Perhaps no other scientist has had a greater impact     1     China’s aerospace science than Qian Xuesen. Born in Hangzhou in 1911, Qian attended schools in Beijing and entered Shanghai Jiao Tong University to study Railway Mechanical Engineering. However, he switched his major to aviation     2     (advance) China’s aerospace after the Songhu Battle broke out. After finishing his graduate studies in the United States, Qian became a pioneer in American jet and rocket technology and founded the Jet Propulsion Laboratory with several other people.

Qian returned to China in 1955 after he     3     (overcome) some difficulties and was put in charge of not only     4     (develop) China’s rocket science but also its space and missile programme. Under Qian’s leadership, China made many     5     (breakthrough) in aerospace. Therefore he earned the name of “    6     father of China’s aerospace”.

Qian was     7    (extreme) knowledgeable, especially in the area of frontier science research.     8     might have made him so outstanding and creative was probably his extensive interests. His deep     9    (appreciate) for art often gave him inspiration in his scientific research. The whole country     10    (sad) by Qian’s death in 2009 and people honoured and remembered him in different ways.

China has named 24,126 primary, and middle schools across the country specialist football schools    1    (lead) youth football development, according to the Ministry of Education (MOE). It’s    2     (require) that at least one football class be offered each week in these schools so that they can encourage their students to    3    (active) participate in football training and matches.

China aims to have 50,000 schools specializing in youth football by    4     end of 2025, said Wang Dengfeng, an official with the MOE, adding that to realize this goal, the ministry will take    5    (vary) measures that include building school football fields, training football coaches and providing extra funding and policy support.    6     those measures in schools, 47 football training camps have also been built in an effort to promote the sport among young people. There will be professionals instructing playing skills and techniques. And players with outstanding    7     (perform) will also have the chance to join inter-school teams for regional competitions and even national summer camps.

In the past four years, local education departments have trained about 40,000 football teachers, 8,000 of    8     have obtained coaching certificates. Moreover, the country has stepped up its efforts in promoting football in schools     9    it set up a seven-department joint task force,    10    (include) the education, sport and finance authorities as well as the Chinese Football Association.

By drawing patterns on the surface of a cup of tea, Zhang Zhifeng, a practitioner of chabaixi, displayed a special Chinese tea trick in a recent TV drama,     1    (arouse)great interest among ordinary people due to its apparent     2     (similar) with modern latte art (咖啡拉花艺术).

Chabaixi, with     3     name Shuidanqing, can create endless patterns such as bamboos and mountains or even calligraphy. It is different from making latte because people use clear water as the object     4    (put) into the cup instead of milk. But when the water     5     (touch) the surface of whipped (搅打起泡沫的) tea, it turns into a white color and disappears in 20 minutes. The process before the drawing is known as the tea-making technique, diancha,     6     quality is crucial to whether patterns can be successfully produced later.

Chabaixi     7     (list) as part of China’s Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2017, after it was recovered by Zhang Zhifeng, who started researching the origins of chabaixi in     8     1980s and brought the technique back in 2009 after decades of trials and practice.

“Chabaixi, as one of the     9     (vary) forms of tea-making techniques in China, gives us a window into people’s lifestyle in the Song Dynasty, a period of time when leisure activities in some ways resemble     10     we have now. It would be a shame to let it fade. This technique must be passed on to the next generations so they can understand its history,” Zhang said.

The origin of facial makeup used in Peking Opera can date back to more than 1,400 years ago,     1     leading actors used to wear masks. As the operatic arts developed,     2     (perform) gradually took off their masks and painted colorful patterns on their faces instead, so people could better see     3     (they) facial expressions.

Chinese Opera facial makeup is a special makeup method     4     Chinese cultural characteristics. The painting technique for Chinese facial makeup in dramas is closely related to the character’s     5     (personal). Over the years of development, it     6    (become) an important part of Chinese culture.

There     7     (be) four roles in facial makeup, sheng, dan, jing, and chou. Chinese facial-makeup is     8     (extreme) stylized in the colors and patterns used, but no two painted faces are alike. For example, there are more than 100 face-painting styles     9    (design) for Xiang Yu, the hero in Farewell My Concubine, and each one is different. Various types of Chinese facial makeup enable the audience     10     (know) a character easily and get more involved in the appreciation of the performance.

Dogs are not toys and their needs should be taken into consideration. Dog owners in Germany will    1     (require)to walk their pets at least twice a day if a new law passes.

The country's agricultural minister Julia Klockner proposed a law that would order dog owners to walk their dogs at least twice a day for a total of an hour or more     2     (let) their dogs take enough exercise. The new law would also stop owners from     3     (leave)their pets home alone all day or tying     4     (they)up outside for a long period of time. The law also includes a limit for dog owners on     5     number of dogs they can keep.

The idea behind the law is to make sure the country's dogs get enough exercise and stay     6     (health). The proposed law has brought forth different opinions from dog owners and those     7       are working in the animal industry.

"There are lots of     8     (way)to enrich your dog's life without a strict law, and exercise needs are different depending on the size, type and age of the dog, ”Lindsay Hamrick, a worker of the Humane Society of the United States said. Meanwhile, dog trainer Anja Striegel said, "Staying at home all day     9    (do)the species little good.   A large part of the problems that dog owners have    10       their animals these days arise from lack of exercise.

We are drowning in a sea of free information. The Internet is in our businesses, homes and our bedrooms. An army of designers and data engineers spend their working life figuring   out   ways     1     (make) us stay plugged in longer. Our desires are repackaged by giant tech companies and then     2     (sell) back to us under the cover of free content, but it isn't free. We are paying for it with invisible currencies, such as our time and privacy,     3     people are only now beginning to understand.