Videos of 77-year-old Xu Xiuzhen, who speaks different languages with foreigners while working at a scenic spot selling water, postcards and headdress flowers, have brought her instant fame.

Xu’s village is located at the base of Moon Hill,     1    popular tourist destination famous for a moon-shaped hole at the summit. She     2    (work) as a tour guide and vendor(小贩)in Yangshuo since 1998,     3    the area became popular with foreign backpackers and organized tours.

Xu said she would change words in any language into Chinese characters     4    (base) on their pronunciations and then memorize them. She added that she would repeat the words in her head     5    going to bed and after waking up, because it has given her     6    (fluent) in basic conversations with foreigners.

Over the past two decades, Xu has taught     7    (she) 11 foreign languages, including English, Spanish, Japanese and Korean. In addition to making her     8    (incredible)popular, her great linguistic skill has made it easier for her     9    (communicate) with foreign tourists.

Xu has also become one of the busiest tour guides in Yangshuo,     10    (attract) a large crowd of tourists every day, especially foreign visitors, who come to meet the multilingual guide out of admiration.

The Amazon Rainforest is home to a great variety of plant life;     1    , its soil is     2    (surprising) poor in nutrients. In fact, the soil in the region cannot support agriculture for more than a few years. If we give scientists a report     3     lists the nutrients of that soil, he or she will probably think that only desert     4    (plant) can survive in it! Then why is the soil so poor in nutrients? For one thing, the rainy season has     5     impact on the soil. In the rainy season, the water level can rise to more than 12 metres.     6     the water goes away, it takes away the nutrients in the soil.     7     another thing, due to the Amazon’s hot climate, it is difficult for the soil     8    (build) up enough nutrients. Dead plants and animals     9    (break) down more quickly. The nutrients are soon taken in by the roots of the plants deep beneath the ground. As a result, most of the forest’s nutrients are locked up in the plants themselves,     10    (allow) them to grow at an unbelievable speed.

Young Chinese are fighting against society through a simple act of resistance: lying down. Examples of the “tangping”, or “lying flat”, way of life     1     (include) not getting married, not having children, and refusing to work extra hours or to hold a job at all. “I stay at home and sleep and watch television series.” said Zhang, who described herself as “lying flat” for the last two weeks     2     leaving her job in the film industry in Wuxi.

“Tangping”     3     (emerge) over the last few months. Some compare them to the 1950s Beat Generation in the United States.     4     (other) call their behavior a form of nonviolent resistance. “People realize there is no upward mobility,” said Yicheng Wang, a PhD student in political science at Boston University. The term developed after     5     April post on the Tieba forum, whose author, unemployed for the last two years, described a low-effort, low-cost lifestyle consisting of just a few months’ work out of the year.

“Lying flat is my movement,” he     6     (write), referring to the Greek philosopher Diogenes, who was known for living in a large container. He posted a picture of himself lying in bed in the middle of the day with the curtains     7     (draw).

But as “tangping” gained     8     (popular), it also brought a level of dishonor. Nanfang Daily called the philosophy “shameful”. Global Times made light of it describing “lying flat” as “not a serious philosophy”.

For Zhang in Wuxi, lying flat is not about giving up or withdrawing from society. “Many people want to lie down because 996 is too     9     (tire), ” she said, referring to the constant hours common in tech industry,     10     the staff are expected to work from 9 a. m. to 9 p. m. , six days a week. The philosophy is also about giving oneself a break.

Tu Youyou is the first female scientist of the People’s Republic of China to receive the Nobel Prize for her contribution to the fight against malaria.

Tu Youyou was born     1     1930, in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province. She     2     (study) medicine at university in Beijing between 1951 and 1955. After graduation, she completed many further training     3     (course) in traditional Chinese medicine. Her education was soon to prove very     4     (use). In 1969, she became head of     5     team intending to find a cure for malaria. They worked day and night. Two years later, they succeeded in     6     (make) qinghao extract, which could treat malaria in mice.

To speed up the process of trials on patients and ensure     7     (it) safety, her team volunteered to test qinghao extract on themselves first. Through trial and error, they     8     (final) discovered qinghaosu     9     is the most effective part of qinghao extract. Since then, it has benefited about 200 million malaria patients.

In her Nobel Lecture, Tu Youyou encouraged scientists     10     (explore) the treasure house of traditional Chinese medicine and raise it to a higher level.

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.

Ludwig van Beethoven was born in Germany     1     1770. He started his musical training when he was five years old, and his teachers     2     (work) him so hard that he often cried.

He started writing music when he was nineteen, and two years later he moved to Vienna     3     (study) music and perform. Beethoven first became famous as a pianist. However, by 1800, his musical works had become very popular,     4     he was thought of by many as the most important composer of his generation. During this same period, he     5     (slow) became deaf, but he could still write music because he could hear music in his head. Most of the     6     (great) musical works of his were completed after he became deaf. In the later part of his life, he had many health and money     7     (problem). He was also lonely because the woman     8     he loved and wanted to marry had left     9     (he). His friends tried to help him through his dark times, but his life became marked by sadness. He died after     10     (suffer)from a long illness in 1827.