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For many years, the Future City Competition has brought together young people to create visionary(幻想的) designs,     1     (require) skill and imagination. This year’s theme, “The Age-Friendly City,” invited students to design small cities,     2     would enable older people to live     3     (independent).

The competition, which     4     (encourage) students to hone (磨炼) their engineering skills while working to create a better world, is open to kids in    5     (grade) six through eight. After more than 44, 000 students participated in regional competitions, finalists    6     (choose) for the top competition.

The grand prize went to “Halona,” a city of the future    7     (create) by students from Edlin School in Reston, Virginia. The team researched and developed their model city     8     the help of teacher Vasantha Ayala and volunteer mentor ( 导师) Nandhini Kuntipuram. For their grand prize,     9     Edlin students won $7, 500 for their school’s STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) program.

Tom Chmielenski, a computer software engineer, served as a judge. “It’s very nice as an engineer to see young people have these futuristic ideas,” he said. “We can’t wait     10     (see) what the future holds.”

2 . 语法填空

I attended the Naadam Festival in China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region this year. The festival,     1     includes horse racing, wrestling and archery, falls on the     2     (four) day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar, usually     3     (last) for three days.

I went to the games early with my friend   and found that many people     4     (make) preparations for the events. I was told that the festival had been popular with Mongolians for     5     (century). After the opening ceremony, the wrestling competition began,     6     (follow) by the archery and my favourite horse races.     7     my surprise, the riders were all children and I was concerned about their     8     (safe). My friend told me not     9     (worry) as they had been riding horses all their lives. Then I began to understand what “Horses are at the heart of Mongolian culture” meant.

Having been back home, I felt really tired,     10    it was worthwhile to celebrate the festival with my friend.

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As the Mid-Autumn Festival was originally started from the worship of the moon god, many interesting     1     (story) and legends are told and spread     2    (explain) the purpose of the worship. The most famous one is the “Chang’e (嫦娥) Flying to the Moon”. The legend (传说) goes like this:

Chang’e’s husband Hou Yi     3    (reward) the elixir of immortality (长生不老药)     4    shooting down the extra nine suns,     5     tortured (使受煎熬) people a lot. But he would not like become immortal alone and left his wife to live in the heaven,     6     he gave the elixir to Chang’e to keep it well.     7     (lucky), one of Hou Yi’s followers got to know it. On a 15th day of the 8th lunar month when Hou Yi went out hunting, that follower sneaked into Hou Yi and Cheng E’s home and forced Chang’e to hand over the elixir. Unhelpfully, Chang’e     8    (eat) the elixir, became an immortal and uncontrollably left the earth for the heaven. As she didn’t want to leave her husband, she flew to the moon, the     9     (close) place to the earth in the heaven. Hou Yi, in hope of reunion, presented the mooncakes     10     every 15th day of the 8th lunar month since then.

4 . 语法填空

Students always have lots of school work     1     (do), and then there are tests and exams     2     (worry) about. While it’s OK to worry a little, be careful not to worry too much. If you’re living with high levels of stress, you’re putting your health at risk. You should find time     3     (relax), but you should also pay attention to your ways of relaxation. One day, a student complained to me that her eyes often hurt. I asked her what she did every day, and she told me she studied during the day and then watched soap operas on her smartphone in the evening. Of course, I guessed immediately what the cause of the eye pain might be.

You see, during the daytime, she was using her eyes     4     (study) from books, and during the evening, she was using her eyes to watch soap operas on her smartphone. No wonder her eyes were hurting-she chose the wrong way to relax! When she relaxed by watching soap operas, she was able     5     (rest) her brain, but at the expense of her eyes.

Let me give you some tips:
A. Take a short break every 45 minutes to one hour. Get up from your seat, look into the distance, and try     6     (get) some fresh air. You will feel greatly refreshed.
B. Exercise for 30 minutes or more a day. Try a new sport, ride a bike to school, or walk a lot. It will take your mind off your daily worries and it’s healthy, too
C. Take up a hobby. Give yourself 20 minutes a day to do something you really like. Sing and dance. Play badminton or go     7    (bowl), paint. This will make you happier and help     8     (reduce) stress.

    9     (remember): All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. With these techniques, you should feel much more relaxed, allowing you     10     (perform) much better in your schoolwork.

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Once upon a time, there were four seeds (种子) who were good friends. They travelled by wind and came to a forest. They hid     1     (they) in the ground, and hoped that they would be able to grow into big trees.

But when the first seed began to grow, they realized it would not be such     2     easy task. There lived a group of     3     (monkey), and the smaller ones loved throwing bananas at the plant     4     started to grow. They threw so many bananas at the first sprout (幼芽) that she was almost cut into two. When she told the other seeds     5     had happened, they thought that it would be better to wait until the monkeys went away.

They all agreed that, except the first seed. She     6     (think) she would at least try it. When she tried, she was harmed by bananas. The other seeds asked her     7     (stop) trying. However, she had made up her mind to become a tree. She tried again and again. The scars     8     (leave) by the bananas helped her grow stronger than the other seeds. Little by little, she had grown so strong that the monkeys couldn’t hurt her     9     (bad).

In the end, she grew into the     10     (big) tree in the forest. The other seeds still hid themselves in the ground, only hoping the monkeys would go away soon.

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Team China bagged a total of 383 medals, including 201 gold, 111 silver and 71 bronze,     1    (rank) first in the medal tally (奖牌榜) during the 19th Asian Games,     2     concluded competitions on Sunday.

