Stamp collecting has recently emerged as a fresh and innovative approach for young people to document their travels. Instead of     1     (mere) taking photos with famous landmarks,     2     (enthusiast) of this new trend eagerly explore every corner of various attractions, museums, and shops during their journeys in search     3     various stamps. They imprint the stamps, usually with single or multicolored pictures of the scenic spots or images of famous people on postcards or in travel journals, thus     4     (create) a unique memory of their travels. Free or paid, each stamp serves as a representation of the visitor’s     5     (present) at that specific location, becoming a     6     (cherish) part of their memories.

Shi Junchu, 29, from Yunnan province, came across stamp collecting three years ago while traveling in Wuhan, Hubei province. She found it to be a better way of commemorating her travels    7     purchasing souvenirs (纪念品), so she carries a specially prepared notebook for collecting stamps whenever she travels.

“Stamp collecting has added more meaning to my travels. Turning the pages of those notebooks     8     (feel) somewhat like looking at photos. I can recall     9     happened back then just by turning to a page the delicious food I had, and the fun experiences I enjoyed, she said.

She currently operates a private museum in Kunming. Since last October, she has also introduced stamp-collecting services     10    (encourage) more visitors to explore the museum.

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 the 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. The model understands not only what the user has asked for,     4     how those things exist in the physical world.

OpenAI said it intends to train the AI models to help people solve problems     5     require real-world interaction. These types of AI models could have a big impact on digital entertainment markets with new     6     (personalize) content being streamed across channels.

At the same time, OpenAI said Sora is still a work     7     progress with clear weaknesses. It gave the example of creating a video of someone taking a bite out of a cookie but it not having a bite mark right after.

For now, OpenAI’s messaging remains focused on safety. The company said it plans to work with a team of experts to test the latest model and look     8     (close) at various areas. It is also granting access to a number of visual artists, designers and filmmakers     9     (collect) feedback on how creative     10     (professional) could use it.

Visitors have flocked from far and wide     1     (visit) the world’s largest ice and snow festival dubbed (称为) “Disneyland on ice” recently. This is China’s Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival — a family friendly, fun-filled dream land     2     (fill) with intricately designed ice sculptures. Although visitors are treated     3     masses of ice sculptures throughout Harbin City, Sun Island and Ice and Snow World, are the two main areas. Ice and Snow World area is largely open at night, and     4     (feature) illuminated ice skyscrapers. This year, they’ve also added such a towering snowflake Ferris wheel     5     visitors can take in the     6     (complete) of this impressive winter wonderland from the air. The festival has established     7     (it)as one of the best winter celebrations worldwide, and has been pulling in an estimated 28.7 billion yuan per year.

One travel guide said: “I’ve always had     8     difficult time with winter, or at least the idea of it. I’ve associated winter with misery, irrespective of how I     9     (physical) react to the cold, and have gone to great     10     (length) to deny its very existence. But exploring China’s Harbin Ice and Snow Festival brought me indescribable joy.”

Patrick Sommier, a French theater director, is dovoted to passing on the true meaning of Chinese operas to the French public.

On the occasion of the     1     (celebrate) for the 40th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and France in 2004, Sommier     2     (invite) to cooperate on a joint project to spread Peking Opera in France. Sommier says that when he arrived in China, like many other     3     (European), he showed great interest in Chinese operas. The beauty of Peking Opera     4    (immediate) caught his heart, he says.

Recalling his first cooperation with the Chinese team, Sommier says he was impressed by the actors’ makeups, costumes,     5     the characters of incredible strength. He was also touched by the Chinese professors’ effort     6     (pass) their acting skills to their students by acting with them. One professor explained, “In China, opera is     7     art requiring lifelong devotion and the effect of the performance largely     8     (depend) on the actors’ inner strength and acting skills.”

Sommier began exploring into different performance forms and suggested introducing Chinese operas     9     the French audience. The team then gave some     10     (origin) performances, some without makeups or costumes and some with students performing classics in a traditional way.

You enter through a round entrance known as a moon gate. There before you, is a     1    (cover )passage made of red wood, leading you past a walled courtyard. Along the edges of the courtyard are piles of rocks, among which     2    (grow) bamboo. The whole scene is like a painting;     3     every step you take, another part of the painting is unrolled.

    4    (step) into the courtyard, you look over the scene. Latticed(格状) windows in the walls reveal yet more bamboo, suggesting that the courtyard is just one part of a     5    (large)garden. At the far end of the courtyard is a room with wooden chairs,     6     windows that create frames for the scene of     7     (strange)shaped rocks beyond them, just like Chinese ink-wash paintings. This little courtyard is     8     picture of the classic Chinese concept of peace and beauty. Yet, you are not in China, but a copy of Chinese garden. The Astor Chinese Garden Court     9    (create)by a team of 26 Chinese craftsmen in 1981, and it represented the first permanent cultural exchange between America and China. The courtyard is a place of rest for a museum     10     (visit). As a museum piece in and of itself, the garden gives a wonderful view of ancient China.

