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When referring to Emei, you may think of the Emei clan(峨眉派) in Jin Yong’s wuxia novel. But     1     interests 24-year-old Ma Zhaolingyun is Emei martial arts (武术).

Emei martial arts originated     2    Mount Emei at least 3,000 years ago. It includes 68 schools and 2, 638 practice skills and methods and     3     (list) as a National Intangible Cultural Heritage in China in 2008.

During the more than 10 years, Ma     4     (love) showing off the skills learned in her daily life with everyday items like feather dusters and brooms     5     (include) into her performances.

In 2020, Ma became     6    Internet celebrity for publishing a video in which she performed Emei martial arts on her way to take out the trash,     7    brought her a large number of followers on the short video platform Douyin.

However, Ma didn’t seek     8     (popular) to make money. “    9     (pass) on traditional martial arts is the priority,” said Ma. To attract more people, Ma and her team have worked tirelessly to promote Emei martial arts in     10     (create) ways. For example, she has included modern elements like games and fashion shoots in her videos.

“Beautiful traditional Chinese culture is all around us. I hope that my videos will rekindle (重燃) people’s passion for traditional culture,” Ma said.

2 . I’ve been in many circumstances ______ fellow colleagues put themselves at risk to help other colleagues. (用适当的词填空)

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Constantly for three days since the start of 2024, Johnny Keep Walking!, a comedy,     1     (gain) the top position on the country’s box-office charts, resonating (共鸣) with a wide young viewership due to its touching     2     (expose) of workplace problems.

    3     (mark) as the third movie of filmmaker Dong Ruinian, who is also a renowned scriptwriter, the film fictionalizes the story of a factory worker who is     4     (mistaken) transferred to the commercial group’s headquarters. The human resource manager, Ma Jie, is another main character who was caught up     5     the “wrong adjustment” incident. Despite the human resource manager’s desperate attempts     6     (hide) his error, the worker surprisingly receives a series of promotions and unexpectedly disclose a corruption (贪污) case     7     (involve) a high-ranking manager.

Dong reveals that he thought up the script around five years ago and conducted extensive research on some Internet companies,     8     he discovered “absurd and ridiculous things”, giving him lots of inspiration.

With the story resonating with many young professionals due to its themes addressing    9     (variety) office problems such as complex interpersonal relationship, excessive overtime, and executive conflicts, the film has received a rating of 8.1 points out of 10 on Douban,     10     of the country’s most popular review sites.

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Recently, a video series named Escape from the British Museum, produced by two Chinese vloggers     1    (draw) widespread attention. This video series narrates the tale of a precious artifact (手工艺品) from the British Museum escaping from the museum     2    beginning a journey to rediscover its rightful   “home”. It is     3     unique jade teapot that is decorated with a Mughal-style pattern of lotus flowers and entangled branches of Mednilla Magnifica.   

The jade teapot is indeed an authentic artifact     4    (house) in the British Museum. Originating from China, it found its place in the British Museum in 2017. Contemporary craftsmanship is exactly     5     sets it apart from other ancient Chinese artifacts that found their way beyond China’s borders. The jade teapot has a vibrant green color that is    6    (incredible) made with cutting edge techniques to shape the body excessively thin,   resulting     7     a thickness of merely 1mm.

The video series Escape from The British Museum is a collaborative     8    (create) between two social media influencers, “Jianbing Guozi” and   “Xiatian Meimei”. This attractive story     9    (employ) personification techniques and it gives life and voice to the artifact.

Currently, three episodes of this series have been released, gaining tens of millions of    10    (like) and over a million comments from viewers.

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Taylor Swift does great donation to help victims of tornadoes

Severe storms and tornadoes have killed at least six people in Tennessee,     1    (include) a child, with homes and businesses suffering a heavy     2    (lose) and tens of thousands of people losing power.According to reports in the US, Taylor Swift,     3    was recently declared a billionaire, has donated 1million dollars     4     the Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee (CFMT).

Although born in Pennsylvania, Swift has a close relationship with Tennessee, having moved to Nashville with her family at the age of 14     5    (follow) her musical dream.

Her music catalogue since 2019 is worth an estimated $400m, ticket and merchandise sales from concerts have earned her 370 million dollars while streams from Spotify, YouTube and other     6    (platform) are value d at 120 million dollars.

The Eras tour alone     7    (generate)hundreds of millions of dollars so far, with another year to go until it draws to a close. The tour is the latest show of charity from the 33-year-old, who     8    (award)Time magazine’s Person of the Year last week while Forbes ranked her the world’s fifth most     9    (power)woman.

The CFMT operates a fund supporting non-profit organizations providing services in all phases of a disaster.

The National Weather Service issued multiple tornado warnings in Tennessee with reports of     10     further tornado in Kentucky.

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A Chinese ink painting of a farmer leading an ox across a bridge, followed by a boy with a bamboo basket on his back made the cover of an October issue of Structure, a United States-based Cell Press journal.     1     (additional), chemical compounds and elemental structures were highlighted into the picture.

The drawing was one of many     2     (work)by Xixizhiyan, a scientific research visualization(视觉化)service provider. The team helps to turn abstract concepts into drawings     3     present scientific researchers’ findings in a straightforward way.

