China’s deep-sea manned submersible (潜水器) “Fendouzhe” went down to 10,909 meters in the Mariana Trench on Tuesday.

Three divers sent back a group photo with each person     1     (carry) a food plate in their hand after four hours of the task. That spot is known as the Challenger Deep, with the water pressure of 110 KPa, equal     2     the pressure of 2,000 African elephants.

The submersible uses titanium (钛) a perfect material     3     allows the submersible not only to bear water pressure at 10,000 meters,     4     also to reduce self mass (质量) and expand inside space.     5     (power) by a lithium (锂) battery, “Fendouzhe” can unload equipment onboard and pick up samples from the     6     (surround) environment with its flexible robotic arms.

China’s first deep-sea manned submersible. “Jiaolong”, went 7,062 meters down into the Mariana Trench in 2012. “ShenhaiYongshi” is the second manned submersible that can reach a(n)     7     (deep) of 4, 500 meters. Ninety-five percent of technology components applied on the second generation submersible are made in China. The “Fendouzhe” project     8     (launch) back in 2016, with some of the best submersible engineers in China     9     (involve). It is     10     (smart) for carrying three researchers to more than 10,000 meters deep than “ShenhaiYongshi”.

The ancient Olympic Games began in the year 776 BCE.     1    , they died out around the year 393. It was in 1896, in Athens     2     the modern Olympic Games were first held. A Frenchman Pierre de Coubertin     3     dream was that the Olympics would make it possible for people to live side by side in peace brought the Olympics back to life. Since then,     4     (motivate) by the Olympic motto “Faster, Higher, Stronger”, thousands of     5     (high) trained and talented athletes     6     (devote) themselves to achieving sporting excellence and pushing the boundaries of human achievement, such as Muhammad Ali, Michael Jordan, Jessica Ennis-Hill and so on.

Chinese athletes have also made important     7     (contribute) to the Olympics. At the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games, China returned to the Olympics after 32 years’     8     (absent) and Xu Haifeng won our country’s first-ever gold medal. At the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, Liu Xiang became the first Asian     9     (win) the gold medal in the men’s 110-metre hurdles. In 2008, in addition to hosting the Olympic for the first time, China also ranked first in the medal table. The year 2022 will be another historic moment for China, as Beijing won     10     election to host the Winter Olympics.

Helen Keller became blind and deaf at nineteen months old. Because she was deaf, Helen was unable to talk. She didn’t know how words sounded and couldn’t read     1     (they). Despite her disabilities, Helen learned to communicate.

Her teacher, Anne Sullivan,    2     (teach) her how to communicate with others. Anne wrote words on Helen's hand. Next, Helen learned how to make sounds in her throat.

Although her words didn’t sound very clear, she had learned to say words     3     her mouth. Helen also learned to read and write by     4     (use) Braille (盲文). She could read     5     (fast) with her fingers than people could read with their eyes! Helen Keller not only overcame many difficulties in her own life, but she also helped other people try to make their lives better. She became     6     writer and wrote about the challenges of being blind and deaf.

Helen travelled to towns and cities, and even other countries. She told people to be     7     (thank) for all their senses and to look at and listen to things as if they would never see or hear them again. Helen Keller was a kind of     8     (encourage) to others. She showed     9     a Person who couldn’t see or hear could achieve. For Helen, nothing could get in the way of her strong wish     10     (live) a full life.

Solar terms, also called Jieqi in Chinese, are 24 special days in the traditional Chinese calendar,     1    (know) as the “fifth great invention” of China, solar terms show the Chinese wisdom of dividing time.

Solar terms first    2    (appear) over 2,500 years ago. The Yellow River Basin, is the cradle of them    3    (original), the region was China’s major political, economic, cultural and agricultural center. Until the Western Han Dynasty, the 24 solar terms were well established.

Created by farmers, 24 solar terms    4    (use) to guide farming in ancient China,    5    indicate certain changes in seasons and climate.

In ancient times, these solar terms allowed farms to know what conditions    6    (expect) and what farming    7    (active) to carry out during different period of a year. What's more, most of the solar terms have rich social and cultural meanings. For example, people eat pears on the Waking of Insects and dumplings on the Winter Solstice.

Today, in the time of modern farming, traditional solar terms remain     8     (importance).They remind us that nature is changing     9     its rate, and they reflect the relationship between humans and nature in    10     understanding of Chinese people.

The 14-Year-Old Diving talent Who Won Gold and China's Hearts

No athlete among the winners of China's 88 Olympic medals has caused a sensation (轰动) in the county like the 14-year-old diving champion Quan Hongchan.

On social media, Quan has been nicknamed the nation's “little sister.” And after her hometown of Maihe in the southern Guangdong province     1    (sudden) received lots of tourists, local authorities (地方政府) made a     2    (decide) to shut the village to outsiders, because     3     COVID-19 concerns.

Quan is the daughter of an orange farmer,    4     has four brothers and sisters. Her mother     5    (be) in poor health for years due to a car accident. May people felt sorry for Quan after she said in an interview following her golden victory hat one of     6    (she) motivations to train hard was to have enough money     7    (pay) her mother's medical bills.

“Who would not feel heartbroken after     8    (hear) this? She is just a kid.” a comment said.

“All her answers in the interviews are so natural,     9    (honesty), and direct.” a Weibo user wrote on Thursday, “It's such     10     rare quality that most of us lose along the way. It's especially precious.”

Although sometimes being left alone may lead to reflection and personal    1    (improve), we can’t live without friendship.

Close friendships may comfort the heart, advise the head and help us    2    (achieve)the goals we set for ourselves.Firstly,we can get peace by sharing with friends our joy, sadness and failure.Sharing makes happiness take    3    a greater meaning and a trouble shared become a trouble    4    (half).Secondly, through conversations with friends    5    are wise and well-meaning, a better understanding and judgement may be achieved.Also    6    (prepare)to talk with a friend makes our thoughts clearer and our understandings    7    (thorough).Moreover,friends with different skills and ideas can provide us with help in many different ways during our life and,perhaps,     8    after death.

However,     9    must be pointed that friends should be carefully chosen and relationships carefully developed.With    10    comfort, advice and help from our trusted friends, we can live a better life.

Many of the Chinese athletes     1     (compete) at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games are benefiting     2     technological assistance from China’s space scientists and engineers. Before setting out for the Tokyo Gaines, dozens of athletes visited an area in the southwestern suburbs of Beijing that is home     3     a number of leading space technology organizations. During their stay, the athletes     4     (expose) to technologies     5     (normal) used in research and development of carrier rockets, missiles and unmanned planes, and     6     (listen) to suggestions from experts from the China Academy of Aerospace Aerodynamics.

China won     7     gold medal in the women’s quadruple sculls (四人双奖艇) with a world-record time in Tokyo. According to the engineer, wind tunnels are the most essential hardware in aerodynamic research. During the past few years, wind tunnels     8     (become) increasingly popular in Western countries, including the United States and Canada.

The academy’s tunnels have greatly helped Chinese athletes, some of     9     have won gold in Tokyo. But their     10     (achieve) also require a great deal of intense training and careful preparation.