The home crowd erupted when China’s Eileen Gu won the women’s big air freeskiing gold in Beijing. Gu jumped into the top position with her third run,     1     ( score ) 94.50. Her total score was 188.25 in the event’s debut at the Winter Olympics. The 18-year-old,     2     also goes by her Chinese name, Gu Ailing, is a freestyle skier, model and grade-A student with     3     American father and a Chinese mother. She grew up in the United States. It was there     4     she grew to love skiing. By 2018, she was representing the US in the world cup for the sport. Then, she decided to switch from representing the US     5     representing China. It was a decision met with shock and     6     ( confuse ) from her growing fan base, but Gu was     7     ( determine ), sharing her reasoning on Instagram at the time. "This was an     8     ( incredible ) tough decision for me to make. Through skiing, I hope to unite people, promote common understanding, create communication, and forge friendships between     9     ( nation ). If I can help to inspire one young girl     10     ( break ) a boundary, my wishes will have come true."

China on October 12     1     （official）announced the first group of national parks. Home to nearly 30 percent of the key terrestrial wildlife species found in China, they cover     2     protected land area of 230,000 square km.

The establishment of the first batch of national parks is a practical move by China     3     （strengthen）its effort to promote natural ecological protection and conserve biodiversity.

The Three-River-Source National Park     4     （locate）on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau—known as the world's "third pole". It protects the source of the Yangtze, Yellow and Lancang rivers. The Giant Panda National Park protects the major habitats of 70 percent of the country's wild giant pandas.     5     （cover）an area of 4,269 sq km, the Hainan Rainforest National Park is home to China's largest rainforest and the Hainan gibbon. The Wuyi Mountain National Park experimental area is the only park in China     6     is listed as a UNESCO cultural and     7     （nature）heritage site. It is a reflection of China's environmental protection principle, which emphasizes coexistence and sustainable     8     （develop）between humans and nature.

Different from parks in the general sense that are only for sightseeing and leisure, commercial activities are banned in the national parks, which are all put     9     the control of the national rules for ecological protection, and subject to the     10     （strict）protection in history.

In China’s northwestern Xinjiang, there are many different landscapes and remarkable views. Deep in its northern dense forest, there is an     1    (amazing) beautiful lake. The color of the lake changes     2     the season, light, and temperature difference between morning and evening.

The Kanas Lake, the second largest deep-water lake in China, has a water     3     (deep) of 190 meters. Perhaps it’s the fear of     4     lies below the surface that has stirred up legends of a lake monster.

Since the late 1980s, there     5     (be) numerous sightings of the creature in the lake. It is said that horses drinking by the lake were once     6    (force) into the water by the monster. Many tourists come all way to the Kanas Lake,     7     (hope) to catch a glimpse of the marine creature.

Most scientists believe the so-called water monster is freshwater salmon living deep below the surface, some of which can grow to nearly two meters long. They can be fierce and secretive,     8     they occasionally come out from the water and make waves. The warm and humid Atlantic air     9    (current) travel over 6,900 kilometers of land into the Altay Mountains, and bring more than 600 mm of rain every year, nurturing the most     10     (mystery) Siberian taiga forest in China. They grow and multiply by the Kanas Lake, carrying their life on from generation to generation.

In 2005, Tanya Pinto, a young businesswoman in the US, paid a visit     1     her birthplace, India. There she traveled and spent three months     2     (volunteer) to do something for children in great need. The experience was life changing.     3     that's why she started Baal Dan Charities, meaning "Helping children."

At first, Baal Dan provided street children with clothes. Later, food, medicine, schoolbooks, and some education     4     (give) to orphanages, schools and local projects. Tanya got first donations(捐赠) from friends and co-workers and today, more people come to her help out of     5     (kind).

It is a great job. At a care center, two boys,     6     Tanya's charity had helped, recognized her and eagerly told her they were doing well after they were rescued from the streets. In the years     7    (come), Tanya hopes to do more. “I will take them to the zoo, the park or for an outing. And I'll do things that are really fun     8     (activity), because I like to bring some fun into their poor life," says Tanya.

What Tanya does is     9     (inspire). If you're not rich or famous, you can still do something to help make     10     better world.

My friend Brett had just got a motorbike and a lot of other kids in my neighborhood knew how to ride. I also wanted to ride, but all the guys told me I couldn’t do    1     because I was a girl. I decided     2     (prove) them wrong, so Brett let me try his bike. It wasn't one minute     3     I fell off. He came over to see if I was okay, but then started laughing.

That night I told my dad the whole story about how I wanted to be as good as the boys. He asked    4     much I really wanted to learn and I told him I had wanted to ride for a year. A few days later my dad told me he     5     (find) a nice bike at a reasonable price. He brought it home. My dad spent four weeks teaching me everything    6     I needed to know about the bike and the basics of riding. No one    7     (true) believed I could learn to ride except my dad. Day after day he worked with me, and I began to make progress. It meant so much to me that he would take time     8     his busy schedule to help me fulfill this dream.

