Wandering sounds, irregular rhythms and a carrier of gentle emotions. This is the musical language of guqin, a plucked seven string instrument created in ancient China.

The earliest piece of guqin in China,     1    (unearth) in Hubei province in 2016, dates back to the Zhou Dynasty. The body of a guqin is made of lacquered wood and the strings of twisted silk.    2     its seemingly simple appearance, making a guqin is extremely demanding.     3     outstanding piece can take anywhere from two to several decades to craft. It is a crystallization of art and time.

The guqin was favored by the literati in ancient China. The most renowned guqin     4    (music) was Yu Boya in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods.     5     he played his guqin in the mountains, a woodcutter named Zhong Ziqi heard the music and understood exactly     6     Yu wanted to express.

This deep understanding formed a strong bond between them,     7       they became close friends. This is the famous tale behind the guqin masterpiece, Flowing Water, High Mountains. The piece     8    (pass) down through generations and is considered one of the most famous and important     9    (compose) in Chinese guqin music. This graceful dialogue,     10    (flow) from brushed fingertips and travelling for thousands of years, is continuing to this day.

As of June, China had about 285 million Internet users living in rural areas,     1     (account) for over 30 percent of the country’s total, according to a recent report on China’s Internet development. The number of rural Internet users in China     2     (grow) by over 30 million in the last few months.

The report said the Internet is playing a     3     (great) role than ever in the country’s poverty (贫困) reduction efforts, with the public’s participation in and     4     (recognize) of relevant campaigns on the rise. It said as of June, online promotions of agricultural products from remote areas had reached more than half of the Chinese Internet users, and     5     more than one third of netizens had bought such products via online platforms.

Meanwhile, the report shows that e-commerce livestreaming (直播) grew     6     (increasing) active in the first half of the year. As of June, the number of e-commerce livestreaming users in China had hit 309 million, up 16.7 percent from March. China saw over 10 million livestreaming marketing     7     (activity) in the first half of this year, attracting over 50 billion views, the report noted.

The report said the Internet can contribute significantly     8     China’s anti-poverty goal by providing jobs, social security and medical service information for     9     poor and allowing children in poverty-stricken areas     10       (access) better education.

Normally, my two-year old cat, Tiger, hates it when I use my tablet (平板电脑) because it takes my attention away from him. July last year, I had    1     terrible fall from the ladder(梯) at home and was on the floor for six     2    (hour). During this time, I was     3    (able) to move and couldn’t get to the phone to call for help. Tiger stayed by my side until he    4    (disappear) suddenly under my bed. “What’s he up to?” I wondered.     5    my surprise, he started to push something towards me. It was my tablet,     6     had fallen off the bed and onto the floor. Tiger     7    (probable) didn’t know what it was,     8    he knew it would make me happy.

Thanks to Tiger, I was able to contact a friend of     9    (I), who then called emergency(急救) services. It took me the next eight days in hospital     10    (recover). When I returned home, I bought Tiger a big fish to thank him.

“A heavy ion (离子) cancer treatment system developed by Chinese researchers will soon be put into     1     (operate) in northwest China’s Gansu Province,” researchers said.

The system will be used in a hospital in Lanzhou, capital of Gansu,     2     is mainly devoted to treating cancer patients with the technology of heavy-ion accelerators.

Cancer radiation treatments     3     (employ) heavy-ion accelerators can attack     4     target with high-energy electrons (电子) to kill cancer cells.

Compared to traditional therapy (治疗) such as radiation, heavy ion treatment     5     (consider) to have more balanced properties with     6     (little) radiation on healthy cells. The treatment period is shorter,     7     the therapy could more     8     (effect) control cancer cells, according to Wang Xiaohu, deputy director of the Gansu Provincial Cancer Hospital.

Researchers with the Institute of Modern Physics under the Chinese Academy of Sciences started basic research     9     the technology in 1993 and developed the accelerators in 2015.

A report published by the National Cancer Center in 2017 showed that China has nearly 25 percent of the world’s new cancer cases, with 10,000 cancer patients     10     (add) per day. Every year, there are two million cancer-induced deaths. Lung, breast and stomach cancers are the most common types.

Once, there lived a poor man in a small village. He was very clever but didn't want     1    (work) at all. He lived on     2     the villagers gave him every day. One day he got a basket of eggs     3       a kind lady. He began to think that he would save eggs until they were in short supply. Then he could earn a small amount of money by     4     (sell) them at a-very good price. And then he would buy a couple of goats.   Very soon, he would have     5     large group of goats. The goat milk would bring him much more money. With the money, he would buy a cow.    6     (it)milk would bring him a lot of money. He would become much    7    (rich ), build a big house and marry a pretty woman. They would have a lot of     8     (child). While he was lost in thought,     9    (unlucky ), he fell over a stone and all the eggs dropped onto the ground. He was very sad. That     10     (bring) an end to the man's beautiful dream.