As a game of     1     (wise), Go is a legacy of traditional Chinese arts, considered one of the most important qualities of ancient Chinese literati (文人学士).

Appearing over 4,000 years ago in ancient China, Go was first introduced into Japan during the Sui and Tang Dynasties and into Europe in the 19th century. To date, it     2     (spread) to more than 40 countries.

The traditional game of Go also boasts a number of legends about its origin. It’s said that Emperor Yao became very disheartened when his son behaved     3     (bad). So Yao made the game of Go     4     (cultivate) him morally and intellectually.

It is     5    exciting and intense game and the situation on the board keeps changing and unpredictable. Players have to turn to all sorts of tactics in order to defeat their opponents.

Wu Qingyuan, a Chinese Go legend,     6     (regard) as the greatest Go player ever, once said, “Although Go is a     7     (compete) game, winning should never be seen as the final goal. It will teach you to think through things     8     to remain calm in the face of defeat”.

Go can take     9     other meanings to its players: a mirror of one’s personality, a mental “workout” and a beautiful art in     10     black and white pieces dance in balance across the board. Therefore, Go has become more and more popular among young people.

A 10-year-old boy, Vidyun R Hebbar, has won a prestigious (有声望的) international wildlife photography competition for his shot of a spider     1     (make) its web in the light of a passing tuk tuk. The fifth grader,     2     started taking photographs at the age of three, lives in Bengaluru and     3     (enjoy) capturing (捕捉) everyday city creatures that are often overlooked. He found this tiny tent spider, with a leg span of less than 15 mm, in its web in     4    gap in a wall at the local theme park. A passing tuk tuk provided the     5    (color) backdrop to set off the spider’s web, a network of tangled threads that formed a dome and made it difficult for prey (猎物)     6    (escape).

You never know where that award-winning image is going to come from. “The judges loved this photo from the beginning of the judging process,” said Dr. Natalie Cooper. “It is a great reminder to look more     7    (close) at the small animals we live     8     every day, and to take your camera with you everywhere.”

Vidyun     9     (win) at the age of 10. His photograph also earned him the overall title of Young Wildlife Photographer of the Year, which is open to     10     (photograph) aged up to18. The famous awards celebrate the beauty of our natural world, including habitats, animal behaviour and extraordinary species.

As of June, China had about 285 million Internet users living in rural areas,     1     (account) for over 30 percent of the country’s total, according to a recent report on China’s Internet development. The number of rural Internet users in China     2     (grow) by over 30 million in the last few months.

The report said the Internet is playing a     3     (great) role than ever in the country’s poverty(贫困) reduction efforts, with the public’s participation in and recognition of relevant campaigns on the rise. It said as of June,online promotions of     4     (agriculture) products from remote areas had reached more than half of the Chinese Internet users,     5     that more than one third of netizens had bought such products via online platforms.

Meanwhile, the report shows that e-commerce livestreaming(直播) grew     6     (increasing) active in the first half of the year. As of June, the number of e-commerce livestreaming users in China had hit 309 million, up 16.7 percent from March. China saw over 10 million livestreaming marketing activities in the first half of this year, attracting over 50 billion     7     (view), the report noted.

The report said the Internet can contribute significantly     8     China’s anti-poverty goal by providing jobs, social security and medical service information for     9     poor and allowing children in poverty-stricken areas     10     (access) better education.

It’s not unusual for a person to help someone else out without getting anything in return. But this    1    (behave) hadn’t been seen in birds. That’s why scientists created an experiment    2     (design) to test whether African grey parrots were willing to help each other out.

The first step was to teach the parrots to trade tokens (代币) for food,     3    were small metal rings. When the parrots gave these tokens back to the researchers, every time each parrot was given     4     walnut they enjoyed. Once they knew how    5    (exchange) tokens for walnuts, two parrots were put in clear plastic cages next to each other,     6    an opening between the two cages.

There was a feeding window in both cages that allowed the scientists to give walnuts to the parrots. Then the feeding window     7    (close) for one of the parrots, who had been given ten tokens. The results showed this parrot that couldn’t trade for walnuts would pass a token     8     (eager), beak-to-beak, to the bird in the next cage, who could then trade it for a walnut.

“Many of the parrots tested passed all 10 tokens, always     9    (watch) how their partners got the food and getting nothing for     10    (they). How unselfish they were!” said Desiree Brucks, the lead scientist.