A lot of films have tried to describe our memories of family members who have passed away. But few have done as    1    (remark) as Coco, Disney-Pixar’s latest animation,     2     hit the big screen on Nov. 24 and won the Oscar in 2018.

    3    (inspire) by the Mexican holiday of Day of the Dead, the film’s production team created a young boy, Miguel, who wants his family to understand his love of music. An accident takes him to the Land of the Dead. While there, Miguel has    4    unforgettable and adventurous night.

It’s in this magical world    5    Miguel gets to meet and discover the truth about his great-great-grandpa. To protect him from     6     (disappear), Miguel has to bring his photo back to the living world as soon as possible.

While told with a wild imagination, the story     7    (convey) a clear and warm message. “In an era when young people are so easily attracted by     8    (celebrity), Coco reveals the emptiness of such adulation ( 谄媚), teaching kids     9    (preserve) and respect the memory of   their elders while reminding them that the source of true creativity is so often     10    (person),” wrote reporter Peter Debruge on Variety.

From     1     teenage boy to a 38-year-old man, the skillful figure of Kobe in the basketball court is the memory of youth for many Chinese basketball fans.

On April 14th, 2016, Kobe Bryant     2    (unbelievable) won 60 points in the match versus Utah Jazz ending     3    (he) twenty-year career in NBA perfectly. On that day this match became a hot topic     4     Weibo and WeChat in China. Kobe’s     5    (glory) 20-year career in NBA became a wonderful memory of plenty of Chinese basketball fans.

Kobe’s     6    (retire) brings different kinds of feelings to many fans. For one thousand of Kobe’s fans there are one thousand different feelings. It is difficult for you    7    (show) no respect for him in the heart     8     you have ever loved Kobe or not. He is not a genius but he could face the whole Los Angeles city alone at morning 4 o'clock to practice; he has suffered from injuries, while he shouldered the duty to inspire the team with determination and courage. His diligence, motivation and enthusiasm will be remembered forever.     9     (look) back over the past twenty years, we have to admit that this man and the number 23 player of the Chicago Bulls     10    (change) the basketball game.

Have you ever seen a painting destroy     1     (it)? This strange event happened during a recent auction (拍卖) in London.

Girl With Balloon is one of the most well-known works of British artist Banksy. It     2     (sell) for £1.04 million (about 9.49 million yuan) at the Sotheby auction house on Oct 5. However, shortly     3     the hammer (锤子) went down, the painting began to slide down its frame (画框) and half of the painting was cut into     4     (piece)!

In fact, there     5     (be) a shredder (碎纸机) in the frame. More surprisingly, the artist might have set the shredder in the frame himself years ago, Yahoo News reported.

Banksy is known     6     being mysterious and unpredictable. No one knows his real name,     7     his paintings are everywhere across the UK. He always plays hoaxes (恶作剧) on the art world.

People believe this is just another example of Banksy     8     (play) a trick. They think he is against the commercialization (商品化) of art.

However, the     9     (fun) part is that this hoax might have made the painting more valuable. “(The price is) possibly as high as being worth £2 million (about 18.2 million yuan) plus,” Joey Syer,     10     (found) of art website MyArtBroker.com, told the Guardian.

Students at a primary school in Hangzhou had their first class    1    March 1st on movable type. This is    2    ancient Chinese printing system.

The West Lake Primary School in Zhejiang Province has introduced the course in the new term. An expert in Chinese characters culture has been invited to the campus，    3    major responsibility is to teach students how    4    (use) the ancient printing technology. Students attend lectures on the history of mova type along with    5    (interest) classes on typesetting and printing. They then print their own document，     6    (apply) the knowledge they’ve learned. One student printed her     7    (new) written essay “Whether the traditional red envelopes kids receive belong to them or their parents?”

    8    (know) as one of the four great inventions of ancient China， movable type printing    9    (invent) by Bi Sheng in the 1040s during the Song Dynasty， and it is the world’s first system of movable type printing.

The school said the course is aimed at improving the students’ awareness of Chinese characters and their    10    (appreciate) of Chinese culture.

In many films, whenever Earth faces a disaster, the     1    （solve） is always fleeing the planet    2     spaceship. But now the Chinese sci-fi movie, The Wandering Earth       3    （offer） a different and     4    （encourage） idea. In the film, Earth is being destroyed by the dying sun. In response, humans around the world work together     5     (build) a giant engine system,     6    will push Earth away from the sun. This"ambition" didn't come from nowhere. Up to now “homeland”     7     (have) a soft spot in the hearts and minds of Chinese people. This special cultural background     8    (probable) makes The Wandering Earth different from other films.

The film was released on Feb 5, the first day of Chinese New Year. It was     9     time when many people had just made the hard journey back to     10    (they) hometowns. So there is only one possible way to tell the story： Earth goes wherever humans go,because it's our home.

