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China’s latest war epic The Battle at Lake Changjin, one of the most expensive     1    (film) ever made in China, shot to the top of the weeklong National Day holiday box office, promoting the domestic market to rebound after being unsatisfying     2     more than two months.

    3    (produce) by Bona Film Group and state-backed film companies Shanghai Film Group and Huaxia, the film     4     (release) on Sept 30, and the blockbuster(大片) has earned around 2 billion yuan ($310 million)     5     its opening. It accounted for around 75 percent of total holiday receipts, which had reached 2.67 billion yuan as of Monday, according to the movie information tracker Beacon.

With the number of cast and crew     6    (reach) an unprecedented(史无前例的)scale of more than 12,000, the movie re-creates the serious conflict on the Korean Peninsula amid the     7    (extreme) cold winter of 1950,when temperatures decreased to the     8    (low) level in 50 years. The movie's production   involved more than 80 visual-effects companies domestically and abroad, with the script revised 37 times.

The film has also gained millions of reviews and clicks on several of the country's most popular social media platforms, including Sina Weibo and Douyin, with most commenters praising the heart-wrenching tale and saying it stirred their national pride, making them want to pay tribute to those heroes     9     sacrificed their lives. Some netizens said the film reminds them     10     (cherish) today's peaceful life.

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The South Korean survival drama “Squid Game”,     1     didn’t catch audiences’ attention at first,.has gained popularity     2     (gradual), even in remote places.

In China, the dystopian(反乌托邦的) series     3     (base) on a children’s game has become one of the most talked-about topics on social media sites over the past week. Moreover,    4     (view) its short videos more than 1.8 billion times    5     the micro blogging platform Weibo is a wonder in the drama history and the audience are unwilling to cease    6     (play ) it in an instant.

In the nine episodes（剧集）streaming on Netflix, 456 people competed against each other to play several games for     7     chance to win more than $37 million. The players participated in those dangerous games, hoping the money    8     (help) in repaying     9     (debt) or reduce their     10     (finance) pressure. Issues in this drama, experts said, reflected the inequalities in South Korea.

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Bill Greenhaw was a     1    (retire) school principal and looked rather stern. He was an organist and highly     2    (respect) in our church. I wore leather jackets and rode a motorcycle.

One day, I     3    (joking) asked him     4     he would like to go out to lunch with me on my bike.     5     my surprise, he accepted! He was     6     opposite of me in so many ways, but he enjoyed     7    (ride) with me on my bike. We took many rides together, but he never told     8    (somebody) about them. I think it brought out a sense of adventure in him, and I was the only person     9     he felt comfortable sharing that side of himself with. He was shy around most people. At his funeral, I told his family about our rides, and every one of them     10     astonished. I miss his kind and gentle character, and our rides together.

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A nine-year-old child genius became the youngest person to complete     1    university degree. Laurent Simons gained his electrical engineering bachelor’s degree(学士学位) from Eindhoven University of Technology, a demanding course even for 18-year-olds. It took Laurent only nine months to complete     2     should be a four-year course. Laurent’s teacher said, “He is three times     3    smart) than the best students I have met in my long career. He achieves a level that many adult     4    (student) never reach.”

Laurent is half-Dutch and half-Belgian and .    5    (live) in Amsterdam. The young talent finished the whole primary school study in only 12 months and then took just 18 months     6     (complete) his secondary school studies, effortlessly     7     (pass) every test with a high score. While Laurent comes from a family of doctors, his parents cannot offer any     8    (explain) as to why their son is so     9     (gift). His mother joked, “I ate a lot of fish     10     I was pregnant.”

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Three Chinese astronauts safely returned to Earth on September 17 after completing the first manned mission aboard the Shenzhou-12 spacecraft.

The mission was led by Nie Haisheng, the oldest member of the team, in his third trip into space. Liu Boming, the second    1    (old) team member, joined China’s 2008 space mission where he helped Zhai Zhigang become the first Chinese astronaut    2    (take) a spacewalk. For Tang Hongbo, the youngest member, it was the first time that he    3    (travel) to space, despite training for 11 years. They spent three months undertaking a    4    (various) of scheduled tasks in the core module of the planned space station, which is still    5    construction .

“I believe with the    6    (continue) development of China’s strengths, there will be more astronauts setting new records and making new breakthroughs.” Nei said in a post-landing interview.

The Beijing Aerospace Flight Control Center declared the mission    7    complete success. The mission was the third of 11    8    (launch) for China’s space station construction,    9    is expected to finish by the end of 2022. If successfully    10    (complete), the station is expected to operate for 10 years.

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The long-awaited Universal Beijing Resort will     1     (office) open for visitors on Sept 20—one day before the Chinese traditional holiday Mid-Autumn Festival, announced by the resort on Monday.

Last week, the resort announced the start of trial operations on Sept 1,     2     has attracted huge attention among fans and members of the public who want to experience the park.     3     (locate) in the capital’s eastern district of Tongzhou, the resort consists     4     the Universal Studios theme park, Universal City Walk Beijing and two hotels, along with 37 recreational facilities, themed     5     (attract) and dozens of food and beverage outlets.

