With Harbin’s tourism developing successfully, Jiang Kedong,     1     (know) as “Brother Zuoyou”, was using the wave of this new attention. He changed from a local performer to a     2     (wide) recognized Internet superstar. His famous work “Rabbit Dance” caught people’s hearts with     3     (it) simple and easy-to-understand style. And soon it became a symbol of Harbin’s lively spirit during this wave of tourism boom (繁荣).

The “Rabbit Dance”, marked by cheerful side-to-side foot movements, not only spread on social media, but also became a cultural symbol of Harbin’s tourism boom. At first, Jiang’s dance video     4     (appreciate) just by the locals, but it soon caused widespread interest and attracted a lot of people to experience the joy and     5     (warm) of Harbin, even in the coldest months.

The winter month was a whirlwind (旋风) for Jiang because he adapted     6     his new popular role. He led a quite different life now,     7     (balance) the demands of Internet honor with his personal love for dance and community activities.

A video,     8     shows the way Jiang has hugged his role as a symbol of Harbin’s tourism boom, offers a look into his life during this     9     (remark) year.

Watch the video and let’s follow Jiang Kedong on an unexpected journey     10     (understand) how his “Rabbit Dance” has become an important part of Harbin’s successful tourism industry.

Shen Congwen       1     (bear) in Tuojiang Town, Fenghuang County, Hunan Province. He was     2     great modern Chinese writer as well as a research scholar of historical cultural relics. The Border Town is Shen Congwen’s representative work,     3     centers on Cuicui.

Cuicui is raised by her grandfather. 17 years ago, her mother was pregnant (怀孕的) before marriage and she committed suicide after giving birth to Cuicui by drinking cold water in the river. When Cuicui grows up, her grandfather begins to worry about her     4     (marry), because he doesn’t want Cuicui to have a miserable life like her mother. There is a rich man in the border town, who has two handsome sons that both fall in love with Cuicui. Cuicui likes the younger son while her grandfather misunderstands her feelings and thinks the older son is more suitable for Cuicui.     5     (sad), the older son dies in an accident and the rich man puts the blame on Cuicui’s grandfather.     6     the younger son loves Cuicui, he can’t marry her after the death of his dear brother. Finally, he chooses     7     (leave) the town. Cuicui’s grandfather dies     8     a cold, rainy night, leaving Cuicui alone in the world. However, grief doesn’t break her down. She takes over her grandfather’s work,       9     (wait) for the younger son to come back.

From this simple story of love, family duty, and doubts about what the future might bring, Shen Congwen paints a vivid picture of early 20th Century rural life in China. Recently, this book     10     (become) symbolic to a new generation of Chinese people, providing a fascinating image of life in rural China.

Tu You you,     1     84 year-old scientist, became the first female Chinese     2     (win) a Nobel Prize in science on Oct, 5. She was born     3     30 December, 1930 in Zhejiang Province. In 1969, she     4     (choose) to establish a team to find a cure for malaria, but the lab     5     they worked in had poor air quality.

She first tried the medicine on herself, because she     6     (want) to make sure that it was safe. “As the head of the group, I had the responsibility.” The scientist spoke to CCTV about her work. Artemisinin is a gift for the world people. It has saved many people’s     7     (life). It comes from Chinese traditional medicine and now is a good way to treat malaria. Tu Youyou     8     (expect) Chinese medicine to help more people all over the world.

We can learn a lot from Tu Youyou. We should do something useful for people. If we want to be     9     (success), we should keep on     10     (work) hard with our group and never give up.

For 27 years, Mao Shihua     1     (be) a permanent fixture for the residents of Huangtankou, selling breakfast to schoolchildren from her simple stall (货摊) meters away from a primary school.     2     (fond) nicknamed “Breakfast Nanny”, Mao served food that was both nutritious and cheap. Each item cost just half a yuan,     3     the price was never raised.

