The medals of the 19th Asian Games were created after nearly two years of team effort.

“We     1     (have) no idea at the beginning. To be honest, it was difficult to deliver Hangzhou’s thousands of years of culture and showcase its unique features to the world in such a small medal,” Zhang recalls.

    2     more than 20 drafts, the final design of the medal features the natural landscape of Hangzhou in the style of a traditional painting--    3     (mist) hills, a rippling lake, and rolling mountains on the front,     4     the back face features the logo of the Olympic Council of Asia.

The design of the medal     5     (highlight) Hangzhou’s ecological importance, with its beautiful scenery, clear water and rolling hills. The bridge-shaped buckle (锁扣) at the top of the ribbon (带子) symbolizes     6     famous water towns of the Yangtze River Delta region.

    7     (participate) in the opening bidding (招标) for the Asian Games project, their designs stood out from more than 4,200     8     (competitor).

“Having the opportunity to participate in the design of the Games is     9     (actual) a lifelong pursuit for us as designers,” says Fang.

The team conducted a great deal of initial research     10     (select) elements that can represent Hangzhou, Zhejiang, and China.

How does urban public transport better serve elderly people? Chongqing Trolley Company has added new age-friendly measures onto the buses,     1     a zero-step entrance, lost & found boxes, emergency drugs are available.     2     (additional), it carries out special training regularly for their staff to make bus service more age-friendly.

Chongqing Trolley Company operates     3       large number of bus routes, and the elderly are their major passengers,     4     (account) for 60% in total. To better serve them, the company has installed a zero-step entrance onto buses along 70 routes. The zero-step entrance is an innovation in public transport. In other words, the entrance of the bus will be lowered when the bus     5     (arrive) at the bus stop. Besides, the footrest at the back door can serve as a wheelchair ramp (斜坡) to make the bus more    6     (access) to wheelchair users and other disabled people.

So far, these buses    7     (equip) with priority seats and reading glasses for passengers with special     8     (need). First-aid knowledge training is also carried out regularly among drivers to offer better     9     (serve) to elderly passengers.

In the future, Chongqing Trolley Company will hopefully introduce more passenger-friendly measures     10     try to make the local bus more convenient.

Constantly for three days since the start of 2024, Johnny Keep Walking!, a comedy,     1     (gain) the top position on the country’s box-office charts, resonating (共鸣) with a wide young viewership due to its touching     2     (expose) of workplace problems.

    3     (mark) as the third movie of filmmaker Dong Ruinian, who is also a renowned scriptwriter, the film fictionalizes the story of a factory worker who is     4     (mistaken) transferred to the commercial group’s headquarters. The human resource manager, Ma Jie, is another main character who was caught up     5     the “wrong adjustment” incident. Despite the human resource manager’s desperate attempts     6     (hide) his error, the worker surprisingly receives a series of promotions and unexpectedly disclose a corruption (贪污) case     7     (involve) a high-ranking manager.

Dong reveals that he thought up the script around five years ago and conducted extensive research on some Internet companies,     8     he discovered “absurd and ridiculous things”, giving him lots of inspiration.

With the story resonating with many young professionals due to its themes addressing    9     (variety) office problems such as complex interpersonal relationship, excessive overtime, and executive conflicts, the film has received a rating of 8.1 points out of 10 on Douban,     10     of the country’s most popular review sites.

Recently, a video series named Escape from the British Museum, produced by two Chinese vloggers     1    (draw) widespread attention. This video series narrates the tale of a precious artifact (手工艺品) from the British Museum escaping from the museum     2    beginning a journey to rediscover its rightful   “home”. It is     3     unique jade teapot that is decorated with a Mughal-style pattern of lotus flowers and entangled branches of Mednilla Magnifica.   

The jade teapot is indeed an authentic artifact     4    (house) in the British Museum. Originating from China, it found its place in the British Museum in 2017. Contemporary craftsmanship is exactly     5     sets it apart from other ancient Chinese artifacts that found their way beyond China’s borders. The jade teapot has a vibrant green color that is    6    (incredible) made with cutting edge techniques to shape the body excessively thin,   resulting     7     a thickness of merely 1mm.

