In China, the history of people planting and using bamboo can date back to as far as 7,000 years. As early as the Shang Dynasty, bamboo was being used in ancient people's daily lives. It was used for food, clothing, housing, transportation, {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(music) instruments and even weapons.

    The {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(apply) of bamboo in science and technology is thrilling. In 251 BC, Li Bing, in Sichuan, {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(lead) the local people in building the Dujiang Weirs(都江堰), the first irrigation network in the world, in which bamboo played {#blank#}4{#/blank#} important role. The world's oldest water pipe was also {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(make) of bamboo. During the Han Dynasty, the people in Sichuan {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(success) sank a 1600-metre-deep well with thick bamboo ropes. This technology did not spread to Europe {#blank#}7{#/blank#} the 19^th century, and it was by using the technology {#blank#}8{#/blank#} the Americans drilled the first oil well in Pennsylvania in 1859.

    In Chinese culture, bamboo is well-known as {#blank#}9{#/blank#} of the “four gentlemen” in plants. To many famous men, bamboo is a symbol of goodness and honesty. It is always closely related to people of positive spirits. Bamboo culture contributes to encouraging people to hold on when {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(face) tough situations.

    A woman suddenly{#blank#}1{#/blank#} (go) blind in one eye after playing a mobile phone game for a whole week in Guangdong province last month. The unnamed woman admitted to playing the game {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (regular) for seven or eight hours without moving and finally lost {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (she) right eyesight.

    The game, Arena of Valor, {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (know) as Honour of Kings, has become hugely popular in China and is due to be limited across the US and Europe. Being {#blank#}5{#/blank#}world's most popular online battle game, it already has over 200 million players in China.

    The battle game puts together a team of five players {#blank#}6{#/blank#} have to fight others in a fantasy land filled{#blank#}7{#/blank#}characters , and players can buy extra features while playing. The eye injury follows series of {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(incident). In June, a child in Shenzhen stole 30,000 yuan (£3,450) from his parents to buy add-ons, and a 13-year-old in Hangzhou, severely injured his legs after jumping from a five-storey building to escape from his father was trying to stop him{#blank#}9{#/blank#}(play).

    In a country in which 60 percent of the population has a smart-phone, the game has been highly {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (success), partly because it is free to play.

    Once upon a time, two young men were spending some time in the country. One day, while taking a walk together, they crossed a large field. {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (sudden) a bull (公牛) appeared and began to chase (追逐) them. They were very {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (frighten) and began to run, but the bull kept {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (run) after them. Finally, one of the men climbed up a tree and {#blank#}4{#/blank#} other one jumped into a hole. Soon, however, the man {#blank#}5{#/blank#} had jumped into the hole came out again.

    Immediately the bull chased him back into the hole again. This {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (go) on for five or six times. Finally, the man in the tree came up {#blank#}7{#/blank#} an idea and shouted to his friend, “Stay in the hole for a while or this bull {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (keep) us here all day！” {#blank#}9{#/blank#}he jumped back into the hole again, he said, “It's easy for you to say, {#blank#}10{#/blank#} there is a bear in this hole.”

    The Day After Thanksgiving (Friday) is known as Black Friday. This used to be unofficially or officially the start of holiday shopping season. Almost all stores come out with special early bird offers {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (attract) consumers to their shop. People stand in line hours before the stores are opened, to grab the bargains of the year. In the last few years, we {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (witness) a trend towards bringing those Black Friday Sales online before Friday.

    In the last few years (starting from 2013 to be precise), Black Friday Sales have started before Friday—with some stores {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (start) their Black Friday sales on Thanksgiving day or even on Wednesday and Monday. It would not be surprising to see Black Friday sale starting on Monday on the Black Friday week.

    The closest reason for {#blank#}4{#/blank#} it is known as Black Friday {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (give) in Wikipedia. Many retailers report some of {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (they) highest profits on Black Friday. The black portion of the name, “Black Friday” relates to businesses recording their {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (lose) in red ink and gains in black. This tradition lives on in modern accounting software.

    Deals websites like Dealsofamerica.com started to highlight “Black Friday sales” from 2003 {#blank#}8{#/blank#} then the retailers picked it up. {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (essential), Black Friday is an Internet term. But before it, people used to regard the sales {#blank#}10{#/blank#} “Day after Thanksgiving Sale”.

    Fewer than one in seven people can {#blank#}1{#/blank#} ( correct) identify common washing symbols while a {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (three) of people admit they never check instruction labels (标签). Some seven in ten say they ever had machine-washed clothes that should {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (go) to the dry cleaners because they failed to look at the labels.

    The ignorance about {#blank#}4{#/blank#} clothes should be cleaned can cost families thousands of pounds, according to a sample test of householders by a school uniform supplier.

    Men are the worst offenders with more than three quarters always using the same program on a washing machine regardless of the instructions. Almost half of {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (woman) used just three programs. {#blank#}6{#/blank#} is said that the lack of understanding over symbols is destroying thousands of pounds worth of clothing {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (treat) improperly.

    While almost eight {#blank#}8{#/blank#} ten people believe it is important to check the labels on their clothes, less than half look at them when {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (buy) new clothes. Some nine out of ten said they were unaware that some clothing should never be put in the drier.

    The labels are there to show how clothes should be treated. This {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (help) information can save time and ensure clothes to last longer.

    The Chinese Culture Center in Paris, {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(locate) in downtown areas opposite the celebrated historic sites of Grand Palais and Petit Palais across the Seine River, {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(sit) next to a large number of grand handsome and elegant classical architectures that have witnessed the evolution of Paris at {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (vary) historical stages. It conforms to(符合) the status of China, a great power with {#blank#}4{#/blank#} lasting civilization of several thousand years in the East, {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (set) the Chinese Cultural Center in this exact place.

    The amazing progress in {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (smooth) selecting the site for the Chinese Culture Center and putting it into {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (operate) in downtown Paris in such a short period was due to high priority of the Chinese government and constructive cooperation of the French party. Wu Jianmin, Chinese ambassador to France,  said {#blank#}8{#/blank#}excitement, "We have our own cultural center in Paris at last, {#blank#}9{#/blank#}we have eventually realized the long cherished wish of my predecessor(前任) in the Chinese embassy." Hou Xianghua, the first director of the Chinese Cultural Center in Paris, said the center will stick to its "non-governmental" nature and greet people from all {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (walk) of life, in addition to serving the mainstream society.