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Are you familiar with pop star Jay Chou’s Blue &White Porcelain? Its original lines, just     1     the composer Fang Wenshan described, were inspired by Ru porcelain (汝瓷).

Ranked best among famous kinds during the Song Dynasty (960-1279), Ru porcelain is known for its unique pale blue glaze (釉). Oceans     2     Ru porcelain flooded onto the market around the year of 1100, but the     3     (exist) of Ru ware now is actually rare. Thanks to the efforts of Ru porcelain inheritors, people can now appreciate it     4     (close) at hand than before.

Born in Ruzhou, Henan province, Li Chao has spent a decade     5     (better) crafting skills. Ru porcelain goes through 72 steps, the    6     (one) of which is knead (揉) mud. Any small errors could lead to disaster, said the 41-year-old inheritor. He then stressed that a Ru porcelain inheritor must be patient enough. Every item of artwork     7     (full) deserves our admiration.

Techniques of making Ru porcelain will     8     (lose) with senior inheritors gradually passing away. So,     9     Li spares no effort in doing is introducing it to wider masses.     10     (achieve) this goal, he creatively uses Ru porcelain in making daily ware popular among young people. Now he’s aiming to expand the market by introducing it to the whole world.

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The 19th Asian Games closed on October 8^th under the theme of “Enduring Memories of Hangzhou” for the closing ceremony,     1     (highlight) the power and unity of sports and the Asian Games.     2     (enhance) with AR visual effects, the stadium, also known as the “Big Lotus”, turned into     3     blooming garden with 19 giant osmanthus flowers(桂花) during the parade of athletes, symbolizing the     4     (diverse) of Asian cultures and the prosperity of Asia.

The Hangzhou Asian Games featured 40 sports and 481 events,     5     took place across 56 different competition venues. Over the past 16 days, around 12, 000 athletes from 45 countries and regions shared     6     (forget) moments in Hangzhou. China carried off 201 golds, 111 silvers and 71 bronzes, finishing atop the medal tally. It’s the third time that China     7     (host)the continental multi-sports event.

“The Qiantang River continually flows into the sea, and the light of Asia will continue to shine brightly in the future. The Asian Games flame is about to be put out,     8     its spirit will live on,” said Gao Zhidan, organizing committee president.

The Hangzhou Asian Games claimed to be a “green” and “smart” event. No fireworks were let     9     in the city during the Opening and Closing Ceremonies, although impressive digital technology allowed television viewers to see Al-generated fireworks on the broadcast.

The Hangzau Asian Games also produced world-leading performances with a total of 13 world records     10     (break).

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Eat or heat?

No more ironing, limited oven use and showering at work—Europeans are trying to keep energy use down but the bills still keep climbing. Costs of energy for British consumers will rise by 80% from October,    1     will take the average annual household bills to ￡3, 549. This makes the energy crisis severer than    2     of the 1970s and 1980s.

Keetley    3     (lose) his job as a council adviser in April and lives on ￡600 a month from a social security scheme. Half of that goes on rent, he said, with the remainder barely covering the     4       (essential). He now eats one meal a day and although he has reduced energy consumption to a minimum, he spends more than 15% of his income on energy bills. “    5     cost of living has increased and yet you are expected to live on the money    6     (provide) for when there wasn’t a crisis... I either can have my heating on or eat,” Keetley said.

A household is defined as living in fuel poverty if it is low income and needs to spend 10% or even    7       (much) of its income on energy, according to UK charity National Energy Action and other British charities. Experts agree that despite this     8       (be) a hard season, Europe will       9       (undoubted) make it through the winter, but the concern is    10     will happen next year.

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Preserving more habitats for China’s giant pandas is providing a giant payoff.    1    (save) the giant panda from dying out isn’t just good for the panda, but it’s also good for economy, a new analysis by an international team of scientists shows.

The results,    2    (publish) in the magazine Current Biology, stress the economic bene-fits that go hand in hand with environmental protection. Giant pandas are one of the    3    (rare) species around the world. But pandas fell on hard times in recent decades, thanks largely    4    human encroachment (侵入). In 1980 alone,many habitats    5    (destroy) artificially, and in 1990, their habitats covered only 12,340 square kilometers,     6    is a major threat to the pandas in large part because bamboo, their main food source, is so low in nutrients that they must wander a lot of land in order to find and eat enough of it.

Because of this, Chinese officials began making significant efforts to save the panda from     7    (extinct), establishing more reserves and increasing the reserve area three times. Panda numbers    8    (gradual) began to recover, hitting 1,596 in 2000 and 1,864 in 2010.

“    9    is clear that society’s investment (投资)    10    (start) to pay off so far in terms of panda population recovery,” the study authors wrote.

