A 150-year-old shipwreck (遇难船) believed    1    (be) a treasure of cultural relics was       2    (eventual)lifted from a riverbed near Shanghai early Monday morning in a high-tech salvage (打捞) operation.

The merchant ship,    3     (refer) to as Yangtze River Estuary No 2 Ancient Vessel, dates back to the period of Emperor Tongzhi (1862-1875) in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). When it     4     (discover) in 2015, it was sitting 5.5 meters off the northeast tip of Hengsha Island in Chongming district.

Recovery of the merchant vessel—about 38.1 meters long and 9.9 meters across at its widest point—was one of the most important and challenging underwater archaeological excavation (挖掘)    5    (project) China has undertaken.

“The retrieval (取回) of the vessel marks the perfect    6    (combine) of underwater engineering and cultural relics protection principles,” said Guan Qiang, deputy director of the National Cultural Heritage Administration.

“The project has provided a Chinese example, Chinese model, and Chinese experience for the global protection of underwater cultural relics,” he said.

In the coming days, another ship will take the shipwreck to the former site of Shanghai Shipyard in Yangpu district, where it will be examined and studied. The ship has been described by the heritage administration as “the largest and best-preserved sunken wooden sailboat in China’s underwater archaeological findings, with    7    huge number of cultural relics    8     board”.

Fang Shizhong,    9    position is director of the Shanghai Cultural Heritage Administration, said that the discovery of the ancient boat was very    10     (meaning), which “proves Shanghai’s position as an important shipping and maritime commerce center for East Asia and even the whole world.”

Jake’s Ice Cream, located in the city of Falls Church, has employed 12 adults with disabilities.

“The     1     (inspire) comes from my nephew Jake, who this place     2     (name) after,” owner Robin Rinearson said.

“Jake is 29 years old. He’s got cerebral palsy (脑瘫). He had a job for eight years working for a company with 17 other young adults with disabilities. And     3     COVID hit, that company     4     (basic) remained open, but they sent all the 18 people with special needs home,” Rinearson said.

She was angry at     5     (see) her nephew remain     6     (employed) for a year and a half. She thought she needed to come up with a business for Jake and other people like him.

She decided to open an ice cream shop     7     the name of Jake.

Up to now, she     8     (hire) 12 people with special needs. Their work     9     (responsibility) include making and scooping (舀) ice cream, creating cupcakes and operating the register.

“For some of these young adults, it’s a long learning journey,     10     you know what? They can do it,” Rinearson said.

Now Jake’s Ice Cream has 28 flavors of ice cream available along with cakes.

Ghanim Al-Muftah was born with a rare condition     1     (know) as Caudal Regression Syndrome (CRS). The disease causes its patients to be born without the lower half of the body. Naturally, one would expect Ghanim to use     2     wheelchair, but he insists on moving around on his hands because he believes that he should make use of everything     3     which he is blessed rather than focus on what he doesn’t have.

Ghanim     4     (encounter) all kinds of challenges in his life, especially extensive medical interventions and surgery. But he has a firm belief     5     with faith, commitment and hard work he will be free to accomplish his ambitions.

Despite     6     (he) disability, Ghanim has overcome extreme difficulties with     7     (positive) and leadership, and this is what makes him an exceptional character. He is a     8     (motivate) speaker, goodwill ambassador and entrepreneur. He is followed by millions all over his social media platforms and     9     (show) to the world how life with a disability can be fulfilling and worthwhile. His story has served     10     (amaze) and inspire people across the world. He is a prominent and exemplary individual of today’s youth and an advocate for disabled people across the world.

On my trip to Dunhuang, Gansu province in December, I had an exciting experience of     1    (explore) Mogao Grottoes (莫高窟) in Dunhuang with 735 caves     2    (build) by believers from 366 to the Yuan Dynasty(1271-1368).

The guide     3     (random) opened one of the old caves at Mogao Grottoes and curious tourists began a journey of mystery. Following     4    tiny points of light from the guide’s small flashlight (手电筒), we learned stories of the past from the Buddhist statues and murals (壁画) in the darkness.

Some wall paintings represented musicians playing Chinese instruments, as well as complex gestures of dancers at parties in an ancient royal court. Others showed interesting and exciting scenes of hunting in the     5     (wood). The statues—even those     6     faces had turned black, and some having lost an arm or two to natural weathering(自然风化)—didn’t stop the solemn (庄严的) power.

Thanks     7     its being the off-season, my group was able to see 12 caves. Tourists, however,     8     (allow) to see a maximum of eight caves during peak season. When I     9     (come) out from the three-hour exploration, I was amazed that I had bought     10     (vary) souvenirs, which help preserve the memory and feel of the place.

It’s said that the Chinese characters were invented by Cangjie. They were deciphered (破译) in the Song Dynasty     1     whether these are the correct answers is still debatable.

In his life Cangjie observed mountains and rivers, footprints of birds and beasts, as well as shapes of plants and objects. Inspired by these, Cangjie invented various symbols     2     (base) on the shapes and     3     (appear) of different things and named them zi (character). These most ancient Chinese pictographs (象形文字) have ended the time     4     people tied knots to record their lives.

According to the Han Dynasty’s Chinese dictionary Shuo Wen Jie Zi, Cangjie wrote two scrolls, which     5     (lose) during wars in the Sui Dynasty.

Scholars in contemporary times tend     6     (believe) it is probably a beautiful tale that Cangjie invented the Chinese characters alone. Many Chinese characters actually came into being before Cangjie. He is more like the one who     7     (collect) Chinese characters. Chinese ancestors accumulated and developed the Chinese characters, updating them through hundreds of years, during which time the Chinese characters evolved from oracle bone script     8     bronze script, seal script, clerical script, and     9     (final) to standard script. Nowadays Chinese people commonly use the standard script, whose     10     (tradition) version was gradually simplified and modernized.