The first gold of the Games was awarded       3     China’s Zou Jiaqi and Qiu Xiuping, who paddled to victory in the women’s lightweight double sculls (双桨赛艇) rowing event with a time of 7 minutes, 6.78 seconds. China’s last gold       4    (take) by 10 artistic swimmers who delivered a great     5     (perform) to win the team free routine final on October 8. In total, China bagged two gold medals in artistic swimming. Japan and Kazakhstan took the silver and bronze medals,     6     (respective), in the two events of the sport.

The 19th Asian Games, which featured 40 sports, 61 disciplines, and 481 events,     7     (run) from September 23 to October 8 in Hangzhou, along with five co-host     8     (city), namely Ningbo, Wenzhou, Huzhou, Shaoxing, and Jinhua, in east China’s Zhejiang Province.

Chinese swimmers Zhang Yufei and Qin Haiyang were jointly awarded the Most    9     (value) Player of the Hangzhou Asian Games, marking the first time that two athletes received     10    award.

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A lot of digital publishing products     1     (associate)with Rongbao, the panda mascot of the 31st International University Sports Federation FISUSummer World University Games,     2     (demonstrate) on July 25, 2023.

The collection, which     3     (consist)of five digital products, was created by Chengdu B-ray Media Co. , Ltd , the     4     (office)dealer of the Games. These digital publishing products are legitimate publications     5     (bear)international standard book numbers (ISBNs),    6     content and copyright ownership have been verified by publishing agencies. They are recorded on the block chain ‘and grant unique ownership rights to     7     (purchase). What delights people most is     8     the digital publishing products are available on the flagship store of the 31st FISU Summer World University Games on Tmall, Alibaba’s e-commerce platform, which is popular     9     young consumers, and in licensed Games stores in Chengdu. The 31st FISU Summer World University Games was     10     (successful) held in Chengdu, southwest China’s Sichuan Province from July 28 to August 8.

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Nature inspired us to figure out ways to solve the problems we faced. Birds inspired us to fly, beavers gave us ideas on how to build dams (大坝) and even tiny white ants demonstrated building ideas that we could use. By means of     1    (study) the workings of wildlife, we've come up     2     some pretty brilliant inventions. Here' re some examples to inspire students to explore their own ideas.

Bats (蝙蝠) can use     3    (they) mouths and ears to identify high-frequency sound waves, allowing them to avoid barriers and catch insects in the air. They do this by making sounds     4     can be reflected off a surface in a process     5    (call) echolocation. It is no big surprise that researchers are working on ways that poor-sighted people can use a system like echolocation.

Spider (蜘蛛) silk is one of the strongest materials in nature, believed to be five times     6    (strong) than steel. But unlike steel, spider silk is both flexible     7     lightweight. Scientists recently created a new type of medical tape based on the features of spider silk.

Even plants can inspire invention.     8     electrical engineer named George de Mestral noticed that burrs from burdockplants (牛蒡植物的芒刺) stuck fast to his unfortunate hunting dog. From that bit of inspiration, he invented Velcro, one of the most     9    (wide) used fastening systems in human history.

Students should     10    (encourage) to study the characteristics of a plant or animal and see what inventions or ideas they can design.

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Japan said on Tuesday that it had decided to    1    (gradual) release tons of treated wastewater from the ruined Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant (福岛第一核电站) into the ocean,    2     (describe) it as the best solution to dealing with the leftovers (残留物) from the Fukushima nuclear accident, one of the    3    (serious) in the world.

The    4    (decide) ends years of debate over how to deal with the water,    5    is enough to fill more than 500 Olympic-sized swimming pools.

“The Japanese government ignores concerns and strong opposition both at home and abroad. Such an    6    (responsilble)act not only directly harms the interests of the people in Japan’s neighbouring countries, but    7    threatens the global marine environment and international public health security,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said.

Greenpeace(绿色和平组织)criticized Japan’s plan and said there are other solutions that should    8    (censider). “    9    than using the best available technology to store and process the water    10    the long term, they have chosen the cheapest solution, damping the water into the Pactfie Ocean.”

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       China’s top liquor maker Kweichow Moutai and domestic coffee chain Luckin Coffee have got     1     hit on their hands with a new baijiu-flavored latte released on Monday,     2     quickly sold out in Beijing.

The latte,     3     (decorate) with the iconic Moutai logo, contains less than 0.5 percent of 53 degree Moutai, and soon became one of the     4     (hot) topics on Chinese social media with people curious about how traditional Chinese liquor would taste with coffee.

       On the first day, all these special drinks     5     (purchase) before midday in some Luckin Coffee locations in Beijing. And many had to shut down their online ordering system     6     orders booming.
       People have been sharing their reactions after trying the latte on social media. Most of them give     7     (favor) comments, saying that the aroma of the baijiu is very strong. Some people said they even felt dizzy after drinking the coffee because of its alcohol content.
       Some also wondered     8     they would be allowed to drive after drinking the latte. In response, Luckin Coffee stated that underage people, pregnant women, drivers and those who are allergic to alcohol are recommended not     9     (order) the drink. On Monday, an officer from the Beijing Traffic Administration Bureau also asked people not to drive, no matter how much alcohol is actually in the latte.
       Moutai     10     (run) attractive marketing campaigns in recent years in its bid for younger customers, such as by rolling out Moutai ice cream, figurines, scented sachets, canvas bags and other cultural creative products.