In the past few years, more than half of bookstores in China have closed down,     1     is the result of the     2    (compete) with online bookstores. But the success of Sisyphe Bookstore, one of the     3    (big) privately-owned bookstore chains in China, may serve     4     a great example .

    5    (found) in 1993, Sisyphe started to transform and upgrade its business in 2009 to seek its profitability. Now, it not only devotes itself to     6    (sell) books , but combines the functions of the bookstore, cafe and the sale of     7    (create) cultural products. Sisyphe opens its bookstores in shopping malls in order to take advantage of the large number of consumers of shopping malls to sell its books, and it also     8    (able) people to enjoy spending time reading and drinking coffee. In return, bookstores have improved the cultural atmosphere of shopping malls, so     9     is mutually beneficial to have such cooperation.

So far, the government     10    (offer) tax reduction for bookstores to encourage the development of physical bookstores. Perhaps it is early to say the boom of physical bookstores has come, but definitely, we see the turning point to them.

Impressionism (late 19th to early 20th century)

In the late 19th century, Europe changed     1     great deal from a mostly     2     (agriculture) society to a mostly industrial one. Many people moved from the countryside to the new cities.

There were many new inventions and social changes.     3     (natural)   , these changes also     4     (lead) to new painting styles. Among the painters who broke away from the traditional style of painting were the Impressionists,     5     lived and worked in Paris.

The Impressionists were the first painters       6     (work) outdoors. They were eager     7     (show) how light and shadow fell on objects at different times of day. However, because natural light changes so quickly, the Impressionists had to paint quickly. Their paintings were not as     8     (detail) as       9     of earlier painters. At first, many people disliked this style of painting and     10       (become) very angry about it. They said that the painters were careless and their paintings were ridiculous.

Study after study has shown that economic mobility--the term used to define people’s ability to move up the economic ladder--is a shadow of     1     it was 50 years ago. Where you are born, and to whom, determines your economic opportunity far more than it did two generations ago. Put simply, the American dream is delivering for fewer people. 

So how do we fix it? My answer had been education. And there is a logic to that. As Western economies shift into a new gear--away from manufacturing and toward knowledge-based industries--education is essential     2     (spread) these opportunities to all.

But in an article in the Atlantic, “Better Schools Won’t Fix America,” entrepreneur Nick Hanauer asks an interesting question:     3     public education is struggling, then why are public school students in wealthy areas doing just fine? That leads to one rather obvious     4     (conclude): Higher local tax revenues give those schools     5     (sustain) funding. But Mr. Hanauer goes further. That higher income is, in many ways, more important than the school.

“The     6     (science) literature on this subject is robust (强有力的), and the consensus overwhelming. The lower your parents’ income, the lower your likely level of educational attainment.” Mr. Hanauer writes. “Multiple studies have found that only about 20 percent of student outcomes can     7     (attribute) to schooling, whereas about 60 percent are explained by family circumstances – most significantly, income.”

In other words, the best educational reform might be putting more money in parents’ pockets – not through some government program     8     through higher wages and     9     (expand) opportunity. As overall wage growth has stalled(停滞), with money concentrating in fewer hands, public schools have felt the effects, not only in     10     (adequate) local tax revenues, but also in the need to serve less economically mobile families.

Supermarkets in the US and Canada have started limiting the number of toilet paper packs customers     1     buy. Why are people buying so much toilet paper     2     doesn’t offer special protection against the virus? Some say,     3     is natural that people, being social creatures, look to each other for what is dangerous. All those photos of empty shelves may lead people to believe that they must rush out and grab toilet paper while they still can. For others, the fact     4     they must live as much as possible at home makes it urgent to “stock up” on essentials, which certainly include toilet paper. After all, if we run out of toilet paper, what do we replace it with?

