Galactic Energy launched five satellites into orbit on Monday, boosting the private firm’s ambition to become the Chinese     1     (compete) to SpaceX. Galactic Energy’s Ceres-1 rocket lifted off Monday from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern China, sending five satellites into their     2     (intend) orbits. The mission marks the fifth launch of the Ceres-1 rocket-a small solid fuel orbital rocket designed     3     the company. So far, 19 satellites     4     (put) into space, setting a record for a private Chinese firm.

Galactic Energy conducted the first Ceres-1 launch on November 7, 2020,     5     makes it the second Chinese private company to launch a satellite into low Earth orbit successfully.

Some Chinese satellite launch providers     6     (current) are using small solid fuel rockets like Cerebrum others     7     (develop) or testing reusable liquid fuel rocket engines.

China’s commercial space industry has expanded rapidly since 2015, when the government began encouraging private companies     8     (enter) the space sector. Over the past few years, more than 170 private firms have entered the space industry, according to a 2020 research report by Future Space Research,     9     research institute based in Beijing.

The     10     (success) launch by the Chinese startup came on the same day that Virgin Orbit suffered failure on its first rocket launch from the United Kingdom.

In recent years, with the promotion of green cities, many cities in China have been building urban greenways according to     1    (they) own local conditions. Up to now, China     2    (build) more than 80,000 kilometres urban greenways.

In Chengdu, the sights and scenes are connected by a 100-kilometre-long greenway. People’s     3    (cycle) along the greenway has become a popular activity. You can not only enjoy the beautiful views of 78 bridges,     4     you can also travel through 121 ecological parks such as the Qinglong Lake. The Panda International Tourism Resort (旅游胜地),     5     houses 40 pandas, is also along the road.

1,000 kilometres away from Chengdu, there is also a greenway of the same     6    (long) in Wuhan. It’s the East Lake Greenway. With winding roads     7    (connect)the various islands, it links more than 100 scenic spots. You can visit the different natural sights as well as the     8    (culture)attractions left by ancient Chinese poets.

1,000 kilometres south of Wuhan, a coastal greenway sits on the bay area of Shenzhen. This greenway looks like a winding ribbon (丝带) linking the city     9     the forests and the sea. Every winter, thousands of birds travel to the mangrove forest (红树林) here. And the greenway provides     10    (extreme) good spots to observe these birds.

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Decorated with Chinese-style red lanterns, the pavilion (展馆) of translated Chinese books saw a big turnout of book lovers at the 54th edition of Cairo International Book Fair, the largest book fair in Egypt.

The pavilion    1    (display) during the fair about 1,000 book titles in Arabic and English on Chinese culture, history, literature, economy, and among many others. Visitors    2    different ages frequented the pavilion of Chinese books. Some parents picked children’s books for their kids and some young people    3    (attract) to books on Chinese culture, history and development.

A high school student,    4    was picking a book on Chinese history, said that China has overcome numerous problems throughout its history while    5    Chinese wisdom is shown in their literature, thoughts and philosophy. Noura Gamal, a junior student of Chinese, said    6     attracted him most was the Chinese culture and people. He wanted     7    (learn)more about China, an ancient civilization with a unique language, history, literature and culture.

The Chinese pavilion participates in the fair with many rich book titles that increase every year in a very successful effort to bring the    8    (culture) of Egypt and China closer. It is    9     (wide) acknowledged that China’s great development is one of the reasons for the     10     (grow) popularity of Chinese books.

It all started with one half of a five-pound note. In June of 1936, two foreigners, George Hatem and Edgar Snow, checked into a hotel in Xi’an. They wanted to reach Yan’an,     1     city where the headquarters (总部) of the Chinese Red Army was located. They didn’t know how they could get there     2     a Chinese man showed up with one half of a five-pound note. The fact was that Hatem and Snow had the other half of the same five-pound note,     3     (give) to them as a secret key to visit Yan’an. So as the two halves     4     (piece) together, Hatem and Snow found the right person     5     (take) them to their destination. They were among the first foreigners to set foot in the headquarters of the Red Army. It was also this trip     6     enabled Snow to write Red Star Over China.

