With the increasing passion for outdoor activities like hiking and camping, China’s young generation now find themselves irresistibly     1    (draw) to a new trend — lure fishing (路亚钓鱼). Thanks to it, gone are the days when fishing     2    (consider) the pastime of middle-aged and older people.

Unlike traditional angling methods,     3    real bait (鱼饵) is used and patience is required, lure fishing takes a more active approach. Here, anglers use artificial bait and     4    (skillful) imitate the movements of smaller fish,     5    (fool) aggressive fish into thinking they are actually preys. Due to the constant movement involved, enthusiasts have now dubbed (戏称)    6     activity “water golf”. Another feature that attracts the young generation is that lure fishing is environmentally friendly and     7    (sustain). By using artificial bait, the water environment will not be disturbed. Additionally, the fish are expected     8    (release) after they are caught.

Lure fishing is beginner-friendly and requires less equipment compared with traditional fishing.     9     fans of a highly flexible sport, fishermen can experience the joy of catching fish in a small river near their homes with an     10    (invest) of just a hundred yuan or so.

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.

Experts on child development agree that children learn and develop through everyday experiences. Because food and cooking are such fundamental components of our day-to-day lives,     1     (introduce) cooking to children at a young age is essential to their experiential learning.

Children like playing make-believe and enjoy inventing a variety of characters while    2    (absorb) in imaginative play. Cooking games are an excellent way to stimulate imaginative play. Children can act out real-life situations and behaviors through pretend play and improve     3    (they) in creativity. Furthermore, pretend play in the kitchen helps kids learn things like problem-solving, creative thinking, visual     4    (recognize), and so on.

Various cooking games for children that are available online     5    (be) more than just a fun pastime activity. They provide a number of educational benefits as well. Free online cooking games urge kids    6    (try) new things and think outside the box by letting them experiment    7    ingredients, recipes, and preparation methods.    8    (addition), many free cooking games online require kids to perform various kitchen tasks or read the recipes and then follow the instructive tips. When kids take the initiative and finish a task, they feel proud of     9    they have undertaken. Playing free cooking games online can also help kids learn essential skills, teach them    10     to be safe in the kitchen, and increase their general knowledge about the world.

For the public, cultural activities are gradually becoming necessities of     1     (they) lives. For Liu Ziqi,     2     eight-year-old museum lover in Beijing, this winter vacation has proved a rather busy one, as she made a to-go list for newly opened exhibitions in the Chinese capital. The museums are changing their forms these days     3     (attract) more people.

During the seven-day Spring Festival holiday     4     (start) from Jan. 21, museums in Beijing received 1.01 million visits, up 34 percent year on year. Like Liu, more and more young people, some not     5     (necessary) big fans of museums, chose to spend some of their leisure time in a museum.

“There were more special exhibitions and more joint exhibitions, especially the one     6     the National Museum and the Palace Museum,” Liu said,     7     she was asked about the most notable change during her latest museum visit.

A     8     (profession) museum tour guide for over 10 years, Bai Xuesong observed that more visitors were expecting specialized introductions to the ins and outs behind the cultural relics. “Visitors     9     (begin) asking questions, and sometimes we couldn’t give an answer,” Bai said, adding that this indicated a change in the relationship between tour     10     (guide) and visitors — from “teaching” to communication and learning.

Last Sunday morning, my classmates and I participated in an orange-picking activity     1     a local farm.

Well known for its organic farming, the farm     2     (locate)at the foot of a hill 20 kilometers from our city. It is home to a     3     (vary)of fruit trees, whose branches were laden with lovely fruits. We got there at 8: 30 am and began to work as soon as we arrived. We wore gloves and carried baskets with us. Some put ladders against the trees to pick golden orange while others were busy     4     (deliver)oranges and packing them into boxes.

Bathed in the warm sunshine, we were talking and laughing     5     (happy)while working. At the break time, the farmer invited us     6     (taste)the lovely oranges we picked. They were the best fruits     7     we had ever eaten. At 11:30 pm we stopped working and     8     (head)back home.

We felt     9     (please)although all of us were tired when we got home.     10     provided us with a precious opportunity to get close to nature and learn how to harvest fruits. We also realized the value of labor.

Going against the tide of flocking to well-known tourist destinations on vacation,     1     growing number of holidaymakers in China tend to spend their leisure time at lesser-known     2    (resort) to seek unique, relaxed holiday experiences. This kind of tourism,    3     (call) “Reverse Tourism”, has emerged     4     a new trend among young holidaymakers in China. They are     5    (increasing) reluctant to follow the herd, some of     6     are simply looking to take a rest somewhere quiet for a couple of days. Unlike     7     (popularity) destinations, some underexplored places with little online     8    (expose) can offer more surprises.

    9    (give) a real boost to the tourism market, it is suggested that more efforts     10    (make) to tap the potential of underrated, lesser-known destinations.

Watching the stars while lying in a tent hotel    1    sitting under a large outdoor shade with a cup of coffee certainly sounds like an appealing treat. Chinese travelers are appreciating such    2    ( experience ), as glamping (豪华露营) has emerged as a new vacation trend.

During the recent holiday, Zhao Yue from Bejing joined her friends for a vacation in a camping site in the Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Gannan.

Located at    3    average altitude (海拔) of 3 ,000 meters, a vast grassland there offers the perfect    4    ( relax) in nature. The site has a row of camping tents as well as steel-framed tents with Tibetan-style decorations and modern facilities， offering campers like Zhao a mix of tradition and luxury.

“The hotel is    5    fantastic nature meets modern luxury, and spending a night there, surrounded by mountains, is like living in the nature," Zhao said. Although a room cost 1 ,000 yuan, Zhao    6    ( treasure) the opportunity to relax in the natural environment.

Such tent hotels    7    ( build) in forests, valleys, on the grassland, or along rivers are gaining    8    ( rise ) popularity among Chinese tourists. Many travelers also prefer to set up their own tents on campgrounds by renting equipment.

Glamping, this absorbing new vacation trend，features camping with basic conveniences.     9     ( like) traditional camping, it is a different way    10    ( ease) the pressure of urban life with the adventure recreation.

Camping was so popular as to even become a fashion across China during the just-concluded National Day holiday, with some joking that “half of the friends     1     WeChat were camping. Outdoor camping sites were popular during the holiday and had to     2     (book) several days in advance.

According to research firm iiMedia Research, the core market size of China’s camping economy reached 74.75 billion yuan ($10.5 billion) in 2021,     3     was 62.5 percent up year-on-year.

More market-sensitive players are plowing into the industry. In 2021, more than 20,000 new camping-related enterprises sprang up in China,     4     over 5,000 have been set up this year, according to the information provider Tianyancha.

Huzhou,     5     popular tourist destination in East China’s Zhejiang province, hosted the first Camping Conference in the Yangtze River Delta in June. It also became one of the first to     6     (official) regulate the construction standards and     7     (safe) supervision (监管) of camping sites.     8     (follow) Huzhou, Beijing and Nanjing in Jiangsu province have also introduced related policies for the healthy development of the industry.

“Consumers’ demand for outdoor activities     9     (increase) in recent years. I believe     10     (many) people will join in camping and other outdoor activities in the long run,’’ said Liang Qidong, vice president of the Liaoning Academy of Social Sciences.