So far, the village soccer super league in Rongjiang county, Southwest China's Guizhou province, has become     1     popular that it has caught the attention of famous figures such as former soccer player Michael Owen.

On June 12, former national soccer player Fan Zhiyi responded     2     an invitation from players from Guizhou's villager soccer super league. Fan expressed his     3     (excite) and promised to join them on June 22 in Rongjiang, where he will also bring his team to play a match with them on June 23.

Before this, Hong Kong movie star Natalis Chan also     4     (challenge) the village soccer super league and promised to bring his celebrity(名人) soccer team for a     5     (friend) match. The celebrity football team includes many famous     6    (star) such as Alan Tam, Eric Tsang, Andy Lau, Hacken Lee, and Jacky Cheung.

The Guizhou village soccer super league’s players,     7    come from all walks of life, include truck drivers, carpenters, shopkeepers, construction workers, farmers, and more. They all share     8     same passion for soccer and are devoted to     9     (put) on an exciting show.

Following the final match of the village soccer super league on July 29, Rongjiang will launch a national invitation competition, inviting teams from all over China     10     (participate) in the event.

China launched a Long March 2D carrier rocket to transport 41 satellites into space     1     (set) a new national record for the most spacecraft launched in a single mission.

The rocket blasted off at 1: 30 pm from a service tower    2     (surround) by mountains at the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in Shanxi province. After     3     short flight, the second stage of the rocket     4     (successful) placed the 41 small remote-sensing satellites into preset orbits. Designed and manufactured by the Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology, the Long March 2D is one of the most reliable     5     (rocket) in this nation. Since its     6     (one) appearance in August 1992, the model     7     (use) in 76 flights, all of which have been successful.

Its success has earned it the “gold-medal rocket model”     8     China’s space industry.     9     (it) typical tasks are to transport satellites to low-Earth or sun-synchronous orbits. The previous national record was set just by a ZK 1A rocket,     10     sent 26 satellites into orbit. The world record is held by SpaceX’s Falcon 9, which lifted 143 satellites in January 2021.

The Naadam Festival,     1     falls on the fourth day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar, is celebrated in China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region to express pleasure for the harvest. In Naadam festival, Wrestling, Archery and Horse racing    2     (consider) as three most impressive traditional events.

Mongolian wrestling is a wonderful show of strength and grace, in which actions like the pull, push, and press are attractive. It is    3    (total) different from the wrestling competition in the Olympic Games. There are no rounds, and wrestlers are not separated by weight. The wrestler loses if any part of his body above his knee    4     (touch) the ground.

Mongolian archery is classified as three kinds: Static shoot, on horse shoot and long shoot. The rules are three rounds with nine arrows. Every person has three    5    (arrow) per round, the scores are evaluated by the number of target hitting. Archery has played     6    important role in the life of Mongolia people and still kept    7    (it) popularity.

The horse racing is    8     (excite), including three kinds of competitions to test the speed of the horse and riders’ performances. Competitors should be children, because they are lighter and it is easy for horses    9    (run) faster. Growing    10    on the horseback,they are attached to horses. In a sense, horses are at the heart of Mongolian culture.

Temples used to play a key role in hutong community life in Beijing. Many people may be surprised     1     (learn)that there were about 1,500 temples in Beijing from 1740 to 1950. During this time, there were two to three temples in every hutong. In the 1930s, visitors to Beijing,     2     (lead)by tour guides, in most cases, visited some temples during their stay.

Besides prayer, temples had many functions at that time. For example, Fayuan Temple, known     3     its lilac (丁香) blossoms, functioned as parks, where the public could enjoy the nature. Local residents’ lives were closely involved with the temples. For instance, when children were ill, their parents might take them to a temple and turned to masters in the temples for help,     4     had medical skills. And children reaching school age would     5     (usual)go to temples for lessons. When people failed to make ends meet, they might become a temple monk, which then was viewed as a good     6     (choose). In downtown Beijing, Guanyin Temple acted as a small public square for people     7     (live)in the nearby hutong. For a long time, it functioned as a nursing home for     8     elderly and provided accommodations for the homeless.

Temples, by providing a place where local groups could gather,     9     (be)one of the best and most unforgettable     10     (memory)for the local residents in the 20th century.

Porcelain is a material     1     (make) from well-chosen porcelain clay (黏土) through technological processes. Although porcelain developed from pottery (陶器), the two are different in material and firing temperature. Porcelain has a better quality and a     2     (beautiful) body than pottery. That’s why it slowly replaced pottery. It is called china in English because it was first made in China, which fully explains that the beautiful porcelain can be a symbol     3     China.

The earliest porcelain     4     (appear) during the Shang Dynasty, but the first real porcelain was not produced until the Eastern Han Dynasty. The techniques for     5     (create) porcelain developed in the Tang Dynasty. In the Yuan Dynasty, people in Jingdezhen, China’s porcelain capital, produced blue and white porcelain     6     later became the representative of porcelain.

Since the Han and Tang Dynasties, porcelain has been exported (出口) worldwide. It     7     (strong) encourages economic and cultural exchange between China     8     the outside world. It also influences the     9     (tradition) culture and lifestyle of people from other     10     (country). Porcelain is the creative fruit of the working people of ancient China.

