On August 1st, 2022, we jointly celebrated the 95th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army with its     1     (big)ever program of events and celebrations. From the frontier to the southeast coast across China, tens of thousands of Chinese people held diverse activities to celebrate the     2     (arrive)of the Army Day.

Ninety-five years ago, more than 30,000 northern expedition soldiers,     3     (lead)by the Communist Party of China, fired the first shot against Kuomintang reactionaries in Nanchang, Jiangxi province. After that, through a fierce battle of all night the Nanchang Uprising troops     4     (capture)Ruijin,     5     the August 1st Army Day was born finally.

On the occasion of     6     (celebrate)the 95th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army, the Central Military Commission held a grand ceremony to award the August 1 Medal and titles in Beijing on July 27     7     honor of those great heroes.

Over 95 years, it is always     8     festival not only with faith and ambition     9     also a festival of great love, trust, and respect. This year’s August 1st Army Day marks the 95th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army. Let’s pay tribute to the Chinese soldiers     10     (sincere)!

In 1890 Yosemite became a national park. It had been inhabited (居住) by Miwok people for some 4,000 years. Yet during the Gold Rush from 1849 to 1851, the land saw the coming of thousands of miners. In 1851 the Miwok people began to be removed by force from their homes. By 1910, just one in ten of the original inhabitants remained.

This national park was established on 25 September 1890. It was created protect the towering sequoia trees. Today, the oldest tree in the 629-square mile park is the General Sherman Tree -it’s thought to be 2,300 to 2,700 years old. The park’s diverse landscape includes the Sierra Nevada mountains, as well as deep valleys, craggy foothills and impressive caves.

It might look like a western film but Deadwood is the real deal. After the discovery of gold in the nearby southern Black Hills in 1874, some 250,000 miners poured to the region and the city was founded in 1876. Owing its name to the dead trees filling the valley in which it was built, it quickly earned a reputation as a lawless outpost associated with gambling, gold seekers and Wild West legends (传奇).

Whitney Plantation is a reminder of America’s history of slavery (奴隶制). Established in 1752, the site was home to more than 350 slaves, whose names can be seen carved onto the Wall of Honor today. A recording from 1819 reveals that 19 out of the 61 slaves on the plantation at the time were African -born survivors of an Atlantic crossing. Today, visitors can learn more about the lives of enslaved people during this period.

Two young Chinese athletes placed a torch in the center of a giant snowflake during the opening ceremony of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games. One of the two athletes, Dinigeer Yilamujiang, was born in the Altay Prefecture,    1    (locate) in the northern part of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region,    2    (wide) acknowledged as the birthplace of human skiing.

In earlier times, artifacts from Scandinavian and Russian archaeology proved the    3    (exist) of ancient skiing, with the oldest found in Russia    4    (date) back to 7,000-8,000 years ago. In 2005,the record    5    (break). A group of farmers in the Altay region went to a cave to hide from the rain,only    6    (find) cave paintings describing men stepping on twin snowboards    7    prey（猎物）carried on their backs. It turned out that， according to archaeologists’ analyses, the cave paintings were drawn 12,000 years ago, some 4,000 years     8     the artifacts from Russia that were believed to have been made.

After Beijing’s successful bid to host the Winter Olympics, experts from 18 countries including Norway and Russia paid a visit to Altay to study the “potential origin of human skiing activity, ” after    9    they jointly issued a declaration in 2015, recognizing Xinjiang's Altay as the    10    (early) skiing region in the world.

The Oscars are held every March in the city of Los Angeles. Many of Hollywood’s biggest     1     (celebrity) attend this event,    2     (hope) to win an Oscar award. Since the first ceremony in 1929,    3     only fifteen awards were given out, the Oscars have grown in size and popularity. Now, more than fifty of the gold-plated statues are made every year in the city of Chicago. They then     4     (transport) to Los Angeles for the awards show.

However, on March 8, 2000, someone stole the fifty-five Oscar statues that were made for that year’s ceremony. Soon after, the trucking company     5     (responsibility) for transporting the statues offered a $50,000 reward for them.

A few days later, Willie Fulgear was looking for some boxes in a garbage can near his home in the Koreatown district of Los Angeles. Willie was moving out of his apartment and he needed boxes     6     (pack) his things in. Searching through the can, he found some white boxes. He opened one of them and found an Oscar inside. He had the other boxes     7     (tear) open and got fifty-two Oscars, all     8     perfect condition. He immediately called the police.

Finally Willie Fulgear received     9     $50,000 reward and an invitation to the Oscar ceremony. He didn’t receive an award for his honesty     10     he did go from litter to glitter (闪光) in just one week.