There are many folk stories in China. A more generally     1     (accept) legend goes that humans were created by a goddess named Nüwa,     2     had a human head but the body of a snake. As she traveled     3     earth, Nüwa began to feel lonely. So she took some yellow earth,     4     (mix) it with water and formed a human. This new person immediately began dancing about and shouting in     5     (happy). Nüwa was pleased so she continued to form other people     6     the world was full of humans.

Later, GongGong, the god of water, and Zhu Rong, the god of fire, had a great fight,     7     (create) a mess in the heavens and on the earth. In the end, Gong Gong lost. He was so angry that he hit his head     8     Buzhou Mountain, which was holding up the sky, and the mountain fell. As the sky began to fall, all the planets and the stars started to move to the northwest, leaving a hole in the sky. Worried that her humans would be killed, Nuwa took stones of five different colors, melted them and then used them to cover up the hole in the sky.     9     (keep) the sky from falling, she put a turtle’s leg at each corner to hold it up. In this way, humans     10     (save).

Ye Peiying, the     1     (origin) singer of the well-known song I Love You, China, was born in Malaysia in 1935, and her ancestral home is Huiyang, Guangdong. After     2     foundation of the People’s Republic of China, she left her parents and returned to China.

In 1955, Ye Peiying     3    (admit) to the Central Conservatory of Music. She studied opera and folk songs there, and found a set of Chinese and Western singing methods suitable for her own characteristics, which made an important       4    (contribute) to the nationalization of Bel Canto (美声).

In 1979, Ye Peiying was invited to sing a song for the feature film of the Pearl River Film Studio,     5     is Overseas Babies. After reading the script (剧本), Ye Peiying burst into tears.     6     she didn’t know the specific content of the movie at the time, she was determined to take it. Overseas Babies was released     7    (late) and I Love You, China was quickly sung across the country.

Over the years, Ye Peiying has sung I Love You, China     8     (thousand) of times. When she performs abroad, Chinese people expect her     9     (sing) I Love You, China wherever she goes. “Under the stage, they shed tears while     10     (listen); on stage, I sing and shed tears.” In Ye Peiying’s opinion, this song contains “not only the feelings of overseas children, but also the feelings of the Chinese nation”.

Zhang Xuehua is     1     artist of paper cutting, who works attentively in her workshop in Ma’anshan city, east China’s Anhui Province. As she turns the paper, her scissors fly and a paper-cut work is “born”.

    2     (normal), paper cutting craftsmen first draw patterns on paper and then cut them into outlines, but Zhang has a special     3    (capable) to cut without sketching (画素描) patterns ahead of time. She can turn a piece of paper the size of a handkerchief     4     a lifelike paper cutting work in less than one minute. Her works show a mixture of paper cutting styles in northern and southern China.

Zhang     5    (learn) the craft from her grandmother. “In the beginning, I was not able to cut well, but in time I could create little frogs, butterflies, flowers and other works,” Zhang said. “Paper cutting created countless beautiful childhood     6    (memory) for me. ”

The walls of Zhang’s studio are covered with work, large and small, with subjects     7    (range) from the twelve zodiac signs to daily items. The work Zhang remains proudest of is the Folk Girl series,     8     now sits in the National Art Museum of China’s permanent collection.     9    (carry) forward the traditional craft of paper cutting, Zhang often offers paper cutting classes for free at residential communities, schools and museums, well     10    (recognize) by young people who want to understand the living heritage.