Recently, the first Italian female astronaut Samantha Christophretti,     1     was on a mission at the international space station,     2     (release) a group of space photography works on social media, and attached several lines from the preface to the Orchid Pavilion     3     (write) by the famous Chinese calligrapher Wang Xizhi, showing the magnificence of our blue planet Earth seen from China’s space station. 

“ Looking up, I see the immense of the cosmos; bowing my head, I look at the multitude of the world. The gaze flies, the heart expands, the joy of the senses can reach its peak, and indeed, this is true    4     (happy).” This move aroused a     5     (heat) discussion among netizens at home and abroad.

“We have taken notice of the relevant reports and praised the Italian astronauts.” foreign ministry spokesman Maoning said that    6     has been a human dream to understand and explore the universe since ancient times.     7     the progress of science and technology, “Embrace the moon in the Ninth Heaven”    8     (become) a reality.

    9     (promote) the common well-being of all mankind, all countries can and need to work together to look after the planet we all call home and make the world     10     better place.

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The Silk Road,     1     connected China and the Far East with the Middle East and Europe, was a network of trade routes (线路).       2     (establish) when the Han Dynasty opened trade with the West in 130 B. C., the Silk Road routes remained in use until 1453 A. D., when the Ottoman Empire closed them   Although it     3     (be) nearly 600 years since the Silk Road was used for international trade, the routes had a lasting impact     4     trade, culture and history that resonates (引起共鸣) even today.

While the name “Silk Road” originates from the    5     (popular) of Chinese silk among tradesmen, the material was not the only important export from the East to the West. Trade along the Silk Road included fruits and vegetables, livestock, grain, leather tools, artworks, precious stones     6     metals. The greatest value of the Silk Road was the exchange of culture. Art, along with other elements of civilization like religion, philosophy, technology, language, science, as well as architecture,     7     (exchange) along these routes at that time

In 2013, China began to     8     (official) rebuild the historic Silk Route. The project opened up new trade     9     (market) for Chinese goods, giving the country the cheapest and easiest way     10     (sell) materials and goods.

A skull of the dinosaur, named Guemesia ochoai, was discovered in Argentina. Researchers said it likely belongs to a meat-eating, or carnivorous, group of dinosaurs     1     (call) abelisaurs. These dinosaurs walked on two legs and had very short arms, even     2     (short) than those of North America’s Tyrannosaurus rex. The short arms may have forced Guemesia     3     (depend) more on its powerful skull and jaws.

“Guemesia is so different     4     other meat-eating dinosaurs, which allows us to understand that we’re dealing with a     5     (total) new species,” said Agnolin Federico, the lead writer of a study on the dinosaur that was published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.

The animals existed for a few million years before     6     asteroid (小行星) hit what is now Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula. That event, about 66 millions years ago, led to a series of     7     (disaster) that killed all the dinosaurs and many other animals. In total, about 75 percent of Earth’s species     8     (destroy) as a result of the asteroid.

Scientists believe abelisaurs lived on what is now Africa, South America and India. Several abelisaurs have been dug up in Argentina in the past but almost all of them were in southern Patagonia, far from the site     9     Guemesia was found.

Guemesia takes its name from Argentine independence hero Martin Miguel de Guemes and Javier Ochoa, a museum worker who made the     10     (discover).

A recently released     1    (nation) survey on reading among Chinese people,     2     was conducted by the Chinese Academy of Press and Publication (CAPP), has shown     3     steady rise in reading as a habit in the country.

Over 1.48 million     4    (sample) were collected for the survey from 165 cities nationwide, carried out via the forms of online and telephone surveys.

An average adult would spend 23.13 minutes on average per day     5    (read) printed books in 2022 the survey showed.

Moreover, listening to audiobooks was another rising habit among Chinese readers,     6     35.5 percent of adults saying they were used to listening     7    (main) to audiobooks.

Public reading services continued to meet the needs of Chinese readers, as 78.2 percent of the people     8    (survey) were satisfied with the services of public libraries, and 72.5 percent were pleased with their experience at community or self-service libraries.

“In Hangzhou, for instance, reading venues, including public libraries, self-service libraries and rural reading rooms,     9    (cover) the whole city in the past several years,” said Mayor of Hangzhou Yao Gaoyuan on Sunday.

Reading on mobile phones also remained a habit among Chinese readers. According to the survey, 77.8 percent read on their phones last year, 0.4 percent     10    (high) than in 2021.

In Japan, Chen Jianyi was a household name. He devoted his life to cooking and adapting the hot and spicy Chinese dish for Japanese     1     (customer). His career and life even inspired a Japanese artist     2     (create) Cooking Master Boy, a household cartoon     3     became a common childhood memory among the Japanese born in the 1980s and 1990s.

In 1952, Chen’s father moved to Japan. 6 years     4     (late), he opened the first Sichuan cuisine restaurant in Tokyo. Then he set up an “Institute of Chinese Cuisine”     5     the help of his wife. It has trained 15,000 chefs, making a great     6     (contribute) to the spread of Chinese food in Japan.

In 1990, Chen took over the Sichuan restaurant at     7     age of 34 after his father’s death. He improved their family’s signature dish (招牌菜) even further to give it a “spicy and     8     (slight) sweet taste.” In a cooking competition in 1993, he broke a record and     9     (claim) the title of “First Chef of Chinese Food” in Japan.

Sadly, chef Chen passed away in March, 2023. The news of his death made media headlines in Japan. It shows just how much the Japanese love the dish he cooked and Chinese cuisine, and how food culture has played an important role in promoting communication and     10     (culture) exchanges.

Hockey (冰球) goalkeepers are the rare athletes in team sports who can try to show their history, family and personality through the     1     (choose) of clothes. That’s no different at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics.

China’s goalkeeper Zhou Jiaying caught the attention of the world when she showed     2     with her dragon-themed pads(护膝) at the hockey competition in Beijing.

“She always     3     (want) to honor her Chinese heritage,” explained Chris Joswiak, who has helped to design the pads for     4     26-year-old goalkeeper.

Her notice to Joswiak and his team read, “I hope that immediately we Chinese people see the pads, they think, ‘That’s the Gold Dragons in the Forbidden City!’”

Zhou Jiaying helped create the pads by     5     (send) Joswiak several examples of Chinese-style dragons that could convey     6     she was looking for in her pads.

The design team worked up multiple     7     (sample) for her before she finally approved the one that she wore at the Olympic competitions.

To meet her deadline, the pads that     8     (typical) take about 8 to 10 weeks to build     9     (make) for her in less than two weeks.

Wearing her dragon pads, Zhou Jiaying stopped 22 of 23 shots in China’s win over Denmark on Friday. The Chinese team is scheduled     10     (face)Japan on Sunday.