The fairy tale of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl is one of the four most famous folk tales of ancient China. It is     1     classic love story between a fairy and a human being. The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl fall in love with each other and get married. However, they     2    (force) to separate and blocked by the Milky Way. Out of compassion     3     them, on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month each year, flocks of magpies fly to form a bridge with their bodies over the Milky Way,     4    (allow) the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl to meet each other.

This story, to some extent,     5    (reflect) ancient Chinese people’s wishes to pursue the     6    (free) of love and marriage. Countless literary works in Chinese history sing high praises for the story, of     7     the most famous is Fairy Of the Magpie Bridge by the great ci writer Qin Guan of the Song Dynasty.     8    (see) as a story enjoying equal importance as the Greek myths of Odyssey, this Chinese fairy tale makes the most romantic traditional Chinese festival.

The Qixi Festival is said     9    (have) something to do with the fairy tale.     10    (natural), the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar has become Chinese Valentine’s Day.

Shenzhen, a city that pioneered reform and opening-up in China, will allow fully autonomous vehicles     1     (run) on certain roads.

The new rule,     2     (schedule) to come into force on August 1, 2022, also clarified rules for liability (责任) in car accidents that involve autonomous driving,     3     (help) to fill the legal gap in China’s smart car industry.

“Shenzhen is giving self-driving cars     4     legal “identity card”, a key move in accelerating the commercialization of autonomous vehicles,” experts said, adding that more legal     5     (measure) and more testing experience are needed before widening such trials.

The new rule said automakers don’t     6     (necessary) have to equip fully autonomous vehicles with human driving modes and equipment,     7     must they have human drivers.

But such fully automated vehicles can only run on certain roads and sections designated (指定) by Shenzhen’s traffic management department, according to the rule,     8     was published on the official website of Shenzhen Municipal People’s Congress on Tuesday.

“In a traffic accident, if the damage     9     (cause) by the defects of a vehicle, the driver, the owner or the user of the vehicle, after paying for the bill, can request compensation (补偿) from the manufacturer or seller of the car in accordance with laws,” the new rule said.

Yu Qian, CEO and founder of QCraft, a Chinese self-driving startup, said, “China’s autonomous driving industry is entering a golden development period, with many     10     (effect) policies becoming increasingly clear and open, and technologies and algorithms (算法) becoming more powerful.”

Many artists draw with pens and brushes, but few “paint” with knives. Wang Jing, a woman from Shenyang city in northeast China’s Liaoning Province,     1     (engage) in this novel artform for 27 years.

In 1995, Wang was inspired by an     2     (accident) cut by a knife on a piece of red paper, which left a white line. Using knives and paper, she then completed a painting of a pair of peacocks that later became     3     source of motivation for her 27-year efforts.

Unlike traditional paintings, onto which colors are “added,” “knife painters” apply varied pressure on the paper in different     4     (direction) to create different colors and tones.

The novel art form was known to few people just after Wang     5     (create) it. Even Wang herself was not expecting to make     6     something big at the beginning. But thanks     7     her huge enthusiasm for the art form, she has persisted with it for the past 27 years.

Wang has completed hundreds of paintings about Chinese culture, figures, landscape, flowers and birds. Her favorite is a 2.8-meter-long painting     8     pictures 20 lifelike egrets(白鹭).

“Painting on paper with knives is a delicate art and each line in the painting is as thin as a hair,” said Wang,     9     (add) that once the marks are left on the paper, they cannot be covered, so it requires the painter to be     10     (complete) absorbed in the work. Wang said, “I will continue working in the craft and put the art on the map.”

June 8     1     (name) officially by the UN in 2009 as World Ocean Day. It’s a day to stress the importance of ocean     2     remind people to protect it.

It is generally acknowledged that ocean plays an important role in many aspects. First of all, with rich biological resources, ocean     3     (provide) samples for biological science research in terms of the diversity of global biological resources. Second, its abundant food     4     (resource) and energy in the ocean make it possible for living things     5     (survive). Equally importantly, the abundant water resources in the ocean bear the operation of the global water circulation system,     6     affect or even determine the global climate change. So many benefits does ocean bring to human beings     7     great importance can’t be attached enough to protect it.

Of course, it’s everybody’s duty to shoulder this responsibility. For one thing, it’s a good idea to     8     (wide) study knowledge concerning ocean and think of effective approaches     9     protecting it. For another, let’s stop our bad behaviors which may indirectly pollute ocean. Small things make a big difference. Actions speak     10     (loud) than words. I believe, with our joint efforts, a truly green will always surround us.

Nowadays, our classrooms, neighborhoods and communities become     1     (much) diverse (多样化的) than ever before. People from different     2     (country) and cultures continue to spread out around the world. Different skin colors, languages, physical abilities and clothing     3     (be) some of the types of diversity that we experience every day.

How we respond to this diversity will decide not only our future as a person but also our future as a society. As Maya Angelou said, “In diversity there is beauty and     4     (strong)”. Tolerance (宽容) means openness to the differences that exist among us all. It means respecting and learning from others,     5     (value) our differences and discovering what we have     6     common.

The opposite of tolerance is closed-mindedness. Arguments, fights and wars     7     (cause) by closed- mindedness from time to time. In contrast, humans     8     are open to differences will create a more peaceful world and have better opportunities in life whether through education, work or friendships. So having tolerance will change our life for the better, and make the world     9     better place. Difference is of the spirit of humans and we should learn     10     (respect) it.