2 . Movies are a popular means of entertainment in our lives. However, it is not always easy to make the trip to the cinema every time you want to. Here are four interesting websites to keep you entertained.

Netflix

Netflix is a video streaming website founded in 1998. It supports lots of devices and operating systems, so you can watch new box office movies, stream TV shows, and catch up on your favorite soaps anytime, anywhere. With over 81 million members in more than 150 countries, this streaming service is taking over the movie scene and keeping you entertained all day.

Hulu

Hulu is another high-quality online streaming website, similar to Netflix. It offers video clips, TV shows, and box office movies. And with the agreements it has with certain networks, it is possible to stream episodes of some TV shows as soon as the day after they are aired.

The Hollywood Reporter

This is the Hollywood movie authority dishing up-to-date information, movie reviews, movie trailers(预告片)，on-set pictures and gossip, inside source scoops, and lots more. It is loaded with news about movies, TV shows, exclusive (独家的) actor interviews, and trailers. You will definitely get addicted to this site.

YouTube

YouTube is a video-sharing website with over 80 million users and is a source of entertainment with a very wide and variety of user-uploaded content ranging from movies, music videos, cute videos, original contents, and lots more. In addition, several networks also share free videos of their broadcasting service. YouTube is very entertaining!

4 . Leonardo da Vinci was born in 1452; apparently in a Tuscan village called Anchiano, not far from Vinci, and died in France in 1519. He may be best known as an artist but he was also an engineer, thinker and inventor.

“Even talking about Leonardo as an artist and Leonardo as an engineer has little sense if we try to think like a Renaissance man, because everything was so much connected at that time,” says Claudio Giorgione, curator at the Leonardo da Vinci National Science and Technology Museum in Milan.

As Europe prepares to mark the 500^th anniversary of his death, a drawing of a bear by Leonardo da Vinci is expected to fetch up to £12m at auction.

The picture, titled Head of a Bear, is being sold in London by Christie’s. It will go on display in New York and Hong Kong before being auctioned and is expected to fetch between £8m and £12m, according to the auction house.

Ben Hall, the old master paintings chairman at Christie’s New York, described the drawing as “one of the most important works from the Renaissance still in private hands”. He said: “The work has been owned by some of the most distinguished collectors in the field of old masters across many centuries, not least the present owner who has owned it since 2008.”

“It has been admired around the world, while shown by prestigious museums, and Christie’s is honoured to bring this Leonardo to the market this season.”

Head of a Bear, which measures 7cm by 7cm, is a silverpoint drawing on pale pink-beige paper. It has previously gone on display at museums including the National Gallery in London, where it was shown in 2011 and 2012 as part of an exhibition on Leonardo.

The drawing will be shown in London from 1 to 6 June before it is sold on 8 July.

The Communist Party has made great progress in reducing China’s pollution, but     1     perfect storm of northern winds and an industrial rebound has created dangerously high levels of pollution countrywide.

Sandstorms used     2     (be) a regular occurrence in spring. In previous decades, each May saw at least two rounds of sandstorms, according to state-run Xinhua news agency. The     3     (frequent) and severity of sandstorms was partly due to drought,     4     (grow) population pressure and poor progress in revegetation,     5     caused rapid desertification of land in the north and northwest.     6    , sandstorms have since decreased dramatically. The annual number of sandstorm     7     (impact) days in Beijing fell from a peak of 26 in the 1950s to just three days after 2010, Xinhua reported.

Since 2000, the Chinese government     8    (invest) billions of dollars toward sandstorm prevention. Authorities have launched     9     (variety) reforestation and ecological projects, and installed satellites to monitor sandstorms and alert weather agencies     10     of time.

6 . In recent years, the Yi Jin Jing exercise has gained great popularity among Chinese of all ages, thanks to Jin Yong’s novels and the Shaolin Temple in Central China’s Henan province, which has promoted kung fu techniques, including Yi Jin Jing, vigorously(蓬勃地) at home and abroad. There are more than 60 types of Yi Jin Jing exercises spreading in contemporary China, differing in lengths, gestures and movements. Thousands of health and fitness clubs in the country have been teaching classical techniques, Yi Jin Jing being the most favored course.

In ancient times, average people did the Yi Jin Jing exercise for health and longevity(长寿) , But kung fu masters do it in different and more difficult ways, hoping to hugely improve their physical abilities. For example,when it comes to breathing, a normal person, especially a beginner, would be advised to take a safe and comfortable approach. But kung fu masters would use an opposite deep breathing technique when doing Yi Jin Jing. They would breathe in deeply, then hold their breath while trying to lengthen certain muscles and tendons(筋), and in the end they would relax and breathe out very slowly.

It is widely believed that Zong Heng, a monk in Ming Dynasty, invented the Yi Jin Jing qigong exercise while he lived in a cave on Mt. Zining, where Zhangjiajing village is located.

In 2016,the Tiantai county people’s government in East China’s Zhejiang province officially declared Pingqiao, a mountainous town, as “Yi Jin Jing Township”, with Zhangjiajing village at its center. At least 30,000 local residents in and around the “Yi Jin Jing Township” have learned to perform the so-called Zining YiJin Jing qigong exercise. They put on massive performances for tourists. Yi Jin Jing training courses, coupled with hillside camping, sightseeing, local foods, have brought great benefit to the previously poor county.

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