For    1    (century), people have believed that chicken soup    2    (help) to fight a cold. Now, doctors say it may be true. They think that chicken soup has something that stops a cold from getting    3    (bad). Heat from the soup can also make    4     person feel better.

Many people think that it is unhealthy not to have meat. It is true that meat,    5    (especial) red meat, has protein that the body needs. A person    6     doesn’t eat meat can get enough protein and be healthy by eating tofu, eggs, and some vegetables. A study shows that tea is better than coffee. Tea has something that can protect your heart, fight cancer, and make you less fat. Coffee    7    (do) not do this.

Many people believe that bread and potatoes can easily make people fat. In fact, bread and potatoes do not have fat in them. But    8    (eat) too much and not exercising can make people fat.    9    , adding things like butter to    10    (they) can raise the chance of becoming fat.

China’s tea culture can be traced as far back to before 2000 BC. The Shennong Emperor discovered tea when a leaf fell into boiled water he was drinking, beginning a tradition that still     1     (exist) nowadays.

During the Tang dynasty(618-907) in China, the culture of tea underwent a remarkable development. When Emperor Lu Yu     2     (author) the highly regarded Classic of Tea (茶经), he set off on a journey that would play a critical role in establishing tea’s cultural     3     (significant) in China. Lu Yu, a monk who later earned fame     4     the’Sage of Tea’ (茶圣), had an enormous impact on the spread of tea drinking and linked     5     to Buddhist ideas, including the harmony and mysteries of the universe. The Classic of Tea is the oldest     6     (know) guide to tea drinking and culture. It covers all aspects of tea culture, from growing to harvesting, producing as well as techniques for farmers and craftsmen     7     (produce) the finest teas.

Throughout the Tang dynasty,     8     culture of tea drinking spread quickly among scholars. Inspired by Lu Yu’s ideas, they added medicinal qualities to tea, praised for     9     (sharpen) the mind. At the same time, wine was falling out of favour for their alcoholic properties, paving a path for tea to spread throughout society     10     to be used in religious occasions and offerings.

Wing Chun is a southern Chinese kung fu style descends from Shaolin Kung Fu. It has the distinction of having been founded by two women, Ng Mui and Yim Wing-chun.

The Wing Chun style is known for placing     1     (emphasize) on technique rather than strength. This style also calls for practitioners to stay relaxed while     2    (fight), allowing them to achieve a kind of softness or flexibility. This relaxed flexibility gives Wing Chun fighter     3     special kind of strength that allows them to bend, not break, just like bamboo.   

Legend has it that Wing Chun founder Ng Mui was living at Shaolin Temple     4     it was attacked and destroyed by Qing dynasty forcers. Surviving the attack, she escaped     5     the border area between Yunnan and Sichuan. There she met a young woman     6     (name)Yim Wing-chun, who     7     (final) became one of her top students. She taught Yim an improved version of Shaolin Kung Fu, known as Wing Chun now. This new martial art     8     (spread) and grown into different branches over the past two hundred years.

Ip Man, featured in the eponymous (同名的) hit films,     9    (be) a notable practitioner of Wing Chun style martial arts. He also taught the Wing Chun style to his student, Bruce Lee, who would go on to act in the beloved Hong Kong kung fu movies     10     helped make Chinese martial arts famous around the world.

The advent of the compass was a great     1     (contribute)of the Chinese people to world civilization. The compass is a simple instrument     2     (consist) of a magnetic needle that can be turned     3     (flexible) and a compass with a scale to indicate the direction of the earth’s magnetic field.

The earliest instruments that could indicate direction were called Sinan,     4     appeared around the Warring States period, when natural magnets were polished into the shape of     5     spoon and placed on a graduated square engraved plate to give a general indication of direction.

Later on, it was discovered that by rubbing a magnet against an object such as a steel needle in one direction several     6     (time), the needle could also be magnetised, so that it could point more accurately than the Sinan, and thus the compass     7     (invented). In the Song dynasty, an instrument was also invented to indicate direction,     8     (call) the compass fish, which floated on water.

    9     the Southern Song Dynasty, people assembled the magnetic needle and the dial into a single unit, named the needle dial, also called the meridian dial, compass and so on. Our compass spread to Europe and the Arabian region around the     10     (twelve) century, greatly contributing to the development of world navigation and human society.