The video series Escape from The British Museum is a collaborative     8    (create) between two social media influencers, “Jianbing Guozi” and   “Xiatian Meimei”. This attractive story     9    (employ) personification techniques and it gives life and voice to the artifact.

Currently, three episodes of this series have been released, gaining tens of millions of    10    (like) and over a million comments from viewers.

Taylor Swift does great donation to help victims of tornadoes

Severe storms and tornadoes have killed at least six people in Tennessee,     1    (include) a child, with homes and businesses suffering a heavy     2    (lose) and tens of thousands of people losing power.According to reports in the US, Taylor Swift,     3    was recently declared a billionaire, has donated 1million dollars     4     the Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee (CFMT).

Although born in Pennsylvania, Swift has a close relationship with Tennessee, having moved to Nashville with her family at the age of 14     5    (follow) her musical dream.

Her music catalogue since 2019 is worth an estimated $400m, ticket and merchandise sales from concerts have earned her 370 million dollars while streams from Spotify, YouTube and other     6    (platform) are value d at 120 million dollars.

The Eras tour alone     7    (generate)hundreds of millions of dollars so far, with another year to go until it draws to a close. The tour is the latest show of charity from the 33-year-old, who     8    (award)Time magazine’s Person of the Year last week while Forbes ranked her the world’s fifth most     9    (power)woman.

The CFMT operates a fund supporting non-profit organizations providing services in all phases of a disaster.

The National Weather Service issued multiple tornado warnings in Tennessee with reports of     10     further tornado in Kentucky.

Science fiction, or sci-fi, has     1    (explosive) grown in popularity since the 21st century. Its impact on media, art, pop culture, film and technology has consolidated sci-fi as     2     unique storytelling genre.

Before the 2000s, Chinese science fiction was a lesser-known and community-oriented genre. Few works were translated, and the western world took no interest     3     it. But the once subgenre has become internationally recognized, mainly because of Ken Liu, a writer,     4     (translate) and computer scientist. Liu has done more work than anyone else to translate Chinese sci-fi. After he translated The Three-Body Problem, it became the first contemporary Chinese sci-fi novel in English.     5     (publish) in 2014, it proved to be a raging success.

Writing in Chinese is, of course, different from writing in English. The meanings and references used in Chinese sci-fi are unique to the genre. In the works Liu translated, multiple footnotes are used     6    (describe) the complexity western readers can’t understand, and they explain why a word or sentence     7    (write) in a certain way. The cultures and languages within China each have their own subtle differences, giving translated works a foreign and distinct feel     8     no western novel can match.

The use of traditional and cultural objects, words and places in Chinese science fiction makes the genre a cultural and     9     (history) analysis of China. After reading The Three-Body Problem, for example, western readers discover some differences and     10     (similarity) between western and Asian cultures.

A Chinese ink painting of a farmer leading an ox across a bridge, followed by a boy with a bamboo basket on his back made the cover of an October issue of Structure, a United States-based Cell Press journal.     1     (additional), chemical compounds and elemental structures were highlighted into the picture.

The drawing was one of many     2     (work)by Xixizhiyan, a scientific research visualization(视觉化)service provider. The team helps to turn abstract concepts into drawings     3     present scientific researchers’ findings in a straightforward way.

Since they started, the staff members     4     (come)up with more than 10, 000 visual works for academic papers. Some have made their way to the world’s top academic journals,     5     (include) Nature, Science and Cell. The papers with illustrations that make the journal covers are considered to be either the most valuable     6     the hottest in that issue of the journal. As the cover of a scientific paper, the paintings should reflect the core content and findings, thus bringing more attention to the paper     7     (it).

In 2022, Chinese scholars contributed 16. 349 papers, accounting for 30. 3 percent, exceeding the US     8     the first time. The rapidly rising number of Chinese scientific papers has resulted in increased demand from Chinese scientists who want illustrations for their work     9     (carry)distinctive Chinese elements. It’s fulfilling for the team to pull off a special piece of work that combines cutting-edge scientific findings and     10     (tradition)Chinese culture.