During Chinese New Year, a balloon loong (the Chinese pronunciation of dragon) measuring over 40 meters     1     length slipped through a shopping mall in Hong Kong. The 40-meter long loong,     2     (make) up of 38,000 balloons, broke the Guinness World Record as the largest balloon loong. The Guinness certification officer was     3     (remarkable) impressed, saying it was one of the     4     (delicate) balloon artworks ever.

The exhibition of the loong     5     (attract) large crowds of people’s attention for its magnificent appearance so far. To thank the audience for their support, balloon artist Wilson Pang printed 5,000 postcards     6     (feature) the loong and arranged a meeting with them at the mall. “Delivering a warm, loving, positive message to the people of Hong Kong     7     (be) what I always want to do,” Pang says.

Pang thinks     8     important to give young people opportunities, so he specially invited college and high school students to participate in the project. “I hope to share     9     I have learned with young people,” Pang says. “I have won championships myself and I hope to inspire     10     new generation of future champions.”

Seven ancient stone columns (石柱) from Yuanmingyuan that     1     (lose) overseas have been returned to China recently. This marks another significant repatriation (遣返；归国) of cultural relics, following the return of the bronze horse head statue in 2020.

Under the guidance of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism,     2     (university), departments, and society have worked together to bring about the donation of these stone columns from Norway to China. Liu Yang, a member of China’s Old Summer Palace Society, emphasized the     3     (important) of the return. “    4     there are similar carved stone columns in Yuanmingyuan, there turn of these stone columns holds great significance in     5     (advance) the repatriation of lost cultural relics to the palace, and these stone columns are well preserved.”

The exhibition was open to     6     public last Saturday. University students     7     visited the exhibition expressed their pride and excitement. They regarded the return of these artifacts     8     a symbol of Chinese-Western cultural exchanges. “The exhibition is not just a show of cultural relics, but also a chance for patriotic (爱国的) education. It will     9     (certain) remind us of the painful lesson that falling behind can lead to suffering,” a student    10     (name) Yang told the Global Times.

You can now enjoy Canada’s     1     (beauty) mountains like never before by traveling through the Rockies in a glass-domed (玻璃穹顶的) train.

Rocky Mountaineer’s GoldLeaf Service is offering the public the chance     2     (have) the experience of a lifetime by traveling through the Rockies underneath the train’s glass dome. As you take in the breathtaking scenery, you can also enjoy big meals.     3     (stand) on an outdoor viewing platform of the train, you can also take in the fresh air! If you get hungry, you can have dinner on the lower level in a five-star restaurant with meals     4     (make) by the service’s executive chefs.     5     couple of different routes are offered by Rocky Mountaineer’s GoldLeaf trains,     6     include a two-day, one-night journey between Vancouver and Lake Louise or Banff and a four-day, three-night trip between Jasper and Vancouver.

The company says that so far, it     7     (add) four new rail cars to its routes, with three additional ones coming soon. “These new GoldLeaf rail cars will allow us to welcome even     8     (many) guests on board our trains than before and,     9    (particular), offer increased availability across our most popular dates and routes,” said Steve Sammut, president and chief executive officer of Rocky Mountaineer. The new trains will have dimmable (可调光的) domed windows to adjust the amount of incoming sunlight as well     10     redesigned kitchens and custom-designed seats.

Spring is here and temperatures are heating up. That means cases of tick-borne (蜱传播的) illnesses, particularly Lyme disease, are on the rise. And the problem is only being worsened by drawn-out warmer weather across a wider area of the country,     1     (drive) by climate change. The warming climate enables ticks to become active     2     (early) in the spring and then remain active later into the autumn or winter months.

Blacklegged ticks     3     (be) not insects and they can carry more than a dozen rare     4     (disease). But the most common by far is Lyme disease. Typical signs of the illness include fever, headache, tiredness, muscle and joint pain and red spots on skin.

Ticks draw blood from an animal host that can contain B.burgdorferi (伯氏疏螺旋体). An infected tick attaches to a human by digging its mouth into the flesh     5     it can feast for three to ten days.     6     takes at least 24 hours for Lyme bacteria to start swimming out in the saliva the tick drips into its host.

Melissa Prustinsk, a research scientist at the New York State Department of Health,     7     (warn) that it could be difficult to detect Lyme disease signs. “People often mistake them     8     the flu or even COVID-19,” she said. If you start to experience Lyme disease signs, don’t wait around to spot the tick before     9     (contact) a physician. “It’s better to be safe than sorry,     10     (especial) if you have spent time outdoors and know that there’s the potential that you could have received the tick bites,”she advised.

When it     1     (announce) in 2018 that the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Shanghai had created the world’s first cloned monkeys, Zhongzhong and Huahua,     2     (heat) discussions followed online.

In fact, cloning has always been with us. It is a way of making     3     exact copy of another animal or plant. It happens in plants when gardeners take cuttings from growing plants     4     (make) new ones. It also happens in animals when identical twins are produced from the same egg. These are both     5     (example) of natural clones.

Cloning has two major uses. First, gardeners use     6     to produce large quantities of plants for sale. Second, it’s valuable for research on new plant species     7     for medical research on animals. Cloning plants is     8     (fair) straightforward, while cloning animals is much more complicated and difficult,     9     (require) lots of hard work. Over the years, many scientists failed in their attempts to clone animals, but their determination and patience paid     10     in 1996 with a breakthrough — the cloning of Dolly the sheep.