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Do you like 1. (tradition) Chinese paper - cutting? Ding Xiang, a student at Nongsishi Middle School in Xinjiang, is really good 2. it. At the Eighth National Excellent Talents Competition in Beijing, the 15 - year - old girl got the gold award for her paper - cutting skills.
At the competition, Ding cut a piece of paper - cutting—*Millennium Dream* (《千年梦想》). The paper - cutting has two pieces of paper. One shows 3. ancient cave painting and the other is a Chinese - made spaceship. Ding said she wanted 4. (show) three things with the paper - cutting: China's long history, China's rapid development, and her hope for the future of paper - cutting. Ding began to learn paper - cutting in the first year of her middle school. She started to become more and more interested in it. The next year, she had more schoolwork than before, 5. she didn't give up. "I always find time for 6. (practise) every day. If I don't have time during the day, I must practise at night," Ding said. "It was a very long and hard time, but I enjoyed 7. (I)."
All the hard work has paid off. During the last two years, Ding's skills 8. (improve) a lot, and the gold award she got has also proved it.
Ding said she has learned a lot about paper - cutting. "I have learned to observe(观察) things 9. (careful)," Ding said. "I have become 10. (confidence) than before. It is a great help in my studies. Also, I have learned a lot of history from the art."

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In October, 2024, people watched a new ballet named *The Jade Hairpin* (《玉簪记》) at the China Shanghai International Arts Festival. It 1. (show) for the first time. Ao Dingwen, a top dancer of China, performed this ballet. She was 2. (deep) moved by the traditional Kunqu opera of the same name when she watched it, so she decided 3. (direct) this ballet. The story is about two persons in the Northern Song dynasty. Before getting 4. (marry), they faced many challenges, 5. they learned the meaning of true love.
Ao often performs some famous foreign works. She finds that many foreign 6. (artist) have mixed great works with ballet successfully. "As 7. Chinese dancer, I want to mix traditional Chinese opera with Western ballet," Ao said. "This way, 8. (many) young people can be interested in Chinese culture than before." Ao spent six months 9. (learn) Kunqu opera. During this period, she found Kunqu opera and ballet were very different, so her ballet is a difficult mixture(混合).
In the show, dancers' movements are different 10. those in the classic ballet. Ao's lively dance shows the beauty of both traditional Chinese art and modern ballet.
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Zhang Guimei, who is the headmaster of Huaping High School for Girls, has been given the title "Model of the times" for 1. (help) girls from poor families.
She moved to Lijiang to teach in the middle school in Huaping County 2. the age of 39. Once, she got badly ill 3. had no money. The local people raised money and helped her. "From then on, I told 4. (me) that I must do something for those people who helped me," Zhang said.
She was sad when she saw her 5. (student) couldn't afford to go to school. 6. (slow), a dream appeared in her heart. In 2008, she managed 7. (found) the Huaping High School. This is 8. free school for girls from poor families. When people asked why she worked so hard, she just said, "I hope these girls can live a 9. (happy) life than me."
With her great efforts, she 10. (send) more than 1,800 students to universities so far.

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