On a recent Sunday afternoon, 15 young people lay comfortably on colorful carpets and throw pillows arranged in    1    circle. Their eyes were closed, some with their legs spread forward and    2    curled up, looking as if they were asleep.

Kong Yi sat cross-legged before them, using a special stick to hit lightly metal bowls in front of her, making a sound    3    reverberated(回荡)long inside the quiet room. Following Kong’s    4    (instruction), they went in for a two-hour sound treating and meditation(冥想)course. Listening to the slowly disappearing sounds of age-old musical instruments such as singing bowls and gongs, the members reached a deeper center and a semi-conscious(半意识)state.

After, they were guided into supposing that they    5    (talk) to a wise man dressed in white, during which they could ask questions and get answers from the wise man in half an hour. In the final part, they were pulled    6    (share) their heart conversations with other members. “In that class, many people asked the meaning of life in the end    7    everyone gave different answers from the wise man —     8    (actual) themselves, ” said Kong, who runs a work room offering treating courses connected with art forms    9    painting, music and dance.

Such spiritual, meditative experiences that can lower stress and worry have become the    10    (late) choice for the country’s stressed-out younger generation looking for relaxation and heart exploration.

Stall holders (小摊贩) at     1     bustling night market in Dongyang, Zhejiang province, now have one less thing to worry about after the local trade union federation helped establish a child care center, which spend the same amount of time on a daily basis tending their youngsters as they do     2     (earn) bread and butter at night.

The center     3     (launch) in June on Zhenxing Road to help relieve the pressure on many of those running its 435 street stalls, many of     4     are migrant workers from around the country     5     local relatives to help take care of their children.

During a visit     6     (early) this year to the crowded and noisy market in the     7     (city) Wuning subdistrict, Mao Fenghua, head of the local trade union federation, found a child doing homework near a street stall. “The night market is noisy and crowded. It is hard for the children to keep their attention     8     (focus) on their studies with all the noise, and the parents will never be able to concentrate on their business     9     they have to look after their children,” she said.

Mao visited every stall along the road to learn about     10     (convenient) facing the parents. One of these was Xia Qiongfang, from Hubei province, who sells screen protectors for mobile devices at the night market alongside her husband.

Tom spent most of his time searching for information on the Internet each day, which made his parents worried. In his father’s opinion,     1     (sit) in front of a computer did great harm to his son's health. However, he found that it was no use     2     (advise) Tom to spend less time on the Internet, for he wouldn’t listen. Tom told his parents that that was what his job required. His mother wanted him to change his job, but Tom said that he was fond of it and     3     (stay) up late had become his habit.

In my opinion, it is not wise to spend too much time on the Internet.     4     (have) a rest regularly will be of great help while working at the computer. In addition,     5     (set) aside some time to relax is also very important.

ChatGPT     1     (take) the world by storm since it launched last November. The AI chatbot answers questions online in text form in     2     human -like way, and it can also write its responses in different styles, such as, that of a student writing an essay.

Some teachers are worried about how many of their pupils are using it to do their homework for     3     (they) and have written to parents warning them about it Others say they can spot its prose (行文方式), and there are now tools being released     4     claim to be able to distinguish human text from that     5     (write) by artificial intelligence.

But the cat is out of the bag, and now the International Baccalaureate (文凭组织) says its students can take advantage     6     the tech, just like using a calculator     7     (work) out a maths problem, as long as they admit to it by both crediting ChatGPT in the text and adding a     8     (refer) note at the end.

Good news for students, but ChatGPT’s knowledge database only goes up to September 2021, so it’s not very     9     (use) on a lot of topical     10     (subject), and, its information can also be inaccurate.

Two graduates, from Central China Normal University in Wuhan, Hubei Province, using the names Wanwan and Chaochao,     1     (upload) a 17-minute video online late last year about their lives over the past five years.

In the video, Wanwan,     2     has taken up a dozen jobs since graduating five years ago, said she now only has 5,000 yuan. Her roommate Chaochao got a master’s degree in scriptwriting (编剧) from Communication University of China. But     3     consequence of a tough job market, she had great difficulty     4     (obtain) a job in the film industry. Last year, she started to learn painting but she said she had to work part-time as a cleaner at a hotpot restaurant to support     5     (she).

“When you can accept your failure, you will feel that it is not that bad. When working at the hotpot restaurant, my biggest     6     (comfortable) is that I won’t starve to death no matter what is next,” Chaochao said. “There are many roads in our lives, and no matter which direction you go, you will     7     (eventual) find your own road.”

The video was one of the trending videos of last year, gaining more than 5.44 million views and more than 26,000 comments since it     8     (release), with many netizens sharing their own failures in the comments section.

Netizens said they were warmed by their courage to share failures with the public, strong determination     9     (achieve) their goals, optimism in the face of hardships     10     spirit of never giving up.

Chinese are enjoying greater     1     (convenient) in making outbound trips and more visa-free travel options,     2     mirrors the country’s economic     3     (grow) and increasing confidence and openness over the last 70 years.

According to the National Immigration Administration (NIA), about 1. 05 billion outbound trips     4     (make) by Chinese mainland residents from 2009 to 2018,     5     over 160 million in 2018 alone. In comparison, around 330 million trips were made between the year 1978, when China started     6     (it) reform and opening-up, and 2008.

The figure was about 17 million in the first three decades since the     7     (found) of the People’s Republic of China in 1949. The country’s policies on citizens’ private outbound trips have changed from being restrictive to     8     (gradual) easing and are now quite convenient, said Min Haiyun, head of the exit-entry department of the NIA.

The number of Chinese passport holders has grown rapidly over the past 70 years, he said.

In     9     first three decades since 1949, about 210, 000 passports were issued. In 2017, 26.74 million passports were issued, up 372. 3 percent from 5.66 million in 2007, and it surged to 30.08 million in 2018.

Today, around 13 percent of the mainland residents have held valid regular passports, and the number is expected     10     (exceed) 200 million at the end of 2019.

Years ago I wrote an article about volunteering. I hoped to see more students do volunteer work, whether it’s to help     1    (education) poor children, visit sick old people in the hospital,     2     anything else that involved giving time to make our society     3     (good). Many people who read the article     4     (write) back to tell me about     5     (they) own volunteer work. I also get e-mails from students asking for advice     6     how to set up programmes. “Teach for America” is an example of     7     a very determined person can     8     (large) make a difference in the lives of others. In this programme students volunteer to go to the poorest schools to help teach young students. They are     9     (pay) just enough money to live. It seems to be a wonderful programme     10     it helps bring successful young people to educate the poorest children. And it teaches these university students about some problems in America.