Day 4
Passage 1
How long have you not written a character?
Popular TV program National Chinese Characters Contest has brought people's attention back to written Chinese.
The1. (compete)is the Chinese version of a classic word game American Spelling Bee, Pupils,2. usually come from the fifth or sixth grade,3. (divide)into different teams and try to write down every word according to Its pronunciation.
In less than two hours, the contestants need to solve dozens of questions4. ( concert) error- prone(容易出错的) characters. Many students keep up with the show. They refer to5.______as “the interesting Chinese lessons on TV”. Teachers and parents are also happy to see that children can learn and have fun at the same time.
The program has gone beyond the circle of primary school students. “It is 6. (surprising) instructive. I have corrected a lot of my own mistakes by watching the show,” said7. adult viewer.
Guan Zhengwen, chief director of the show, considers written Chinese8._______the root of Chinas9.________(culture) heritage, “TV shows on Chinese language mean more than just a trend,” he said. “Mass media need to seek innovation(创新) in order to preserve our culture, We hope that National Chinese Characters Contest will get more people10. (brush)up our written language.”
Passage 2
Exercise could not only benefit your body, but also improve your memory, researchers found 1._________________(recent).
In their paper, researchers in the United States and Japan2._____________(introduce) their experiment and conclusion.
Scientists invited 36 volunteers3.________________were in their early 20s to do 10 minutes of light exercise before taking a memory test in which they 4._____________(show) pictures like broccoli(西兰花) or picnic baskets and asked to recall them later. The same experiment was repeated with the same group of volunteers without exercising. “ The memory task really was quite 5.__________________(challenge),” said Michael Yassa, co-author of the study. “ We used very similar items to see if they would remember 6.______________ it was this exact picnic basket versus that picnic basket.”
Researchers also scanned brains of some of the participants during the experiment.
They found increased communication between parts 7.__________________(involve) in the storage and recollection of memories in brains of those who had exercised.
This suggested that just 10 minutes of light exercise might have a positive effect 8._______________ memory power.
As all the volunteers in the experiment were 9.____________(relative) young, researchers are still working 10.___________________(look) at the influence of light exercise on older people. “Our main goal is to try to develop an exercise way that can be used by older adults who might have disabilities,” said Yassa.
Keys
Passage 1
1 competition 2 who 3 are divided 4 concerning 5 it 6 surprisingly 7 an 8 as 9 cultural 10 to brush
Passage 2
1 recently 2 introduced 3 who/that 4 were shown 5 challenging 6 whether 7 involved 8 on 9 relatively 10 to look
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