Mao’s “day” began at 2 am,     4     she would start preparing the breakfast items. Around 5:30, Mao would ride a tricycle cart to her stall to sell the breakfast, and remained there till 7:30 am.     5     hours of preparing and selling the breakfast, Mao barely made 50 yuan a day. She would often need to dip into her pension (养老金)     6     (cover) costs. Even owners of neighboring stalls would admit that Mao made no money out of her business.

However, Mao didn’t care. The hours she spent serving food to the children living in the mountainous area was the     7     (happy) part of her day.

When 90-year-old Mao died on December 18, 2023, netizens from around the country expressed their     8     (admire) for her and grief over her death, praising her as     9     “ordinary hero”.

In 2019, inspired by Mao, the public service center established the “1-yuan caring breakfast” store. From 7 to 8:30 am every day, the store provides 20 to 30 breakfast sets     10     (price) at 1 yuan for special groups such as sanitation workers and elderly people.

Eleven years after having Alzheimer’s (阿兹海默病) disease, 91-year-old Wu Mingzhu sometimes fails     1     (recognize) her previous colleagues or even family members     2     live by her side. But her memory of the melon varieties she developed while working in Xinjiang remains.

Born in Hubei Province, she     3     (admit) to Southwest Agricultural College in Chongqing in the late 1940s.Wu filed     4     application in 1955, and finally received agreement. In the winter of the same year, she boarded a truck with all her     5     (possession) and left for Xinjiang.

Though local watermelons and muskmelons (甜瓜) tasted sweet, Wu found that the local farmers mainly relied on     6     (tradition) farming techniques, and there was still much room for progress     7     the quantity and quality of their melons.

Starting in 1956, Wu and her colleagues     8     (meet) with local farmers to explore resources in the summer heat of over 40℃. She experimented with different methods on melons during the day, and read documents that had recorded 44 melon varieties before she arrived under candle light at night.

She developed new resources-10 watermelon varieties and 19 muskmelon varieties, featuring characteristics like better disease resistance, finer fruit quality, and greater adaptability,     9     (help) the farmers fatten their wallets. So we Chinese can     10     (crazy) eat watermelons in the hot summers.

Shao Lujie, a 28-year-old craftsman from Zhejiang Province, has created multiple works of art for the upcoming 19th Asian Games. His craft is known     1     quilling, an art of creating decorative designs from thin strips of curled paper.

Since Shao     2     (be) a child, he has loved painting and handicrafts. In 2016, he started to learn quilling from a master of the art and has been devoting     3     (he) entirely to it ever since.

“During this process, I found that this paper art handicraft can     4     (combine) with painting and different design elements. I hope to find breakthroughs in this handicraft,” Shao said.

In an era     5     AI-generated art and other commercial works are entering the art market, Shao still insists on     6     (stick) to this ancient craft. In recent years, Shao has begun to develop cultural and creative products with local characteristics. “One     7     (innovate) is changing the theme of a wedding celebration from flowers to ‘China-chic’ and local features,” Shao said.

    8     (attract) young people’s interest in this art form, Shao has gone online, creating accounts on social media such as Xiaohongshu. “    9     (normal), I would like to write articles about this art and post pictures of my latest works on Xiaohongshu,” he said.

Shao hopes to open     10     exhibition hall in the future so that more people can learn about his craft and, ideally, pass it down to future generations.

Olympic record-setting Chinese teen Quan Hongchan collected gold in the synchronized 10m platform (双人10米跳台) event alongside her partner Chen Yuxi, at     1     Hangzhou Olympic Sports Centre on Saturday. The duo (二人组) racked up a total 375.30 points — 85.26 points more than the Japanese silver medalists. In fact, the two teens     2     (win) all major titles in the women’s 10m platform events over the last three years.

Quan was born in a small village of Zhanjiang, Guangdong, in 2007 and took up     3     (dive) at age 7. She     4     (encourage) to try the sport because of the agility (灵活) she showed while jumping when she played hopscotch (跳房子游戏) at school.

