Visits to Red tourism attractions are expected to rise this year as the Communist Party of China (CPC) celebrates the 100th anniversary of     1     (it) founding. Their increasing popularity will not only     2     (strength) people’s knowledge of CPC history, but also bring significant economic     3     (benefit).

    4     (recognize) as one of the most important revolutionary bases in China, Yan’an is home to 445 memorial sites. The city’s Red tourism market     5     (receive) 1.6 million visitors and recorded nearly 1.5 billion yuan during the past national day holiday.

“I’m quite lucky that I was born after the founding of the People’s Republic of China, but I never forget what my father told me about their hard life in the war,” Zhao Yanping, a 67-year-old visitor from Zhejiang province, said. “He told me to be grateful to the CPC, without it we could not live such     6     good life nowadays.”

Yang Guangyuan, director of Yan’an’s publicity department, mentioned the     7     (big) attraction of Yan’an is the spirit,     8     has been passed down by generations of CPC members. “In the past 100 years, the CPC     9     (grow) from weak to strong, leading China’s revolution to get out of difficulty.” he said. The city now has its traditions well protected while looking forward to     10     (build) an energetic future.

A photography exhibition     1     (title) Blooming in the Sun is currently running at the September Art Gallery in Shenzhen and     2     (last) until September 30, 2022. The exhibition features     3     (photograph) of the Xihaigu area in the Ningxia Hui autonomous region. It is     4     largely mountainous region that     5     (identify) as the “most unfit place for human settlement” by the United Nations in 1972, due to its barren and dry land and fragile ecological environment.

The pictures on display are from four photographers—Xie Hong, Li Qiang, Hai Yang and HuGuoqing,     6     were once schoolmates majoring     7     photography at Wuhan University. They use cameras to record this remote and impoverished area from different angles,     8     (give) this place a new life. The drought brings harsh     9     (nature) conditions, but people still live     10     work here, just like the sunflowers blooming in the sun.

With the recent relaxation in travel restrictions, I found myself     1     (visit) Innsbruck, the capital city of the state of Tyrol in Western Austria.

The destination within snow-capped mountains is perfect for a short break. Even the approach     2     Innsbruck Airport by air is a breathtaking sight as the plane     3     (gentle) moves between the mountains on its journey to the runway.

The city is a     4     (combine) of modern architecture and historic buildings, serving both as a university town and a tourist center. Weaving my way through cobbled streets and well-designed buildings, I was impressed by this stunning city     5     was the Imperial capital 500 years ago, when the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I lived here, and it still lives up to     6     (it)royal connections today with the unique architecture.

I wandered round this small city,     7     (amaze)at the dramatic backdrop of the Nordkette mountain which offers skiing and hiking near the downtown. The Goldenes Dachl,       8     significant landmark in Innsbruck with its 2,657 golden copper tiles(瓦片)that shine in the sunlight, took my breath away.

Innsbruck     9     (steal) my heart with the stunning architecture, majestic mountains and friendly people. I couldn’t wait to return     10     (explore) more of this delightful European city.

In southern China, there is a famous road     1    (build) across Poyang Lake, which lies in the north of Jiangxi Province, China and is known as China’s second     2     (large) lake. People in China also call it “the most beautiful road under the water.”

This road is sure     3     (attract) a lot of attention towards the end of May every year. A lot of people come out of     4     (curious). The water level of the lake is so close to the surface of the road,     5     makes the view ahead broad and bright when people drive along. It’s as though they were taking a boat across the lake. The feeling is     6     (simple) wonderful!

For the next few months, this road is not above the surface    7    under the water. When the water level of Poyang Lake starts to go up, the road surface becomes unseen. However, drivers can still drive across the lake safely     8     watching the guardrails(防撞护栏) fixed on either side of the road. For thrill-seeking motorists, it’s like     9     (drive) an amphibious(水陆两栖的) super car. Then in a few days, the entire road     10     (flood) with the continuously rising water. A few months later, the road will reappear.

The China-Laos Railway,     1     connects Kunming in southwest China’s Yunnan Province with the Laotian capital, Vientiane,     2     (start) operation on Dec 3. 2021. The 1035-kilometer-long railway is a landmark project and an important part of the Pan-Asian railway network. It will not only benefit the two peoples, but also     3     (significant) improve regional connectivity.

    4     (locate) southwest of China, Laos is the only landlocked country in Southeast Asia and mainly depends on road, water and air transport for the movement of people and goods. It has long been a dream for the Lao people to see their country change from a land-locked country     5     a “land-linked one”, and the opening of the new railway is a big step toward turning     6     (they) dream into reality.

The new railway will improve Laos’ transportation and promote its tourism as well as agricultural processing industries. It will also enable Lao businesses to     7     (well) fit into regional and global supply chains.

China and Laos have stood together through thick and thin and engaged in mutually beneficial cooperation on the basis of equality. Besides, China and Laos were the first     8     (sign) an agreement based on the Belt and Road Initiative. The opening of the China-Laos Railway will thus help speed the     9     (develop) of the China-Laos Economic Corridor, and will further advance the building of a China-Laos community with     10     shared future.