The trip’s impact on Hatem was equally profound if not     7     (deep). Their visit was originally set for three     8     (month), but near the end of the journey, Hatem decided to stay, and later     9     (serve) as a public health adviser. It was Hatem who introduced a group of international medical professionals including Norman Bethune to China. They supported China’s war efforts and helped to lay the foundation for a new public healthcare system.

In 1950, Hatem became the first foreigner to obtain a Chinese citizenship. He spent the rest of his life in China,     10     (devote) himself to the treatment of leprosy (麻风病) until his death in October 1998.

China’s next-generation rocket to carry humans is expected to make its maiden flight around 2027, said a project manager.

Zhao Xinguo,a senior rocket    1     (design) and head of the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology’s rocket development department, said the new rocket,which has yet to be named, is an important backbone in China’s ambitious plan    2     (place) its astronauts on the moon.“According to our schedule, all necessary conditions for the rocket’s    3     (one) launch mission will be ready in 2027,” he said on Monday in Zhuhai, Guangdong province, one day ahead of the 14th China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition, the largest arms show in the country.

Zhao said that the new rocket will be about 90 meters tall,     4     a diameter (直径) of 5 meters, which means it will be almost twice as tall as the Long March 5,     5     (current) the biggest in China’s rocket family. The craft will be capable of carrying spacecraft     6     (weigh) about 27 tons into an Earth-moon transfer trajectory (轨道),     7     gateway for lunar landing, or a70- ton spacecraft into a low-Earth orbit, according to the project manager.

Hu Xiaojun, a rocket researcher at the academy, said the new heavy-lift rocket     8     ( intend) for the country ‘s future manned spaceflights,     9     will be carried out by a new- generation spaceship, and manned lunar explorations that Chinese    10     (scientist) have been planning for a long time.

A group of 10 high-profile figures and common citizens gifted with wisdom, bravery and determination, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Yang Zhenning included,     1     (honor) as inspiration-al role models in this year’s Touching China awards announced by China Central Television on Thursday this March.

Yang Zhenning, a     2     (respect) Nobel Prize-winning physicist, became the first Chinese-American scientist to return to China after the US just lifted the ban on     3     (visit) to China in 1971. Yang also sponsored a number of Chinese scholars so they could have opportunities     4     (further) their studies in the US.

Another nominee was Su Bingtian, the first Chinese athlete     5     competed in the men’s 100-meter sprint final at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. At     6     age of 32, he shocked the world by finishing first in his group     7     a time of 9.83 seconds on the semi- final.

This year’s Touching China awards also focused on China’s space community for opening new horizons in the starry ocean of the cosmos,     8     (include) building China’s own space station, Tianwen-1, and the exploration of Mars.

In 2021, the war epic film, The Battle at Lake Changjin,     9     (take) the Chinese audiences to the site of a battle during the War to Resist the US Aggression and Aid Korea. Moviegoers learned about Zhu Yanfu, the only     10     (survive) of the battle and one of the winners for this year’s Touching China awards.

Wang Chenxue now works for a nonprofit organization     1     (call) Enjoy Volunteering (EV). The organization aims at financing college students to organize summer camps for students in rural areas to cultivate young people with social responsibility. In the past two years, the 25-year-old, along with other 10 team members,     2     (volunteer) at a rural elementary school through an EV program in Dazhaizi village of Qinghai province.

Wang is responsible     3     teaching geography. As students in rural areas have fewer opportunities to travel to cities, she chooses to introduce modern cities around China to her class. “I hope it can broaden their horizons     4     inspire their imagination for their future by presenting the development and daily life in big cities. Perhaps they will be motivated to study hard to change     5     (they) lives,” Wang said.

