In many urban Chinese offices, a trend (趋势) is gaining popularity among young professionals. The trend     1     (know) as “office farming” involves growing fruit-bearing plants such as bananas and pineapples right at their desks.     2     (particular), these fruits, which often come with half-ripened (半熟的) fruits, are easy to care for, as they require just regular water changes and nutrient (营养的) additions.

This trend is not just about     3     (decorate); it is also about functionality. These beautiful plants can produce fruits,     4     adds an interesting element to the usual office environment. As     5     result, these desk gardens quickly become office attractions,     6     (offer) a unique way to break the ice and foster social interactions (相互作用) among colleagues.

The appeal of these fruit-bearing plants is evident on social media platforms, where thousands of these plants     7     (sell). This trend connects China’s farming traditions     8     modern city life. It also reflects broader social trends. Office workers seek to relieve the stresses of long working hours and     9     (difficulty) environments by taking part in more calming and nature-oriented activities. As the practice grows, more workers are considering increasing their indoor gardens and adding more variety to their collection of plants     10     (bring) a sense of happiness to their office surroundings.

In November 2023, China launched a three-year action plan to promote the use of bamboo as a replacement     1     plastic. Actually, I’ve been using bamboo products more often over the years.

The look and feel of bamboo are absolutely above and beyond plastic,     2     there must be more positive aspects to bamboo other than just aesthetics (美学). When compared to    3     (healthy) plastic, bamboo is a highly renewable, natural material that is biodegradable (可生物降解的) and     4     (become) the “green gold” of modern times in recent years because it has so many good qualities.     5     (live) in a time when most of our homes are filled with plastic, I think it’s time     6     (wake) up to the green alternative and realize     7     (it) full potential as a planet protector.

This super-powered plant is actually a grass and looks like a weed in terms of     8     quickly it can grow and where it can live. The production costs of bamboo are     9     (extreme) low due to the easy availability of this material, and it requires almost zero adjustment when people produce bamboo products. From household objects to decorative settings, the quantity of uses bamboo has     10     (go) beyond our wildest dreams and I’d love to see it becoming more popular as time goes on.

The use of bamboo in science and technology is really exciting. In the Warring States period, Li Bing     1     (lead) the local people to build the Dujiang Weir, the first irrigation network in the world,     2     bamboo played an important role. During the Han dynasty, the Sichuan people successfully sank     3     1,600-meter-deep well with thick bamboo ropes. This technology didn’t spread to Europe     4     the 19th century and in 1859 Americans sank the first oil well in Pennsylvania by     5     (employ) the technology.

Papermaking     6     (be) one of China’s four ancient great inventions. In the Han dynasty, people began to use bamboo     7     (make) paper, which was of excellent quality and fair price. Even now it is considered as one of the important materials in papermaking. Some of the Xuan paper for traditional Chinese painting is also made     8     bamboo.

In the Yuan dynasty, a man     9     (plan) to send a person on the chair to space tied a big bamboo tube filled with gunpowder onto each of the four legs of a chair. Although it appears amusing, it is regarded as the     10     (early) “manned rocket design”.

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Plant lovers believe that talking to plants helps them grow. Scientists have discovered there could be real     1     (true) in this belief. Researchers have discovered that plants give off sounds when they are stressed. The sounds are quite similar     2     a human cry. Unfortunately, plant sounds are at too high a frequency for the human ear     3     (pick) up. Humans can only hear frequencies of up to 16 kilohertz (赫兹). Using special Al technology, scientists can now pick up sounds     4     (send) out by plants that are up to 250 kilohertz. The Al can also tell differences between different types of plant sounds.

The research     5     (do) in a greenhouse at Israel’s Tel Aviy University. Lead researcher Professor Lilach Hadany said: “Plants usually give off sounds when they     6     (be) under stress. Each plant and each type of stress is connected with     7     specific sound.” She suggested that crop fields could be quite     8     (noise), saying “While unable to be picked up by the human ear, the sounds given off by plants can be heard by bats,     9     (mouse) and insects. Understanding these sounds could help us know when crops need watering,     10     means farmers could water their crops more efficiently and thus save water and money.

