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“Only when I take the needle out and touch the silk thread, I feel     1    (full)comfortable,” says Zou Yingzi, an inheritor of Su embroidery(刺绣), an ancient craft that originates from the garden city of Suzhou in Jiangsu province.

The day before the interview,     2     53-year-old woman worked more than 10 hours, until late into the night, on a large piece of Su embroidery. A piece measuring around half a meter can take her months     3    (complete). From Zou’s mother to her grandmothers, all the women in her family are good at needlework, particularly Su embroidery, which features rich stitches(缝针)and the creative use     4     silk threads dyed in various colors.

Su embroidery has a history of more than 2,000 years. A piece of fabric with silk embroidery     5    (find) from a tomb in the area showed that the craft dates back to the Spring and Autumn Period(770-476 BC). In ancient times, needlework was a must-learn skill for women,     6     had to make clothes for their families. It was a tradition that mothers should make wedding clothes with exquisite(精美的)embroidery for their     7    (daughter).

Zou     8    (recall)that, when she was little, her grandmother was busy every day, making wedding clothes and quilts for granddaughters. At the age of 6, she started to help her mother to make Su embroidery items, all of which     9    (sell)to support the family.

She had a dream to become a     10    (paint). Now, the needle helps her to realize that dream.

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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 English word “garden” gives an entirely wrong idea of the Chinese yuan, for “garden” suggests a lawn and an infinite       1       (vary) of flowers, altogether too prim (呆板的) and tidy to suit Chinese taste. The Chinese yuan suggests first of all a wild landscape, perhaps better arranged and more artistically       2     (plan) than nature, but still a bit of nature itself, with trees, creeks, and flowers. Dotted in this natural landscape are the human structures like pavilions and long winding corridors, so       3       (perfect) belonging to the scenery as to become a whole with it. The Chinese garden       4       (characterize) by studied disorderliness. There are no even-cut bushes or symmetric (对称的) rows lining avenues as if in battle formation.

No Chinese mansion allows an outsider       5       (look) through theiron gates at along drive, for that would be against the principle of concealment.       6       (face) the   gate, we see a small courtyard giving no idea of the expansiveness of space inside, and leading one step by step into newer views, in       7       continual series of surprises and astonishments. With wooden framework       8       (bear) most of the weight of the house, windows, doors and walls are not restricted to certain locations. The essential idea of interior (室内的) decoration is the beauty of simplicity. Home designs are not something fancy we buy from a first-class firm. What distinguishes a home       9       a public building is the personal touch that we give it. It is only when the spirit of leisure and loving care exists       10       living at home can become an art and a pleasure.

Adaptation from My Country and My People by LinYutang

4 . In 2010, Wang became an astronaut. However, the joy of____________(pick) did not last long as soon the cruel training began.

5 . It wasn’t until the day I set foot into the museum ________I could genuinely comprehend and fully embrace the profound beauty and cultural significance these masterpieces held. (用适当的词填空)

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    1     we move forward into the new era, innovation has become the     2    (driver) force behind the rapid development of China and the rest of the world. From technological advancements to business models     3     are changing the game, we’re seeing new ideas come to     4    (fruit) every day. However, this fast-paced innovation is not without its challenges. One of the biggest hurdles we face is ensuring that everyone is able to benefit from these changes.

To tackle this issue, we need to focus on two main areas: education and inclusion. By investing in education, we can ensure that everyone has the skills and knowledge necessary to compete in the new economy. This means     5    (provide) access to quality education for all, regardless of their background or socioeconomic status. We also need to focus on creating inclusive systems that promote     6    (diversify) and equal opportunity so that no one is left behind.

Beyond education and inclusion, we ought to shift our mindset towards innovation. Innovation is not just about creating the next big thing, it’s also about solving real-world problems and improving people’s lives. We need work together to create     7     culture of innovation that is grounded in a sense of social     8    (irresponsible).

The new era where we are     9    (presentation) both challenges and opportunities for innovation. We must invest in education, promote inclusion, and shift our mindset towards innovation for the     10    (bettering) of society. Only then can we ensure that the benefits of these changes are shared by all.

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French disaster epic Notre-Dame on Fire hits Chinese big screen

This April marks the     1     (four) anniversary of Notre-Dame in Paris being engulfed by the biggest blaze in its history.

