For some people in China, the aim of travel is to create 15-second videos. It’s not about where you’ve been, but about where you’re seen to have been.

Situated on cliffs above a river, Hongyadong is a stilt house complex (建筑群) in     1    city of Chongqing. The bars, restaurants and golden neon lights    2     (be) a popular draw since it was built in 2006. Last year the number of visitors increased    3    (sharp).

The main reason, it seemed, was Hongyadong’s sudden popularity on an app, Douyin,     4    aim is not to produce a well-crafted video, but simply    5    (show) that you have also been to the popular places. The beauty of the    6    (attract) is less important than the fact that people are flocking there to daka.

A subculture of young people who embrace daka as a lifestyle has developed. So-called daka Zu—“daka tribes”—can    7    (find) roaming various scenic spots, checking out as many hot locations    8    possible within a single day.

The daka craze may have    9    (practice)origins. China’s young urban professionals don’t have so much free time. Sometimes, they need to work overtime. So they have to make the best use of their    10    (limit) leisure time. Douyin captures the mood with its slogan.“ Make every second count.”

Recently, an Internet slang word foxi - or “Buddhist” - is becoming increasingly popular as it encourages people, especially     1     young to remain calm and peaceful and avoid conflicts as much as possible - in other words, to live like a Buddha.

The word     2     (create) for the first time in 2014 in Japan to describe young men     3     no longer bother to start relationships with women or follow someone else’s life path. They prefer to stay in their own peaceful world without     4     (disturb) and care little about passion and success.

In this fast-changing and competitive world, many people are     5     heavy pressure. It’s only natural that people are seeking a spiritual bay.

However, some would compare “foxi” with “demotivational (无动力的) culture”- a phrase that describes young people feeling     6     (aim) and incapable. They say that foxi actually reflects the reality that young people are losing their will to fight. They are pretending     7     (keep) a healthy and wise attitude towards     8     (fail) simply because they have no ability to succeed.

All in all, there is one thing that “Buddhist Youngsters” should     9    (basic) keep in mind: You may want to keep a calm mindset,     10     you should never stop fighting for yourselves!

Young Chinese consumers are becoming fans of home-made brands and turning their back on foreign products.

According to a recent survey by weniuan.com, about 96% of the     1     (interview) young people said they were willing to purchase guochao products, which refer to products produced by homegrown brands. At the same time, 91.6% of them expressed their     2    (expectation) for more video programs digging deeper into traditional Chinese culture than before. Over the past decade, Chinese food, drink and personal care brands     3     (expand) their market share by 3.3% to nearly 70%.     4     (gradual), the opinion that foreign products are superior has been abandoned by Chinese youngsters.

The age group of the interviewees ranged from the post-90s generation     5    the post-2000s generation. Unlike older generations     6     might favor Western culture and brands, young Chinese people     7     (raise) when the country’s economy was taking off, so they tend to have strong confidence in their     8    (nation) identity and culture.

The young people, who nowadays have access to     9     wide variety of China’s cultural heritages, are carrying the responsibility of       10     (spread) Chinese culture. Obviously, they’re really doing well.

Many people may think the Forbidden city, or the Palace Museum , is     1     outstanding and old-fashioned museum.     2    , in recent years, the museum has been working hard     3     (promote) Chinese cultural heritage among the young people.

The museum’s online store now offers special cultural and creative     4     (product). For example, in 2014, it     5    (begin) to sell earphones that look like the necklaces worn by ancient officials, which even brought in    6     (rough) 1 billion yuan a year.

Last year, a documentary     7    (name) Masters in the Forbidden City became popular online. It is about the people     8     job is to repair the relics in the museum. Many of these workers are very young and some are even    9    their 20s.

Some other museums across the country, such as the National Museum of China,     10     (inspire) by the Palace Museum’s efforts and are working on similar projects of their own.

9 . 语法填空

Newspapers, magazines, even online articles offer reading materials. More strictly speaking, reading means reading books. However, online materials are taking     1     place of books, and reading books seems to go out of fashion nowadays.     2     reading habits have changed can be felt from the amount of time young people spend     3     (sweep) through short videos on their smartphones.

Some people claim short videos contain much information, and are easier to look through. But by     4    (compare) with books, short videos have fragmented (碎片化的) and disorganized contents, which could affect people’s understanding of a subject. Reading articles and short posts         5     (play) an important role in integrating knowledge and achievements. But fragmented knowledge could prevent us from acting in a     6     ( practice ) manner or thinking logically.

A country’s true development is measured from such     7     (aspect): its philosophical development, its scientific development and its technological development. Cultural development, too, is important. But     8     the help of books, people cannot take the development forward. Since more and more people could     9     (bare) discover the charm of reading now, there is a need, therefore,     10     (seek) novel ways to guide them toward books.

In the past a gentleman would offer his seat to a lady on a     1     (crowd) bus. But now, he will probably look out of the window or hide behind his newspaper,    2    (leave) the lady standing     3     someone else gets off. Some ladies still feel they have no choice but     4     (blame) the rude man. But time is changing. You can’t entirely blame men for this change in manners. The days are gone when women could     5     (refer) to as the weak. A whole generation has grown up demanding     6    (equal) with men in jobs, in education and in social life. Hold a door for some women,     7     you are likely to get     8     angry lecture on treating women as weaklings (弱者). Take a girl out for a meal and she’ll probably insist on paying     9     share of the bill. All these, according to some sociologists, will change men’s attitude towards women and the traditional politeness is perhaps slowly being     10     (replace) by true consideration for the needs and feelings of women, so that men can see women as equal human beings.