Young Chinese    1     (be) fighting against society through a simple act of resistance: lying down. Examples of the “tangping”, or “lying flat”, way of life include not getting married, not having children, and refusing to work extra hours or to hold a job at all. “I stay at home and sleep and watch television series.” said Zhang, who described herself as “lying flat” for the last two weeks     2     leaving her job in the film industry in Wuxi.

“Tangping”     3     (emerge) over the last few months. Some compare them to the 1950s Beat Generation in the United States.     4     (other) call their behavior a form of nonviolent resistance. “People realize there is no upward mobility,” said Yicheng Wang, a PhD student in political science at Boston University. The term developed after     5     April post on the Tieba forum, whose author, unemployed for the last two years, described a low-effort, low-cost lifestyle consisting of just a few months’ work out of the year.

“Lying flat is my movement,” he     6     (write), referring to the Greek philosopher Diogenes, who was known for living in a large container. He posted a picture of himself lying in bed in the middle of the day with the curtains     7     (draw).

But as “tangping” gained     8     (popular), it also brought a level of dishonor. Nanfang Daily called the philosophy “shameful”. Global Times made light of it describing “lying flat” as “not a serious philosophy”.

For Zhang in Wuxi, lying flat is not about giving up or withdrawing from society. “Many people want to lie down because 996 is too     9     (tire),” she said, referring to the constant hours common in tech industry,     10     the staff are expected to work from 9 a. m. to 9 p. m. , six days a week. The philosophy is also about giving oneself a break.

China's traditional tea-making techniques were     1     (official) recognized by UNESCO on November 29th, 2022, when the techniques and associated social practices     2     (add) to UNESCO’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (非物质文化遗产) of Humanity.     3     forty-three items on the list, China maintains its No.1 position in the field.

With the success of the application starting in March 2021, the list of world intangible cultural heritage has recognized the knowledge, skills, and practices     4     are about the management of tea gardens, picking of tea leaves, hand-made processing, and the drinking and     5     (share) of tea.

The result has been widely praised by the Chinese public and experts because it is     6     important step for conservation and promotion of traditional tea culture. “Years ago, Chinese tea culture     7     (become) widely known by people in many     8    (country) around the world through the ancient Silk Road. The     9     (success) application of Chinese tea-making can further help improve     10     (it) international influence,” Zheng Changling, secretary general of the China Folk Culture Innovation and Development Center, told the Global Times.

The Sanxingdui Museum, which     1     (be) in Guanghan City, is recognized as the most important ancient site in the Sichuan area for     2     (it) large size, long lasting period and rich cultural heritage. It is known as one of the     3     (great) archaeological discoveries in the 20th century, and honoured as “the source of Yangtze River Civilization”. The unique shapes of the relics make it hard for you     4     (picture) that thousands of years ago people could make these things. Even many     5     (expert) can’t explain how the ancient people made them. It is really worth     6     visit.

Sanxingdui     7     (discover) for the first time by a farmer in 1929, when he dug a big hole in his field. Since then more than 10,000 relics, some of     8     date back to 3,000-5,000 years ago, have been unearthed. But up to now they are still a mystery because there are neither documents     9     records about it. Also, there is no mention of this culture in the record of other states.

Sanxingdui cultural relics are precious cultural heritage of human beings. Among these Shu treasures there are a variety of unique shaped bronzes (青铜制品). The Sanxingdui Ruins also serve as strong evidence that Chinese culture is     10     (color).

Yingge Dance, a traditional folk art combining dancing, Chinese martial arts, and Chinese opera, is popular in the Chaoshan area of Guangdong province in South China. Yingge, written with the characters for “hero” and “song”,     1     (mean) heroic song in Chinese and Yingge dancers, as their name implies, are the avatars (化身) of     2     (hero). The dancers each hold a pair of short sticks and strike the sticks with force     3     (create) strong beats — an     4     (art) display of masculinity (男子气概). In 2006, the Puning Yingge Dance     5     (list) among the first batch of national intangible cultural heritages in China.

However, as young people move out of the villages, so are local folk arts     6     (gradual) disappearing all around China. In Puning, Yingge is still danced during holidays such as the Lunar New Year and its performers are generally amateurs — farmers     7     have put down their tools and put on costumes. Some of the parts are passed     8     in the family, from father to son, and so far some villages have started giving performers a basic salary.

    9     (dress) in colorful clothes and wearing heavy makeup, ordinary villagers have created a song of cultural confidence. The performance,     10     must-watch for the local people, graces the village square one more time.

Technology is changing the face of the world, and now faces are changing technology too. Facial recognition technology,     1     its capacity to analyse a huge amount of data, has come into widespread use. It works by comparing the facial features of     2     (give) images with what are in a database. It offers a quick and cool alternative to traditional passwords, and you cannot forget your own face! In theory, networks which use our own body as passwords should also be     3     (safe) from hackers and better protect us from identity theft than those who use traditional passwords, mainly because every individual is unique. This technology is     4     (especial) useful in public places: banks, airports and railway stations, to name but a few.

However, facial recognition technology has also started to pose some difficult questions. Experts have been giving     5     (warn) about this technology, saying it may not be as good as we think. Facial expressions often vary,     6     (make) facial recognition less effective. Moreover, there is growing concern     7     we might fall victim to this technology, as there are cases in which hackers have broken into facial recognition systems by using people’s social media photos     8     (build) models of their faces.

Scientists and engineers     9     (urge) to improve existing technology and make it fail-safe in recent years. Apparently, this will be     10     tough task. Whatever happens, we need to make sure that facial recognition technology can be trusted—or we will have to face the consequences.