Volunteer travel, also known as voluntourism, refers to taking a trip    1    purpose is to participate in an    2    (arrange) service opportunity to give back to the local community and make a difference. Volunteer travel dates back to the 1960s, when Alec Dickson and his wife Mora from the UK    3    (found) Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO), an international volunteer organization. Various activities ranging    4    conservation work to education and healthcare projects can    5    (involve) in volunteer travel. These projects are    6    (typical) organized by nonprofit organizations or travel agencies that specialize in responsible and sustainable tourism.

Volunteer travel can help address social and environmental issues, contribute to local development projects    7    help with disaster relief efforts. Working voluntarily while exploring new destinations and cultures allows    8    (individual) to learn new skills and gain a deeper understanding of a country and its people.

Volunteer travel in rural areas is now attracting more urban visitors as a break from the fast and stressful pace of urban living. It has indeed been a growing trend for urban residents     9    (volunteer) in rural areas. For those who are sick of urban pressure but can’t decide whether to move to the countryside, volunteer travel can be    10    alternative solution.

For almost a month, Li Man has been working at an altitude of over 2, 000 meters, tirelessly carrying a medical rescue kit on her back     1     (weigh) about 15 kilograms.

As one of the 38 Chinese rescue staff on duty to protect the para athletes, Li and her team members call     2     (they) the “ski doctors”. “We come from different hospitals and departments     3     (ensure) rescue work is as comprehensive as possible,” said Li,    4     comes from the China Rehabilitation Research Center in Beijing. She     5     (remain) in Yanqing district since January.

With competitors capable of hitting top speeds of up     6     100 kilometers per hour, para Alpine skiing is a dangerous sport. Once emergency happens, the athletes need doctors immediately. Ski doctors     7     (require) to reach an injured person within four minutes, but in fact, often arrive within one minute. “Since 2018, we’ve visited a resort for ski training for around a month each year to make sure that we could reach the injured people as fast and as     8     (safe) as possible,” said Li. Li added that they have been given     9     (profession) training for first aid, and online and offline English training to make sure that they can communicate smoothly with foreign athletes and staff in international    10     (event). She hopes that China’s ski medical rescue system will continue to grow and more recruits will join.

Every day, Duan Lianru spends several hours sitting in her office in Hunchun, Jilin province to make a     1     (compare) of hundreds of photos of Siberian tigers on the computer.

“It seems a little boring, but     2     (basic) I enjoy the work, which makes a connection between me and the big cats,” said the 36-year-old monitor from there search monitoring center of the Northeast China Tiger and Leopard National Park. The park     3     (stretch) across the provinces of Jilin and Heilongjiang.

Duan is responsible for identifying the tigers according to patterns on     4     (they) fur and giving them something like     5     identity card.

The park,     6     size exceeds (超过) 1.4 million hectares, is the most important habitat for wild Siberian tigers and Amur leopards in China.

The Siberian tigers’ “ID cards” come     7     a lot of important basic data that aids scientific conservation.     8     (base) on such information, Duan draws the family trees of the tigers.

Recent years     9     (see) a remarkable increase in the variety and number of wild animals and more tiger families have been found, including some back two or three generations.

“I feel quite honored to be involved in such significant work.” Duan said. “     10     (create) a more beautiful world, humans and wild animals, I hope, can live in harmony.”

Chinese netizens are passionately discussing the “Kong Yiji mindset,”     1     term inspired by an influential figure in modern Chinese literature and used to refer to college     2     (graduate) who consider themselves above manual labor.

    3    (set) a few years after the fall of the Qing Dynasty, the story starts with Kong Yiji being ridiculed by the working-class customers in the tavern he frequents for continuing to wear his long scholar’s gown, even though he never passed the imperial exam     4     could have landed him a decent job back in the past.

As The Paper, a Chinese media company based in Shanghai, writes, “Kong Yiji would rather steal than do     5     he considers a menial job(粗活)just to make money. This is relatable in the eyes of some, who think their academic qualifications didn’t lead to the job they wanted or deserved.”

The related term, “Kong Yiji mindset,” refers to those who see Kong in     6     (they) as they face the pressures of a job market that can’t keep up with the record-breaking number of college graduates. Kong is a     7     (sympathy) figure to some recent college graduates whose reality is not living up to expectations.

Some netizens are concerned that education itself may one day be seen as superfluous (多余的). “When we were young, we     8     (tell) to study hard, and when we grew up, we would become astronauts and scientists,” a Weibo user commented. “Now it has become study hard to screw screws, to be a cleaner, to collect junk. It’s not that I look down on those professions—every profession is respectable—     9     it is strange that the wind is blowing in this direction.”

In recent years, China has been pushing to expand vocational education as a means to solve the surplus of college graduates. However, the transition remains challenging as the prejudices     10    blue-collar jobs lingers.

