Today is June 4th it's 1 fine day. It is Betty's birthday. She comes 2 and sees a new red box on her bed. She opens 3. There is nothing but a piece of paper 4 it! Betty takes it out and 5: “Dear Betty. I'm your present(礼物). Come and 6 me in the front room.” Betty runs 7 front room. She finds her parents there. They look at her happily. She looks round and sees her present — a nice 8 bike. “Happy birthday. Betty.” Her parents both 9. Betty is very happy and says: “10 very much.”

    Mr and Mrs Yates had one daughter.   1   name was Carol, and she was nineteen years old. Carol lived  2 her parents and worked in an office. She had some friends, but she  3any of the boys very much.

Then she met a very 4 young man. His name was George. and he 5 in a bank near her office. They went out together quite 6 , and he came to Carol's parents' house twice, and then last week Carol went to her father and said, “I 7 George, Daddy. ”

“Oh, yes,” said 8 .“he's a nice boy. But has he got any money?”

“Oh, men! All of you are 9 ,” the daughter answered 10 . “I met George on the first of June and on the second he said to me, ‘Has your father got any money?'”

    Mr and Mrs Harris had always spent their summer holidays in a small hotel at the seaside near their home town. One year, however, Mr Harris made a lot of1 in his business, 2 they decided to go to a foreign country and stay at a really good3 .

    They flew to Rome, and4 at a 5-star hotel late in the evening. They thought they would have to go to bed hungry, because in that5 hotel where they used to stay, no meals were served(供应) 6 seven in the evening. They were7  to hear that the hotel served dinner until ten.

    "Then what are the times8 meals?" asked Mrs Harris.

    "Well, madam, we serve breakfast from seven to eleven, lunch from twelve to three,9 from four to five, and dinner from six to ten."

    "But that hardly10 any time for us to see the city!" said Mrs Harris.

As you walk down the street, an object falls from a tall building and {#blank#}1{#/blank#}you. Who should be responsible for this? Or maybe you try to help someone in danger, but you accidentally hurt the person. Will you get in trouble for this? China's Civil Code(《民法典》) will give you the  {#blank#}2{#/blank#}.

On May 28, the National People's Congress (全国人民代表大会) agreed China's first-ever Civil Code. With 1,260 articles, it is a collection of laws that is about personal issues, {#blank#}3{#/blank#}property (物权), marriage, family, personality rights, and inheritances (继承). It's like an encyclopedia (百科全书) for social life.

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One special thing about the code is the part about individual (个人的) rights. It's a major innovation (创新) to form the individual rights into one part alone. This part includes laws{#blank#}6{#/blank#} relate to one's body, health, name, image (肖像), and fame.

Some of the laws in this part deal with how new technology is{#blank#}7{#/blank#}.For example, people who use AI face swap (调换) tools to make videos may go against {#blank#}8{#/blank#} image rights. The laws also provide data protection rights relating to possible data leaks by tech companies.

As we know, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, there were several attempts to draft (起草) a civil code in 1954, 1962, 1979 and 2001. But the conditions {#blank#}9{#/blank#} not good enough. In 2015, China started to work on the present code and{#blank#}10{#/blank#} it after 5 years. This year, the code took effect on Jan. 1.