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文章导读 阅读理解 A篇: 改革开放45周年：藏在变化中的幸福。 B篇： 余华成为首登《巴黎评论》“作家访谈”的中国作家。 C篇：用“人脑”做的 “生物计算机” 诞生！ D篇：科学新发现：霸王龙吃什么？化石揭示它们的饮食秘密。 E篇：拾金不昧是美德，也是义务 F篇：首个古籍大语言模型“荀子”发布 G篇：中国商业航天也在迅速发展。 语法填空：诗歌欣赏：王昌龄《塞下曲》——血泪交织的史诗尽显战争的残酷。 A 阅读理解（原创） This year marks the 45th anniversary of the beginning of reform and opening-up (改革开放). During this time, China has seen a tremendous transformation. According to the National Bureau of Statistics, from 1978 to 2017, China’s total value of imports and exports increased from 35.5 billion yuan to 27.8 trillion yuan. Xu Zhaolin, 25, and her family have first-hand experience of seeing the impact of this change. Her father, Xu Zhenhe, bought his first Japanese-made camera in 1998 at a photography equipment store in Beijing. “At that time, people could only buy imported photography equipment like this at particular stores and the cameras used film,” said the 57-year-old. After just over two decades, film cameras are now seldom seen in the marketplace. “Now the camera functions on our smartphones are diverse enough to meet our needs,”  Xu Zhaolin said excitedly. She added that today we can find a much larger variety of imported goods online. There have also been significant changes in China’s food supply and transaction (交易) methods. Xiao Yao, a 14-year-old student from Chengdu, Sichuan, felt quite moved when her grandmother shared this part of history. When Xiao’s grandmother Huang Kunrong was a child, she used liangpiao, or food ration coupons, to get her food allowance. Each person had a fixed quantity of grain every month. “Sometimes people didn’t have enough rice to eat, so they could only eat stored coarse grain (粗粮) like sweet potatoes,” said Huang. That was the situation Huang faced once when she had to take care of her sick grandmother. “I managed to turn the rotten (腐烂的) sweet potatoes into porridge and served it to my grandma, but it still stank (有异味). I felt utterly helpless and desperate,” Huang said. Today, Chinese people no longer have to face hu