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An organization has taken measures     1     (add) chopsticks to the Shanghai Intangible Cultural Heritage list recently. Xu Hualong, chairman of the organization, says chopsticks are increasingly ignored in modern China despite the fact     2     they are unique Chinese items. China’s neighbor Japan     3     (set) aside August 4th as Chopstick Day already.

Chopstick culture in Shanghai dates back to the Tang Dynasty, when these items     4     (make) in the City God Temple area, enjoyed widespread popularity.

After opening as a commercial port, Shanghai is proud of     5     (have) the first mechanized (机械化的) production line for chopsticks,     6     are not only supplied to Zhongnanhai and Diaoyutai State Guesthouse but also presented to foreign friends     7     gifts..

At least 1.8 billion people     8     (current) use chopsticks worldwide. Chopsticks, though small, serve as     9     means to pass down Chinese civilization. It's believed that recognizing the cultural value of the custom matters in the     10     (promote) of Chinese traditions.

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A group of students from China's Tibet Autonomous Region set out from Lhasa on Friday to kick off a sports tour in Beijing.

The eight middle school students from Damxung County,     1    (locate) in the north of Lhasa, will visit the Bird's Nest and Water Cube. Afterward, the group will take training classes with two professional football     2     (coach) from Spain.

"I started playing football in primary school. Now I'm a little nervous but     3     (excite) about the journey. It's my first time     4     (leave) my hometown," said sixteen-year-old Tenzin Phuntsok,     5     (add) that the place he wants to visit the most in Beijing is the Bird's Nest.

Tenzin, along with     6     (he) fellow students, was selected from more than 60 candidates, all of     7     are from remote regions in Tibet. The tour they are about to take is a part of "Samaranch Football for All",     8     project launched by Samaranch Foundation in 2014. In order to promote football and the country's new national fitness program, the project has organized football training for young people in grass roots football leagues across China. Samaranch Foundation     9     (found) in 2012. It is named     10     the former International Olympic Committee President Juan Antonio Samaranch.

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Trade is a very important way for any country to earn money and create jobs. People and countries have traded for thousands of years, but in today’s     1     (globe) economy, information, goods and money can be moved around the world at     2     unbelievable speed. Companies aim to make the best product at the     3     (low) price.

The World Trade Organization (WTO) is responsible for     4     (negotiate) international trade agreements. Most rich countries want a free trade system in     5     the prices of goods are determined by the amount that people want to buy and sell. But many people believe such a system favors richer countries like the USA and Japan and want the WTO to be reformed. They argue that world trade must     6     (manage) so the poorest countries benefit more.     7     other words, they want world trade to become “fair trade”.

Fair trade is trade that is good for the producer, a system that ensures more of the price consumers pay     8     (go) to the producer. Fair trade staff would be paid a fair wage, have good working conditions and be allowed     9     (form) trade unions to defend their rights.

Fair trade campaigns, such as the Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC), have drawn     10     (attend) to the working conditions of workers all around the world.

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When an important holiday comes, I usually think of what gifts to buy or prepare for my family members. It is the act itself rather than the thing you buy     1     matters. Either a small present, a text message or a phone call can mean a lot to the receivers.     2    , I had never got anything from my son, who is a university student. Parents never forget to celebrate their children’s birthday, but their children seem to be very    3     (forget).They seldom do something in return.

Life is unpredictable, and you never know what will happen tomorrow. When my son came back during the summer vacation, my wife and I, as usual,     4     (meet) him at the station. On arriving home, much    5     my surprise, my son took out a wrist watch and gave it to me,     6     (say) it was a birthday gift for me. It is a very fashionable watch,     7     shows not only hours, minutes and seconds but days as well. You can imagine how surprised and excited I was at that moment.

Some people say children get too much care and love from their parents and just take them for granted.     8     is natural for people to have such concerns and worries, but things may not turn out as badly as    9     (expect).We need to look more at the positive side of life, as a famous writer once said, “Life is    10     best classroom one can never get.”

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It is said that a course     1     (offer) at a university in East China will link students’ weight loss     2     (direct) to their marks in order to limit obesity (肥胖).

The course from Zhou Quanfu, a teacher at Nanjing Agricultural University in Jiangsu Province, aims     3     (encourage) overweight students to control their diets and increase their exercise. Zhou said 60 percent of a student’s grade will     4     (determine) by their weight loss. If they manage to reduce 7 percent of their     5     (origin) weight, they can pass the course.

One student     6     is unwilling to give her real name said that the students run on treadmills (跑步机) in the school’s fitness room and walk 10 kilometers every Monday and Friday evening. “We use mobile apps to record daily food intake,” added the student. Before

    7     (eat), they send photos of their food via a mobile app for     8     (suggest) from nutritionists. “Only students     9     more than 30 percent body fat or a body mass index (指数) of 28 or higher can sign up for the course,” said Zhou.

