Yuelu Academy, one of the “Four Best Academies in the whole country”,    1     (be) well-known since Song Dynasty.

    2     (locate) at Hunan University in Yuelu Region Changsha County, Yuelu Academy,     3     has a three-kilometer distance to the downtown, is listed as the national AAAA scenic area, national key Scenic Spot, national civilized tourism demonstration site and important heritage site     4     state protection. The floor space of the academy is more than 31000 ㎡ and the    5     (construct) area reaches 11000 ㎡.

During its thousand years, Yuelu Academy has been much popular for the famous people it has fostered (培养). Between 1916 and 1919, young Mao Zedong lived at the Banxue Room in Yuelu Academy several times    6     (work) on the revolutionary activities in seek of the truth of    7     (save) the Chinese people. From then on, large numbers of Yuelu teachers and students set     8     (them) to the revolutionary work in the new democracy and caused a profound and ever-lasting influence to Chinese history.

In addition, the academy is also    9     (huge) renowned for the elegance of the environment and beauty of the architecture. Nowadays, it serves as    10     ancient heritage museum for demonstrating the ancient academy education and architectural style.

2 . In the long river of inheriting and preserving intangible cultural heritages, people have encountered numerous challenges, especially in this rapidly developing era. Fortunately, there are still many individuals who persistently make efforts to safeguard it.

Chang Yangyang is such a person. As an inheritor of intangible cultural heritage, he once worked at a factory. Although he had learned the craft paper-cutting from his grandmother since childhood, in the eyes of Chang’s parents, a hobby was far less precious than a stable job. They didn’t change their minds until he won third prize in a national paper-cutting competition in 2010. This opened a new door for him in paper-cutting, which strengthened his determination to continue his career in the craft.

In addition to practicing skills diligently, Chang thought more about how to promote the Mengjin paper-cutting culture and let more people know about this intangible cultural heritage.

In his early years, Chang conducted local training and salons. Later, He tried Douyin live-streaming. At first, Chang was shy. But gradually, he became more familiar with it and learned to interact with viewers. In this way, he expanded his audience and followers from dozens of people to hundreds of thousands.

The young paper-cutting artist and instructor hopes there are more young people learning the art. It is for this reason that he currently teaches the art of paper-cutting at several local primary schools, Chang says his life dream is to establish a paper-cutting museum one day so people can learn more about the art form and grow to love it as much as he does.

With more young craftsmen like Chang injecting fresh energy, the intangible cultural heritage will be able to continue sharing the same clear wind with mountains and forests, and the same bright moon with rivers in the future years, moving towards eternity.

3 . Thomas Edison once said, “There are three types of people: There are those who think; there are those who think they think; and then there are those who would rather die than think.”

The great majority of people go through life without giving much thought to who they are and how they got to where they are today.     1    , like a series of random events, with no explanations and few connections between them.

But the fact is that your world is largely created by the thoughts you think, and the things that you do as a result of your thinking.     2    . When you change your thinking, you change your life.

Your thought is creative. You determine what happens to you by the thoughts you think, especially those thoughts that are charged with emotion, either positive or negative. Your thoughts are like the computer in a guided missile (导弹).     3    .

In a 2002 study at the University of Pennsylvania. 350,000 people were interviewed to find out what they thought about most of the time. It turned out that the top 10 percent, the happiest and most successful of this group, thought about two things most of the time: what they wanted and how to get it.     4    .

The more successful people thought about what they wanted and how to get it, the more ideas and insights came to them.     5    , which moved them faster and faster toward their coals. When they achieved their coals, they felt happier, more motivated, and eager to set even bigger and more challenging goals.

The foundation principle of all religions, philosophy, psychology, and success is this: You become what you think about most of the time.

8 . A 12-year-old artist from Iowa is using his artwork to raise awareness and money for children’s cancer.