If you have not heard of Yangshi Lei, the     1    (honour) name of the Lei family responsible for imperial architecture during the Qing Dynasty, then you have missed an important detail about the Temple of Heaven, the Summer Palace and Yuanmingyuan Garden.

All the above great cultural relics and popular tourist attractions have been included on UNESCO’s World Heritage List,     2     surprisingly enough, they are all designed by the Lei family.     3     (represent) the great achievements of science and technology in ancient China, their architectural practice covered a wide range of city planning, imperial palaces, gardens, temples, princes’ residences and schools.

Yangshi    4     (refer) to architect or architecture in Chinese. Yangshifang, the then government authority similar to the National Architecture Design Institute today, was in charge of site     5     (select), design and construction of imperial architectures.

    6     (amaze), eight generations of the Lei family were appointed director of Yangshifang consecutively from 1662 to 1911.

With so many architectural    7     (work) on the UNESCO’s World Heritage List, the Lei Family is    8     unique phenomenon in the architectural history throughout the world. Apart from the grand architectures, China has another treasure left by the Lei family - design drafts. In the National Library of China alone, there     9     (be) up to 20,000 architectural design drafts, each of     10     plays an important role in the research of the history of the Qing Dynasty and how architecture developed at the time.

If you ask Chinese young people today what their dream job is, they may answer with    1    number of new occupations you have probably never heard of before, such as virtual artist, shopping assistant or sleep hotline operator. Besides being relatively new, these jobs give people much    2    (flexible)to enjoy life’s many other pursuits.

Jobs like package delivery people    3    (be)all new and unfamiliar to job hunters dozens of years ago, but now have become common. The same will happen with these new professions.

“I didn’t realize I had such potential    4    my friends once randomly mentioned that my voice was really good for doing ASMR(自发性知觉经络反应),” said Mingo, who tries to help clients fall asleep. “I think this job suits me because I’m really into sociology and I like to listen to people’s stories. It has developed my ability    5    (understand)people’s problems and find the root cause behind them.”

Li Xiaorong, 35, who struggled at a traditional Internet company, found new life as a professional organizer    6    helps get people s homes in perfect order. When    7    (face)rooms containing thousands of things messily stacked in piles, Li is able to    8    (rapid)come up with an organization plan and, after a few days, these messy rooms become    9    (organize), giving the entire apartment a completely new look.

The trend toward flexible employment has broadened the possibilities for young people to achieve work-life balance and also fits in    10    their view toward what makes a successful career.

Instead of starting a career in big cities, more and more university     1    (graduate) choose to return to their hometown. Li Dan is one of them. The girl,     2    (bear) in a small village in Southwest China, decided to stay with her family and friends after getting her degree at university.

In the strong support from national policies that aim to eliminate poverty, she started her own fruit growing business. Taking advantage     3     new technology and the Internet, she     4    (expand) her business to include agritourism over the last several years, creating more than 50 new jobs for the people in her village.     5     (live) in the hometown offers is a strong support network. More     6    (important), this network is also     7     good one for getting new agribusinesses up and running quite quickly. Thus, it is no surprise that more and more young people are now attracted to life in the country,     8     they can fulfill personal goals and contribute to     9    (they) local communities rather than just being white-collar professionals in big cities. “It is the hard work and your devotion     10     make a decent life, ” said Li Dan in an interview.

As you walk into the Shandong Arts and Crafts Exhibition Center, you are greeted by a magnificent sight: a larger-than-life rabbit. Its face     1    (decorate) with an artistically painted Chinese character, quan, and the cloud beneath it features the landscape of Baotu Spring, one of the most famous scenic     2    (spot) in Jinan.

The     3     (create) of the rabbit figure is 52-year-old Yang Feng, a local craftsman.     4    (lie) on the second floor of the exhibition center is his studio,     5     he displays his works, in different designs and sizes.

In 2004, Yang noticed a competition was being held     6    (develop) a souvenir (纪念品) for Jinan which needed to represent local culture. Yang thought that the rabbit god fit all the requirements and it took     7    (he) a whole month to make one.

His winning top prize at the competition encouraged him to quit his job     8     a designer and devote himself to making statues of the rabbit god. Yang said, “For me, crafting the rabbit is not just a job,     9     a lifelong career that I will stick with. I hope my creations can remind tourists of the old and happy times. What is even     10    (important), they can get to know Jinan’s history and culture and fall in love with the city.”

My name is Luke Harris and I am a sports photographer. My first day at work wasn’t easy. I had to cover a local football team and I’d heard that there wasn’t much shelter at the ground and the wind was strong. The problem was more the rain, though,     1     was heavy and affected all my shots. So far I     2     (get) used to working in many conditions, even snow. You can always get a good photo if you try. There are so many similar photos out there and imagination is what     3     (require) to make yours stand out.