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Tomb-Sweeping Day is one of the eight most important traditional     1     (festival) in China. The actual day usually occurs around April 5 of the Gregorian calendar but the festival lasts longer. Traditionally,10 days before and after Tomb-Sweeping Day can be counted as the festival. The festival is said to originate from the funerals of emperors, generals and ministers     2     ancient times. The rituals (仪式)     3     (perform) at these funerals later became popular among ordinary people. Over time the tradition of offering sacrifices to the ancestors and sweeping tombs has been passed down from generation to generation and evolved into     4     custom widely observed by the Chinese nation. Despite the festival having no official status, the overseas Chinese communities take this festival     5     (serious) and observe its traditions faithfully .

Tomb-Sweeping Day is also known as the Qingming Festival-when spring is in the air, the earth looks clearer and     6     (bright) with increasing rainfall, and everything in the natural world waves goodbye to the unpleasant memory of winter. This     7     (consider) as a shift from yin to yang. During this beautiful season, flowers blossom in the     8     (warm) and everything is full of vitality. The tradition of spring outings     9     (date) back to the Tang Dynasty. Apart from enjoying glorious natural scenery, outings involve other activities     10     serve to bring out the best of the festival.

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Rene Compean was no stranger to Angeles National Forest. He     1     (hike) the park numerous times. But when hiking along a new path, the 45-year-old was lost.

    2     the day faded into darkness, his concern turned to fear. With only a little water in his backpack and 10% battery     3    (remain) on his cellphone, Compean was unprepared for anything more than the two-hour trip he’d planned.

Compean climbed to a spot     4     he found one bar of signal. “SOS. My phone is going to die. I'm lost,”he texted a friend, attaching a photo showing where he was. The shot showed his legs hanging over a rock face. All Compean could do then was wait. The temperature was dropping fast.     5     (dress) only in shorts, and a sweatshirt, the hiker was chilled to the bone. He hugged himself into a tight ball. And after spotting two mountain lions, he spent the night     6     high alert.

Sixty miles away, Ben Kuo     7     (work) at home when he read a posting from the police, showing an image of a man’s legs. The search-and-rescue teams had spent the previous night unsuccessfully looking for Compean, so they released the photo, hoping someone     8     recognize the location.

“I've always loved looking for where photos are taken,” Kuo says. He frequently tries to identify     9     movie scenes or commercials were filmed. He’s often successful. The first thing he noticed in Compean’s photo was plenty of greenery. After comparing it to the satellite map, Kuo realized something: “He’s got to be on the south side because there’re not any green valleys on the north side.” That finding led him to an area that looked like the territory in the image. The final step was cross-referencing the original photo with 3-D images of the area. The locations matched!

After spending 27 hours in the wilderness, Compean was found. Compean’s story probably would have ended differently had it not been for the man with strong satellite skills and     10     sharp eye for detail.

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A 90-second animated (动画) video of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games     1     features characters from traditional Chinese New Year paintings     2     ( recent ) became so popular on the Internet.

Netizens were fascinated by the video’s     3     ( amaze ) combination of winter sports and traditional Chinese characters, highlighting     4     ( they ) own unique characteristics and placing them alongside a wide range of sporting venues and cultural elements, including New Year paintings, Peking Opera, and ink-and-wash paintings.

The video starts with a girl and a panda going to Beijing     5     ( watch ) the Winter Olympic Games together. All of     6     sudden, the bamboo in the panda’s hands is turned into a bobsleigh (雪橇) carrying the girl while the panda speeds ahead. Snowflakes are created like magic, awakening (唤醒) characters often     7     ( see ) in Chinese New Year paintings, such as Qin Qiong and Yuchi Gong, two gods of the door, competing     8     alpine (高山) skiing, and Mu Guiying and Yang Zongbao, a couple as well as generals of the Song Dynasty (960-1279), engaging in pair skating.

Hangzhou AU Culture and Technology Co. created the work. It is an animation company and     9     ( win ) the National Award for Scientific and Technological Progress in 2017.

“ We hope to add more     10     ( happy ) to the great event, meanwhile, viewers can learn about traditional Chinese culture, ” said Zheng Feihu, director of the video.

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Sure, chocolate is a delicious treat, and it’s a staple of some of our favorite desserts. But it’s not exactly a health food, so it should be enjoyed in moderation — right?

Well, it turns out that     1     (eat) chocolate might actually have a pretty significant health benefit. According to recent research     2     (conduct) by five scientists in Italy, compounds found in chocolate, called flavanols(黄烷醇), can help boost cognitive performance. Yes, chocolate’s good for your brain.