China has     1     ( successful) launched its space station— Tianhe. The successful launch marks that China’s space station construction has entered a full stage,     2     lays a solid foundation for the follow-up tasks. The station is expected to contribute to the peaceful     3     (develop) and use of space resources as well as to enrich technologies and experience for China’s future explorations into much     4     (deep) space.

Five launch tasks     5     (finish) last year. China plans another six tasks, including two manned spaceships. The tasks aim to complete     6     construction of the space station in 2022. The station will provide astronauts     7     six zones separately for work, sleep, dining, sanitation, healthcare and exercise. The station also has more     8     (advance) technologies due to the collected wisdom and strengths from universities, research institutes and industrial departments across the country.

So far many foreign space agencies     9     (propose) cooperative intention. China will start the selection of foreign astronauts and carry out joint flights according to the task progress. Through cooperation, China wants     10     (build) its space station into a scientific research platform shared by the world and benefit all humankind.

It’s World Kindness Day today, Saturday, November 13. After more than a year of pandemic living, maybe     1     seems as if there is no time for people to be kind. However, the world, needs your kindness more than ever. Since the outbreak of COVID-19, there     2     (be) people dying and others are     3     (hunger) and living in war-torn countries. And young people are in the streets claiming that adults aren’t paying enough attention to     4     climate crisis. There is time, and we’d need to look no further     5     frontline workers who are still risking their lives every day     6     ( care) for sick people, feed the starved, teach our     7     (child) and fight for our collective mental health. That’s kindness.

Selfless acts of kindness don’t just help the person on the receiving end. It is found that selfless behavior sets off the very same regions in the brain that     8     (brighten) by rewards or pleasurable experiences.     9     (remarkable)，helping others also causes the brain to release hormones and something protein-like,     10     (lower) stress and anxiety levels. Here’s the bottom line: doing good is good for you.”

Shanghai never made anyone     1     (disappoint). Located in the mouth of Yangtze river, with the nickname “Paris of the East” or “Pearl of the Orient”, Shanghai makes     2     (it) a famous place for street food lovers from all over the world. With the mix-culture     3     East and West, Shanghai’s unbeatable and attractive food culture in sweet and oily cuisines is well-known everywhere. While     4     (comfortable) knocking about the street food corner of Nanjing West Road, you just cannot miss a few typical Shanghainese cuisines,     5     are usually served as breakfast for local Shanghainese.

Are you     6     (hunger) and don’t know what to eat? Just 4 pieces of Shanghai pan-fried dumplings can make your stomach feel better after a few hours     7     (wander) in search of food. This tasty dish is usually what Shanghai     8     (cook) are eager for after a long day inside the kitchen. Da Bing in Chinese literally refers to “large pancake”. Not only Da Bing is a popular street food dish     9     it is also a favorite in Chinese restaurants. As one of the Chinese “Four Kings of Breakfast”, Da Bing is a perfect substitute for rice at any meal and can     10     (eat) as snack at different times of the day.

With hospitals filled up with COVID-19 patients, NASA has announced it will be delaying an upcoming satellite launch. The liquid oxygen     1     (need) to fuel the flight is also needed in hospitals,     2     doctors use the important resource to keep     3     (dangerous) sick COVID-19 patients alive.

“Medical oxygen is     4     priority (优先) of our members,” says Richard Craig, vice president of technical and regulatory affairs for the Compressed Gas Association.

A shortage of truck drivers     5     the certifications needed to transport the oxygen is only adding to the problem, and there are     6     (concern) about other rocket launches being pushed back as well.

At the recently held Space Symposium in Colorado, SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell     7     (invite) anyone with access to liquid oxygen to reach out. “We certainly are going to make sure the hospitals are going to have the oxygen that they need but for anybody who has liquid oxygen     8     (spare), send me an email,” she said.

SpaceX founder Elon Musk tweeted that the shortage was “a risk,     9     not yet a limiting factor”. So far, 26 rocket launches     10     (plan) by the company.

Detecting strong X-ray flares (耀斑) beaming from the center of a blackhole is nothing new. But detecting light signals from behind one is a different story. That’s     1     the force of gravity in a blackhole is so severe that nothing that goes in can come out. No scientist has managed     2     (find) light from beyond— until now.

In contrast     3     what their name implies, supermassive (特大质量的) blackholes can be one of the brightest sources of continuous light in the universe. Their     4     (extremely) gravity brings in all kinds of material around them. Little is known about supermassive black hole coronas, so scientists turned to blackhole I Zwicky 1,     5     lies 100 million light years from Earth, to investigate the beams shooting out.

Scientists     6     (detect) smaller X-ray “echoes” around the supermassive blackhole, in addition to the expected flares. The obvious light characteristics of these pulsing beams (脉冲光束) indicated that they were the same X-ray flares, but reflected from the backside,     7     (mean) the supermassive black hole’s gravity must have actually abnormal space-time, thus bending the beams around in a detectable direction by specialized telescopes. The     8     (finding), published in Nature, support a key     9     (predict) from Einstein’s theory of general relativity.

This is the     10     (one) research to confirm what the famous physicist predicted more than half a century ago.