Qinqiang opera is widely considered to be the forefather of all styles of Chinese opera. The name “Qin”     1     (original) comes from the fact that Qinqiang opera dates all the way back to the Qin Dynasty and its heritage stretches back over 2,500 years,     2     (make) it one of the oldest forms of opera in China.

Supposedly Qinqiang opera     3     (start) in the fields and farms of the northwestern provinces, when locals would shout to one another from across the fields. Eventually these locals developed a system of     4     (shout) songs to communicate with one another and this is where Qinqiang gets     5     (it) distinctive “shouted out” style of singing. Thanks to this unusual singing style, Qinqiang opera is considered one of the “ten strange wonders of Shaanxi province”.

Qinqiang was also one of the earliest forms of opera     6     (focus) on the expression of human emotion. Most Qinqiang operas describe stories of ancient wars of resistance     7    foreign invaders (入侵者), battles between good and evil. They were designed to reflect the honesty,     8     (brave) and diligence of the common people of Northwest China.

Qinqiang is not just about the singing; it is     9     complete performance art and includes dancing, acrobatics (杂技) and martial arts into every performance. Furthermore, it boasts such unique performing skills as spitting fire     10     hat dances by the performers.

In 2006, it was listed as a National Intangible Culture Heritage by the Chinese government.

A slow train in Southwest China having     1     own study room has attracted much attention from netizens. Train No.5609/5610, which runs between Chongqing and Xiushan county,     2     (be) a public welfare “slow train”.

In some carriages, some     3     (seat) have been replaced with desks and chairs next to the windows to transform them into “study carriages” for passengers in need.

Students from nearby schools     4     (frequent) take the train between school and home. The trains are their “school buses”,     5     many passengers can complete their homework.

On train No.Z150, which runs between Guiyang and Beijing, a     6     (transform) “book bar” carriage has been welcomed by college students. There are nearly 400 universities and colleges in the cities along the line,     7     (make) train No.Z150 the first choice for most students on those campuses.

    8     2015, the train’s dining car has been open for free at night to provide returning students     9     a lending library, free tea and other services. These     10     (thought) measures by the railway department are a welcome comfort for passengers needing a relaxing place to continue their studies.

The Wandering Earth is China’s biggest sci-fi film to date.    1    (direct) by Frant Gwo of My Old Classmate and starring Wu Jing of Wolf Warrior 1 and 2, The Wandering Earth was one of    2    most anticipated films of 2019. The film is based on a short story by Liu Cixin,    3     flagship work The Three Body Problem was     4    (original) supposed to receive the cinematic treatment before production issues shelved the movie.

The film    5     (release) on Feb. 5, 2019. It is set in a future Earth, whose inhabitants prepare to escape from the solar system as the sun expands into a red giant phase,    6    (threaten) to engulf (吞没) Earth in flames. As the expanding sun changes the climate of the earth, the governments of the world unite    7    the leadership of the UN Security Council to build massive engines to push the planet out of the solar system and towards nearby Proxima Centauri. At the same time, the    8     ( resident) of Earth move to underground cities for the thousands-year-long transit.

However, just as the Earth begins on    9     (it) journey across the galaxy, it gets trapped in the gravity well of Jupiter—after which it’s up to Wu Jing’s character Liu Peiqiang, his father, his son, his adopted daughter, and a number of Chinese soldiers and scientists    10     (save) the world.

The world’s oceans reached their hottest level in recorded history last year, supercharging (加剧) extreme weather events, scientists have reported. They found that the five hottest recorded years in the oceans     1    (occur) since 2015, and that the rate of heating since 1986 was eight times higher than     2     from 1960-85. Oceans cover 71% of the planet and water can absorb thousands of times more heat than air,     3     is why 93% of global heating is taken up by seas.

Hotter oceans destroy rainfall patterns, which     4    (lead) to floods, droughts and wildfires. Heat also causes seawater     5     (expand) and drives up sea levels. Scientists expect about one metre of sea level rise by the end of the century,     6    (threaten) 150 million people. Higher temperatures in the seas are also harming marine (海洋的) life, with     7     number of ocean heatwaves increasing     8    (sharp).

The study also finds that the sinking of surface waters and upwelling of deeper water is reducing as the seas heat up. This means the surface layers heats up even further and fewer nutrients for marine life are brought up from the     9    (deep).

“The oceans reached yet another new record level of warmth in 2020,    10     a record drop in global carbon emissions (排放). The planet will continue to warm up as long as we emit carbon into the atmosphere,” said Prof Michael Mann of Penn State University.