Since they started, the staff members     4     (come)up with more than 10, 000 visual works for academic papers. Some have made their way to the world’s top academic journals,     5     (include) Nature, Science and Cell. The papers with illustrations that make the journal covers are considered to be either the most valuable     6     the hottest in that issue of the journal. As the cover of a scientific paper, the paintings should reflect the core content and findings, thus bringing more attention to the paper     7     (it).

In 2022, Chinese scholars contributed 16. 349 papers, accounting for 30. 3 percent, exceeding the US     8     the first time. The rapidly rising number of Chinese scientific papers has resulted in increased demand from Chinese scientists who want illustrations for their work     9     (carry)distinctive Chinese elements. It’s fulfilling for the team to pull off a special piece of work that combines cutting-edge scientific findings and     10     (tradition)Chinese culture.

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In a specially designed studio theater in Hangzhou, New Dragon Gate Inn, a traditional Shaoxing Opera performance    1    (bring) to life. Recreated from the 1992 film of the same name, the opera presentation shows amazing artistic performance, successfully attracting the interest of younger    2    (generation) by mixing traditional Chinese opera with modern theater models and dramatic (戏剧性的) ideas.

    3    (compare) with traditional stages, the theater is designed as an inn,     4     the audiences becoming guests. The audience sits very close to the actors and actresses, offering them     5    unique and fascinating viewing experience. Upon leaving the theater, these audience members feel a sense of satisfaction that drives them to willingly share short clips of the performance online,     6    (promote) its popularity.

As the play gains popularity in the past weeks, Chen Lijun,     7    plays the important supporting role of Jia Ting,     8    (become) a social media hit. She said this show represents one of the     9    (challenge) skills in the opera world. It tests not only the physical strengths, vocal skills, and acting abilities of actors and actresses    10    their willpower and determination.

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There is no doubt that music can keep our mind at ease, and it turns out that it could also be     1     temporary reliever for physical pain.

Listening to favorite songs could reduce people’s perception of pain, and most effective pain relievers were found to be sad songs     2     (detail) bittersweet and emotional experiences, according to a new study.

The study invited 63 young adults     3     (bring) two of their favorite songs (at least 3 minutes and 20 seconds long each), and also one of seven songs that the team considered relaxing and were unfamiliar to     4     (they).

Each person underwent 7-minute blocks where they     5     (instruct) to stare at a monitor screen while listening to their favorite music, one of the seven relaxing songs, or a noisy,     6     (random) scrambled   (搅乱的) version of both songs and the relaxing song they had chosen, which now lacked their original structure. All the while, the researchers stuck a hot object — similar     7     the pain of a boiling hot teacup on your skin-to the participants’ left inner forearms.

When rating their experiences, people were     8     (likely) to report feeling less pain when listening to their favorite songs compared with hearing the unfamiliar relaxing song or scrambled songs,     9     the researchers suggested was evidence of music being more than a     10     (distract) from an unpleasant experience.

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Lantern festivals add magic to     1     (celebrate) and their designs are deeply inspired by traditional culture. Shortly after organizing the lantern carnival in Hong Kong on Sept 24, Wan Songtao and his team hurried back to their hometown of Zigong in Sichuan province, where another grand lantern show was on the cards.

“The older I grow, the more     2     (attach) I become to lantern making” the 54 year old craftsman tells China Daily Early in     3     morning, Wan went to inspect work at Chinese Lantern World,     4     on Sept 27 was transformed into an ocean of light and color by massive lanterns in the shape of humans, flowers, animals and buildings, made to celebrate both the Mid Autumn Festival     5     the National Day.

“For this lantern fair, we derived inspiration from ancient Chinese poems,” Wan says, adding that Tianshang Gongque (the moon palace), a centerpiece as well as one of 21 core lantern installations ( 装 置) at the fair,     6     (inspire) by Su   Dongpo’s The Mid-Autumn Festival. The installation, which was composed of 19 palace style     7     (structure), stretched 270 meters and     8     (rise) high into the sky, drawing visitors’ eyes up to a “full moon”, a round LED screen showing Chang’e, goddess of the moon, flying toward her palace.

The eight-day holiday attracted over 210,000 visitors from around China to Zigong, a city which is     9     (remote) situated in the southwest of China but is home     10     one of the world’s best lantern shows.

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On Tuesday in Gaomi, Shandong province, a new museum opened to visitors     1     (honor) Mo Yan’s achievements. Mo Yan,     2     was born in Gaomi in 1955, won the Nobel Literature Award in 2012, and is known     3     writing stories rooted in his home and the land.

“Most of the stories I tell are true and have happened in Gaomi,”     4     author said at the opening ceremony for the Mo Yan Literature and Art Museum,     5     (add) that he hopes the museum will become a place for international literary exchange and a     6     (culture) home for Gaomi locals.

The museum contains versions of his books in different     7     (language), as well as manuscripts, and award medals and certificates. It will host literary events and tours for students too.

Mo Yan also said that many famous writers were born in Shandong and he hopes that the museum will contribute to     8     (draw) them together. Writer Feng Jicai     9     (attend) the opening ceremony. “A big tree of literature has grown, and the earth     10     it grows helps it to develop. The museum is the earth for us to find out roots to interpret Mo Yan and learn more about him,” he said. “It also shows how people love and respect him.”