Released on Aug 30, 2023, a three-episode web series     1     (title) Escape From the British Museum has become popular online for its touching and innovative story. The series follows the journey home of a Chinese jade teapot that has come to life as a girl. She runs away from the British Museum and comes across a Chinese journalist     2     helps the artifact (文物) return to China. The series aims to raise broader awareness of Chinese artifacts that     3       (keep) abroad.

Wake up early enough and probably you     1     （hear） a pleasant chorus of birds. This early singing can start as early as 4 a. m. and last for several hours. Birds do it     2     （attract） mates and warn other birds to avoid their place. One theory as to     3     they choose the early morning to communicate these important messages is that the low visibility makes it hard to do other bird activities, like searching for food. Keeping their activity level low, they choose to sing instead.

In America, people use both “fall” and “autumn” to describe the     1     (three) season of the year. According to Dictionary. com, these two words were first documented within a few     2     (century). The period between summer and winter was called “harvest”     3     old English. This word has Germanic origins highlighting the act of gathering and preserving crops before winter. In the 1500s, English speakers     4     (begin) referring to the season between cold and warm months as the “fall of the leaf” which later shortened to “fall”.

When Lauren Schroeder, a high school student,     1     (show) up to a community food drive last year, she saw what people there got — just a lot of     2     (can) goods. She decided to become the change she wanted to see. Schroeder grew 7,000 pounds of produce and gave it all away to food banks. Her work drew the attention of Future Farmers of America, which gave her some money for     3     (supply) and seeds. Her goal is     4     (donate) 20,000 pounds of vegetables by the time she graduates.

At the moment, AI tools provide results that are not always correct or appropriate. That’s     1     companies are looking for people to help train AI programs. These people are called prompt engineers, who     2     (pay) six-figure salaries. Anna Bernstein, a prompt engineer, writes prompts and feeds them     3     AI tools. This helps the AI generate text with accurate information. She thinks prompt engineering is now one of the hottest tech jobs and she loves her job.

Have you ever heard of the Ring of Fire? It might sound like something straight out of science fiction,     1     it is a real place. The Ring of Fire is the name used by scientists to describe an area     2     frequent volcanic eruptions and earthquakes take place. In fact, most of the world’s volcanoes are located there. The Ring of Fire is an arc-shaped region that     3     (run) along the coast of North and South America, along the eastern edge of Asia, across Alaska’s Aleutian Islands, and along the coast of New Zealand.

Booking a flight-free holiday is effortless with Byway Travel.     1     (found) in 2020 by Cat Jones, a non-car owner whose family vacations annually by train and bike, Byway is the world’s first travel agent that offers 100% flight-free trips. The company excels in integrating the journey into the adventure itself,     2     (ensure) travelers discover the interesting places they would otherwise miss by flying over them. Presently, Byway specializes in flight-free excursions from the UK to Europe, with plans to expand its flight-free travel offerings     3     (global) in the future.

A person’s memory is like a hall with many rooms, some visited frequently, others untouched     1     years. With age, sometimes, doors to certain memories become locked, requiring a special key     2     (access) them. These keys often come in the form of specific sensory inputs—something you see, smell, touch, taste, or hear. When a sensory input stimulates receptors, signals are sent along nerve cells to the brain,     3     they are processed and interpreted. The way our senses connect with our memories shows how complex our minds are. Knowing this helps us understand how our past affects how we see and act in the present.

In 2022, to preserve China’s wetlands, a law     1     (introduce) to restrict construction and prohibit harmful     2     (activity) such as overgrazing, overharvesting, and wastewater discharge in important national wetlands. Since the implementation (实施) of these measures, there     3     (be) an increase in the number of birds observed wintering in the nation’s wetlands. In February, the forestry bureau in Hunan province reported 72 species of waterbirds that spent the previous winter at Dongting Lake. Black-faced spoonbills,     4     rare and endangered species, were sighted at Dongting after a five-year absence.