can be from four to seven or more. The first and the second lines have opposite tone patterns. The last character of the first line is of an oblique tone (仄声), and its opposite in the second line, of a level tone (平声).

People love adventures. However, not many people have the chance of being a pioneer and     1     (experience) a real-life adventure. But those     2    will go to live in this new undersea city will be able to do just that! There will be no suffering here. In fact it is so comfortable that it has been     3     (describe) as “a silk adventure”. Among its many     4     (advantage) we include: easy contact with the land surface, more personal space, complete personal security and no housework worries.

There has been a problem in the past when companies     5     (try) to design undersea cities. The sea bottom is deep and this makes     6     difficult to contact the surface. This     7     (difficult) has been solved by shuttle-submarines, which will always be ready     8     (take) people to the surface. They will be equipped     9     a special small, computerized machine. All the family will be transported quickly and     10     (safe) to their destination.

Generations of Chinese archaeologists     1     (make) fruitful findings in the past century. These findings range from the discovery of the Yangshao village site in Henan province in 1921,     2     (mark) the birth of modern Chinese archaeology, to the Sanxingdui site in Sichuan province.

The most     3     (significance) findings are recognized on the list of the top 100archaeological discoveries of China in the past 100 years. The list     4     (announce) by the National Cultural Heritage Administration at    5    opening ceremony of the third Chinese Archaeology Congress in Sanmenxia.

In     6     (add) to the Yangshao site, which dates back more than 5,000 years, and the Sanxingdui bronze civilization site from about 3,000 years ago, many names familiar    7     the general public were included on the list. Among them is the mausoleum (陵墓) of China's first emperor, Qinshihuang,     8     (know) worldwide as the home of the Terracotta Warriors.

Wang Wei, president of the Archaeological Society of China, said, “The past century has told us that Chinese archaeology has to stick to our own characteristies and become    9     (deep) rooted in the reality of our country." "These discoveries solved puzzles in their respective fields,    10     had wide influence at home and abroad," Wang added.