Just after finishing his work, Mr. Philips was going to the grocery shop to buy some bananas, but he saw a poor old lady     1     (sell)fresh bananas on the street, so it seemed     2     (convenient)to buy some from her.

The old lady charged $7     3     one kilo of bananas. “But the shop     4     I usually buy from gives them for $5 per kilo!”, Mr. Philips said. “I’m sorry sir, I cannot afford to match that price”, the old lady responded. Mr. Philips said nothing and went to the grocery shop.

    5     , when he wanted to pay for bananas he picked, the cashier told him that the price per kilo was $10. He tried to bargain again, but the manager said coldly, “We do not bargain.” Mr. Philips felt very     6     (annoy)with his attitude, and decided to put the bananas back and go back to the old lady.

She recognized him     7     (instant)and told him, “Sir, I can’t match that price.” “Don’t worry, I will pay you $10 per kilo!” said Mr. Philips. “Now, give me two     8     (kilo)please!” The old lady happily packed the bananas and said, “I can’t accept $10 per kilo but I will accept $7 per kilo. I appreciate your     9     (kind).”

Mr. Philips left the old lady speechless with gratitude, and also recommended many friends to buy bananas from the old lady, which they did. From that day on, she made     10     much better living than ever before.

WeChat, one of the world’s most popular mobile apps and social networks, brought home iF Gold Award for its smart retail innovation, Scan & Go. It is     1     first ever Chinese product to win gold in the iF Service Design category.

Scan & Go enables shoppers at retail stores to turn    2     (they) mobile phones into a virtual checkout counter. When shopping, customers use their mobile phones     3     (scan) product barcodes, view product information, get discounts, complete self-checkout, and pay     4     (direct) within the app via WeChat Pay. There is no queuing up at the cash register. “This concept     5     (show) a customer-centric scan-and-go-solution for an optimized (充分利用的) shopping and retail context. All standards of the good user experience     6     (meet) in this service design, including touchless access, efficiency or ease-of-use in scanning of market products and the final payment and checkout. This is user-friendly design at its     7     (good),” says iF Gold Award in its Gold Statement to Scan & Go.

According to statistics, sales during peak hours in     8     (tradition) supermarkets account for 60% of total turnover, and     9     average customers spend three to five minutes on queuing and payment during peak hours. With Scan & Go, customers no longer have to queue, and the payment time     10     (shorten) to one minute.

More and more people are     1     (use) online shopping apps during the epidemic (疫情) and it has become an important way to buy vegetables. However, online shopping     2     (have) both advantages and disadvantages.

The advantages of these online shopping apps are     3     (clear). First of all, it is convenient to     4     (buy) vegetables online because we can surf the Internet at any     5     (time) anywhere. Besides, there is no doubt     6     discounts on the platform are also attractive. However, its disadvantages can’t be ignored. Staring at the screen is harmful to     7     (we) eyes. Worse still, we don’t have many opportunities to go out, which can also     8     (cause) us to exercise less.

As for me, there are more advantages than disadvantages when shopping online. Just click on the screen and I can     9     (quick) get the fresh vegetables, which brings great convenience to my life. I have been using this online shopping app for over two     10     (year). It is of great help to me.

A famous painting of Marilyn Monroe created by American artist Andy Warhol was sold for $195 million on Monday. That is     1     most ever paid in a public sale for a work by an American. Warhol painted Shot Sage Blue Marilyn in 1964. The     2    (color) image shows Monroe with yellow hair, blue eye shadow and bright red lips, with a rich blue background.

The sale took place at Christie’s auction (拍卖) house in New York. Many     3    (representative) from Christie’s said the painting became the costliest work of art ever     4    (sell) from the 20th century. Warhol’s painting passed the earlier record holder, Jean Michel Basquiat. His 1982 painting Untitled of a skull-like face was sold for a record $ 110.5 million in 2017 at Sotheby’s in New York. Warhol created     5    (much) than one image of Monroe. The Shot Sage Blue Marilyn painting has been shown     6     museums around the world. Christie’s said an unnamed buyer made the purchase on Monday night.

When the auction     7    (announce) earlier this year, Christie’s estimated it could go for as much as $ 200 million. “It’s an     8    (amaze) price,” said Alex Rotter, chairman of Christie’s 20th and 21st century art department. “Let it sink in. It’s quite something.”

The earnings of the sale will go to the Thomas and Doris Ammann Foundation Zurich,     9     puts the painting up for auction. The foundation aims     10    (help) children with health care and educational programs.

Chinese archaeologists(考古学家)announced Saturday that six “sacrificial pits”,     1     (date) back 3200 to 4000 years, were newly discovered in Sanxingdui Ruins site in Guanghan, southwest China's Sichuan province.

Sanxingdui went viral among netizens again and some     2     (be) even eager for some hands-on experiences.

Therefore, Archaeological blind boxes rolled out by several museums in China were trending on a major online shopping platform, with     3     (buy) saying that it allowed them to “experience the joys of digging cultural relics     4     an archaeologist.”

Henan Museum integrated the blind box concept with cultural relics, and hid “miniature cultural relics” such as bronze and china in the soil. Using a Luoyang shovel(铁铲),and a brush     5     (sweep) away the dirt, and digging a blind box, you can harvest a piece of bronzeware from the Shang Dynasty     6     a china bottle from the Song Dynasty.

The idea has proved     7     (wild) popular with many young people. Most of the blind boxes     8     (sell) out as soon as they are restocked. Those who were lucky enough to place an order shared     9     (they) experience of digging the blind box online. One said, “Wearing gloves, I feel like     10     archaeologist !”