Gather together a couple of good friends and take a leisurely walk through the streets—this is     1     many youngsters in China enjoy doing when they visit a new city.

To them, Citywalk means roaming (漫步) around the city on foot. It can be a special     2     (guide) trip for a small group of people,     3     simply a leisurely walk for one or two to explore new areas, sticking to the key point: avoiding famous scenic spots and big crowds to gain     4     more inclusive experience of the places they visit.

Citywalk not only offers a way for young people to interact with a city but also     5     (provide) them with a new social scene. Xiao Yiyi, a Citywalk     6     (enthusiastic), launched her Changsha route on her social media account, including more offbeat sights like historical sites and even a stop-off     7     (sample) the local cuisine. Many tour guides also try to expand their influence online,     8     (share) their experiences to attract potential customers.

Citywalk is offering a positive change to urban travelers as they can     9     (well) choose the experiences that fit in with their interests and needs. At the same time, Citywalk represents an opportunity for tour guides and travel service providers to offer a more tailored,     10     (profession) service to meet ever-changing market demands.

In recent years, shared vegetable plots (地块) have been appearing in Shanghai’s suburban districts as more white-collar workers turn to farming to relax and escape the pressures of city life.

Among these individuals     1    (be) Yang Rui, who, on weekends, drives his family from their home in downtown to the All-Happy City,     2     shared ecological farm in Minhang, where he has rented a 20-square-meter vegetable plot for 1,600 yuan per year. The family tends carrots, lettuce and other vegetables they have planted. When they aren’t around during the week,     3    (professional) take over the work and perform whatever chores     4    (need).

This farm has about 200 members, some of     5     even raise chickens and ducks that wander in the fields.

    6    (found) by Chen Yougui in October, the shared farm has an area of 13.33 hectares     7     comes with shared vegetable plots and leisure areas. According to Chen, the monitoring system     8    (cover) the entire farmland allows members to view their vegetables and fields remotely through their phones. The farm also uses technology to ensure that the chickens and ducks raised     9     customers don’t go missing or end up in someone else’s plot — each animal comes with its own QR code.

Chen notes that many of his customers are parents who rent plots     10    (primary) to teach their kids about science and nature and how farming works.

The term “car boot sale” refers to the selling of items from a car’s trunk (后备箱). Most of the goods on sale are used personal items with only a few of professional traders     1     (sell) goods. However, in a growing trend (趋势), all-year hard-standing outdoor boot sales, are now appearing everywhere, especially in China,     2     (know) as the trunk fairs. It is very welcoming to those     3     want to run their own business at a low cost. Items for sale are extremely varied, including snacks and soft drinks. The youth in China are exploring a new lifestyle through the trunk fairs.

Open mainstream Chinese social media and you might get the impression that poetry is making     1     comeback among the country’s young generation. Lifestyle-sharing platform Xiaohongshu has organized online activities such as “poems battle”and “poetry Renaissance”. Poetry-related postings on the platform have over 3 million views and likes. Poetry societies     2     (establish) accounts on the video-sharing website Bilibili so far, gaining over 132, 000 followers. “Now I’m happy to see poetry making a rebound,     3     shows that poetry never dies as it always finds a way to keep its heart beating,”said Zhou Yuchen, a postgraduate at King’s College London.

Before we abandoned the ship, Shackleton calmly called us together and told us to rescue our    1    (essential) supplies — the small boats, our food, the cook stove, candles, clothes and blankets. We were not allowed to take most of our personal belongings, and Shackleton    2    (he) threw away all his gold.    3    (surprising), he allowed Hussey to keep his banjo in order to keep our spirits up. Soon    4    we arrived at Elephant Island, Shackleton selected a boat party and set off for South Georgia Island to get help. We    5    (struggle) for months since their departure, but things on Elephant Island are going    6    bad to worse. Thanks to Frank and Ernest, were it not for their genuine concern for others, their    7    (persevere) and their resolve, we would all be dead by now.

Ever since February, the public concern over the giant panda Ya Ya in the US has grown into a “campaign” among Chinese people all around the world to check how our cute and     1     (innocence) pandas are surviving in overseas zoos.

Enthusiastic Chinese netizens (网民) around the world     2     (respective) visited nearby zoos and posted on Chinese social media platforms videos that showed pandas’ living conditions.

In a video, a panda was showed     3     (eat) bamboos in the yard of the Beauval Zoo in France while another panda was sleeping on the grass and a third one climbing a tree.

Among all the overseas zoos “surprisingly     4     (inspect)”, Moscow Zoo and the Panda World of Everland Resort in South Korea gained Chinese netizens’     5     (recognize). They stood out as Chinese netizens     6    (praise) their efforts in taking good care of two lovely pandas,     7     names are Ding Ding and Ru Yi.

“They are real kungfu pandas.” Chinese commented     8     the videos of Ding Ding and Ru Yi.

The life of these energetic     9     lovely pandas revealed a sharp contrast to that of Ya Ya at the Memphis Zoo. We hope the issue of Ya Ya could raise public attention on the living conditions of pandas, animals that     10    (refer) to as “living fossils”.