I have a fifteen-year-old son. He    1     (be) a perfect boy. I love my son with all my heart.

Last summer he worked to earn money for his new bicycle instead of     2     (ask) money from me. Then he spent hours and hours on it. Later I bought him a pair    3    glasses and gloves. My son rode the bicycle with the glasses and the gloves, and he looked so cool. He dreamed of taking part in a race and winning.

On November 10, my birthday, when I went to the kitchen to start the milk and bread in the morning, I     4     (notice) a beautiful guitar on the table, beside which was a card. It said, “Happy birthday to my    5     (wonder) mother, all my love, your son.” I was very    6    (surprise) and then began to sob (抽泣). I remembered once I joked to my family that I wished    7     (learn) to play the guitar to make my life more colorful. I had forgotten it, but my son remembered. He took it    8     (serious), and bought one for me as my birthday gift. When I wondered     9     my son could buy this expensive gift, I realized that my son sold his bicycle to get me     10     guitar.

Chinese astronauts in Tiangong space station opened     1     science lecture on December 9th, 2021     2     they travelled around the Earth.

There     3     (be) a lecture and some inspiring activities     4     that exciting day. First, Zhai Zhigang, Wang Yaping and Ye Guangfu, all members of the Shenzhou Ⅷ mission crew, greeted students, teachers and so on as the lecture began.     5     (them) then showed viewers the place where they live and work. The astronauts carried out experiments     6     (show) interesting     7     (physics) phenomena in space, including “disappearing buoyancy (浮力)” and a “water ball”. At last, before the end of the live streamed activities, they     8     (happy) answered questions from students.     9     (million) of students across China watched the 60-minute televised (电视转播的) event, which was the first lecture of the Tiangong Class. China’s     10     (one) extraterrestrial (地球大气圈外的) lecture series to make students interested in space science.

The Internet     1     (connect) people across the world to a single     2    (share) community so far. We can achieve almost anything online — with access     3     the Internet come some     4    (true)life-changing advantages. One of the greatest     5    (advantage) of the Internet lies in the quick and easy way to get information, With the click of a mouse     6     the touch of a button, it is possible     7    (find) out almost anything we care to know.

The Internet has made our lives unbelievably convenient. The Internet also helps us establish and maintain     8    (society) ties. Wherever we are, the Internet keeps us in contact with the ones     9     we loved. However, while it brings valuable advantages, being connected has its problems. We must be aware of these problems and use the Internet properly and responsibly. Only in this way can the Internet be     10     place of discovery, wonder and inspiration for everyone.

“Traveling to China seems like traveling to another world. Its many famous scenic attractions impressed me     1     (great),”an American said. The following is     2     he wrote on his website.

My friends and I had a family visit in Xi’an,     3     old city with a long history in China. The hosts were retired or stayed at home without a job, and they were friendly to     4     (visit) from different countries coming their homes.

We     5     (taste) the true home-cooked dishes in the home of the family that we visited. For in-homing dinner, the host would prepare a list of menus in advance (提前). Our tour guide asked     6     (we) for advice about the food, so the host would try to cook what we wanted     7     (eat) at his home. We just enjoyed the locally cooked dishes. It was quite a different and exciting experience.

Many foreigners enjoy     8     (learn) how to make Chinese dumplings. We were also     9     (offer) a general cooking class in the local family. The host taught us to make dumplings step by step with lots of patience. And we didn’t need to pay any money     10     this. Travel China Guide offers this kind of service free of charge.

The family visit in Xi’an was a good chance for us to get to know Chinese people’s daily life.

“Du Fu: China’s Greatest Poet”, a 58-minute documentary released recently on BBC, introduces Du Fu to the Western world for the first time    1     the form of documentary. In the film, Michael Wood, one of BBC’s most popular hosts, visited a number of Chinese    2     (city) to retrace Du’s steps. The documentary invited well-known British actor Ian McKellen,     3     played Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings movies,     4     (read)15 of Du’s poems that have been translated into English.

Born in 712, Du Fu lived through the violent fall of China’s brilliant Tang Dynasty. He had the desire to serve his country, but his life    5    (destroy) by the An Lushan Rebellion of 755. Of all     6     poems he wrote, 500 have been preserved over the ages. For generations he     7     (be) the guardian of the moral conscience (良知) of the nation.

The documentary compared Du to Shakespeare to help audiences     8    (well) understand the poet’s great achievements in literature. It also highlighted Chinese poetry, noting that its 3000-year-old history makes     9    the oldest living tradition in the world.

During an interview, the director even quoted a line from Du to encourage the people    10     (suffer) from pandemics (流行病).

A small village in Yunnan Province is     1     (wide) known as the Dai paper factory. There are nets for     2     (dry) paper all over the village and inside villagers’ houses. Dai paper     3     (make) for over 800 years there up to now.

One of the best papermakers is Yan, who was already interested in Dai paper at an early age.     4     the guidance of his grandparents at 16, Yan was quickly able to complete     5     production independently.

Unlike ordinary papermaking where trees need to be cut down, Dai paper is environmentally friendly. This is     6    its raw material is the recyclable bark of a kind of trees unique to the area. Dai paper’ production process is still used today. In a workshop, Yan demonstrated 11 different papermaking     7     (process) to us.

Although Dai paper carries the culture and     8     (believe) of the Dai people, the crafting of it is faced with great challenges.     9     (address) the problems, Yan improved Dai’s papermaking technology, thus saving production time and reducing labor costs. And then he     10     (start) teaching the villagers his new papermaking process for free.