A one-legged Chinese woman at the World Professional Beauty Contest caught people's attention as she turned up     1    （graceful）. Gui Yuna, the 36-year-old Chinese woman from Nanning, showed her best form and won the     2    （title）of Miss Qipao and Miss Bikini in Group B.

Gui lost her right leg at     3     age of seven in car accident. At 17, she started training in high jump, long jump and other games.

One of the highlights of her professional career as an athlete was in the 2004 Summer Paralympic Games in Greece,     4     she won the seventh place in women’s long jump. She also broke the world record of women’s high jump for amputees in 2007 National Games for Dis abled Persons. Before the 2008 Beijing Paralympic Games, Gui served     5     a torch bearer（火炬手）. She     6     （win）the National Model Worker award in 2015 as well.

Gui retired from professional sports in 2017.     7    （invite）by the World Professional Beauty organizers, Gui attended the beauty contest in a hurry and without much training. But her habit of     8    （keep）a healthy lifestyle and exercising helped her have a good physical shape and shine or stage.

"Sport gives me optimism and makes me look     9    （young）than my peers. I hope more and more people can gain     10    （confident）from my action and join the fitness career," Gui said.

China has landed on the moon three times, and even managed     1    (bring) one of its robotic lunar explorers back to Earth. The country’s space agency     2    (complete) a key step toward landing on Mars on Wednesday when Tianwen-1, the spacecraft     3     (send) last July, began its orbit of the red planet, according to state media reports. By accomplishing this feat, China completed its first     4     (success) journey to another planet in our solar system.

The spacecraft was also the second to arrive at Mars in two days,     5     (follow) a United Arab Emirates probe that began orbiting the neighboring world on Tuesday.

China is expected to try to place a lander and a robotic rover on the planet later this year. It would join     6     could by then be a trio of NASA spacecraft studying the Martian surface.

Tianwen-1 left Earth last summer, taking advantage of a period     7     Mars and Earth were closest to each other during their journeys around the sun. That allowed a     8    (relative) short transit between the two worlds. The probe sent back pictures of the red planet     9     a distance of about 1.3 million miles.

But while the     10    (arrive) at Mars was a new milestone for China's space program, a bigger challenge for the Tianwen-1 mission is a few months away.

Green clothes, green decoration, green beer, green cakes...It's all green on St. Patrick's Day. There are many     1     (version) of the stories about the Irish, St. Patrick's Day and the color green, from decades of politics fight    2     myths of leprechauns (小矮妖).

One of the explanations for the sea of green you see every St. Patrick's Day is around Saint Patrick     3     (he). St. Patrick used a green shamrock(三叶草)    4     (explain)the Holy Trinity to the pre-Christian Irish and “the wearing of the green” meant wearing a shamrock to display your faith.

In fact green has become so     5     (strong) attached not just to this holiday but to Ireland. Many believe that it is the “official” color of the country.     6     color has quite a documented political history as well. It     7     (use) as nationalistic representation for the Irish in quite a few fights for     8     (independent), and now still remains as one of three colors in the Irish flag.

Of course, we can't talk about St. Patrick's Day without     9     (mention)leprechauns. Legend has it that they hurt anyone     10     was visible to them. It was said that wearing green would make you invisible to the little smart creatures-if you didn't wear green, a leprechaun would jump out and hurt you.

The custom of celebrating the Spring Festival with fireworks continued every lunar year in cities and villages. People took it for granted though they could     1    (occasion) lead to deaths. In populated downtown areas,     2    (dead) injuries and damage to properties(财物)     3    (be) severe during the holiday season. In 1993, the government banned     4    (they) inside the Fifth Ring Road. In 2005, with public opinion strongly calling for preserving the tradition of fireworks during the Spring Festival, the government gave the green light to fireworks downtown. This situation continued for several years. But from 2011, the public started to have more awareness     5     air quality. The year 2017 saw a decisive result in the battle between fireworks and the public demand for blue skies.     6    (tear) between traditional fun and clear air, the public voted for the latter. After 12 years of being allowed in the downtown areas, fireworks were once again banned.

How fireworks faded out of the festive life in Beijing is a     7     (reflect) of what happened across the nation.     8     China experiences rapid development and people enjoy better lives, tradition changes along with time. The 2019 Spring Festival ended on a note of peace and serenity. Fireworks have stopped being     9    essential part of the celebration and become a fading memory,     10    (give) way to safer streets, cleaner air and better sleep.

A tiny owl(猫头鹰) that lost    1    (it) home last week when the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree was cut down in New York is recovering at a wildlife reserve.

In a Facebook post Tuesday ,the Ravensbeard Wildlife Center said the bird    2    (rescue) after the 75-foot tree was cut down Thursday in Oneonta,    3    (rough) 80 miles southwest of Albany and around 170 miles north of its final stop in New York City.

A worker    4    helped transport and secure the tree discovered the owl and his wife called the center. He got the baby owl in a box fixed in for the long ride. In fact, the owl wasn't a baby — it was    5    adult male Saw-whet, the    6    (small) variety of owl in the Northeast, the center said. He hadn't eaten or drank for several    7    (day), but began to recover after    8    (get) water and food.

The center said a return trip to Oneonta would likely be too traumatic(创伤) to the bird, so it plans    9    (release) it on facility grounds in the town of Saugerties. In honor    10    where the tiny owl was found, the center has called him “Rockefeller.”