Marie Kondo is     1     internationally known expert on cleaning. Her first book, called the “The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up,”     2     (publish) in Japanese in 2011.     3     has sold more than 10 million copies in more than 40 countries.

Yet fans want more help and     4     (inform). So Kondo is launching a television show ‘a team of workers who will visit clients’ homes, and a set of special paper boxes     5     (keep) things organized. A set of three costs $89.

Kondo says the boxes were not part of her     6     (origin) idea. In her book about tidying up, she gave two main pieces of advice. First, keep only things that give you joy. Second, store those things in places they can be     7     (easy) reached and put away.

Kondo did not tell readers to get special containers     8     their things. Instead, she suggested people use containers they already had, such as shoe boxes.

But fans still ask Kondo     9     kinds of containers they need to achieve her special way of organizing. So Kondo recently appeared in New York City to launch her new boxes. They are about the shape and size of shoe boxes. They are colored light pink, gray, brown and purple. The insides are painted with designs such as a tree branch dotted with small white flowers.

Kondo says the idea behind the boxes is not to hide things.     10    , it is to make the things inside feel happy.

Beijing culture’s time-travel comedy(喜剧) Hi, Mom, which opened the Lunar new year holiday in the    1    (two)place behind Detective Chinatown 3, suddenly risen to the front of the pack.

    2    (write), directed by and co-starring female filmmaker Jia Ling, Hi, Mom    3    （receive）the best user review ratings of the seven films currently on release by now.     4    (interesting), Jia make up a time-travel story to tell her mother's love story .

The film stars Chinese comedy veteran Jia as a devoted daughter     5    world is turned upside-down after her mother dies in an accident. In       6     state of emotional crisis, Jia Ling finds    7    ( she) mysteriously transported back to 1981, where she meets her mother (Zhang Xiaofei) and the social group of her youth. Jia’s character tries to improve her mother’s life by using ideas from the future, but her plans repeatedly go wrong.

Hi, Mom reflects on how Jia misses her late mother Li Huanying, who encouraged her    8    (go) after her artistic dreams. The film     9    (base) on her memories of their time together. Thanks to Hi, Mom's    10    (power) performance to date, Jia is already China’s most commercially successful female filmmaker ever.

This year, Zhang Guimei sent 150 female students to college from a free all-girls high school she had founded in 2008 in southwest China’s deep mountains. For the past 13 years, a total of 1,954 female students     1     (graduate) from this school, the first and only one of its kind in the country. “To educate a girl is to change the destiny (命运) of three     2     (generation),” Zhang said.    3     64-year-old teacher from southwest China’s Yunnan Province was presented     4     the July 1 Medal by Xi Jinping at a ceremony in Beijing on Tuesday. Because of her efforts to improve female education in China, more girls can change their destiny. When the People’s Republic of China     5     (found) in 1949, female illiteracy (文盲) was much higher than that of their male counterparts. In the 1950s, the Chinese government launched campaigns     6     helped some 16 million females become educated. In recent decades, wiping out illiteracy and     7     (improve) the reading skills of women is regarded as one of the     8     (high) priorities in China, according to the government’s guideline for helping the country’s females. The female illiteracy rate for those above age 15 has decreased from     9     (rough) 90% in the early 1950s to 7% in 2019. In 2021, China scored 0.973 in the Global Gender Gap Report     10     (release) by the World Economic Forum (with a score of 1 being completely equal).

Friendship is one of the most important     1     (thing) in everyone’s life. It is very difficult     2     (find) a better definition（定义）of friendship. A true friend is the person     3     can share all our sadness and double all our happiness. In time of trial(尝试） , he or she is always at our side to give us his or her help and comfort.

    4     (know) how valuable friendship is, we should be very     5     (care) with our choice of a friend. We should choose those people with a good character     6     our friends, but we must try to avoid making friends with a bad man.

Besides, we should forgive their mistakes and try to help them as much as possible. A true friend can always be trusted, loved and     7     (respect). If you tell a friend your secrets, he or she won’t tell anyone . Friends share their joys and sorrows. They help each other when they are     8     trouble, and cheer each other up when they are sad.     9     most important thing is that a friend always understands you. In conclusion, If you have made a good friend, don’t forget     10     (he) or her.

A man looking at his Smartphone while walking across a railway     1    (have) a close knock on Oct 22. He was so     2    (absorb) in his Smartphone that he didn’t see a train approaching until it brushed past him, throwing him to the ground. This should serve     3     a warning that people should be aware of their surroundings, especially when     4    (cross) roads.

