A recent short video series, Escape from the British Museum, which tells the story of    1    a Chinese cultural relic escapes from the British Museum and finds it swayback to China, has sparked    2    (heat) discussions about the return of Chinese cultural relics from overseas.

Directed by two Chinese vloggers, the three-episode series circles around the personification of a Chinese jade(玉) teapot. The female vlogger who plays the role    3    the jade teapot comes across a Chinese journalist in London whom she believes to be her long-lost family and asks him to take her back home. The series not only entertains but also     4    (touch) on a powerful message that Chinese people are longing    5    (desperate) for the return of cultural heritage.

    6    (release) over August 30 to September 5, the series had received more than 20 million likes on Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, and each episode    7    (play) over 5 million times on Bilibili, another Chinese video platform, by September 8. Millions of viewers made    8    (comment) expressing the hope that the cultural relics could return with dignity and honor.

The     9    (popular) of this short series demonstrates the enthusiasm of young people for history and traditional culture, their emphasis on cultural heritage and preservation,    10    the hope of the Chinese people for the return of their lost cultural relics.

The Han Dynasty is one of the most important     1     (dynasty) in Chinese history. There are many     2     (wonder) achievements during this period. It was the first Chinese dynasty     3     (open) its door to other cultures     4     its foreign trade was prosperous. The Silk Road opened up in the Han Dynasty     5     (lead) to the Middle and Western Asia and even Rome. Various forms of art     6     (blossom) during the period     7     many great works on literature, history and philosophy appeared. The publishing of China's first dictionary was completed in 100AD; it contains 9,000 Chinese characters. At     8     same time, great progress     9     (make) in science and technology was really amazing. The Han Dynasty lasted 400 years. However, the rulers, corruption (腐败) eventually resulted in     10     (it) destruction.

Come and see the Terracotta Army: more than 8,000 statues were made in the     1    (three) century BCE     2    (guard) the tomb of the Chinese Emperor Qinshihuang! Each statue has a different face,     3    (lead) researchers to believe that each one is a copy of     4    real soldier. The     5    (statue) fill only one part of the emperor’s huge tomb, which still has not been     6    (complete) unearthed. More than 700,000 people worked for nearly 40 years to build this tomb.     7    , no one in modern times knew     8     the tomb or the terracotta statues until 1974,     9    some farmers discovered the tomb while they     10    (dig) a well!

Mao Zedong wrote a poem in     1     he dreamed of “Walls of stone to hold back clouds and rain till a smooth lake rises in the narrow gorges”. Now his dream has come true. The power of the Yangtze River, which is the world’s third     2     (long) river, has been harnessed by the Three Gorges Dam.

The dam is nearly 200 meters high. It is the largest hydro-electric power station and dam in the world and     3     (cost) more than any other construction project in history. Sun Yat-sen,     4     was the leader of the 1911 Revolution, first suggested the ides of a dam     5     the Yangtze River in 1919. Three quarters of China’s energy is produced by burning coal. In 1993, China used 1.2 billion tons of coal for heating and generating electricity.     6     (unfortunate), burning coal causes serious air     7     (pollute) and increases global warming. The dam will generate electricity equal     8     about 40 million tons of coal without causing so much air pollution.

The Three Gorges area is one of the most beautiful     9     (area) of China and the project has flooded some of China’s most famous historical sites, including the Qu Yuan Temple, the Han Watchtower and the Moya Cliff carvings. Besides, the reservoir has flooded 2 cities. But now the people who have moved from their homes are living     10     happy new life.

Easter Island is a place     1     large stone statues(雕像) stand by the ocean. No one knows for certain how the statues were transported by the islanders, most of     2     lived far away from where the stones were. It was     3     (possible) for men to carry the large stone statues, several of which were too heavy. People doubt that they were dragged (牵引)over the land, which is too rough(粗糙不平的). Some people think that the islanders used large strong     4    (wood) tools, but there is not enough evidence to prove this. The wood for     5    (make) the tools must have come from big trees,     6     did not exist on the island. A number of people think that God moved the statues,     7     no scientists agree. According to the islanders, the finished statues     8    (transport) by those     9     had magic powers, because the statues were built during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries,     10     a mysterious society ruled the island.