    6     (additional), she is also a leader of a team     7     (consist) of eight members. They have organized     8     (variety) extracurricular activities for students to take part in, such as reading picture books, drama performance and handiwork (手工制作). Their main task is to make them feel visible and valued and help them build     9     (confident).

These experiences are truly unforgettable,     10     help her find true passion in rural education and realize the true meaning of short-term volunteer teaching in rural areas.

Thirty-six visually-impaired (视力缺损的) visitors head to the Hulun Buir grassland in north China’s Inner. Mongolia. Li Manshuo is one of the volunteers    1    (accompany)them. Her “job” is to help three group members “experience” the sights as best they can.

Li is studying    2     a master’s degree in tourism management and she’s using her midterm break to undertake the trip. “Visually-impaired travelers get the experience     3    (main) through smelling or listening, or touching with their hands,” Li says. “Also, with our     4    (describe), they can create a picture of the scene in their minds.”

Guiding instead of taking over, Mei Zhiyu is the director of Zhisu Commonweal Organization, a Suzhou-based non-profit organization that, through    5    (it) own travel agency, has given more than 1, 000 brave blind and low-vision travelers the chance    6    (explore) places all over China.

Before a tour sets out, the volunteers, each of     7     is normally assigned to two or three travelers, receive safety instructions and basic training. Throughout the trip, their performance     8    (assess) by Mei on a daily basis. “The most important thing is not to think of them as incapacitated people,” he says.

“Actually, most visually-impaired people have a     9    (great) capacity to look after themselves than we think, and we try to offer them the same experiences as sighted travelers.”

Mei likes his role to work like a bridge, connecting the visually-impaired to the outside world. “Even though they can’t see,”he says, “they can experience     10     world in other ways.”

Whenever celebrations or major events take place, people in Wenxi county, North China’s Shanxi province, roll out huamo, flour and flower-shaped buns(馍)that can date back     1     the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911)     2     (dynasty), to entertain guests for promising outcomes in the future.

“I grew up     3     (watch)my grandmother and mother make the flower-shaped buns,     4     I learned to make huamo after watching them. The buns are always     5     (close)connected to local folk culture, ” says Zhi Jiankang, a provincial inheritor (传承人)of the skill that was named a national intangible cultural heritage in 2008.

Wenxi huamo has evolved into four categories with more than 200 varieties over the years.     6     (difference)from traditional dough(面团) modeling that is mostly just for artistic appreciation, huamo can     7     (eat)by guests after serving the symbolic purpose.

In 2006, Zhi filmed a 70-year-old village woman making the traditional food. The 15-minute film,     8     was recorded by Zhi with the purpose of introducing Wenxi huamo, created a national sensation. From that moment on, huamo made its presence     9     (feel)across the country and beyond.

So far, there     10     (be)two large huamo enterprises and 12 cooperatives in Wenxi, with more than 1, 000 locals working for them. The annual output value has reached 10 million yuan.

Canada, which     1     (make) up of ten provinces and three territories, is a broad and beautiful country     2     (stretch) from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. There is great diversity in geography in Canada. It includes the grand Rocky Mountains     3     high peaks and deep valleys carved by ice and water, ancient slow-moving glaciers hugging the land and a huge variety of wildlife     4     (wander) the remote forests.

Apart from its geographical diversity, Canada’s many rural areas and urban centers reflect the diversity of its residents. Some of Canada’s     5     (early) settlers,       6     are thought to be ancestors of the indigenous peoples, crossed the Bering Strait by means of a land bridge from a place now known as Siberia. Today, Canada reflects a vast     7     (combine) of ethnic backgrounds. About one out of five of its population is foreign-born.

This ethnic variety, in turn, brings     8     cultural diversity. Should you find yourself in one of these     9     (subculture), languages, cuisine, architecture, art and music will define your encounter. As you are exposed     10     diverse cultures, you may feel transported through time and space.