An organization has taken measures     1     (add) chopsticks to the Shanghai Intangible Cultural Heritage list recently. Xu, chairman of the organization, says chopsticks are increasingly ignored in modern China despite the fact    2     they are unique Chinese items. Even China’s neighbor Japan has set aside August 4th as Chopstick Day already.

Chopstick culture in Shanghai     3     (date) back to the Tang Dynasty, when these items    4     (make) in the City God Temple area enjoyed widespread    5     (popular).

After opening as a commercial port, Shanghai is proud    6     having the first mechanized production line for chopsticks,     7     are not only supplied to Zhongnanhai and Diaoyutai State Guesthouse but also presented to foreign friends as gifts.

At least 1.8 billion people    8     (current) use chopsticks worldwide. Chopsticks, though small, serve as     9     means to pass down Chinese civilization. It’s believed that    10     (recognize) the cultural value of the custom matters in the promotion of Chinese traditions.

Luo Xinlin, 22, experienced her first ride in a self-driving taxi in Changsha, the capital of China's Hunan Province. "I made an     1     (appoint) soon after setting the starting and ending points in the app." said Liu. "A safety supervisor contacted me and the taxi arrived in about 10 minutes."

"The taxi drove very smoothly by     2    (it) and the safety supervisor and technician sitting in the front basically didn't have any manual control of it," said Liu after a 10-minute-long test ride. "The taxi passed through three or four intersections and it was a safe ride     3     any unexpected situations."

The self-driving taxi     4    (operate) by Hunan Apollo Intelligent Transportation Co.. Ltd,     5     base is in Xiangjiang New Area in the city, is named Robotaxi. On April 21, the company announced that a group of 30 self-driving taxis had entered public use in the city and users can call one for a free ride.

"The in-car touch screen can display barriers and dynamic (动态的) predictions within the 360-degree field of vision and     6     (clear) present the conditions of passing vehicles, intersections and traffic lights," said Cheng Li, director of the test and vehicle operation department of the company. Cheng added users can learn information such as the vehicle's speed and     7    (remain) distance through the screen in real time.

In September 2019, the company launched a trial service for a group of citizens, who had to first complete training and other procedures. The technical personnel started testing self-driving taxis in the second half of last year and they     8     (accumulate) a lot of test data since then.

China allowed local governments to arrange road tests for intelligent connected vehicles (ICVs), which cover different degrees of autonomous driving, in April 2018.     9     increasing number of cities, including Beijing, Shanghai and Chongqing, have issued license     10    (plate) for road tests of ICVs.

One day, Jack’s parents told him that his grandpa would retire（退休） the next week after working for forty years and that they were going to have a party for him. Jack loved his Grandpa and wanted to do something special for him. He remembered the business card his grandpa had given him two years before. He     1     (know) that his grandpa would no longer have the position on that card, so he decided     2     (build) a new one for his grandpa. When     3     big day came, Jack was ready.     4     he didn’t want to put his gift together with others’. When all the other people left, he took his grandpa’s hand and gave him the gift. His grandpa smiled, “Well, it must be a beautiful gift. May I open it now? ” “Sure!” Jack said     5     (happy). As Grandpa opened the gift,     6     (tear) came into his eyes. Jack gave him the     7     (great) gift he had ever got! It was a business card,     8     read “FULL-TIME GRANDPA! ”“Well, how much do I get paid? ” his grandpa asked,     9     (smile). “As many hugs（拥抱）as you want! ”     10     these words, Jack gave Grandpa a hug. “Well, I guess that means I’m the richest man in the world! ” said Grandpa.

The art of paper-cutting in China may date back to the second century, since paper    1    (invent)by Cai Lun in the Eastern Han Dynasty in China. As paper became more affordable, paper0cutting became one of the most important    2    (type) of Chinese folk art. Later,    3     different regions adopting their own cultural styles, this art form spread to other parts of the world.    4     (usual), the artworks are made of red paper, as red is associated with    5    (happy) in Chinese culture, but other colors are also used.

With    6    (it) long history, paper-cutting,    7    originated in China, has been very popular among the ordinary Chinese people. People put up papercuts on walls, windows and doors at wedding ceremonies or festivals     8    (strengthen) the cheerful atmosphere.

Chinese papercuts are rich in content. The auspicious（吉祥的）designs symbolize good luck and the avoidance of evil. The child, lotus and bat designs suggest a family with    9    large number of children and grandchildren. Birds, livestock, fruit, fish and worms are also familiar objects    10    (accept) by Chinese farmers. In a word, papercuts used in different occasions have different meanings.

A couple had two little boys under the age of 10. They were both always getting into trouble and their parents knew if anything wrong happened in their town, their sons were probably involved.

The boy’s mother heard that the minister in town had been     1     (succeed) in educating children, so she asked     2     he could speak with her boys. The minister agreed but asked to see them individually. So the mother send her 8-year-old boy first in the morning, with the older boy     3     (see) the minister in the afternoon.

The minister, a huge man     4     a deep voice, sat the younger boy down and asked him seriously. “Where is God ?” The boy made no answer,     5     (sit) there with his mouth hanging open, wide-eyed. So the minister repeated the the question in     6     even more serious voice, “Where is God? ” Again the boy made no answer. The minister raised his voice and shouted, “Where is God?”

    7     (frighten) at the voice, the boy ran out of the room, hurried directly home and     8     (hide) himself in cupboard. The older boy found him and asked, “What happened? ” The younger boy     9     (breathless) replied, “We are in big trouble this time. God is missing and they think we did     10    . ”

While thousands of college students headed for warm climates to enjoy sun and fun during their week off from classes, seven local students had other plans.

The Northern Essex Community College（NECC）students and one of their teachers spent part of their spring break in New York City, helping repair an area     1     （destroy）by the hurricane.

“I wanted to see for myself what happened," said Terry. "I couldn't imagine     2     it is like to lose your home and everything that you know and the     3     （power）effect the hurricane had on those people. I wanted to do something and to understand their feeling of helplessness."

The group headed into Brooklyn's Red Hook district, which was hit by the hurricane. There they met people from other parts of the country,       4     had also volunteered to help. Together, those volunteers and the NECC students     5     （work）to clear rubbish out of a three-story building. They put on protective suits and gloves     6     they entered the building.

Inside the building, the students saw nothing but broken walls and doors and pieces of the building     7     （lie）all over the place.

The students returned to school with a sense of     8     （achieve）, a feeling that     9     （them）helped people in need. It was remarkable how a community lost so much and was still able to recover, and this left the deepest impression     10     the students.

Car registration plates (牌照) are just a series of numbers and letters, right? Well, yes…but not for everyone.

France was the first country     1    (introduce) plates in 1893. Early number plates differed     2    shape and size, and were made of lots of different materials, including iron, cardboard and even pressed soybeans. In fact, it was not until 1957     3    car manufacturers and the governments agreed on standardized(标准化) plates.     4    was first registered in the UK was A1. The letter “A” showed the number was from London, while the number “1” showed it was the first number issued. At the moment, number plates     5     (consist) of a sequence of letters and numbers are applied in the UK.

Different EU countries also use different arrangements of numbers and letters, and     6     systems have changed many times because these letter-number     7     (combine) keep running out. In the past decades, some number plates     8     (become) extremely valuable, particularly those that spell out words.     9     (basic), numbers on the plates can be used to represent words or parts of words. For example, “NVERLA8” means “Never Late”. And the most     10     (expense) number ever was “M1” which an anonymous(匿名的) buyer has acquired for ￡331,000.