This year marks the 15th anniversary of China’s Double 11 online shopping festival.

The first Double 11 event     1     (initiate) by Alibaba on November 11 in 2009 and has become the largest e-commerce shopping gala in the world today. Every year people usually look forward to this online shopping festival at     2     many merchants will do promotional activities. The     3     (innovation) marketing model has profoundly transformed China’s     4     (consume) market and injected enormous power into the country’s economic development.

This year’s Double 11 shopping festival witnessed     5     increase in consumers’ demand and enthusiasm     6     quality products.

According to Tmall, a leading online retail platform affiliated with Alibaba, 155 brands achieved sales of over 100 million yuan ($13.72 million) as soon as the event     7     (official) started at 8 pm on October 31. 71,900 brands broke the first-day     8     (sale) record of last year in the first hour     9     business volume of 29 livestreammg rooms hit 100 million yuan at the start.

Over the past 15 years, the Double 11 festival has become the most important platform     10     (satisfy) the needs of consumers as well as promote economic development in China.

Chinese martial arts (武术), African tribal dances, and Brazil’s Samba set off waves of     1     (applaud) from the audience in mid-October. The 8th International Festival of Intangible Cultural Heritage was held     2     Chengdu, the capital of southwestern China’s Sichuan province.

The five-day event brought together around 6,000 performers     3     engaged in more than 900 performances of intangible cultural heritage from 47 countries and     4     (region).

It was co-hosted by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the Sichuan government and the National Commission of the People’s Republic of China for UNESCO, and aimed     5     (show) China’s efforts to implement the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage and promote     6     (tradition) Chinese culture.

Five exhibitions,     7     (include) those featuring intangible cultural heritage in modern life, and international craftsmanship,     8     (stage) to expose the public to the cultural charm, and thus promote the inheritance of heritage.

“The framework of the convention     9     (full) recognizes the significance of intangible cultural heritage in empowering and ensuring sustainable development,” Shahbaz Khan, representative of UNESCO Multi-sectoral Regional Office for East Asia, said as he addressed the forum via     10     video.

Many years ago I     1     (drive) on the motorway (高速公路) when the car in front of me had a tyre blowout (轮胎爆裂). The car changed its     2     (direct) suddenly and then stopped on the hard shoulder. I pulled in behind the car and went to see if the driver was OK. The     3     (frighten) lady driver asked whether she could use my phone. I agreed and waited outside the car as she sat in the car and made a phone call to her husband. Then I     4     (ask) by the woman to drive her to the nearest motorway service station, which was about 3 miles away.

Soon we drove down to the motorway services and went inside     5     (have) a cup of coffee. The place was so empty that I didn’t like the idea of       6     (leave) her on her own. I stayed with her until her husband turned up about 2 hours later. They both thanked me     7     my kindness.

About 2 years later, I went for     8     interview for a position in a bank. The interviewer was just the lady     9     had the blowout on the motorway. In the interview she said with excitement, “I already know what kind of person you are. The job is     10     (you) if you want it.”

Ar Horqin Grassland Nomadic System in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region, listed on the list of Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems by the United Nations,     1     (demonstrate) the wisdom of herdsmen to work in harmony with nature.

The     2     (season) movement of herds among different pastures (牧场) plays an important role in maintaining the self-renewal and recovery     3     (capable) of the grasslands. While keeping soil fertility from degrading, the nomadic lifestyle can protect vegetation and make good use of water resources,     4     the growing population of people and livestock, still puts much pressure     5     the grassland resources. Locals have, therefore, come up with ways to avoid overgrazing. With ancestral wisdom     6     (root) in a time of relatively small societies, it may be unable to solve issues today. This is     7     modern planning can help with.

For example, since 2015, under the guidance of the local government of Ar Horqin Banner, the number of sheep and goats in the nomadic system     8     (reduce) from 390,000 to 190,000, while the number of cattle has been increased from 40,000 to 81,000 head. No more than 100,000 sheep are allowed to migrate to the summer camps every year. With     9     (scientific) designed grazing patterns ensuring sustainable development of the grasslands, herdsmen can maintain     10     more balanced relationship with nature.

9 . 语法填空

Xie Xiaohua, a special education teacher has won the heart of hundreds of children with special needs and is called Mom Xiaohua by many of them.

“It is my greatest happiness and     1     (fulfill) to care for them as they grow up,” said 49-year-old Xie, who     2     (work) at Yiyuan County Special Education School for the past 27 years.

Fully aware     3    the difference between special education and general education, Xie provides     4     (specialize) care for each student according to their physical condition. In 2013, Xie’s workload became heavier after she     5     (assign) to work at the school’s rehabilitation(康复) center.     6     (ensure) every child received scientific and targeted rehabilitation training, she worked out specific plans for them. For children with mental handicaps, Xie     7     (patient) coached them to master basic skills of taking care of themselves in daily life. She also spent lots of time training children with hearing and speech impairments to work on their pronunciation, which often caused her to develop     8    swollen throat.

Several years ago, the school launched a campaign of offering door-to-door education to students     9     could not attend school because of severe physical disabilities. Xie was among over 30 teachers     10     (task) with tutoring those students. “Although we do feel exhausted sometimes, we feel our work is valuable after witnessing their progress, even just a little bit,” Xie said.