Hong Kong film director Wong Kar-wai’s first television series, Blossoms Shanghai (《繁花》),     1     (begin)airing on December 27. The hit drama, which has been six years in the making, is adapted     2     the 2012 novel of the same name,    3     (write)by Jin Yucheng in Shanghainese.

Set in Shanghai during the 1990s, the     4     (romance) drama features a young man, Abao,     5     rises from small beginnings to become a successful businessman in the space of 10 years. Along the way, he receives help from partners such as Ling Zi, Miss Wang, and Uncle Ye, with his aim     6     (explore) his bigger business empire.

Jin wrote Blossoms Shanghai hoping it would help erase stereotypes (刻板印象) of Shanghai     7    improve readers’ understanding of the culture of the city. Staying true to the novel’ distinctive local flavour, the television series’ leading actors were all bom and raised in Shanghai and a lot of the dialogue is in Shanghainese.     8     (additional), a lot of effort was made to recreate the look and feel truly of Shanghai in the 1990s.

In typical Wong Kar-wai style, the show’s filming took three years to complete; the director is well known for     9     (be)very particular about each and every shot, often requiring actors to perform a scene 10 or more     10     (time).

Social media usually means a website or an app     1     users can share their ideas, pictures, and videos with other users of the same service.

One thing that makes social media     2     (difference) from older kinds of media like newspapers and TV is that ordinary users are     3     ones that create the "content"—what gets     4    (show) on the website. People put information and pictures about what they are doing on the website. They can "follow" friends     5    (see) what they are doing or saying.

Social media companies save information about what their users do and like. This information is often called "data". User data is beneficial to companies offering products and services     6     the Internet when used as marketing research. Usually social media companies make money when other companies pay to show ads     7     videos to their users.

What does the future hold for social media? It's difficult to anticipate anything exactly and there is no exact     8    (conclude), but if one thing can     9    (say) about the future of social media, it will     10    (probable) be more personalized and less noisy. Over-sharing will be less of a problem and filtering out (过滤) unwanted information will become a stronger trend.

“Happy Camp”, the king of all Chinese variety shows, started airing in 1997. Since then, it     1     (gain) hundreds of millions of followers. The age range of its viewers is     2     (extreme) broad, from people born in the 1970s all the way to the 2010s.

“Happy Camp” has some of the best show hosts in the country,     3     are the backbone of the entire show. Not only do they create     4     fun and exciting atmosphere for guests and audience, but they also throw in plenty of     5     (humorous).

Every episode (集) of “Happy Camp” has a different theme. Everything in the episode is centered around that theme,     6     (range) from the games the hosts and the guests play to the food     7     (serve) to them as a reward or punishment! And the trendy, fun and relatable themes appeal especially to the younger generation. Actually, young people make     8     the majority of viewers.

“Happy Camp” embraces interculturalism. When there are foreign guests on the show, they talk about their culture as well as teach them about Chinese culture. This, in return,     9     (allow) the audience to learn more about cultures around the world!

After     10     (broadcast) for more than 20 years, “Happy Camp” has survived it all. They have learned to adapt and fit the needs of the audience.

Famous Chinese vlogger Li Ziqi has reached 14100,000 subscribers on YouTube,     1    (break)the Guinness World Records title for the most subscribers for a Chinese language channel on YouTube

Li Ziqi released her first YouTube video in 2017 titled "Making a dress out of grape skins",     2    (follow)by a number of short video works she created and shot.    3    Li Ziqi shot has attracted fans from all over the world who love to watch her seemingly idyllic(诗情画意的)life in the countryside that shows     4    (tradition)Chinese culture.

She     5    (pick)up many of her skills such as weaving(编织), cooking and farming before she was a middle school student, learning from her grandparents who lived in the countryside. These     6    (process)have become important elements of her videos.

She puts a lot of time into each video, with most taking days to shoot. Although     7    (original)she shot all the videos herself, she now works     8    the help of a personal assistant and a videographer. One series     9    took a particularly long time was showing the process of making the "scholar's four jewels" from ancient China—the writing brush, ink stick, ink slab(砚)and paper. It took her an entire year     10    (create)these items which were made from scratch(从零开始)by Li Ziqi herself.

Family drama “A Love for Dilemma”, focusing     1     China's education system and parent-child relationship, started airing on iQIYI on April 11, and     2    (cause) a wide public concern among netizens ever since.

    3    (base)on a novel, the drama centers around several     4    (family) whose children are about to enter middle school. Different generations of people hold different attitudes toward the children's education,     5     leads to conflicts, misunderstandings and relationship crises.

The director of the drama,     6     mother of two herself, admits she used to be anxious about her children's education like most mothers in China.     7     she wanted to give her children sweet memories and a happy childhood, she was worried their studies would fall behind without taking extra lessons. “I hope to remind the audience     8     (give) children more time and patience, and set aside the anxiety and confusion," Zhou said, "Let nature take     9     (it) course and everything that happens in life has its own meaning.”

A netizen commented that the drama encourages her to cherish every moment in life, even the ordinary ones. "The meaning of life is not to compete, but to experience, explore and fulfill one's     10     (responsible) for the world," she said.