When 4-year-old English family member Prince George(乔治王子) started his first day of school in September, Chinese language was on his curriculum(课程表).

    And he wasn't the only one kid. According to a report published by the British Council(英国文化协会) in September, about 51 percent of UK parents want their children to learn Chinese, because it's one of the most useful languages.

    In fact, the popularity of Chinese made the UK government start the Mandarin Excellence Programme in September last year. Its aim(目的) is to make at least 5000 English students speak Chinese well by 2020.

    Yet, the UK isn't the only country showing a growing interest in Chinese. The language becomes the second most spoken foreign language in the USA this year, after only Spanish, with over 2.1 million speakers.

    Many US famous people such as Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and Malia Obama, former US President(总统) Barak Obama's daughter, study Chinese as a second language. 

    In April, Arabella and Joseph Kushner, grandchildren of US President Donald Trump, sang the traditional folk music Jasmine in Mandarin for Chinese President Xi Jingping when the two leaders met in Florida.

     So far, 67 countries have studied Chinese in their national curriculum, reported the Chinese website.

Chinese has become more and more____.

阳阳同学学习了生物遗传和变异的知识后，对性状的遗传现象很感兴趣，如图1是阳阳同学对家族单双眼皮性状的调查示意图，请你根据图中提供的信息，回答下列问题：

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我对某些词语赋予特殊的含义。拿“度日”来说吧，天色不佳，令人不快的时候，我将“度日”看做是“消磨光阴”，而风和日丽的时候，我却不愿意去“度”，这时我是在慢慢赏玩，领略美好的时光。坏日子，要飞快地“度”，好日子，要停下来细细品尝。“度日”“消磨时光”的常用语令人想起那些“哲人”的习气。他们以为生命的利用不外乎在于将它打发、消磨，并且尽量回避它，无视它的存在，仿佛这是一件苦事、一件贱物似的。至于我，我却认为生命不是这个样的，我觉得它值得称颂，富有乐趣，即使我自己到了垂暮之年也还是如此。我们的生命受到自然的厚赐，它是优越无比的，如果我们觉得不堪生之重压或是白白虚度此生，那也只能怪我们自己。

“糊涂人的一生枯燥无味，躁动不安，却将全部希望寄托于来世。”(古罗马哲学家塞涅卡语)

不过，我却随时准备告别人生，毫不惋惜。这倒不是因生之艰辛或苦恼所致，而是由于生之本质在于死。因此只有乐于生的人才能真正不感到死之苦恼。享受生活要讲究方法。我比别人多享受到一倍的生活，因为生活乐趣的大小是随我们对生活的关心程度而定的。尤其在此刻，我眼看生命的时光无多，我就愈想增加生命的分量。我想靠迅速抓紧时间，去留住稍纵即逝的日子；我想凭时间的有效利用去弥补匆匆流逝的光阴。剩下的生命愈是短暂，我愈要使之过得丰盈饱满。