Intro: China Daily compared the questions in the English section of the gaokao four decades ago with those asked last year. Here is a selection. See if you can answer them correctly, and try to guess those that appeared in the 1977 test.
Major reforms to the gaokao and the college admission system since 1977.
Luo Ren, 64, took the gaokao in 1977 and was admitted to Beijing Forestry University. After graduation, he became a researcher at Chongqing Academy of Forestry and was later chief scientist for the Chongqing Forestry Science Society, leading several major projects. He retired in 2013.
In China, the gaokao has long been called "the most important examination".
Feng Zhifang had to make many sacrifices when she began caring for her 87-year-old mother full time. For years, she missed out on vacations, time with her friends, and, as a Christian, even struggled to make it to church on Sundays.
Retirement communities offering comprehensive services are springing up nationwide as more property developers delve in to a lucrative market fueled by China's aging population.
A care home on Yangqu Road in downtown Shanghai not only welcomes the older generation, but also children and teenagers.
Editor's note: In the run-up to the 19th Communist Party of China National Congress, China Daily sent six reporters to villages nationwide to live for a month and take a look at how people are working under China's poverty eradication plan.
Most people who obtain doctorates do so to advance their career - but that was not the case for one student at Sichuan University.
Reminiscent of Rumpelstiltskin, a story collected by the Brothers Grimm, rice farmers in South China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region have found a way to spin straw into gold - well, almost.
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