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Canada, which     1     (make) up of ten provinces and three territories, is a broad and beautiful country     2     (stretch) from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. There is great diversity in geography in Canada. It includes the grand Rocky Mountains     3     high peaks and deep valleys carved by ice and water, ancient slow-moving glaciers hugging the land and a huge variety of wildlife     4     (wander) the remote forests.

Apart from its geographical diversity, Canada’s many rural areas and urban centers reflect the diversity of its residents. Some of Canada’s     5     (early) settlers,       6     are thought to be ancestors of the indigenous peoples, crossed the Bering Strait by means of a land bridge from a place now known as Siberia. Today, Canada reflects a vast     7     (combine) of ethnic backgrounds. About one out of five of its population is foreign-born.

This ethnic variety, in turn, brings     8     cultural diversity. Should you find yourself in one of these     9     (subculture), languages, cuisine, architecture, art and music will define your encounter. As you are exposed     10     diverse cultures, you may feel transported through time and space.

6 . Zhang Guimei is a “mother” for more than 170 children, ________ (devote) to education at China’s southwestern border for more than 40 years. （所给词的适当形式填空）

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Huang Danian, the renowned Chinese geophysicist, was born in 1958 in Guangxi. As a keen and    1    (knowledge) student, Huang went to the UK in 1993 to further his studies. By the lime he came back to China in 2008, he    2    (work) in the UK for 15 years. He had a good life there, but he gave it all up to return to China, driven by the idea    3    he needed to contribute to his country. As one of the world’s leading experts in deep earth exploration technology, Huang was approached    4    (participate) in the “Thousand Talent” programme.

Huang took up a position at Jilin University, working day and night    5    paying enough attention to his family and his own health. His passion and drive enabled him to excel    6    he was working and bring China’s knowledge and technology in this area alongside the world’s    7    (fine). Huang’s    8    (devote) contributed toChina’s lunar probe(月球探测器)Yutu    9    (land) on the moon in 2013 and the launch ofShenzhou-11 and Tiangong-2in 2016.

Sadly, Huang died of cancer in January 2017, aged just 58. More than 800 people attended his funeral to celebrate    10    life that burned so bright, but was so short.

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Languages are for communicating with people, learning about their cultures, and understanding how different people think. There are     1     (variety) of languages and many of them are playing     2     important role in global affairs. We should open up our mind to the fact that we have a moral     3     (responsible) to keep languages continuing and prevent them from     4     (destroy). Besides, we should learn to appreciate and respect languages of different countries,     5     is necessary for international communicate and understanding.

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China’s biang biang noodles are taking the world by storm-yet the dish’s name doesn’t     1     (official) exist. Here in Xi’an, the capital of China’s Shaanxi province and one of the country’s oldest cities, the craft of noodle-pulling is so twisted together with the blowing sound     2     the noise ended up inspiring this dish’s curious name: biang biang noodles. The onomatopoeic (拟声的) “biang” character     3     (mean) to imitate the sound of flour mixed with water hitting a counter. It is also     4     (complex) to write than any character in the Chinese language.

In the past centuries, Shaanxi’s biang biang noodles were no more than     5     humble local dish. Compared to other noodle     6     (variety) from north-west China, biang biang were less known outside of Xi’an,     7     they were a comforting and beloved food among locals, for whom the back story and written character were common knowledge. In recent years, biang biang noodles and its associated custom have become more widely known across China,     8     (drive) in part by social media interest in the made-up biang character. Now, the dish is passing through land and sea from its humble beginnings     9     the hearts and mouths of diners the world over—a breakthrough that many people haven’t expected     10     (be) delightful.

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The annual League of Legends World Championship, commonly referred to as “Worlds,”     1     （feature）qualifying professional teams from across the globe competing over a prize pool of $2,225,000. On Saturday, Chinese team defeated South Korean team and     2     （eventual）won the 2021 League of Legends World Championship in Iceland. The Chinese players     3     （award）the world champion for the first time in history. Due to the pandemic, there was no     4     （admit）to the live competition this year, but millions of audiences tuned in online to watch the game.

The International Olympic Committee is introducing new events     5     （make）the games attract more young people, so why not go further and let national teams compete at video games?

In fact, compared with most mainstream sports, electronic sports     6     “Fortnite” are more popular. But     7     critics may consider is that e-sports are not proper sports. Some of them even offer moral objections, too. In their opinion, they are     8     （violence）. Prince Harry has even called for "Fortnite” to be banned for this reason. Surely, at a time of global disharmony, it is a bad idea to make simulated（模拟的）killing     9     Olympic sport. The Olympics aim to promote peace.

Yet video games are highly competitive, with professional leagues     10     （head）for packed stadiums.