Clubs can provide many life skills     1     kids by giving them just a bit more life experience outside of home and school. After-school clubs, sports, and other extra-curricular activities can be     2     (benefit) to every child Kids can pursue (追求) a variety of interests     3     are really enjoyed.

Many high schools and middle schools offer a variety of clubs and activities, often after school. They’re interesting and keep     4     (teenager) out of trouble. They can also help teens improve     5     (they) interests and can help find their next step after high school graduation. Clubs can be based on activities people usually enjoy like cooking, photography, woodworking, theatre, gardening, running or crafting. Clubs can also     6     (set) up according to the same interests like reading, science, history, etc. A good club     7     (have) even more all-round activities,    8     (focus) on future careers.

Clubs     9     (common) meet every month, or every other week to discuss their interests or participate in an activity. It’s a meaningful social event and something     10     (look) forward to during the busy week.

Food wasting is still on the increase worldwide currently. In the United States alone, grocery stores throw away     1     (billion) of pounds of food every year. Sometimes it’s because the food is nearing its sell-by date, even though that doesn’t mean it can’t be eaten. Other times, it’s     2     (simple) because the food is strange-looking, even though the food is in good condition. Whatever the reason is, there is more and more food waste in landfills, contributing greatly     3     the production of greenhouse gases.

In early 2016 in France, a law was passed to prevent food from     4     (throw) away by large grocery stores, as long as the food is still safe to eat. French stores can choose to donate it to charities such as food banks. The law makes     5     much easier for stores to donate their food since grocery stores     6     (large) than 4,300 square feet must sign contracts with food banks. Grocery stores     7     don’t follow the law must pay a heavy fine up to almost 4,000 dollars. This is a major step in helping reduce food waste and dealing with     8     (hungry) as well.

The law doesn’t stop there. In addition, it requires that French schools teach children about food waste and what they can do to help fix the problems     9     (bring) about by food waste.

France was the first country in the world to pass a law like this, and since 2016, it     10     (become) a world leader in reducing food waste.

The Three-Body Problem, a cartoon based on a famous science fiction by Liu Cixin, was released on a video website last December, with 140 million people     1     (watch) it in just five days. Science fiction had been a genre dominated by the West before. However, when the novel     2     (publish) as a series in a domestic journal, Science Fiction World, readers were thrilled that a hardcore science-fiction work     3     (write) by a Chinese author had finally appeared. All three books in the series made     4     difference in China, and US book reviewers gave positive comments     5     the plots of the story and the imagination of the author. Attempts were made     6     (turn) the story into a movie, and now the official cartoon has proved that Chinese authors are creative enough to write good science-fiction stories.

Liu Cixin     7     (he) is an engineer,a profession that lays a solid     8     (found) for his science-fiction writing. Chinese scientists have made so many achievements lately     9     the concept of spaceships and travel to other planets in the solar system looks increasingly possible. We can tell     10     (confident) The Three-Body Problem cartoon sets a good start for the science-fiction industry in China.

In China, most people think that having large eyes, double eyelids, a thin waist and white skin     1     (be) beautiful. But that’s just the     2     (appear). Many other things make people beautiful.

My father said that the beauty of the Chinese people is in being gentle and implicit (含蓄的), like an ink painting. My grandma told me that, while dancing in the square, it is beautiful     3     (wear) colorful headscarves and smile     4     (bright) at everyone. My teacher said China is     5     ancient country of etiquette (礼节), and our beauty lies     6     elegance and dignity. My classmate believed that beauty is being simple and     7     (nature). Now image editing software makes everyone look the same, but she thought everyone should show their own characters.

    8     (compare) with the Chinese, who see softness and consideration as beautiful, Western people may prefer being strong and confident. Their standards for beautiful skin color and body shape are also very broad.     9    , people’s aesthetics (审美) are always changing, and the exchange of cultures will influence each other. No one can describe beauty for a country or a social group. The world     10     (become) beautiful only if we accept all kinds of ideas about beauty.

Luo Yingjiu, 82, has run a small zoo in Enshi, Hubei province on his own for 33 years despite     1     (vary) difficulties. At the one-man Fenghuang Mountain Zoo, Luo serves     2     director, cleaner, breeder, vet and conductor. Most of the residents of the zoo are old and weak, many of     3     were saved by Luo.

    4     (live) in the zoo himself, Luo gets up at about 5 am, checks the condition of the animals, cleans their enclosures and goes to the market to buy feed for them. At night, he observes the animals and refills their food and water, and even gets up around 2 am     5     ( care) for the older ones.

Over the past 33 years, Luo     6     ( devote) himself to the zoo and persisted. He lives economically, eats     7     (simple) and never dines out at restaurants. Sometimes, he picks up empty bottles to sell to support the zoo.     8     his retirement salary is about 5,000 yuan per month, which is enough to live a good life in such a small place, he has fallen into debt to cover the zoo’s expenses.

Last January, Luo Wei, the old man’s granddaughter,     9     (begin) to post short videos of him looking after these animals online, hoping to raise awareness of the zoo and give people a     10     (good) understanding of her grandfather’s work.