How do you keep cool during summer? Air conditioners or electric fans are good 1 in modern society. But 2 that, people could only use fans.

    Over 3,000 years ago, fans began to 3 They were made of feathers (羽毛), bamboo or silk. They came in different 4 , including round and square.

    Later, with the invention of paper, folding(可折叠) paper fans became popular5 the Song Dynasty.  There are usually beautiful 6on fans. Some are landscapes (风景). Others are flowers and animals. Moreover, many great people including Su Dongpo, a poet of the Song Dynasty, and Tang Yin, a scholar (学者) and painter of the Ming Dynasty, once painted their masterpieces(杰作) on fans. This made fans not only 7 tools in daily life but also great artworks.

    So, with its value of beauty, people take fans as a 8 of status(地位). That's why in old China, emperors and scholars often held fans.

    Today, fans are also great collectors' items(藏品) and gifts. On the opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, folding fans were9 to leaders and officials (官员) of other countries. While they were 10 fans to get cool, they were also experiencing Chinese culture.

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Basketball is an active and much-loved sport that is enjoyed by many people for fun and exercise. So far, the "Village Basketball Association" at Taipan Village in Guizhou has got tons of attention. The final game of the Guizhou country basketball league, known as "Village BA" took place on March 

27. The winner was Team Qiangongnan and prizes for the team with bags of rice, fish and ducks. Most of the players are farmers from local villages and nearby cities. People even can't get a single seat because more than 30 000 people from across the country come to the small village to watch the game. People knocked on iron pots and bowls to cheer for players . Villagers sang folk songs and danced in the halftime show.

Taipan has now been a model place of rural vitalization(乡村振兴)in sports and tourism(旅游业). In the summer of 2022, about 500,000 visitors came here to watch "Village BA" game and it brought great benefits to the village. Zeng Jinlong, a 17-year-old villager, has watched the games for the first time when he was 6 years old. He said, "I dream of taking part in the ‘Village BA' final one day."

①We know that with thousands of years of developing, people are becoming better at languages. But at the same time, language can also affect(影响) us in different aspects(方面).

②First, many studies on bilingual(双语) people show that when people change between two languages, they must think more actively than just using one, especially in the prefrontal cortex. This part at the very front of our br aın is important for handling(处理) information. And bilinguals learn new languages faster. Bilingualism might make the brain stronger. One researcher found that lifelong bilinguals often get brain illnesses later than those who know only one language. Another study shows that bilinguals get well sooner.

③Language can also affect how we see the world. Studies show that English speakers think of time from back to front. But Chinese speakers think of time in the opposite way. A study found that Greek speakers could find out different colours of blue faster and better than English speakers. People who speak languages like Spanish and French may connect words with men or women traits(性状).

④What's more, language might shape(塑造) our personality(个性). Bilinguals sometimes describe the same picture differently depending on the language they use. Studies also show that bilingual children are better at understanding others' ideas.

⑤In short, language seems to have a bigger affect on us. The more languages we learn, the cleverer we might be. There's still a lot to learn.

Do you know the film A Christmas GiftFrom Bob? It tells a moving story about the man James and his cat Bob on Christmas Day (圣诞节). For them, Christmas has a special {#blank#}1{#/blank#}. The film is certainly a good choice (选择) for you {#blank#}2{#/blank#} you are a cat lover. It got many good reviews (评价) online. 

 "It is one of my favorite {#blank#}3{#/blank#}. It is adapted from (改编于) a popular book of the same name. Last weekend, I enjoyed myself {#blank#}4{#/blank#} the film with my sister. When I saw Bob get ill seriously, I was worried about it. I thought it {#blank#}5{#/blank#} die. However, Bob comes back to full health and {#blank#}6{#/blank#} a happy life with James. At the end of the film, the bad news {#blank#}7{#/blank#} on the screen: the real Bob died in June, 2020. It made me very{#blank#}8{#/blank#}. " Jack wrote on his blog. 

"It is a great film. Bob is so cute when it is in Christmas clothes in the film. The film made me{#blank#}9{#/blank#} of my cat Lucy. I dressed it up{#blank#}10{#/blank#} in the same clothes at Christmas three years ago. But unluckily, it got lost. I miss it very much. " Lisa shared on the Internet.