1 . Wonderful Movies

Hoop Dreams

It tells about the story of two African-American high school students in Chicago and their dreams of becoming professional basketball players. Originally intended to be a 30-minute fort film, it eventually led to five years of filming. It was premiered at the 1994 Sounce Film Festival where it won the Audience Award for Best Documentary.

The Karate Kid

12-year-old Dre Parker could have been the most popular kid in Detroit, but his mother's test career move has landed him in China. With no friends in a strange land, Dre has no here to turn but a kind man, Mr. Han, who is a master of kung fu. He tells Dre that kung is not about fighting, but maturity and calm.

Raging Bull

It is an American sports film directed by Martin Scorsese and adapted by Paul Schrader d Mardik Martin from Jake LaMotta's autobiography Raging Bull: My Story. It stars Robert De Niro as Jake LaMotta, an Italian-American middleweight boxer who destroyed relationship with his wife and family.

Moneyball

Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Un fair Game, is a book by Michael Lewis, published in 2003, about the Oakland Athletics baseball team and its general manager Billy Beane. Its locus is the team's organizing a competitive baseball team. A film based on the book starring Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill was released in 2011.

Paper cutting is one of China's most popular folk arts. Archaeological finds show that the tradition started in the     1    (six) century; it is even supposed that the beginning of papercutting is even a few centuries     2    (early).

Paper cuttings have special     3    (important) at festivals and on holidays.     4    (get) rid of the old and bring good luck, people put up paper cuttings     5     the windows on the Eve of the Spring Festival.

There are two methods of making paper cuttings — by using scissors or knives. As the name suggests, scissors cuttings are made with scissors. Several pieces of paper (up to eight pieces)     6    (place) together. The patterns are then cut with pointed scissors. Knife cut-tings are made by putting several pieces of paper on a table. Following a pattern, the artist cuts the patterns into     7     paper with a knife.

In the past, paper cuttings were usually made only by women and     8    (girl). They used scissors and paper to cut all kinds of pictures such as apple trees, peach blossoms, mice, fighting roosters and rabbits     9    (eat) carrots.

This used to be one of the skills that every girl had to master. Professional paper cutting artists are, on the other hand, almost always men     10     can make a living by working together in workshops.

Every Saturday, 73-year-old Zhao Guihua takes a special course. In a classroom located in a residential community in the city of Hefei, Anhui, Zhao and her classmates, all seniors, most     1    (wear) reading glasses, learn how to shop on their smartphones.

“We offer a course     2     teaches seniors how to use their smartphones to scan(扫描)health-tracking QR codes(二维码), buy things online, register for hospital visits, and shoot short films,” said Liu Li, who is the     3    (found) of the e-course.

Liu has been providing services for the elderly for 10     4     (year). After learning that many old people don't know about the use of digital devices(设备) in their daily lives, she     5     (start) the smartphone course in August last year to help them cross the digital divide.

Official data show that by the end of 2019, some 150 million seniors at or above the age of 60 in China hadn't had the opportunity     6    (use) the Internet.

“During COVID-19, scanning a health-tracking QR code     7     (need) when we go to a supermarket or take a bus,” said 63-vear-old learner Liu Shaomin.

Instructor Huang Zhen said the course started with the basics of smartphones and that the learners were all crazy about it. Over several months. The number of learners grew rapidly, with ages ranging     8     60 to 90.

“Now I can read news, buy train tickets and book tickets for tourist attractions on my smartphone,” Zhao said     9     (proud). “Scanning health tracking QR codes is now     10     piece of cake for me.”

6 . In 2021, Father’s Day falls on June 20. Before you go sopping for a gift, you can learn a little more about this special day.

There are a series of events, which may have _________ the idea of Father’s Day. One of these was _________ a large group of men, many of them fathers, who were _________ in a mining accident in Monongah, West Virginia in 1907._________ was inspired by the actions of a man named William Smart, whose wife died while _________ their sixth child. Deeply heartbroken, he devoted himself to _________ the newborn and other five children alone without marrying again, which was no doubt _________ back in those days. His daughter, Sonora determined that his sacrifices (牺牲)_________ recognition. So it was in the early 1900s and Sonora, was _________ at church one day, listening to a sermon (说教) on Mother’s Day. It __________ her that there should also be a day to __________ fathers. Sonora wanted to draw people’s attention to what __________ fathers played in lives.__________, Sonora gained local __________ and made her dream a reality. In 1910 Sonora __________ June 19th, as the day to celebrate Father’s Day __________ that was her father’s birthday. Later, Father’s Day was officially __________ in 1972 by President Nixon as a __________ holiday.

Now. Father’s Day is celebrated all over the world and wearing flowers is a __________ way to celebrate it. Apart from that, some families __________ do things together to celebrate Father’s Day like going for a meal.

The Sanxingdui Ruins in Southwest China’s Sichuan province, together with the Jinsha Ruins in Chengdu, will apply for(申请) World Cultural Heritage status(世界文化遗产).

The Sanxingdui Ruins in the city of Guanghan, are thought to be one of the     1     (great) archeological(考古学的) finds of the 20th century. The ruins     2     (cover) an area of 12 square km are believed to be the remnants(遗迹) of the Shu Kingdom, dating back some 4,800 years.

The site was accidentally discovered by a farmer     3     he was digging a ditch in the 1920s. In 1986, a large number of unique relics were found in the No 1 and No 2 pits,     4     arouse global interest.

The discovery of Sanxingdui     5    (raise) an important question about the origin of Chinese civilization(文明). Before the 1980s, it is thought     6     the birthplace of Chinese civilization was in the Yellow River Basin in north China.

However, with the discovery of important     7    (relic) in the Yangtze River Basin, including Liangzhu, Shijiahe and Sanxingdui, a new understanding came     8     being. The ancient Shu civilization     9     (represent) by Sanxingdui has been regarded as     10     important part of the origin of Chinese civilization.

8 . To understand why humor is a kind of super food for the brain, you should know humor helps to know what our brains long for in the first place. You might think brains would prefer when we sit alone in a room and stare at a white wall—we don’t burn up much energy doing that. But the brain is like a muscle, and it needs exercise. What gives the brain a workout? Information. Humorous messages work best. When researchers asked people to look at a series of pictures while their brains were being scanned in a machine, it was the more complex pictures—a work of art, a group of animals that excited the neurons (神经元) in their heads most.

It’s the activity of those neurons, which, among other things, send and receive sensory information that “lights up” the scans in bright colors. In fact, there is an almost druglike effect taking place. The brain is filled with drug receptors (受体). Made of specialized proteins, these receptors stuck out of our neurons to pick up passing signals. The more neurons that are activated, the more pleasure we feel. In reality, learning and problem solving get us high as much as humor does.

Experts think that humor might feed the brain in much the same way that complex information does. People who study humor generally agree that most jokes are built around an improper, funny, surprising, or unusual combination of two basically different ideas. Humor has such great magic that we can develop it. We might as well start by telling jokes.