A Young Designer’s Way to Fashion Success

Chinese designer Zhang Yan,     1     work has just hit New York’s and Chinese catwalks (T台), is slowly breaking the old idea about men in embroidery (刺绣) and fashion. Zhang has surprised the world with his unique embroidered Qipaos.

However, for the 26-year-old young man, his success is not easy.     2     (hold) the tiny needle properly in his big hand wasn’t     3     easy job for Zhang in the early days. What’s more, his parents were     4     (strong) against him, thinking that embroidery was women’ s work and it had no future,     5     Zhang did not give up. He believes the spirit of craftsmanship has nothing to do with gender (性别) when it comes to dreams.

Years of his hard work     6     (pay) off so far. His designs quickly drew attention and even earned him an     7    (invite) to the 2019 New York Fashion Week. Western audiences at the show     8     (amaze) by the charm of the embroidered Qipao, saying it showed a kind of Eastern power.

Feeling that his success has brought him a sense of national     9     (proud), Zhang hopes his experience can also help inspire teenagers     10     (follow) their dreams. “There are many ways to achieve success. As long as you keep going, you can make your dreams come true,” he says.

Compared with the people in many other countries, the Australians seem to know more about how to enjoy their lives. In Australia, different people have different ways of enjoying     1    (they). They also have their own ideas about how to kill time (消磨时间).

Most     2     (child), about 80%，work hard in school because they have to take lots of exams. After school they don’t want to stay at home reading books any longer.     3    , they go out to play. In this way, they feel     4    (relax) and have fun.

Some old people get up early in the morning. Then they go to the park to read newspapers,     5     can help them know what     6    (happen) in the world recently. In the evening, they prefer     7     (stay) at home watching TV rather than do anything else.

Young people enjoy     8     (have) pleasure trips on weekends. They go to mountains for a picnic or go to the forest to camp. They usually start on Friday and spend one or two days outside. Then    9    Sunday evening, they start their return trip, nobody seems to be in    10     hurry, although a busy week is waiting for them again.

China is a big old country    1    has a history of more than five thousand years. We are proud of     2     (it) culture and part of the culture even influences the world    3     (great), for example, the thought of Confucius (孔子). As Chinese economy develops very fast and plays     4    important role in the world, more and more    5    (foreigner) learn Mandarin (普通话) in Confucius institutions. The Chinese traditional culture can     6     (test) by the time. It unites (团结) the whole nation and no matter what kind of disaster comes, we will fight together for the county’s future. Today, many young people lose faith in traditional culture and they are crazy    7    the western culture. They follow the western fashion,     8    (think) we are the old style. But some day, they    9     (realize) they are wrong     10    (ignore) traditional culture.

More and more public schools in America make it a rule that certain amounts of community service     1     (require) before students are allowed to graduate from high school. They work on projects like    2     (make) the environment better.

Many schools in the United States now ask students    3     (do) some kinds of community service     4     part of their studies. Students involved in service projects help themselves as well as their communities. It is for this reason     5     holidays have become the main period for volunteer work so far. Volunteers get no pay, but experts point out that it is     6     excellent opportunity to learn and practice new skills.

    7     (base) on the statistics, more than 60% of young Americans have taken part in many kinds of community service, such as cooking for     8     (home) people, or painting old buildings, etc. Some students like to do their volunteer work in central parts of America but the majority of teens prefer to do     9     in their hometowns. Tom, a 16-year-old student in California, often does community service in a local hospital. He works 16 hours every week either receiving calls at the information desk,     10     helping push patients back to their wards.

The Titanic was the largest and     1    (advance) passenger ship of its day. It was considered unsinkable. But on 14th April 1912, on     2    (it) maiden voyage (首航) from England to New York, the ship     3    (strike) an iceberg in the North Atlantic and sank shortly after midnight. Of the 2,223 people on board, 1,517 drowned.

So why did so many people die in the tragedy? Firstly, the Titanic’s owners fitted the ship     4     only 20 lifeboats. They believed any more would spoil the     5    (appear) of the ship. But this meant there were only enough lifeboats for 1,178 passengers. Secondly, while     6    (load) the lifeboats, the crew observed the “women and children first” rule. This was     7    old custom that said women and children should be saved before men. Because at first men weren’t allowed in the lifeboats, many boats were lowered only half full.     8    the lifeboats had been full, another 500 people might have been saved. In the end, 74% of women passengers survived, but only 20% of men. And many of the men     9    survived were branded as cowards (懦夫) when they got home.

The wreck (残骸) of the Titanic     10    (find) in 1985. It lies about four kilometres below the surface of the water at the bottom of the ocean.

When I was     1     teenager, I worked part-time at my uncle’s pub (酒馆). A man walked into the pub and     2     (order) three beers (啤酒), but just one of them was drunk by him. I was confused. The next day that man ordered three beers again and drank one of them     3     (quiet) at the table. He did the same thing every time he came to the pub.

One day, I asked the man why he ordered three beers and just drink one. The man replied. “It seems strange, isn’t it? You see, I have two brothers     4     live abroad at the moment. We have had an     5     (agree) that every time we go to a pub, each of     6     (we) will order two extra beers.

A few     7     (week) later, the man came to the pub again, but he ordered only two beers, not three as usual. I was     8     (confuse) and thought that one of his brothers might have died. But when I asked him why he just ordered two beers, the man said, “I talked     9     my brother Tom on the phone yesterday. He had promised to give up     10     (drink).”

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.