My dad taught me so much that will stay with me for the rest of my life,    9     (include) that I shouldn’t let others put me down. I also learned that I can do anything with enough     10    (determine) and practice. I would have never achieved my dream of learning how to ride a motorbike without my dad.

We all know the effect greenhouse gas emission is having on our planet. Most of us are doing our bit to reduce our impact     1     the environment, but despite our collective effort, are we doing enough     2    (achieve) net zero by 2050?

Many countries are doing their bit. They announced what further steps they were going to take at the recent COP26 summit in Glasgow. Another method is     3     big push towards there will be electric vehicles. To this end, taxes for car makers will be made lower,     4     there will be more charging points in streets.

But not all emission can be reduced to zero, so those     5    (remain) will have to be made up for. One way to do this is to plant thousands of trees,     6     are good at absorbing carbon dioxide. There are other     7    (idea) too, but     8     is certain is that those will cost money. Whether the UK or anyone else, reaching net zero remains to be seen. And there's some doubt about how this can be     9    (accurate) measured anyway. But it's generally recognised that a global effort     10    (need) to deal with climate change.

Therefore, net zero targets only make sense if every other country is moving in the same direction.

If you have a passion for learning languages, you must start learning Chinese. English is     1    most widely     2    (speak) language in the world and it is the predominant language in all fields. But it     3    (expect) that Chinese,     4    is one of the six official languages of the United Nations, will be the most important language in the coming years. What are the reasons behind the rapid spread of this language and why should you learn it?

China is an important political and     5    (economy) state because it     6    (experience) huge progress now. The world is watching China in astonishment, and this peaceful Chinese rise makes us focus on     7    (learn) the Chinese language and knowing more about Chinese culture. China is also     8    (close) to the international world today than it used to be thanks to overseas Chinese communities,     9    you can discover more about Chinese people and Chinese culture.

To be a global citizen these days, I would advise you to learn Chinese. It will add more beauty     10    your life and allow you to better understand Chinese civilization.

In the United States, the fourth Thursday in November is Thanksgiving Day, which sometimes     1     (call) Turkey Day. It’s     2     (tradition) a day when people give thanks for all the blessings they have enjoyed over the past year. The main part of a Thanksgiving     3     (celebrate) is a large meal with family and friends, and the part of the meal that makes     4     a Thanksgiving dinner is a turkey.

However, the very first Thanksgiving dinner in 1621 probably didn’t include turkey. At that dinner,     5     (settle) from England ate with Native Americans who     6     (help) them learn to survive in North America earlier. The meal included goose and duck. It wasn’t until centuries later     7     people began to eat turkey at Thanksgiving. This was largely due     8     convenience — wild turkeys were common, and     9     typical turkey is large enough to feed a lot of people. Also, people in the northeastern part of the US began to travel and took their customs with them. These included     10     (eat) turkey during harvest festivals.

Gulangyu Island, off the coast of Xiamen, Fujian, was certificated a world heritage site by UNESCO. Every year,     1     (million) of Chinese people visit Gulangyu Island     2     (enjoy) its natural delights and the     3     (combine) of foreign and Chinese architecture.

The recognition of this beautiful and     4     (cultural) remarkable island is     5     honor. But the fact that it is a heritage site means much more than that. The word “heritage” refers to the     6     (value) things we inherit from the past. And there are over 1,000 UNESCO’s world heritage sites,     7     (make) a rich tapestry (织锦) of memories, both natural and man-made. Just     8     a time machine, they take us back to our ancestors and even earlier, enabling us to wonder at both the natural world and human history.

Gulangyu Island and every world heritage item are worthy of care and protection. Since they came into existence, they     9     (remind) us of our rich and various cultural significance, and the things that made us     10     we are.

    1    makes the whole nation so excited is that Chinese spacecraft    2    (carry) the countryˈs first lunar samples has started its return journey from the moon, according to the countryˈs space authority. This is     3     first-ever Chinese spacecraft to take off from another planet.

Chinaˈs Changˈe-5 lunar probe(探月器), consisting       4     an orbiter, a lander, an ascender (上升器) and a returner, was sent up on November, 24. After       5     (automatic) detecting and identifying     6     (barrier), its lander-ascender combination selected the site and touched down on the near side of the moon on December 1.

After       7     (collect)the samples, they were sealed in a container. The ascender of Changˈe-5 took off from the lunar surface, and is expected     8     (complete) unmanned docking(对接) with the orbiter-returner in lunar orbit and the samples will be moved into the returner for delivery back to Earth. If all goes well, China will become the     9     (three) country to have gathered lunar materials in the world.

In this century, so far only China     10     (succeed) in putting robotic spacecraft on the surface of the moon: Changˈe-3 in December 2013, and Changˈe-4, which in January 2019 became the first spacecraft to land on the far side of the moon. Changˈe-4ˈs Yutu 2, is still operating and studying lunar geology at present.