The eight-day 2021 Cloud ACG Industry Trade Fair concluded in Hangzhou on May 5,     1     (draw) 5981 insiders and traders from 46 countries and regions.

    2     (consider) as a key platform to boost international exchanges when the world is still battling COVID-19 spread, the fair announced over 80 projects, with     3     (they) total finance reaching nearly 2 billion yuan. Deals, about games and animated works from 103 Chinese and foreign companies and organizations     4     (sign) during the event, reaching     5     total value of 100 million yuan, more than twice of the 40 million yuan contracted last year.

In addition     6     the online activities which involved 20 international festivals and renowned     7     (studio), the event also launched an online campaign to encourage tourists to wear traditional-style costumes to places of interest during the May Day holiday, aiming to promote young people’s rising     8     (prefer) of traditional culture and history.

The trade fair was created last year as an alternative plan     9     (support) the 17th China International Cartoon & Animation Festival,     10     influence has already reached far and wide across the globe.

More and more     1     (ambition) parents in the world are signing their children up for Chinese classes. Keen for their children to succeed in life, they see     2     (be) fluent in a second or third language as an advantage. In the USA, twice as many primary and middle school students took Chinese in 2017     3     (compare) to 2015. In France, the number of students learning Chinese in the same age group     4     (increase) by 400% between 2007 and 2017. And an estimated 100 million foreigners are now learning Chinese, up from 30 million in 2004.

It is easy to understand     5     Chinese is becoming so popular. Learning Chinese may help people get more job opportunities. For example, there is China’s Belt and Road Initiative,     6     motivates many countries along the Silk Road to cooperate more closely. It has created thousands of local jobs for people with     7     knowledge of Chinese. Another reason is that studying Chinese provides access     8     wonderful Chinese history and culture. Adam Turner, a school head teacher in the UK, cites this as one appealing aspect of the     9     (recent) added Chinese course. “Learning Chinese helps them see life from a new perspective and     10     (broad) their minds to the outside world,” he explains.

A 30-year-old man was finally rescued from the Alaskan wilderness after his cabin burned down,     1     (leave) him trapped in the snow for almost three weeks.

Tyson Steele had been living alone     2     several months in a small house in Skwentna, a town     3     (locate) 70 miles northwest of Anchorage. He had been burning a fire in    4     (he) woodstove back in December when a piece of flaming cardboard     5     (fly) up his fireplace chimney and landed on his roof,     6     started a slow fire that eventually left the cabin in ruins. Since Skwentna only has a population of about 35 people, Steele’s     7     (near) neighbor lived about 20 miles away. With no means of     8     (communicate) to call for help, Steele endured sub-zero temperatures     9     severe weather conditions wearing long johns (秋裤), boots with no socks, and a heavy wool sweater.

When his family and friends hadn’t heard from Steele for several     10     (week), they requested a welfare check from Alaska State Troopers. As a helicopter flew over the area, they caught sight of Steele waving his arms in the air next to a massive “SOS” sign that he had stamped into the snow.

China plans to recruit 84,330 college graduates as teachers in rural primary and middle schools in 2021 as part of efforts    1    (promote) rural vitalization, the Ministry of Education said Wednesday.

The recruitment     2    (be) mainly for the once-impoverished areas to consolidate the results of poverty reduction, according to    3    notice issued by the ministries of education and finance on carrying out the rural special-post teacher recruitment program this year.The program is expected to strengthen the teaching capacity of some weak subjects in rural schools    4     arts, foreign languages and information technology, said the notice.