Physical fitness test data showed that between 2013 and 2014 around 13 percent of the students in Zhou’s university were obese. He hopes the course will help them lose weight and have more confidence in     10     (they) day by day.

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Li Ziqi was born in 1990, a vlogger     1     enjoys a fan base of more than 21 million people on Sina Weibo and 7 million strong followers on YouTube. She     2    (make) a name for herself in her videos that highlight a traditional Chinese way of life in the rural areas of Sichuan province in recent years. Her videos cover     3     wide variety of crafts     4     (relate) to traditional Chinese culture. From making paper and ink to     5     (weave) cloth, nothing seems impossible with Li’s crafty hands as they work their magic to bring these things into existence.

But Li’s most eye-catching, and mouth-watering craft is cooking. Scenes of her picking seasonal ingredients from her own garden and sometimes in the mountains nearby and turning them     6     inviting dishes on her wood-fired wok can often    7     (see) in her videos. Li emphasizes the seasons in her cooking, as China’s     8     (tradition) 24 Solar Terms also do, and makes food suitable for the particular climate.

All this is done against a natural background of the four seasons beautiful enough to be featured in films.

Watching her videos, it is difficult not     9     (appreciate) their beauty and hold back that sense of nostalgia and longing for home. But it is even     10     (hard) to resist the temptation to take a bite of her carefully cooked dishes.

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The history of Chinese characters dates back to ancient times, with a history of at least several thousand years. It is agreed that hanzi began     1     simple pictures, images that the ancient Chinese people drew, painted, and carved     2    (describe) nature and their lives.

The     3     (old) symbols recognizable as Chinese characters are those found on ancient animal bones. These 3000-year-old symbols, jiaguwen,     4    (carve) on turtle shells or bones of animals, and can give us insight into     5    ancient Chinese saw the world around them and into their great creativity.

When you first look at Chinese characters, you will most     6    (like) feel that they are very complicated. About 80% of Chinese characters are composed of smaller     7     (part), which are combined in many different ways to form tens of thousands of hanzi. Fortunately you need to know only about two or three thousand characters for use in     8    (day) life.

Chinese characters and Chinese culture are inseparably linked. China’s writing system forms     9     strong bridge linking the Chinese people and culture of the present with     10    (that) of the past. As China takes its place in the international community, many international students are studying Chinese and are coming to appreciate China’s impressive culture.

9 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

In much of Asia, especially the so-called“rice bowl”cultures of China, Japan,Korea       1    Vietnam, food is usually eaten with chopsticks. Chopsticks are usually two long, thin pieces of wood or bamboo. They can also     2    (make) of plastic or animal bone. Sometimes chopsticks are quite artistic.     3    (true) elegant chopsticks might be made of gold and silver with Chinese characters. Skilled workers also combine various hard woods     4    (create)special designs.

The Chinese       5    (use) chopsticks for five thousand years. People probably cooked their food in large pots,     6    food was removed using wigs(树枝). Over time, as the population grew, people began cutting food into small pieces so it would cook more quickly. Food in small pieces could be eaten easily with twigs which       7    (gradual) turned into chopsticks. Some people think that the great Chinese scholar Confucius(孔子),       8     lived from roughly 551 to 479 B. C., influenced the     9    (develop) of chopsticks. Confucius believed knives would remind people     10     killings and were too violent for use at the table. Chopsticks are not used everywhere in Asia. In India, for example, most people traditionally eat with their hands.

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More than half of former host cities for the Winter Olympics will be too hot     1     (deal) with such games by the end of this century. That is the     2     (predict) of a recent study.

It’s not just the Olympics that are at risk now. “The world of winter sports is changing as the global climate continues warming,” says Daniel Scott,     3     climate-change researcher in Canada. He led a team of researchers,     4     used math to predict how winter conditions will have changed by February 2050 and 2080. February is the month when the Olympic winter games are     5     (typical) played.

Scott and his team forecast temperatures and snow cover for the 19 cities that have already hosted Winter Olympics, and two     6     (addition) cities: Pyeongchang, South Korea, and Beijing, China, where the 2022 Winter Olympics will be held.

Scott’s team     7     (begin) with looking at historic winter conditions, and then used computer models to predict conditions in the future.     8     (they) model predicted that by 2050, the average February temperatures in past Winter Olympic host cities will rise     9     1.9 to 2.1 degrees Celsius. These temperatures can affect the quality of snow, thus     10     (increase) the chance of accidents.