Child labor has been a problem for many years. Over a hundred years ago, Charles Dickens     1     (shock) many of his readers when he described the dreadful situations     2     which young children worked in British factories in his famous novel Oliver Twist. The situations Dickens described continue in many parts of the world today, almost     3     (unchange). The children are forced to work long hours with     4     (hungry) and misery,     5     (receive) very little as their pay. What’s worse, they     6     (prevent) from attending school．Therefore, when they become older they are    7     (able) to do any other kind of work．

The solution     8     the problem of child labour is clearly greater supervision (监督) of industry and heavier fines for those     9     break the laws. Only in this way will young boys and girls    10     (allow) to enjoy the most valuable time of their life---childhood.

Chinese archaeologists (考古学家) announced Saturday that some new major discoveries have been made at the legendary Sanxingdui Ruins site in Sichuan Province.

Archaeologists have found six new sacrificial pits (祭祀坑) and unearthed more than 500 items     1     (date) back about 3,000 years at the Sanxingdui Ruins. The new pits sit next to two sacrificial pits     2     (discover) in 1986. Together they form an area in     3     people of the ancient Shu civilization offered sacrifices to heaven, earth and their     4     (ancestor), and prayed for prosperity and peace.

The pits are rectangular (矩形的),     5     areas ranging between 3.5 square meters and 19 square meters. So far, archaeologists have unearthed     6     (variety) cultural items from four of the pits, including pieces of gold masks, gold foil, bronze masks, bronze trees, ivory and jade.     7     rest of the newly discovered pits are still under excavation (挖掘).

The discoveries have shown the distinctiveness of the Shu civilization and the     8     (diverse) of the Chinese civilization.

    9     (literal) meaning “Three-Star Piles”, the Sanxingdui Ruins Site is among China’s top 10 archaeological finds of the 20th century. Covering 12 square kilometers, the relics site, located in the city of Guanghan, about 60 kilometers from Chengdu,     10    (believe) to be the remnants (遗迹) of the Shu Kingdom in ancient China.

China speed is amazing the world. While other countries are struggling to make high-speed railway a     1       (real), the China Railway Corporation has been busying itself in laying down over 25,000 km of high-speed tracks over the past ten years — accounting for roughly two     2    (three) of the world’s total length of high-speed rail lines.

Up to now, China     3    (build) the largest high-speed rail network worldwide. The impacts go well beyond the railway sector. It also includes changed patterns of urban development, increases in tourism, and growth of regional economy. To boost regional integration and economic growth, plans for high-speed maglev (磁悬浮) lines with trains     4     (travel) at a speed of 600 kph or more are taking shape in more Chinese cities.

“China started operating     5     (it) first maglev railway more than a decade ago.     6    , for lack of critical technologies at that time, we only concentrated on conventional high-speed rail,” said Sun Zhang,     7     is a leading railway specialist. But the research team,     8     (lead) by him, tried their best to learn advanced technologies from foreign countries and eventually developed our own innovations.

There is no denying that all of these achievements make our travel convenient and         9    ( rely) , especially during “Chunyun”,     10     annual test on the China's transportation system. Thanks to “China speed”, people can go back home for reunions with families and friends in time.

Six-year-old Canadian schoolboy Ryan decided to help the people in some     1     (develop) countries to get clean water. At first, he wanted to build a well somewhere in Africa. Working for his family and neighbours, he earned $70, only     2     (tell) it actually cost $2,000 to build a well. He didn't give up and started to ask for help from his classmates and neighbours. After several months, Ryan had raised $2,000, with     3     a well was built near a primary school in Uganda. When he saw the finished well and the happy students, he broke     4     a joyful smile. Later, Ryan set up a     5     (found) to encourage more people to help. Today, over 800,000 people in 16 countries across Africa have benefited from the life-changing gift of clean, safe water.

During the best of times, many people are doing everything they can     1     (realize) their dreams of serving others and making the world a     2     (good) place. The COVID-19 pandemic has made their jobs much harder. But they have quickly changed the way to serve others to keep their communities supported and connected.

Maria Rose Belding and her team run the food rescue app MEANS. They connect business with extra food to charities that feed the     3     (hunger). While the restaurant was shutdown, she says they recently have had more than half     4     million pounds of food     5    (donate) through their platform.

Leslie Morissette knows the importance of keeping kids together. Through Grahamtastic Connection, in the last 21 years she     6     (spend) providing free technology to children battling serious illness,     7     (make) sure that they stay in touch with their classes and friends. She is now calling on Internet companies to provide their services for free to kid     8     need.

When COVID-19 hit, Ned Norton had to close his gym,     9     he has trained members of Albany, New York’s disabled community, for over 30 years. He knew his members not only missed their friends     10     were also scared. So, Norton recorded a video on Facebook to reconnect while trying to reproduce the fun and laughs from the gym.

Baidu Is Not A Doctor

When people     1     (face) with health or nutrition (营养) questions, it is     2    (increasing) common to go online and diagnose themselves. But the Internet is full of various health warnings with no regulation to get rid of the wrong advice, some of    3     can be extremely dangerous! Also, search engines list results by    4     (popular) rather than accuracy , so solid facts can be difficult     5    (find). It is worth checking if the writer of an online piece is properly qualified as an expert. Anyone can call     6     (he) a “diet expert”, “nutritionist” and even a “doctor”. But remember, only officially    7     (recognize) doctors have degrees in giving medical    8     (suggest). So if you are unsure and still wondering     9     the chocolate diet really works or not, then it pays to make     10     appointment with your doctor. The truth is out there, and you just need to look in the right place!