Bridges made out of living roots of trees have been put forward for UNESCO’s World Heritage List.

The root bridges are in the Meghalaya region of northeast India. The region gets    1    lot of rainfall and is one of the    2     (wet) areas on Earth, which creates lots of lakes rivers and waterfalls,    3    (make) it difficult to build roads. However, for hundreds of years the local Khasi people have been trying    4     (they) best to grow root bridges across rivers and streams to make it easier for them to move around the area.

The bridges    5     (build) by stretching the roots of living trees over the river and winding them around bamboo structures to guide them in the right    6     (direct). The roots can take up to 20 years    7     (grow) into a complete bridge.

The India government has suggested Meghalaya’s root bridges should be added     8    the UNESCO World Heritage List. This means they will get special recognition-just like Egypt’s pyramids or the Great Barrier Reef in Australia-    9    should attract more tourist and money to the area.

Morningstar Khongthaw from Meghalaya said, “We want to spread this knowledge so that future    10     (generation) will benefit.”

What springs to mind when you think of kung fu, also known as wushu? You may think of the image of Shaolin monks     1    (strike) fierce poses with a determined look in their eyes, or popular children’s movies like Kung Fu Panda. But do they really portray the meaning of kung fu?

Recently, Laurence J. Brahm, a documentary filmmaker from the United States, explored this question in Searching for Kung Fu. In the movie, Brahm travelled to cities in China and the US in search of     2     origin and value of kung fu.

As a kung fu lover who     3     (devote) to the practice for more than 40 years, pursuing this craft was more than a pastime for Brahm.

Around a decade ago, because of his    4     (able) to use one of his legs for about two years, he began to practice martial arts,     5     resulted in his gradual recovery. Now, kung fu has become a daily routine for him and also the way he     6     (greet) the day.    7    (doubt), Brahm can’t appreciate kung fu too much, seeing it as a mirror of Chinese culture.

    8     the physical benefits kung fu brings to the body, some others find     9     (add) meanings in the practice. They believe Chinese kung fu is full of Chinese philosophies and core values. Kung fu artists always salute with baoquan, which lets each person know that there are no    10    (hide) weapons and shows trust.

Located in Wuyuan County, Jiangxi Province,     1     old Huizhou-style house is now known for its elegant cross-cultural design with a British garden, a fireplace and a bar counter.

The house     2     (own) by British citizen Edward Gawne and his wife Liao Minxin, a native of Jiangxi. “There are trees, bridges, flowing water and beautiful Huizhou-style houses in Wuyuan. This is     3     I imagined traditional Chinese culture would look like,” says Gawne.

When     4     (buy) in 2015, the 200-year-old house was out of repair. The couple determined to transform it into a bed-and-breakfast (B&B) (民宿). After nearly two years of renovation (翻修) with the help of international designers and architects, their Chinese-English-style B&B started operations.

“About 90 percent of our guests are foreigners,     5     can enjoy the beauty of Chinese traditional villages and learn about the culture and local customs,” Liao says.

So far Wuyuan County     6     (introduce) a considerable number of measures for managing the B&B industry. It     7     (regular) releases detailed information on the deserted historical buildings     8     (find) “adopters”. And the local housing department examines adopters’ renovation and decoration plans to protect the     9     (origin) style and structure of the buildings. “Apart from protecting old architecture, the lifestyles of people living in them in the past should also be kept,” says the director of the housing department.

Now in Wuyuan, there are over 800 high-quality B&Bs. The development in B&B construction has provided job     10     (opportunity) for more than 20,000 people and promoted the local tourism industry.

Ieoh Ming Pei, an influential architect of the twentieth century, has created many cross-cultural projects. His distinctive identity — as     1     American architect born in China — gives him a special transnational background. Scholars typically try to locate his design inspirations in his childhood memories, connecting Pei with his dual-cultural (双文化) background and     2     (describe) his buildings based on his biography. Suzhou, the town     3     Pei family was located, is often mentioned by scholars as a way     4     (understand) I. M. Pei’s Chinese cultural background. The city is famous     5     its architecture and landscape, especially its ancient gardens.

    6     (found) in 1960 and originally located in the national historic landmark, Zhong Wang Fu Palace complex, the Suzhou Museum has been a highly-regarded regional museum with a number of significant Chinese cultural     7     (relic).

A new museum designed by world-famous architect I. M. Pei     8     (complete) in October 2006, covering over 10,700 square meters and located at the cross of Dongbei Street and Qimen Road. The design of this new museum     9     (visual) adds to the traditional architecture of Zhong Wang Fu. I. M. Pei designed the current building of the Suzhou Museum in     10     (associate) with Pei Partnership Architects at the beginning of the twenty-first century.