According to the traditional Chinese calendar, for every 19 years there will be seven leap months. “Leap month”     1    (refer) to a repetitive month and, this year, there will be two Februarys. The setting of leap month is a way to fill the gap of days between the solar calendar and lunar calendar in one year,     2     is 11 or 12 days, so as to make sure the four seasons     3    (basic) fit the months.

There are some traditions and customs during leap month in China, which are     4    (vary) in different places. In some parts of East China’s Shandong province, the married daughters will send dough-made fish and dough-made toad to their parents, which     5    (symbolize) “wealth” and “health” respectively. Besides,     6     is said that the dough fish is for a mother and the dough toad is for a father. In Southeast China’s Taiwan province, such traditions during leap month     7    (keep) for a long time, too. The married daughter has to buy pig feet and thin noodles for her mother, usually two front pig’s feet and six     8    (bunch) of thin noodles, and the noodles have to be tied with red silk threads and spring flowers.

Just like other festivals, a reunion dinner is indispensable     9     the traditions of the leap month. When leap month comes, parents will invite the married daughter to return home and have dinner together,     10    (cherish) a wish for happiness and good fortune.

The recent opening of a new exhibition building at the Sanxingdui Museum, in Guanghan, in Sichuan province, made the place     1     instant tourist hot spot. The bronze heads, golden masks, holy trees and various statues reveal the     2     (mystery) faces of a culture dating back more than 3,000 years.

For those who cannot make it to Guanghan, where the extensive site of Sanxingdui is located, an immersive exhibition equipped with digital technology,     3     (title) Hello Sanxingdui,     4     (offer) an alternative means to be awed by the magnificence of this Bronze Age culture. It is running at the Longfu Art Museum in Beijing until Feb 29.

It provides a time-travel experience for both an educational and artistic appeal. The journey begins     5     a brief timeline of texts, photos and videos, showing how Sanxingdui was first discovered in the 1920s,     6     objects were found by farmers digging an irrigation ditch (灌溉沟渠); and it highlights the important moments in the past century’s continued archaeological efforts, to reveal the myths surrounding Sanxingdui and the secrets yet     7     (uncover).

On show     8    (be) life-size reproductions of dozens of astonishing artifacts, supervised by Sanxingdui Museum, such as 2.6-meter bronze statues, 3.8-meter-wide bronze masks and “the holy tree” standing nearly 4 meters.

Images of these objects found at Sanxingdui and their     9     (pattern) have been digitalized, animated and projected on screens, leading the audience into the ancient kingdom of Shu, a     10     (civilize) that thrived for centuries in the southwest during the Zhou Dynasty, and disappeared suddenly, leaving many myths and legends.

Meet Sora — OpenAI’s new text-to-video generator. The tool, which the San Francisco company unveiled Thursday,     1     (use) generative artificial intelligence to instantly create short videos based on written commands. Since its announcement, a handful of examples of Sora-generated videos     2     (share) to show off what it can do. The company said Sora is capable of generating videos up to 60 seconds in     3     (long) from text instructions. Not only does the model understand what the user has asked for,     4     it knows how these things exist in the physical world. OpenAI said it intends to train the AI models to help people solve the problems     5     require real-world interaction. These types of AI models could have a tremendous impact     6     digital entertainment markets with new personalized content being streamed across channels. At the same time, OpenAI said Sora is still a work in progress with clear weaknesses. It gave the example of creating a video of someone     7     (take) a bite out of a cookie but it’ not have a bite mark right after. The company said it plans to work with a team of experts to test the latest model and look more     8     (close) at various areas.   It is also granting access to a number of virtual visual artists, designers and filmmakers     9     (collect) feedback on how creative     10     (professional) could use it.

We’ve all heard the advice to “get out of your comfort zone” by taking on a new challenge. A recent study goes a step further: Make discomfort a direct goal. That’s more likely to motivate you     1     if you only focus on what you hope to learn.

In the first of five experiments, the researchers assigned several hundred students training at Second City Chicago     2    (participate) in a small-group improvisation(即兴) exercise, and then instructed half of the group that their goal during the session was “to feel awkward and uncomfortable.” The rest,     3    (that) in the control group,     4    (tell) to “feel yourself developing new skills.” Members of the first group kept at the exercise longer than the others did and took     5    (great) risks.

Experiments     6    (involve) other dimensions of personal growth—engaging in expressive writing, learning about gun violence, and hearing about opposing political     7    (belief)—produced similar results.

Reframing anxiety as excitement has been proven a way to improve singing in front of strangers, and thinking of stress as     8     means to boost achievement demonstrated a stress-management technique.

“When people reinterpret negative experiences as     9    (function), they are more willing to engage in tasks that call forth those experiences,” the researchers explain. “Instead of seeing discomfort as unrelated to the goal     10     a signal to stop, they will start perceiving it as a sign of progress toward their goal.”