    5    (lucky), the man survived, but the incident forced the driver     6    (stop) the train. An 18-minute delay followed the incident,     7     led to a break in the running of other trains on the route.

The Smartphone     8    (addict) has spread like an infectious disease. It’s evident that it will do great harm to society. What’s even     9    (bad), some addicts become impatient with relatives and friends.

Some people blame the Smartphone     10     the tragedy, yet in fact people’s weakening self-control and self-discipline are to blame.

When someone has     1    (deep) hurt you, it can be very difficult to let go of your anger. But forgiveness is possible and it can be surprisingly     2    (benefit) to your physical and mental health. So far research     3    (show) that people who forgive can have more energy, better appetite and better sleep. “People who forgive who     4    (little) anger and more hopefulness,” say Luskin, who wrote the book Forgive for Good. “So it can help reduce the tiredness and allow people     5    (feel) more energetic.”

So when someone has hurt you, cool down first. Take a couple of breaths and think of something     6     gives you pleasure: a beautiful scene in nature, or someone you love. Don’t wait for an     7    (apologize). “Many times the person who hurts you may never think of apologizing,” says Luskin. “They may have wanted to hurt you or they just don’t see things in     8     same way. So if you wait for people to say sorry, you could be waiting for a very long time.”

Next, keep in mind that forgiveness does not necessarily mean     9    (accept) the action of the person who upsets you. Instead, learn to look for the love, beauty and kindness around you. Finally, try to see things from the other person’s perspective(角度). You may realize that he or she was acting out of ignorance. It may be comfortable for you to write a letter to     10    (you) from that person’s point of view.

There are two kinds of parents in modern America, says Alison in her recent book, the Gardener and the carpenter. The “carpenter”(木匠) thinks that his or her child can     1     (shape). The idea is that if you just do the right things, get the right skills and read the right books, you’re going to have the ability     2     (turn) your child into a particular kind of adult. The “gardener”, on the other hand, is less concerned about controlling who the child will become. Instead, he     3     (provide) a protected space for the child to explore. The style is all about “creating not only     4     rich, nutritious but also various and energetic ecosystem”. Gopnik, a psychology and philosophy professor, spent decades     5     (research) children’s development and found that parents often focus too much     6     their children’s future. The harm is that parents and their children may become anxious, tense or unhappy. These parents should really reflect on     7     (they). “We’re so concerned about what these children are going to be     8     we’re unwilling to give them the right to take     9     (risk) and explore the world,” she says. Obviously, the     10     (little) parents worry about their children’s outcome, the better their children may live in life.

Nowadays, social networking addiction has become a rising concern. Social networking addiction is a phrase sometimes used     1    (refer) to someone spending too much time using social media and it     2    (influence) their daily life profoundly.

Addiction usually refers to habitual     3    (behave) that is difficult to control and it may lead to negative effects. In most addictions, people feel forced to do certain activities so often that they become harmful habits,     4     then affect other important activities such as work and study.

In that context, a social networking addict could     5    (consider) someone with a powerful inner drive to use social media repeatedly—     6    (constant) checking status updates or following people’s     7    (profile) on Weibo, for example, for hours on end..

But it is hard to tell when fondness for     8     activity becomes dependency and crosses the line into a damaging habit or addiction. Does     9    (spend) three hours a day on Weibo reading random information of strangers mean you’re addicted     10     Weibo? How about five hours? You could argue you are reading headline news or need to stay current in your field for work, right?

A 13-year study of early childhood development    1    （make) by Harvard University has shown that, by the age of three, most children have the big potential     2    （understand) about 1,000 words-most of the language they will use in ordinary conversation for the rest of their lives.

Furthermore, research has shown that while every child is born with a natural curiosity, it can decline     3    （great) during the second and third years of life. Researchers say that the human personality    4    （form) during the first two years of life, and during the first three years children learn the basic skills they will use in all their later learning both at home    5    school.

    6    is generally acknowledged that young people from poorer socio-economic backgrounds tend to do less well in our education system. As a result of the research evidence of the     7    （important) of the first three years of a child's life, a pilot programme     8     focused on parents as the child's first teachers started in the US. As the programme shows, working with the family, rather than bypassing the parents,     9    （be) the most effective way of     10    （help) children get off to the best possible start in life.