Especially, Universal City Walk Beijing, home to dozens of shops, a cinema, many restaurants and a host of mobile food bars, will offer free admission for visitors     6     it opens on the 20th.

The venue is owned by Beijing International Resort Co.     7     joint venture (合资企业) between Beijing Shouhuan Cultural Tourism Investment Co. and Universal Parks & Resorts, which is a branch of Beijing Tourism Group, one of the     8     (lead) players in China’s tourism and entertainment sector.

The Beijing municipal government has offered support for the project’s facilities, with the aim of providing a high-end tourist landmark for the city and its effort     9     (pay) off. This series of events     10     (be) supposed to lift the sense of wellbeing for the citizens who have been shut off by the ongoing pandemic.

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China will allow all couples to have two children,     1     (give) up its decades-long one-child policy, the Communist Party of China (CPC)     2     (announce) after a key meeting on Thursday.

The change of policy is intended to balance population development and meet the challenge of an aging population, according to a communique (公报)     3     ( issue ) after the Fifth Plenary Session of the 18th Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Comnmittee held from Monday to Thursday.

The proposal must be approved by the top legislature (立法机关)     4     it comes into force.

China’s family planning policy was first introduced in the late 1970s     5     (control) the rapid     6     (grow) of the population by limiting most urban couples     7     one child, and as to rural couples, they can have two children on condition that their firstborn child was a girl. The policy was later relaxed. Parents     8     were both only children in their family could have     9     second child.

The one-child policy was     10     (far) loosened in November 2013 after the Third Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee, and couples are allowed to have two children if one of them is an only child.

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The Mid-autumn Festival     1     (celebrate) by Chinese and Vietnamese people takes place on the 15th day of the 8th Chinese lunar month, on which day the moon     2     (believe) to be fullest and brightest.

Ancient Chinese emperors believed that admiring the moon on this day     3     (bring) them a plentiful harvest. To express their gratitude and     4     (appreciate) for the moon, they offered sacrifices, such as plums （李子）, apples or grapes.

Two notable traditions during the festival are moon gazing and lantern lighting. Colorful lanterns in     5     (vary) shapes are made by children and their families and hung in trees or float on rivers. Another important part of the festival are mooncakes, which are round,     6     (symbolize) the reunion of a family and they come in many flavours depending on     7     region they come from. People sacrifice the cakes to the moon as     8     offering, feed them to celebrate and gift them to wish friends and family a long and happy life. Eating the cakes under the moon symbolizes our longing     9     distant relatives and friends. Some people celebrate inside with their families while others prefer to be outside     10     (direct) under the moon. Other festivities may include dragon or lion dances and drinking cassia wine（肉桂酒）.

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Growing up in Haiti, Phedjina Jean remembers the struggles she and her family went through to access basic services taken for     1     (grant) in America.

Jean, 20, a sophomore at Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, is looking to help children growing up in Haiti     2    a similar situation as herself. Her long-term goal is     3     (become) a physician and to set up a health clinic in her small town in Haiti.

In high school, she     4     (accept) by a nonprofit called A Leadership Journey,     5    helps teenage people of color go on international trips. In 2019, Jean visited schools and villages in Kenya with the group,     6     (assist) locals in education and health care in some community    7     (organize).

That experience has urged Jean to seek more international experience as she works on reaching her goals. She is     8    (current) — aiming to visit South Africa in December, but unlike her first trip, she will need to raise the funds     9    (her). She has tried to raise the $3,000 (about 19,500 yuan) necessary for the trip on website GoFundMe.

Jean would be taking the trip with International Children's Outreach, which hosts college students from different countries and encourages improving the lives of poor     10    (child) and young people around the world while involving the college students into the education process.

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Twenty one ultra-marathon runners have died since extreme weather hit a 100-kilometer (62-mile) mountain race in northwest China.

The high-altitude Huanghe Shilin Mountain Marathon     1     (begin)on Saturday morning in sunny conditions. But by 1 p.m. local time weather conditions had turned, with freezing rain and hail stones     2     (beat) runners in Gansu County.

Liang Jing, one of China’s well known ultra-marathon runners was among those who died, as

    3     Hong Kong marathon group called Hong Kong 100 Ultra Marathon confirmed via a statement     4     (release) on Sunday.

As temperatures dropped in the Yellow River Stone Forest, some started to report suffering from hypothermia, while     5     went missing. The marathon     6     (organize) canceled the race and immediately they launched a search party of 1,200 people to scour the complicated terrain.

One race participant told the local publication Red Star News: “It was     7     (awful) freezing.” He said he decided to abandon the race. “I managed to enter a wooden cabin at the direction of a rescuer,     8     there were already about 10 more runners and within half an hour about 50 runners came and took shelter     9     extreme weather in the cabin.” 

By Sunday morning, 151 of the 172 runners had been confirmed safe, with eight in hospital. Another 21 were found     10     (die), according People’s Daily.