With high yield and superior quality, Chinese hybrid rice varieties have been introduced around the world,     1     (benefit) more people. The export of China’s hybrid rice technology started many years ago. In 1979, China provided hybrid rice seeds to another country for the first time, and 40 years later, in     2     (real), China’s hybrid rice has been planted in dozens of countries in the world.

In the past 40 years, Chinese scientists     3     (devote) to providing assistance to many other countries. China has trained more than 14,000 hybrid rice professionals for more than 80 developing countries through international training courses. This technology has spread     4     more and more places in the world so far.

Yuan Longping,     5     cultivated the world’s first high-yield hybrid rice strain not only earned respect from Chinese people but also the global community. His hybrid rice research has been     6     (entire) saving millions of people from hunger. Yuan’s dream was     7     (solve) the global food shortage and promote hybrid rice around the world. China has achieved     8     great wonder, feeding nearly one fifth of the world’s population with less than nine percent of the world’s total land. And China is     9     (will) to contribute to global food security and calls for joint efforts to end global hunger and poverty.

It     10     (believe) that Yuan’s dream will come true one day.

Hua Weiguang,     1     retired teacher from Tongliao, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, is a photography enthusiast.

A decade ago, the arrival of tree planters     2     (catch) Hua’s attention and the photos of the tree planters     3     (take) by Hua are evidence of the     4     (remark) transformation of the land. In those photos, hats, scarves and goggles, for the workers fighting desertification, are basic necessities to protect them     5     the wind and sand. There was no way to avoid the brutal summer heat in the land so the workers had to lie down on the ground or curl up in the narrow shade of their cars to cool off. And they also had to eat their lunch amid the blowing sands, taking in the small pieces of sand with their food.

“    6     we don’t fool the tree, it won’t fool you. You take it     7     (serious), and then it behaves in the same way to you. You put efforts to make it live, and the tree lives up to your     8     (expect),” the planters say.

China’s forest resources have increased by over 70 million hectares in the past decade,     9     (rank) first in the world. One tree after another, a green Great Wall has been built. Brush by brush, a green field     10     (paint) over the yellow sandy land up to now.

Picking tea leaves is     1     important spring activity in South China. Ancient Chinese     2     (agriculture) production has long been guided by solar terms, and so has tea production. Tea leaves are ready to pick before Qingming; tea     3     (pick) at that time is called Mingqian tea. Because of the small output and good quality, Mingqian tea     4     (consider) quite valuable.

China has been a big tea producing country since ancient times. According to official data, China’s tea planting area     5     (grow) in recent years, with an increase of more than 1.81 million hectares in 16 years since 2000 and     6     (it) yearly tea production has ranked first in the world for several years in a row.

In spring, local hillsides are often filled with tea pickers as well as farmers     7     (plant) on their land. The beautiful scenery of tea farms in the countryside has also contributed     8     an increase in tourism in these places. Many families take their children to experience the fun of picking tea leaves during spring outings with     9     (laugh) ringing in the mountains. Picking tea leaves reflects hard work of Chinese people,     10     is one of the traditional virtues (美德).

There were other creatures that I didn’t want to get too close to—an eel with its strong sharp teeth, with only its head showing from a hole,     1     (watch) for a tasty fish (or my tasty toe! );and     2     giant clam half buried in some coral waiting for something     3     (swim) in between its thick green lips. Then there were two grey reef sharks, each about one and half meters long, which suddenly     4     (appear) from behind some coral. I told     5     (me) they weren’t dangerous but that didn’t stop me from feeling scared to death for a moment!

The water was quite shallow but     6     the reef ended, there was a steep drop to the sandy ocean floor. It marked a boundary and I thought I was very brave when I swam over the edge of the reef and hung there looking down into the     7     (deep)of the ocean. My heart was beating     8     (wild)—I felt very exposed     9     such deep clear water.

What a wonderful,     10     (limit) world it was down there. And what a tiny spot I was in this enormous world!