The cheongsam (qipao) came into being during the early years of the Qing Dynasty. It evolved from the dresses of the “banner women (qi nu), which explains     1     it was called ‘cheongsam (qipao)’.”

The original style of cheongsam was     2     (relative) simple. It was loose with a round collar and tight sleeves, suitable for wearing on horseback. In the Qing Dynasty, the Manchu people’s lifestyle began to change,     3     (influence) by that of the Han people. The clothing style also went through a change.

In     4     early 1920s, the cheongsam was popularized among both Manchu and Han women, known as the national dress of women. After years of     5     (develop), now the design of the cheongsam     6     (divide) into the Beijing style, the Shanghai style and the Hong Kong style.

The Beijing-style cheongsam was mainly made     7     hand. Behind the seemingly simple lines, there is a complex production process. The buttons, for example, sometimes demand days of work     8     (complete).

Now, the traditional making     9     (technique) of the garment have been listed as a city-level intangible cultural heritage (物质文化遗产). As soon as you walk into the fashion studio of     10     (it) fifth-generation inheritor Zhang Fenglan, the classic beauty of the cheongsam can instantly lead you into a world of charm.

2 . Are you a creative person that loves to write? We are looking for students in grades 8-12 to share their opinions and experiences on various topics that matter to youth through engaging and authentic (真实的) blog posts.

As a Wave Blogger, your role and responsibility are to:

•Write blog posts that are personal and authentic, reflecting your opinions and experience, but relevant to other students as well

•Create original content in association with our publisher and editor

•Write and edit briefly for clarity and accuracy

•Share the blog using your own personal social media accounts

Here's what we're looking for:

•You are insightful, creative, and love to inspire others

•You possess excellent communication and written English skills

•You have exceptional organizational skills

•You can commit to deadlines

Posts on our blog must fit one of the following categories:

•Books: Book reviews or recommendations

•Creative Writing: Blog posts that have to do with creative writing

•Flashback: An experience or personal life event that made an impact on you

•Fresh: A new and different perspective when looking at any given topic

•View: Reflections on your personal points of view, opinion, and experiences

You can earn up to 5 volunteer hours per blog — this includes the writing deadline and any required revisions while working with our publisher and editor to finalize your piece. Ripple Foundation reserves the right not to publish any content that does not meet its required criteria.

4 . As city officials argue under the pressure to reduce urban violence, residents in some of the most violent neighborhoods in the U.S. have chosen instead to pull up a chair, and have a sit down. One such movement has been the 21 Days of Peace event in Minneapolis, a place where sometimes 11 violent crimes were seen a month. Here, community members are simply seating themselves in lawn chairs on street comers in the most dangerous neighborhoods, and acting as Violence interrupters—and police statistics show it's working. Compared to last summer, in June 2021 violent crime numbers took a dive during the 21 Days of Peace, and continued to stay low in the following months.

“Our group asked the Minneapolis Police Department to identify the most dangerous spots in our neighborhood, and then we went there, pulled out our chairs and sat down,” write Louis King and Jeny McAfee in the Washington Post, both being part of this new wave of violence interrupters.

Similar movements of violence interruption have broken out with success in Nashville, where similar groups are working through community outreach to rebuild trust and therefore decrease crime by 40%, while arrests dropped sharply.

“We thought that was going to make it safer, and what we ended up doing was breaking down trust in those communities,” said police Jason Picanzo. Now, he says, it is the community that has made these neighborhoods safer. Violence of any kind, whether it involves us or not, is a difficult situation to risk being caught up in, but desperate times also call on our “better angels”—and these Minnesotans are stretching their wings.

5 . A curious 7-year-old boy who'd climbed into a garbage bin was saved from a terrible fate by a careful cleaning worker who spotted him at the very last moment.

Elias was _______ what the inside of a trash can would be like — so on Tuesday, he climbed inside one outside his home and _______ the lid. But just moments later, a garbage truck _______ picking up the bin with a mechanical arm and _______ it in the back, where a blade for treating garbage awaited. Being _______ . Elias felt like he was going to be cut into _______ like a potato.

Inside the _______, Elias’ grandmother Carmen said she heard screaming, and _______ thought her grandson may have been hit by the truck, or was _______ beneath its wheels. ________ for the family, cleaning worker Waldo was behind the wheel—and as he ________ his monitoring video, managed to ________ Elias and press the stop ________ just in time.

“It was a bad day for me," Fidela ________ in relief "I was so frightened?”

“He's truly a ________ . If he had not been serious with and responsible for the ________, we would all be ________ for a missing 7-year-old boy today," Plunkett, operations manager of the for Waste Connections of Florida Operations in Tampa told the reporter. "Nobody would have ever known what ________ to him.”

As for Elias, he said that he's certainly learned his ________ — at least, when it comes to the big trash cans outside. "Unless it's like a ________ trash can that’s inside the house, then it might be fine," he told WTVT.

3,000-year-old Egyptian city

A group of archaeologists has found the     1    (large) ancient city ever discovered in Egypt.

The city,    2    (name) "The Rise of Aten", was discovered under the sand on the western bank of Luxor, an archaeologist said in a statement.It dates back to King Amenhotep III,    3    ruled Egypt between 1391 and 1353 BCE, according to     4     statement.

It was the largest administrative and industrial     5     (settle)in the era of the Egyptian empire. Archaeologists     6    (find) the city's streets flanked(坐落 在...两侧) by houses with walls up to 10 feet high and rooms filled     7    tools of daily life .The team also found a large bakery(面包房), whose size suggests it was used     8    （provide）food for   a "very large number of workers and employees." Other     9     (discovery)include the skeleton（骨架）of a person buried with arms stretched out to the side and rope wrapped around the knees.

The excavation（挖掘） has unearthed（发掘） most of the southern part of the city.    10    , the northern region is still to be unearthed.

10 . The Internet has both advantages and disadvantages.

Now we can communicate with a person who is sitting in another part of the world almost for free. There are plenty of online messenger services that offer this service. With the help of such service, it has become very easy to establish a kind of global friendship where you can share your thoughts and explore other cultures.

Access to information is one of the biggest advantages of the Internet. Almost any kind of information on any topic under the sun can be found on the Internet. Search engines like Google or Yahoo are at your service on the Internet. You can find almost any type of data on almost any kind of subject.

Entertainment is another popular reason why many people like to surf the Internet. There are numerous games that may be downloaded from the Internet for free. Chat rooms are popular because users can meet new and interesting people. When people surf the web, they can find numerous things. Music, hobbies, news and more can be found and shared on the Internet.

Much service is now provided on the Internet such as online banking, job seeking, purchasing tickets for your favorite movies, and hotel reservations. But there are also disadvantages. If you use the Internet, your personal information such as name, address, credit card number, etc. might be accessed by other people. Virus threat is another problem. Virus attacks can end up crashing your whole hard disk, causing you much headache. Pornography is perhaps the biggest threat related to children’s healthy mental life. There are thousands of pornographic sites （色情网站）on the Internet that can be easily found.

On the whole, the Internet’s advantages overweigh its disadvantage.