China successfully exploded its first atomic bomb on Oct 16,1964,     1    (shock) the rest of the world. It was followed by the successful    2    (explode) of a hydrogen (氢) bomb in 1967. Later, a satellite with a recording of the tune of Dong Fang Hong declared to the world that China    3    (master) satellite technology.

It was the bombs and the satellite    4     enabled China to take the lead in global scientific and technological development and improve the strength of the country's national defense, commented Xinhua News Agency.

Many people made    5    (contribute) to these world-shaking events. Yu Min, a famous nuclear physicist who passed    6     in January at the age of 93, was one of them.

Yu was one of the leading scientists who    7     (be) able to overcome difficulties in the design of the hydrogen bomb. Known as the "the father of China's hydrogen bomb", he was presented    8     the State Preeminent Science and Technology Award by President Xi Jinping in 2015. It is the nation's highest scientific honor.

    9    , Yu said the achievement belonged to the whole team.

“A man's name will disappear in time, but    10     will satisfy him is that he can contribute slightly to the nation's prosperity(繁荣)” Yu said, according to China Daily.

Sammy Armstrong was driving to his office     1     he noticed a car was stuck on railroad tracks. Then he heard a train whistle. Sammy     2     (stop) his car, put off his sunglasses and tried to figure out what was happening.     3     elderly man, Jean Papich, eighty-four, sat in the driver seat, turning the key and hitting the gas (熄火). His wife, Marion, seventy-eight, was looking     4     (nervous) at him. Then Sammy ran     5     the car and pushed it from behind, but his boots slipped on the warm asphalt (沥青). He could see the train approaching fast.

It might be     6     (easy) to push the car backward than forward, Sammy thought. He ran around to the front of the vehicle and urged Jean     7     (put) the car in neutral (空挡). Sammy could feel the ground trembling. He put his boots against the track and pushed forcefully. Finally, the car rolled off the tracks. When Sammy looked up, the train was just a couple of     8     (foot) away. Sammy, shocked and     9     (speech), went back to work as crowd gathered at the scene.

Weeks later, Marion called to thank Sammy. He responded, “I just did     10     I had to do.”

The Creator of Middle Earth

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, better known as J. R. R. Tolkien, was born in 1892 in South Africa. His parents had moved there looking for     1     better job for his father. Three years     2    (late), his mother took him on a trip to England to visit family. While they were away, they received terrible news that his father had died.

    3    (grow ) up without a father must have been difficult for Tolkien. Worse still, when he was only twelve years old, his mother also passed away. As a child, he had a great passion for language and in 1908, he went to Oxford University     4    (study) languages and literature. In 1915, he joined the army and fought in the battle against the Germans. But soon, he became too ill to fight and returned     5     England the following year. He didn’t have a     6    (satisfy) childhood himself, so around in 1933, he spent much time telling his children fantasy     7    (story) of a hobbit (霍比特人) called Bilbo. He first put it in writing in 1936,     8     turned out to be a surprising hit. The publisher asked him to write another. He did so and in 1948 published The Lord of the Rings, which     9    (publish) in three volumes between 1954 and 1955.

Tolkien,     10    (age) eighty-one, died in 1973.

An app aimed at     1    (enable) people to learn more so they can make the country stronger has become popular recent1y.

The app,     2    focuses on promoting the Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Bra and the spirit of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, is     3     platform that enables Party members and the public to raise their ideological (思想的)consciousness: sense of civic duty and scientific literacy.

The learning platform, which includes several channels,     4     ( provide) a huge amount of text and video material including news, periodicals, books, open courses, songs and     5    (movie) for the public to browse and study     6    free.

The learning platform was     7    (official) opened to the public on Jan. 1 this year,     8    it has become popular among the public within a short time. According to the media, till the     9    (begin) of April, the total amount of registered users of the learning platform has exceeded 100 million, and the     10    (day) active users account for as high as 40 to 60 percent of the total users.

Whenever anyone asks me where my favorite place in China is, I say Dali without hesitation. Dali,     1    (surround) by mountains for hiking and lakes for bicycling around , is the kind of place that everyone likes.

Last year I met a couple of young students I’d known    2     I travelled to Dali, and we agreed     3    (cycle) along the lake in a small town outside of Dali. The lake     4     (it) was pretty easy to cycle around ,     5     flat paths passing through a lot of little villages. While cycling, a woman recommended an hour-long boat ride for about 40 RMB each--a bit expensive but     6     adventure we felt like having, so we paid for it.

In about 20 minutes we witnessed in     7    (excite) how a fisherman fished with his fishing birds. A string was tied around each bird’s neck so that when it dived for fish, it was unable to swallow them. The birds     8     (give) a fish as payment for their service after the fisherman had a satisfactory catch. I’d     9           (previous) read about this fishing method, but it was pretty exciting to see first-hand.

The day finished with a brilliant sunset,     10     I climbed onto a roof to get a photo of.