A 150-year-old shipwreck (遇难船) believed    1    (be) a treasure of cultural relics was       2    (eventual)lifted from a riverbed near Shanghai early Monday morning in a high-tech salvage (打捞) operation.

The merchant ship,    3     (refer) to as Yangtze River Estuary No 2 Ancient Vessel, dates back to the period of Emperor Tongzhi (1862-1875) in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). When it     4     (discover) in 2015, it was sitting 5.5 meters off the northeast tip of Hengsha Island in Chongming district.

Recovery of the merchant vessel—about 38.1 meters long and 9.9 meters across at its widest point—was one of the most important and challenging underwater archaeological excavation (挖掘)    5    (project) China has undertaken.

“The retrieval (取回) of the vessel marks the perfect    6    (combine) of underwater engineering and cultural relics protection principles,” said Guan Qiang, deputy director of the National Cultural Heritage Administration.

“The project has provided a Chinese example, Chinese model, and Chinese experience for the global protection of underwater cultural relics,” he said.

In the coming days, another ship will take the shipwreck to the former site of Shanghai Shipyard in Yangpu district, where it will be examined and studied. The ship has been described by the heritage administration as “the largest and best-preserved sunken wooden sailboat in China’s underwater archaeological findings, with    7    huge number of cultural relics    8     board”.

Fang Shizhong,    9    position is director of the Shanghai Cultural Heritage Administration, said that the discovery of the ancient boat was very    10     (meaning), which “proves Shanghai’s position as an important shipping and maritime commerce center for East Asia and even the whole world.”

What’s the first thing that pops into your mind when you think of wheat straw? A pile of waste in a farmer’s field? Wu Cui,     1     intangible cultural inheritor, can turn the straw left over from harvested wheat into beautiful and eye-catching functional artworks.

The     2     (early) straw-woven (草编的) products were discovered at Hemudu Cultural Ruins located in eastern China’s Zhejiang province. The Book of Rites, one of the classical works of Confucianism, also records that there     3     (be) mats made of cattail grass and professional straw-weaving craftsmen during the Zhou Dynasty.

Wu recalls that, when she was a child, woven straw items could     4     (find) almost in every household in the countryside, most of     5     are daily items like hats, shoes or baskets made from straw, or straw artworks modeled after insects.

    6     (fortunate), due to the impact of industrialization, manufactured goods have replaced such products, and there are only about 100 individuals     7     (involve) in the work across the country.

“Straw weaving should win the     8     (recognize) of customers by responding to people’s preferences and needs, while still     9     (draw) inspiration from traditional culture,” she says. Hopefully, more people will understand the culture behind the techniques, and more craftspeople will devote themselves to it as a career     10     great enthusiasm.