“I’d never tried any other sports before,     5     I enjoyed playing in the water,” she recalled. “From the very start, I could jump into the water     6     fear or hesitation.” The young diver is said to have initially (最初) taken up the sport to earn money     7     (support) her mother, who has an illness that requires constant care.

Journalists from around the world lined up for two hours to ask her questions. Her short and simple answers won     8     (smile) and sometimes laughs. Her longest response came when she was asked why she was carrying a toy turtle,     9     has been a hot topic at the Asiad, “Because I like it. Turtles are not good-looking, but they’re     10     (love)! I like them!”

Named after the ancient city of Xi’an in Shaanxi province, the film Chang’an lasts 168 minutes and brings to life some of the most famous     1    (figure) in Chinese literary history.

Since its release on July 8, the movie     2    (obtain) a rating of 8. 1 out of ten on Douban, one of the     3    (large) review websites in the country, strengthening its position as one of the most praised animated blockbusters(动画大片)of the summer season.

Different from many movies and TV shows     4    (feature) Li Bai, the movie employs a rather unconventional perspective, starting with the memories of Gao Shi, also     5     admirable poet and friend of Li. Apart     6     Li and Gao, the movie features other famous poets and artists of the time, including Wang Changling, known for military-themed poems, and Li Guinian, a palace     7    (music), as well as royal members     8     held significant influence within the circle, such as Princess Yuzhen.

Interweaving(交织)the personal fates of these figures, the film shows the scenes of the Tang dynasty. The movie also     9    (vivid) describes the free-spirited nature of the Tang dynasty. For instance, in the national civil service examination of the Tang dynasty, the highest achievers     10    (allow) the privilege to ride horses and pick the most beautiful flower from any residence in the capital city.

Migrant worker Zhu Yanjun left a good impression on audiences when he won the silver medal on Chinese Poetry Conference,     1     show launched in 2016 to rekindle (使复苏) people’s appreciation for Chinese poetry.

The 50-year-old developed an interest     2     poetry when young. The first poem he came across is Li Shen’s Sympathy for the Peasants.     3     (read) the poem, he thought of his father     4     grandfather plowing (犁) the field in the hot sun and instantly grasped its meaning. Throughout his childhood, he enjoyed reading poetry while herding (牧放) the family’s sheep.

After completing junior high school, Zhu left his hometown, like many of his peers,     5     (seek) better opportunities in the cities. Every time he travels to a new city, he will look for a bookstore or a library close to the construction site     6     he’s working. He works during the day and goes to the bookstore or the library at night to transcribe (抄录) and recite poems. Rainy days are the     7     (good) for him, because there will be no work and he can spend the entire day surrounded by books.

Up to now, he     8     (memorize) about 1,000 poems. No matter how     9     (physical) tiring the day may have been, he feels a sense of     10     (relieve) when he can escape from this world into that of Chinese poetry.

Qian Xuesen is a great scientist, a man of distinction. He     1     (bear) in Hangzhou, was admitted to the aeronautics department of the MIT in 1934. After graduating with his PhD, he was employed as     2     assistant researcher at Caltech. Qian’s missile designs laid the foundation for the successful building of missiles in the US in the 1940s and 1950s,     3     (make) him a world-renowned rocketeer.

When he learnt of the     4     (thrill) news of the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, Qian resolutely gave up his privileged conditions in the US and decided to return to his longed-for homeland to contribute as much as he could     5     his own nation.

Upon returning to China, Qian Xuesen was actively involved in research work. Under his     6     (participate) and guidance, China successfully launched its first rocket in 1960,     7     in 1964, it was a great success to run the flight test of China’s first self-designed medium-range rocket. In 1965, Qian’s proposal     8     (develop) an artificial satellite was included in the country’s key projects, after     9     the first artificial satellite was finally launched into space in 1970.

In 1999, Qian Xuesen     10     (award) the “Two Bombs and One Satellite” Meritorious Medal by the government of PRC, and was hailed as the “Father of China’s Missiles” for his significant contributions to China’s space industry.