Have you ever wondered     1     you would do to solve math problems if you didn’t have a calculator or computer or even pencil and paper? People in China have used an ancient counting tool     2     (perform) mathematical operations. The Chinese calculator’s name is “suanpan”, but it is known     3    “abacus” in English. Invented by Liu Hong, abacus is one of the symbols of Chinese people’s wisdom     4     (date) back to the 12th century. Abacus has had a far-reaching influence on science and technology, language, literature, art, architecture and many     5     fields of China and even some areas of the world. Meanwhile, abacus has affected people’s character, such as honesty and diligence. For centuries, this simple counting device     6     (pass) down through different dynasties with its original design and purpose     7     (actual) unchanged. The calculations can be made on it immediately, with the device storing the results in “visual storage” much like a computer display.     8     working with an amount of numbers, an abacus is practically faster, since it has a     9     (good) “keyboard” than the Western calculators. Anyway, the small abacus has made an outstanding     10     (contribute) in the fields of human intellectual development, just as the computer does in today’s society.

8 . BEIJING·China will establish a new special economic zone in the    1    (heavy) polluted province of Hebei to promote integration（一体化）with    2    neighboring cities of Beijing and Tianjin, the government has announced.

The Xiongan New Area will be    3    the same national importance as the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone,    4    helped kick-start China's economic reforms in 1980,the official Xinhua news agency said, citing a circular released by the Chinese Cabinet.

The new special economic zone    5    (locate) around 100km south-west of Beijing, close to the Hebei provincial capital of Shijiazhuang and will house some of Beijing's relocated "non-capital functions". It is currently only 100 square kilometers in area    6    will eventually be expanded to 2,000 square kilometers.

Beijing, home to 22 million people,    7    (try)to control population growth and relocate industries and other non-capital functions to Hebei in the    8    (come) years as part of its efforts to prevent pollution and crowdedness.

The removal of non-capital functions from Beijing is part of a greater strategy to integrate the development of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei for a better economic structure,    9    (clean) environment and improved public    10       (serve).

Participants said they liked Alibaba's Tmall unmanned (无人的) supermarket after     1    (receive) discount for smiling. "    2     is amazing to get a discount by just smiling. This is what I have never experienced before," said Dan Shechtman, the     3    (win) of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He     4    (speak) highly of Alibaba's Tmall supermarket.

People can not only enter the supermarket by just swiping a QR code (扫二维码) with their cell phone but also get different discounts     5    (base) on how much they like a product,    6    is reflected in their smile. They can make the payment when they leave the supermarket as the mall has already recorded their identity when they enter.

“Unmanned retail (零售) needs     7    (solve) not only problems of 'Who are you? and 'What have you bought? but also the problem of 'What do you want to buy?. That is the     8    (origin) reason why we added this special marketing method,” said Yuan Yuefeng, Alibaba's senior expert in unmanned retail technology.

The unmanned supermarket should not be cold but humane. On     9     one hand it should provide customers     10     more convenient experience. On the other hand it should help business owners provide better services for customers.

10 . China’s industrial output is expected to rise by around 6.5 percent this year, marking the best     1     (perform) since 2010,     2     the Made in China 2025 strategy (策略) helps to raise productivity and revenue (税收).

The increase is 0.5 percentage points     3     (high) than the targeted growth, partly     4     (drive) by strong efforts to increase the use of new technology at traditional enterprises (企业), Miao Wei said on Monday.

“The country’s industrial economy has maintained steady and sound growth thanks to the Made in China 2025 strategy. It     5     (promote) the combination of manufacturing and new technologies such as     6     internet, big data and cloud computing,” Miao added.

The ministry also predicted that the country’s industrial output would be likely     7     (grow) by around 6 percent next year, with revenue from the telecommunications, internet, and software and information technology service     8     (increase) by 50 percent, 30 percent and 13 percent, respectively.

According to Miao, the country will also publish policies     9     promoting the development of digital economy. Official data show that the country’s digital economy added up to 22.58 trillion yuan last year, ranking second     10     (global) and accounting for around 30 percent of national GDP.