When Arsh Pal was eight years old, he was ________ painting supplies for his birthday. He ________ painting watercolor canvases (油画), and had made so many that he began ________ some of them to his family and friends as gifts.

As ________ went on, Pal got even better at painting, and his paintings grew in ________ in America, especially among the young people.

________, he started selling his paintings and ________ 100 percent of his proceeds (收入) to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. He set a ________ to raise $1,000, which he quickly ________. Since then, Pal has ________ more than $15,000, and has donated, to at least five charities ________ St. Jude, Easterseals, Make-a-Wish foundation, Compass to Care, and the Riverview Center.

For all of his hard work and ________, Pal was recently honored with the Diana Award, a ________ youth humanitarian award named after the late Princess Diana. The ________ is given to “outstanding young people” between the ages of 9 and 25 who are “________ creating and sustaining positive social change.”

“I’m from Iowa and everybody else is from everywhere else,” Pal told Des Moines Register. “I feel really ________ that I’m getting it because it’s a pretty big award. Princess Diana ________ charitable work and helping the community, so that’s kind of what I do.”

In his free time, Pal also ________ nursing home residents how to paint. He hopes to soon start teaching free painting ________ to kids as well, particularly those who ________ from bad anxiety and emotional struggles.

9 . If you’re currently studying in senior high school, chances are that you’ve started thinking about what your career options might be for the future.     1    

If you use a step-by-step plan, you can avoid choosing a college major that turns out to be nothing like you expected and head on a career path with more confidence and eventual success.

Start With an Aptitude (能力) Test

    2     Other people find reading, writing and learning languages easy. Taking an aptitude test, also known as a career test or career quiz, will help you determine where your study skills will help you best.

You shouldn’t pigeon-hole yourself into a profession just because a career test says it’s right for you.     3     However, aptitude tests often help you identify professions you might not have considered.

Take a Personality Test

Personality tests can help you figure out if you’re a natural leader or more of a follower.     4     How do you handle conflict? What about dealing with bullies or gossips? A personality test will help you decide if you might be comfortable working for a large corporation in a team environment, or as an entrepreneur (创业者) launching your own business.

List Jobs That Interest You

Write a list of jobs that interest you.     5     Be realistic, based on where you live and what your finances are. For example, if you want to start a restaurant, you’ll need hundreds of thousands of dollars. Working in a restaurant as a prep cook or taking cooking classes will help you see what the restaurant business is like and whether or not it might be right for you.

10 . New York City public schools will ban students and teachers from using ChatGPT, a powerful new AI chatbot (聊天机器人) tool, on the district’s networks and devices, an official confirmed to CNN on Thursday.

The move comes amid educators’ growing concerns that the tool, which generates frighteningly convincing responses and even essays in response to user prompts (提示), could make it easier for students to cheat on assignments. Some also worry that ChatGPT could be used to spread incorrect information.

“Due to concerns about negative impacts on student learning, and concerns regarding the safety and accuracy of content, access to ChatGPT is restricted on New York City Public Schools’ networks and devices,” Jenna Lyle, the deputy press secretary for the New York public schools, said in a statement. “While the tool may be able to provide quick and easy answers to questions, it does not build critical-thinking and problem-solving skills, which are essential for academic and lifelong success.”

OpenAI opened up access to ChatGPT in late November. It is able to provide lengthy, thoughtful and thorough responses to questions and prompts, ranging from factual questions like “Who was the president of the United States in 1955” to more open-ended questions such as “What’s the meaning of life?”

ChatGPT went viral just days after its launch. But many educators fear students will use the tool to cheat on assignments. One user, for example, fed ChatGPT an AP English exam question; it responded with a 5-paragraph essay about Wuthering Heights. Another user asked the chatbot to write an essay about the life of William Shakespeare four times; he received a unique version with the same prompt each time.

Darren Hicks, assistant professor of philosophy at Furman University, told CNN it will be harder to prove when a student misuses ChatGPT than with other forms of cheating.