Fan Jinshi, an archaeologist (考古学家) from Beijing University, first visited the Mogao caves as an undergraduate student in 1962. Despite the cave’s tough     1    (condition). Fan was determined to study national cultural heritage and stayed to pursue her dream.

Over time, Fan’s commitment to preserving national cultural heritage grew     2    (strong) . She joined the Communist Party of China in 1974 and became even more determined to protect the Mogao caves when they were officially open to tourists in 1979.     3    (face) with the challenge of balancing conservation and tourism, Fan knew that a solution had to be found. She was convinced that the caves’ social importance far outweighed (超过) their economic potential (潜力) and that scientific protection was the key to their     4    (survive).

In the late 1980s, Fan came up with     5    innovative (新颖的) plan to digitize the Mogao caves permanently preserving the murals (壁画), painted cultures, and historical data. In 2016 Digital Dunhuang     6    (launch) online, allowing people worldwide     7    (enjoy) comprehensive images of the caves.

In her eighties, Fan Jinshi is as busy as before working     8    (tireless) to conserve and manage the caves. She hopes that young people will carry     9    the “Mogao Spirit” and build a better Dunhuang Academy (学院),     10    she spent her lifetime. “Let this be my epitaph, Fan says, “I’ve done all I could for Dunhuang.”

What’s the first thing     1     comes into your mind when you think of w heat straw (麦秆)? Most people would probably just see it as a pile of waste in a farmer’s field. However, Wu Cui, an intangible (非物质的) cultural inheritor, can turn the straw into beautiful and eye-catching     2     (function) artworks.

The earliest straw-weaving products     3     (discover) at Hemudu Cultural Ruins, a Neolithic cultural site located in eastern China’s Zhejiang Province. The Book of Rites, one of the classical     4     (work) of Confucianism, also records that there were already mats made of cattail grass and professional straw-weaving craftsmen during the Zhou Dynasty. Straw weaving was listed     5     a national intangible cultural heritage in 2008.

Straw weaving is a time-consuming process that can take weeks,     6     even months, to complete. Later, industrial goods have taken     7     place of such products, which make low profits, and there are only about 100 individuals     8     (involve) in the work across the country. “The world has changed, and craftsmen need to overstep practicality and pursue the beauty and artistry of straw culture     9     (help) the craft survive and thrive,” Wu says.

From her viewpoint, straw weaving should respond to people’s needs and preferences, while still     10     (draw) inspiration from traditional culture.

Tang suit often refers to a type of Chinese jackets. The word of Tang suit was created by the overseas Chinese people.

Tang suit has two     1     (variety) in Chinese culture, which are     2     (remarkable) different from each other in style. One refers to the real Tang-era clothes developing from Hanfu,     3     (give) a free and easy and elegant impression;     4     other refers to the Man-chu male's jacket developing from magua of the Qing Dynasty, and it is made by absorbing a Western-style suit cutting method. A typical design of a Tang suit uses the Chinese characters, such as Fu and Shou     5     (express) good fortune and best wishes,     6     is extremely popular among the Chinese people.

Tang suit     7     (have) a great influence on the clothing styles of other countries up till now. The Japanese kimono (和服) is made     8     the basis of pao of the Tang Dynasty, and it has become the national clothing of Japan. As an essential part of     9     (tradition) Chinese culture, Tang suits     10     (wear) by overseas Chinese people during the Spring Festival each year, appealing to many foreigners to wear them. More and more young Chinese people are inclined to wear Tang suits instead of Western-style suits and dresses on their big days.

On Jan 23, the day before Chinese Lunar New Year’s Eve, La Rinascente Department Store in Milan of Italy displayed something special to welcome the Year of the Rat. It was the work of a young Chinese     1     (design), Chen Zuer. Chen’s artworks combine elements of both the East and the West, drawing attention from     2     (passer-by) with a clear sense of oriental elegance, but also daring western expressiveness.

Chen says that it was really stressful when she first     3     (meet) staff members from the department store to propose her ideas for displaying her work in shop windows. “They seemed very strict,     4     nobody smiled,” she recalls. “I kept telling myself just to show them the real me.” When     5     (ask) about her opinion of Chinese culture, she said “it can be     6     (true) magnificent like the Palace Museum, but it can also be     7     simple as what I drew as a Chinese girl”.

After her presentation, she won the opportunity     8     (exhibit) her work. Though the exhibition lasted only 10 days due     9     the COVID-19 pandemic, it turned out to be     10     great success. The 27-year-old, now back in China after having studying in France for about a decade, has been content to look back on the exhibition as a breakthrough.

The Spring Festival family dinner is a big event for Chinese families. For this year’s, my son has booked a table at the best restaurant in town,     1     I’m a bit unhappy about it. For me, it just won’t feel like Spring Festival having the dinner out.

When I was a little boy, the dinner     2     the eve of Spring Festival was     3     I looked forward to most. It was not only for the delicious food that we seldom got to eat, but for the opportunity     4     (have) our whole family gathered together. I would run around the house     5     (listen) to the adults chatting about their year. I’d get under my mother’s     6     (foot) in the kitchen, watching her make dumplings. She’d put tokens in some dumplings: candies for     7     sweet life and peanuts for a long and healthy one. In the evening, all of us would sit around the table, enjoying the food and being together again. We toasted each other, we laughed, and the simple, homemade dishes     8     (taste) more delicious than anything cooked by a top chef. I hope my children and     9     (they) children will still value our memories of preparing the dinner together. To me, the process is even     10     (important) than the dinner itself.

The full moon lights up the sky on the evening of the Lantern Festival. The festival, which falls     1    the 15th day of the first month in the Chinese lunar calendar, marks the end of more than two weeks of Chinese New Year    2     (celebrate) each year.

Solving “lantern riddles” is among the many popular traditional activities for the festival, which include eating tangyuan, enjoying the full moon, and     3     (lose) in colorful lighted lanterns. These guessing games    4    (refer) to as lantern riddles because they involve riddles written on lanterns or on slips of paper    5     (attach) to lanterns. They often contain messages of great     6     (wise) and good fortune, and give children and others of all ages the opportunity to have fun while practicing language and problem-analyzing skills. A good many of     7     classic riddles connect with Chinese characters, historical figures, literary references, or names of cities and other places in China. People must guess the answer by thinking about the     8     (variety) meanings of the words and phrases that make up the riddle.    9     (basic), a tip may be provided, such as indicating     10     the answer is a person, a place, or a thing.