Qiang Shuping was so busy making cloth shoes{#blank#}1{#/blank#} she didn't even rest during the Dragon Boat Festival holiday. The woman from Baipu County, Jiangsu Province, {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (make) shoes since she was 19 years old, and this year marks her 31^st year making cloth shoes.

    She spends the entire day in her tiny studio, which {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(measure) less than 10 square meters altogether, filled with cloth shoes in{#blank#}4{#/blank#}(variety) stages of completion.

    Nowadays, many stores make cloth shoes{#blank#}5{#/blank#} (use) machines, but Qiang sticks to the technique of making shoes entirely {#blank#}6{#/blank#} hand. She says the shoes {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (produce) by the machine are not of the same quality as handmade ones. The handmade cloth shoes are more durable and comfortable, {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(soft), and absorb sweat better.

    Some people buy cloth shoes out of nostalgia(怀旧), while others trust {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(they) quality. Making shoes isn't a profitable job, but Qiang still insists as she wants to preserve the craft and pass it down to the younger generation.

    Handmade cloth shoes are also called qiancengdi (shoes with a thousand layers), {#blank#}10{#/blank#} can date back to the ancient Zhou Dynasty. In 2009, the making technique of qiancengdi was listed as the national intangible cultural heritage.

    The sun was dying out, and people all around the world built giant planet thrusters (火箭助推器) to move Earth out of its orbit and to sail Earth to {#blank#}1{#/blank#} new star system. Yet the 2500 years' journey came with {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (expect) dangers, and in order to save mankind, a group of young people in this age of a wandering Earth came out {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (brave) and fought hard for everyone's {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (survive). The Wandering Earth is a 2019 Chinese science fiction film directed by Frant Gwo. It is based {#blank#}5{#/blank#} the novella of the same name by the Locus Award and Hugo Award {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (win) author Liu Cixin, and was released on February 5, 2019.

    In the past nine days, Chinese sci-fi film The Wandering Earth {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (make) $420 million at the Chinese box office alone and will soon become the second film {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (reach) three billion yuan within ten days of being released. This also makes it 2019's {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (large) grossing(总收入)film to date with some box office prophet (预言者) wondering {#blank#}10{#/blank#} it will even outperform Captain Marvel.

    Last Friday a storm swept through two villages in the New Territories, {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (destroy) fourteen homes. Seven others were so badly damaged {#blank#}2{#/blank#} their owners had to leave them, and fifteen others had broken windows or roofs. One person was killed, several were {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (serious) hurt and taken to hospital, and a number of other people received smaller hurt. Altogether over two hundred people were home-less after the storm.

    A farmer, Mr. Tan, said that the storm began early {#blank#}4{#/blank#} the morning and lasted for over an hour.

    "I {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(eat) with my wife and children," he said, "when we heard a loud noise. A few minutes later our house fell down on top of us. We tried our best {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(climb) out but then I saw that one of my children was {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (miss). I went back inside and found him, safe {#blank#}8{#/blank#}very frightened."

    Mrs. Woo Mei Fong said that her husband had just left for work when she {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (feel) that her house was moving. She ran outside at once with her children.

    Soldiers helped to take people out of the flooded area and the welfare department brought {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (they) food, clothes and shelter.

    If you live in Shanghai, you might have to take a lesson in sorting garbage {#blank#}1{#/blank#}is now required that people should sort garbage into four categories recyclable, {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (harm), dry and wet waste. However, if people fail to sort their garbage properly, they can {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(fine) up to 200 yuan.

    More cities are introducing similar regulations, {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(follow) the practice in Shanghai. However, garbage sorting is still a big problem in China. Only 30% of the {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(participant) think they are adequately sorting their trash. It's partly because many people lack their willingness to sort their own waste. "It's {#blank#}6{#/blank#} must to have a legal guarantee {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(promote) garbage sorting, said Liu Jianguo, a professor from Tsinghua University.

    Apart from China, many other foreign countries also {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(introduce)garbage-sorting regulations in the past years. In Japan, waste sorting has become a basic survival skill. There is a {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(fix) time for the disposal of each kind of garbage and littering can result {#blank#}10{#/blank#} high fines and even jail time. Over 90%o of the public believe that garbage sorting is important for the protection of the environment.