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Lichun, or the Start of Spring, is the first of the 24 solar terms of the Chinese traditional lunar calendar. This year, it     1     (fall) on Feb. 4th, the same day as the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games. The opening ceremony began     2     the countdown of the 24 solar terms. The first program featured dancers holding green props (道具),     3     formed a picture of green grass. It     4     (vivid) presented not only the spring, but also vitality. The program was followed by spring-themed fireworks show,     5     (symbolize) the seeds of spring spreading all over the earth.

In     6     Chinese language, the character “Li” means “start”, while the season of spring     7     (consider) as the beginning of a year. How important is Lichun for the Chinese people? An old Chinese saying gives the answer: “Spring is the golden time of a year, so is morning of a day.”

Many of the     8     (celebration) have been maintained for Lichun, and taking a bite of the Spring is one of them. The spring pancake, with a thin wrap and various kinds of vegetables as stuffing (馅), is a     9     (represent) food of the spring. Along with a cup of “Chuncha” (the spring tea), people fully emerge     10     (they) into the pleasant smell of the season.

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Yixing teapot,     1     is also called zisha hu in Chinese, is translated as “purple sand teapot”. Approximately five to six thousand years ago, pottery (制陶技艺) activity first emerged in the city of Yixing,     2     (locate) in the southern Jiangsu Province. At that time, Yixing city was one of the famous production     3     (region) of pottery in the east, but in the Tang Dynasty (618—907), potters started to teem with zisha ni or purple sand clay. By the early Ming Dynasty (1368—1644), the popularity of this specialized form of pottery had increased, and replaced other pottery,     4     (become) the preferred tea set.

Zisha hu is     5     unique Chinese art form that developed during the Song Dynasty (960—1279), but reached the height of its fame during the early Ming Dynasty. This very elegant, but simple style of pottery became     6     (increasing) popular as tea preparation     7     (it) moved towards simplicity. The process of preparing tea during the earlier Tang Dynasty     8     (involve) the grinding (碾碎) of leaves and the addition of incense. As this complex method began to fall out of favor, it     9     (replace) with the use of simple bill wonderful whole tea leaves and buds. The unglazed and uncolored purple sand teapot proved it could best capture the real color and fragrance of this new style of tea. In addition, its aesthetics reflected the cultural and     10     (philosophy) ideas of the times.

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THE EAGLE
This is the kind of story you need when it seems like the world is out of control

Freedom and Jeff

Freedom and I have been together 10 years this summer. She came in as a baby in 2011 with two     1     (break) wings, thin and dirty. We made the decision to give her a chance at life, so I took her to the vet's office. From then on, I was always around her. We had her in a huge dog carrier with the top off, and it was loaded up with shredded newspaper for her to lay in. I used to sit and talk to her, urging her to live, to fight and she would lay there looking at me with those big brown eyes. We also had to tube feed her for weeks. This went on for 4-6 weeks, and by then she still couldn't stand. It got to the point     2     the decision was made to euthanize (安乐死) her if she couldn't stand in a week.

She was going to be put down that Friday, and I was supposed to come in on that Thursday afternoon. I didn't want to go to the center that Thursday,     3     I couldn't bear the thought of her being euthanized, but I went anyway and when I walked in everyone was grinning from ear to ear. I went immediately back to her cage; and there she was, standing on her own, a big beautiful eagle. She was ready to live. I was just about in tears by then. That was a very good day. We knew she could never fly, so the director asked me to glove train her.

In the spring of 2013, I was diagnosed     4     non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (淋巴瘤). I had stage 3, which is not good, so I wound up doing eight months of chemo (化疗). Lost the hair- the whole bit. I missed a lot of work.     5     I felt good enough, I would go to Sarvey and take Freedom out for walks. Freedom would also come to me in my dreams and help me fight the cancer. This happened time and time again.

Fast forward to November 2013, I went in for my last checkup. I was told that if the cancer was not all gone after eight rounds of chemo, then my last option was     6     stem cell transplant. I went in Monday, and 1 was told that all the cancer was gone. Amazing!

So the first thing I did was     7     (get) up to Sarvey and take the big girl out for a walk. It was misty and cold. I went to her flight, and we went out front to the top of the hill. I hadn’t said a word to Freedom, but somehow she knew. She looked at me and wrapped both her wings around me to where I could feel them     8     (press) in on my back, and she touched my nose with her mouth and     9     (stare) into my eyes, and we just stood there like that for I didn't know how long. That was a magic moment. We     10     (be) soulmates since she came in. This is a very special bird.