My father {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (work) in an office. There {#blank#}2{#/blank#} two large windows in it. One day, a woman in a {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (pass) car looks up and sees my father. My father waves his hands, {#blank#}4{#/blank#} the woman waves back. This gives my father an idea.

    Later, he changes his way of {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (greet) people. He writes signs, like "Hello" or "Be happy". Every afternoon when people go home from work, my father will greet them with the signs. Then they {#blank#}6{#/blank#} （give）my father big smiles.

    The day when I came into the world, my father put a sign {#blank#}7{#/blank#} the window, "I'm a new father!" To his surprise, a sign {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (hold) by some people, saying, "Congratulations!"

    My father learns the {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (true) in the saying, "You smile, and the whole world smiles with you." And he becomes {#blank#}10{#/blank#} first one who greets strangers with signs every day.

    Let me tell you something about Mr Lu. He lives n{#blank#}1{#/blank#} to us. He is a Maths teacher. He is about forty years old and looks very strict (严格的) . In fact, after class he is very k{#blank#}2{#/blank#}.

    He always gets up very e{#blank#}3{#/blank#} and he always goes to w{#blank#}4{#/blank#} very early too. In class, he is very strict. If a student makes a noise, he will be very a{#blank#}5{#/blank#}. He always tells his students ,“We're h{#blank#}6{#/blank#}a Maths class now,aren't we? Don't make any noise, OK?”

    But when class is o{#blank#}7{#/blank#},Mr Lu is very kind and f{#blank#}8{#/blank#} He always tells jokes to his students. His students are always very h{#blank#}9{#/blank#} because the jokes are very i{#blank#}10{#/blank#}.

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.

China does have laws that cover these issues. {#blank#}4{#/blank#} , all kinds of these laws are not unified. The Civil Code gathers them into one unified document and makes improvements. With the Civil Code, China hopes to set up a country under the rule of law with {#blank#}5{#/blank#} protection for civil rights.

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.