The scientists, studying at the Universities of Rome and L’Aquila,     3     (record) research from 10 different studies. The studies assessed people’s performance on cognitive tests before and after eating cocoa or chocolate. The results were telling: in nine out of the 10 studies, there was a noticeable improvement     4     the subjects had eaten the chocolate. The scientists found improvements in “general cognition, attention, processing speed, and working memory.” Sounds pretty good to us!

And that’s not all. In subjects, especially women, who performed the tests while sleep-deprived, the flavanols helped “counteract” the negative effects of the sleep deprivation. And there’s even more good news.     5     (take) daily over periods ranging from five days to three months, chocolate can produce noticeable long-term improvements in cognition. Older adults,     6     memories were already declining, saw an especially significant improvement. Be right back, we’re gonna go stock up on Hershey bars. Here are some more strategies that can help improve your memory.

All chocolate has flavanols, since they occur naturally in cocoa. However, dark chocolate lovers feel happy,     7     it has more flavanols than any other type of chocolate. In fact, the scientists     8     have claimed that, after doing this research, they’ve started eating dark chocolate every day! Here are some other health benefits of eating dark chocolate. Now, we’re not saying that you     9     start eating chocolate for breakfast, lunch, and dinner — it’s still high in sugar and low in nutrients. But next time you find yourself yawning after a sleepless night, snack on some chocolate and let the flavanols work their magic. Go ahead,     10     take advantage of chocolate’s newfound brainpower with these delicious recipes.

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Beijing, together with Zhangjiakou, succeeded in getting the chance to host the 2022 Winter Olympic Games,     1    speeds up the development of Zhangjiakou City. Word came that the Beijing- Zhangjiakou high-speed railway,    2    (locate) in North China, is now    3    construction, and is expected to be completed by 2020 in preparation for the cities to host the 2022 Winter Olympic Games.

Starting from Beijing North Railway Station and heading west through the Great Wall, the project is    4    (probable) the biggest challenge ever. Its designers say that the explosions needed to dig the tunnels will not have a negative effect on the structure. The railway line has a    5    (long) of 174 km as a double-track passage line, with ten stations along its route. Enjoying    6    total investment of 31.17 billion yuan, the train will travel as fast as 300 km/h,    7    the trip between the two cities will only take 40 minutes.

According to the plan, the high-speed railway will have two branch    8    (line)—one is to Yanqing Station, the other is to Taizicheng of Chongli, where the Olympic village lies. The full railway,    9    (include) a 70-kilometer section through Beijing,    10    (complete) in four and a half years.

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The first creature     1     (orbit) our planet was just 2 years old. Her name was Laika.She was a good dog. Her 1957 flight paved the way for space     2    (explore) when scientists wondered    3    it was lethal (致命的) for living things.

Humans are explorers since the dawn of civilization. We     4     (attract) over the horizon to find food or more space, or just to see what beyond those trees or mountains or oceans. Our ability to explore reached new heights. Airplanes shortened distances, simplified travel and showed us Earth from     5     new aspect. By the middle of the last century, we aimed even    6     (high).

Our first steps into space began. Laika     7    (follow) into orbit four years later by the first human,Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin. Space travel is nothing like in the movies. Getting from A to B requires complex calculations    8     (involve) inertia (惯性) and gravity. Space is also dangerous. More than 20 astronauts have died while doing their jobs.

That hasn’t stopped people from signing up and blasting off. NASA’s Apollo program had ended    9    private companies are readying their own space programs. A company    10    (name) SpaceX is hoping to land civilian astronauts on Mars. Maybe you’ll be a member of them. Don’t forget to bring your dog.

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Li Ziqi didn’t own a happy childhood. Her parents got     1     (divorce) and her father died when she was a child. She started living with her grandparents. Their life was poor    2     peaceful. Her grandfather was a cook in the village. When there was a ceremony going on, such as a wedding or a funeral, her grandfather would be in charge of the cooking.

    3    the age of 14, she dropped out of school and went to work in big cities, trying to support herself and her family. In 2012, her grandmother had an illness, so Li Ziqi came back home     4     (take) care of her grandmother. It was during that time     5     she decided to become an online celebrity.

She started making videos of cooking meals, using all ingredients in her farmland, and uploaded them on to the network. Finally, in 2016, her video series became a hit online. Now, Li Ziqi has    6    (true) become an online celebrity in China. Living a peaceful life like her    7    (be) just the dream of many people. In front of the camera, she always appears in a set of traditional hanfu,     8    makes her videos more charming and     9     (attract). Many people show great interest in her clothing as well as her cooking.

Also, her videos help more foreigners learn and understand Chinese traditions and culture. The spirit of struggling for independence and self-reliance     10    (convey) by her life experience has attracted great attention at home and abroad.