Recently, a Chinese college research team has released China’s first large language model (LLM) “Xunzi”,     1     uses deep learning techniques and massively big data sets to help conduct research on ancient Chinese books. With the model, more information hidden in our cultural legacy can     2     (mine) for.

This model, named     3     Xun Zi, one of the most celebrated philosophers in ancient China for his Confucian classic Xunzi,     4     (comprise) the majority of Chinese ancient books and documents.     5     (design) to intelligently process ancient texts, the system aims to promote innovative development in the research and preservation of Chinese ancient books, enhance the efficiency and quality of the legacy of traditional Chinese culture,     6     boost integration between LLM and ancient book processing.

The research on Chinese traditional classics is     7     painstaking and laborious challenge. Since 2013, the team have worked tirelessly to digitize Chinese classics like the Siku Quanshu,     8     (lay) a solid foundation for the large language model. Committed to the philosophy of making their data and model     9     (access) worldwide, the team have a broader perspective targeting global users. To this end, they have     10     (handsome) shared the LLM on the Internet, enabling more individuals to appreciate traditional Chinese culture.

The Two Tree Coffee, located in the Liyukou Village of Huyi District in the city of Xi’an, quickly went viral (走红) on social media.

The popularity of the cafe is     1    (large) due to the boom (暴涨) in cultural and ecological tourism in recent years,     2    (combine) with the government’s efforts at environmental preservation.

In recent years, the Chinese government     3    (strengthen) the long-term protection project, and adopted     4    (measure) such as the establishment of the five-level forest chief system. More and more urban residents, especially those     5     Xi’an, are attracted to the mountain villages for slow-paced vacations.

Wang visited many places before     6    (decide) to build the cafe here. “Cafes are among the favorite businesses of young people, and they provide     7     strong sense of uniqueness when they appear in the countryside,” she said. “People come here not only to consume coffee,     8    to ‘pay’ for the green ecology and the pastoral (田园的) environment.”

In front of the cafe is a tourism highway,     9    connects the store with many artistic villages along the mountain range. Art helps the villages to become     10    (fashionable) and livable, while retaining their natural beauty, than before.

Cloisonné (景泰蓝) is the technique of creating designs on metal containers with colored-glass paste     1     (place) within enclosures (外壳) made of copper     2    (wire), which have been bent or hammered into the desired pattern.

Known as cloisons, the enclosures generally are either stuck or soldered onto the metal body. The glass paste, or enamel,     3     (color) and painted into the contained areas of the design. The container is usually fired at    4    relatively low temperature, about 800°C. Enamels commonly shrink after firing, and the process is repeated several times     5     (fill) in the designs. Once this process is complete, the surface is rubbed until the edges of the cloisons are visible. They are then covered with a thin layer of gold paint.

Cloisonné objects were intended     6     (primary) for the furnishing of temples and palaces, because their splendor was considered appropriate to the function of these structures     7     not well suited to a more simple and plain atmosphere, such as     8     of a scholars home. This opinion was expressed by Cao Zhao in 1388 in his     9     ( influence) Gegu Yaolun, in which cloisonné was dismissed as being suitable only for lady’s bedrooms. However, during the period of Emperor Xuande, Cloisonné     10     (come) to be greatly prized at court.

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,     3     the extensive site of Sanxingdui is located, an immersive exhibition     4    (equip) with digital technology, titled Hello Sanxingdui,     5     (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     6     a brief timeline of texts, photos and videos, showing how Sanxingdui was first discovered in the 1920s, when 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     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.

Handan lies at the east foot of Taihang Mountains, and borders the North China Plain in the east.     1     (it) climate features four clear seasons. It is dry and     2     (wind) in spring, hot and rainy in summer. The weather is mild and cool in autumn and chilly in winter.

    3     (locate) in the south of Hebei Province, Handan is in the communication center of Hebei, Henan, Shanxi and Shandong about 200 kilometers away from     4     capital cities of these four provinces and about 450 kilometers away from Beijing and Tianjin.     5     (be) an important transportation center, Handan possesses the integrated transport means of railway, highway and aviation,     6     can serve 13 cities nearby with a population of about 70 million.

Handan is also a famous historical and cultural city. The Cishan Culture     7     (make) this area a glowing pearl in the Central Plains of China about 8,000 years ago. Handan is regarded     8     the most time-honored city in Hebei. It used to be a political, economic and cultural center of northern China.

The idiom is one of the     9     (representative) of ancient culture in Handan. Among the idioms people use in daily life, there are 1,584 of them from or related to Handan. What’s more, Handan has many scenic spots, such as The Wahuang Palace and Jingniang Lake for tourists     10     (visit). Travelers can get deep cultured in this ancient city and learn about the interesting idioms.