NotreDame on Fire, now in Chinese cinemas, is a disaster epic     2     veteran French filmmaker Jean-Jacques Annaud, who also helmed Wolf Totem(2015), a drama film     3     (adapt) from Chinese writer Jiang Rong’s eponymous novel. The film made its China premiere on April 6 in Beijing in the presence of France’s Minister of Culture Rima Abdul Malak and the director.

Presenting a blow-by-blow recreation of the gripping events that     4     (happen) on April 15, 2019 when the fire at the French medieval catholic cathedral rocked France and shocked the whole world, Annaud’s new film hails the heroic people who put their lives on     5     line to accomplish the awe-inspiring rescue. Annaud unveiled the filming details of the film to the audience     6     (attend) the China premiere.

“It was a     7     (danger) movie. The actors were actually very close to the extremely violent fire, 1,200-degree Fahrenheit fire. There are very few digital special effects. Almost all of what you have seen are     8     (identical) reconstructed sets that I set on fire,” he said.

“When I saw this movie in Paris last year, it took me a few hours     9     I could breathe and walk normally on the street,” said Malak at the film’s China premiere.

The French minister announced that 2024 will be the France-China Year of Culture and Tourism and she invited Chinese tourists to travel to France for the occasion, especially to see the Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris,     10     , after almost six years of extensive renovations, is scheduled to reopen to the public in December of the same year.

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From 13 runners meeting in Bushy Park, south-west London, in 2004, to five million members worldwide in 2018, parkrun has become     1     global phenomenon. There are now more than 1,700 of the free,     2    (week) events in 23 countries, with numbers     3    (continue) to rise. Beyond joining local races, there’s an increasing number of “parkrun tourists”, who plan trips in order to check off unusual and impressive     4     (route). All parkrun events, which     5    (manage) by volunteers, stay true to the original aim of being free and inclusive. “    6    (like) traditional running events that may require pre-registration, entry fees and cut-off times, at parkrun     7     is free to participate and speed is not important,” says Chrissie Wellington, Global Head of Health & Wellbeing for Parkrun UK. “The     8    (popular) continues to grow by empowering local communities to work out a mixed-gender, multi-generational health plan that appeals to a broad cross-section of society,     9    (particular) those for whom physical activity and volunteering is not the norm.” Whether you walk, jog, run, volunteer     10     watch, you can learn new skills and enhance your health and happiness in the great outdoors while making new friends, feeling part of your local community and improving your fitness.

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Recently, ChatGPT, a chatbot developed by OpenAI, went viral (走红), with related topics     1     (generate) a lot of buzz (议论纷纷).

Chatbots and artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT that can almost instantly produce     2     (increasing) complicated written content, are already being used     3     ( perform) a variety of tasks. “If you are writing a code (代码) where really all you do is convert an idea to a code, the machine can do that. To some extent we would need     4     (few) programmers, because it could take away jobs. But it would also help those     5     program to find mistakes in code and write code more efficiently,” Netzer said.

Writing simple administrative(管理)or scheduling emails for things like setting up or canceling appointments could also easily be outsourced (外包) to a tool     6     ChatGPT, according to Netzer. David Autor,     7     MIT economist who specializes in labor, pointed to some mid-level white-collar jobs as functions that can     8     (handle) by AI, including work like writing human resources letters, producing advertising copy and drafting press releases.

“There are parts of a legal document that     9    (human) need to adapt to a particular situation, but 90% of the document is copy-pasted (复制粘贴的),” Netzer said. “There is no doubt     10     we would have the machine write these kinds of legal documents.”

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The education training company New Oriental set a trend on China’s social media platforms recently, after its teachers started live-streaming the selling of agricultural products, books and daily     1    (necessity) using both Chinese and English. Anchors (主播) combine useful English     2     the selling of products, such as providing the English translation of the product and commonly used sentences.

The anchors’ excellent     3    (pronounce) and grammar have earned the channel an enthusiastic fan base and attracted millions of views. The     4    (knowledge) and oftentimes amusing approaches to selling products have led to “netizens”     5    (post) comments such as “It’s a good way to spend money where you get a product and also some extra knowledge”.

New Oriental used to be     6     tutoring giant in the domestic market, but it faced the     7    (mass) challenge of transforming its business model after authorities tightened up the management of off-campus tutoring in July, 2021.

The company’s founder, Yu Minhong,     8    (say) in a letter to the company’s employees on January 1 that the firm experienced great difficulty in its financial year of 2022.

The     9    (late) figures from Economic View, a financial media outlet of China News Service, show that the Dongfang Zhenxuan account     10    (have) 1.57 million new followers by last Friday.