High school students and those who help in their education in Cyprus have developed     1     unusual robot. The robot uses ChatGPT artificial intelligence, or AI, technology. ChatGPT is a system     2     (develop) by U. S, company Open AI and backed by the technology company Microsoft. The aim of the students is to use the technology     3     (improve) learning experiences in the classroom.

ChatGPT is an AI system that can have a     4     （discuss）and create written work. It can create material     5     is based on what it has learned from a large database of digital books, online writings, and other media. The robot is     6     (name) AInstein. It is the size of a small adult. The robot even has a screen for a face that appears to show human expressions.

Tutor Elpidoforos Anastasiou is the project's leader. He said that students can ask it questions, it can answer back, and the robot can even help teachers teach more     7     (effective).

Anastasiou showed how AI can be fitted to the classroom with AInstein     8     (show) how part of Albert Einstein's theory of time relativity can     9     (explain) by talking about a moving object called a pendulum（钟摆）.

Their experience with AInstein shows that we should not fear AI, but rather approach it     10     care and responsible consideration. "

Laba Festival, also simply     1    (call) “Laba”, falls on the eighth day of the twelfth month of the Chinese lunar year. The festival has this name because the twelfth month is also called “la” month in Chinese while the number eight     2    (pronounce)“ba”.

Since it’s in the last month, the festival implies     3    (say) goodbye to the old and embracing the new, and is often regarded     4     a warm-up celebration for the upcoming Spring Festival.

Legend has it     5     the Ming emperor Zhu Yuanzhang herded the landowner’s cattle when he was a child. Because one of the cattle broke its leg and the landowner didn’t give him any food for three days. Zhu was almost starved to     6    (dead) and found a mouse hole. He dug out some beans, grain and some other food, so he made some porridge and found it delicious.

Later, Zhu Yuanzhang came into power. When he thought of the delicious taste of the porridge, he ordered his servants to use a variety of food     7    (cook) sweet porridge and shared with all the top civil and military officials. Later, the officials learned to cook this kind of porridge     8    (they) and introduced it to the civil society. Gradually eating porridge became a     9    (tradition) custom. The day Zhu Yuanzhang ate the sweet porridge was on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month,     10     this porridge is also called lab a porridge.

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 that the noise ended up     2     (inspire) 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 a humble local dish. Compared to other noodle     5     (variety) from north-west China, biang biang were less known outside of Xi’an,     6     they were a comforting and be loved food among locals, for     7     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—     10     breakthrough that many people haven’t expected to be delightful.

Woodblock printing is an ancient printing technique     1     has promoted human culture.

As Buddhism (佛教) was popular in China during the Tang Dynasty (618—907), there was a strong need to produce a large amount of Buddhist scriptures (经文), and copying by hand could not meet the     2     (rise) demand. Ancient Chinese skilled workers thus came up with a new way to mass produce printed works. Hence came the woodblock printing.

Traditional woodblock printing can     3     (divide) into four major steps: writing, carving (雕刻), printing,     4     binding (装订). With each step then sub-divided into several procedures, it takes roughly 30 steps     5     (make) a woodblock print.

Carving lies at the centre of woodblock printing as this tough step can make or break the final print. Characters and images are carved to produce raised areas or lines that will     6     (final) apply ink to paper. It calls     7     a pair of skilled hands.

A five-metre-scroll of the Buddhist scripture Diamond Sutra (《金刚经》),     8     (print) in 868, is     9     “earliest dated printed book” in the words of the British Library where it is stored. It is just one example of ancient     10     (work) of art that not only tells the wisdoms of our forefathers, but also is evidence to the pursuit (追求) of beauty by Chinese skilled workers throughout centuries.

The invention of writing gave life to great thoughts, but it is the invention of printing that made knowledge a shareable fruit for all humankind.

Every early morning in Southwest China’s Chongqing, there is a common scene at the city’s Rail Transit Line 4: A group of farmers     1     (shoulder) vegetables for sale are busy riding on the subway to downtown.

Nicknamed “packbasket special line”, the second phase of the subway line, connecting Shichuan town to the city center, has     2     total length of 32.8 kilometers and 15 stations. It     3     (provide) local farmers near the town with a wider channel for selling their produce since its opening in 2022.

Every morning around 6 o’clock, the entrance and exit of the Shichuan Town station of the line are     4     (pack) with these special commuters (上下班往返的人)     5     baskets are filled with fresh seasonal vegetables. It took them more than one hour to reach the city before the opening of the line as they had to take several buses. Now, by taking the subway, they can get there in less than 30 minutes     6     any difficulty. The opening of this subway line not only saves money for the farmers but also time, bringing great     7     (convenient) to them.

    8     (facilitate) the farmers, the station, which was supposed to open at 6:15, now opens five minutes     9     (early) every day. The staff members at the station also assist as much as possible: guiding them to     10     (efficient) enter the station in order and to use the elevators, and helping them with the baskets.

The Huang He Valley, also     1     (refer) to as the Yellow River Valley, was the birthplace of ancient Chinese civilization, because of     2     it is often called “Mother River”. The valley is at the center of thousands of years of Chinese history.     3     China’s second-longest river, the Huang He is over 5,400 kilometers long. It is called the Yellow River because its waters carry sand and mud,     4     (give) the river its yellow-brown color.

While the river helps create fertile land that is suited for farming, during certain times of the year, the Huang He     5     (frequent) overflows, which damages housing and crops across the North China Plain,     6     important agricultural region. For thousands of years, the Chinese     7     (conduct) major public projects to keep control of the water from the Huang He, including hydroelectric dams in modern times. Despite the possibility of flooding, the Huang He Valley basin is home to a huge population, and many of the country’s oldest cities are located along the river.

Tribes and villages appeared from around 2100 BC to 1600 BC in the Huang He Valley. During that time, tribal leaders came together to solve the problem of the Huang He overflowing and wiping out     8     (they) villages and crops. With the ability     9     (control) the Huang He better and save the crops from flooding, a number of     10     (dynasty) were then headquartered in the region. The valley became the center of Chinese culture, society and learning.