Chinese food has taken the world by storm. Today, Chinese food has almost become a way of life, with fried rice, noodles, and so on making their way to the favorite food list of many people. Nowadays, there are many restaurants worldwide     1     (serve) Chinese food. And it is not just in restaurants     2     Chinese food is popular. Chinese food can also be widely found in roadside stalls (货摊).

You may wonder why Chinese food is so popular. The main root (根, 根源) of the answer first lies     3     the fact that Chinese food offers different kinds of     4     (dish). Another key reason is that Chinese food tastes very good. And most people just can’t refuse     5     Besides, Chinese food has a long history and is a complex food category (种类), containing years of the Chinese people’s     6     (wise). Last but not least, Chinese food is     7     (general) cheap and healthy, which also leads to many people making a decision     8     (try) Chinese food.

Because of its popularity, Chinese food has become a     9     (value) tool that makes China known to the world. With more people learning about China, in turn, Chinese food     10     (appreciate) by more people in the long run.

Located on a huge rock in the forests of central Sri Lanka, Sigiriya is an     1     (attract) sight now as it must have been when it was first built by a great king in the     2     (five) century A. D. Meaning “lion’s rock”, Sigiriya is entered by way of passageways cut into the rock face.

The castle was later covered by the forest, and only familiar to local villagers. Outsiders used knowledge of its past, mentioned in Buddhist texts, to search     3     the ancient site. In1827, a Scottish officer, Jonathan Forbes, on     4     (hear) local stories about the castle, decided     5     (look) for it. In 1831, he set off to where locals told him and found the remains of the ancient city.

Sigiriya     6     (build) by Kashyapa I, the king     7     ruled the native Sinhalese dynasty, the Moriya. The impressive castle was     8     capital of the Sinhalese kingdom until Kashyapa was defeated (击败) in A. D. 495.

After Kashyapa, dynasties rose and fell, their fortunes shaped by internal (内部的) power struggles and conflicts between native Sinhalese and outside forces from India.

Various     9     (city) held the status (地位) of capital after Sigiriya, such as Polonnaruwa. By the 12th century, however, overall control of Sri Lanka progressively weakened. Sinhalese power retreated (撤退) to the southwest of the island, and the former administrative (行政的) centres, including Sigiriya,     10     (start) to fall into disuse.

The farming-themed program, Become a Farmer, stands out as one of the most widely discussed and popular Chinese reality     1     (show) in the past year.

The program truthfully records 10 young men in their 20s     2     spent 190 days diligently sowing, irrigating (灌溉), fertilizing, and harvesting on 142 acres of land. Before the show, the 10 young men     3     (work) in the entertainment industry. It is not the fake experience of farming under the camera,     4     the fact that they farmed the land for half     5     year, sowing, planting, and breeding throughout the process.

Before starting their rural lives, the production unit conducted training classes for these young men     6     (learn) some basic skills. Moreover, they     7     (require) to learn how to operate agricultural machinery (器械), including tractors and rice harvesters.

The production unit attracted audience to     8     (active) get involved by hosting regular livestreams (直播). The first season of the show included over 100 livestreams, having a total viewership over 170 million on Sina Weibo and Douyin. Many netizens took part     9     these livestreams by leaving comments to express     10     (they) concern about the participants’ working process.

Li Kang,     1     high school student, lives in Hebei Province. Today is his first day at Senior High school. He     2    (feel) that his new school is very good and classrooms are     3    (amaze) since all of them have     4    (computer). He likes his English teacher, a woman     5    (call) Ms Shen. Ms Shen tells them reading comprehension is important and encourages     6    (they) to speak a lot in class. Li Kang and his classmates are interested in Ms Shen’s teaching method,     7     is completely different from that of the teachers at Junior High school.

Today, after Ms Shen gave students instruction, they introduced themselves in class. Ms Shen also helps students improve their spelling     8     handwriting. They do spelling games in a fun way. After this class, Ms Shen ask them to write a     9    (describe) of the street where they live. Most of them look forward to     10    (do) it.

Facial surgery (手术) is a serious business, especially on children     1     are not yet fully grown but Melbourne researchers are developing a technique that could change the face of children’s surgery.

This new     2     (develop) will allow doctors to work out a child’s normal face shape at different ages to predict (预测) future growth.

Researchers at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI) could soon replace the ruler currently     3     (use) to track changes in a child’s head and face with 3D images. By     4     (improve) the ability to predict normal growth and future changes in a child’s face, doctors will be able to    5     (well) complete their surgery than before.

MCRI’s Mr Harold Matthews said current     6     (method), including using patients’ photographs and X-rays were slow. Together     7     researchers in Belgium, Mr Matthews is pioneering a new tool that provides averages (平均值) for normal growth of the face throughout childhood.

The project intends     8     (take) some of the guesswork out of surgery. For example, in children with Pierre Robin Sequence, a serious condition which means they are born with an underdeveloped jaw(下颚), some doctors choose to fix it early while others wait to see if the child’s face will     9     (natural) correct itself as it grows. Without this new technology,     10     is difficult to know which method is better for each child.