Located in downtown Washington, 800 meters from the White House, the Chinese American Museum is a four-floor hall with a permanent exhibition area — a picture wall displaying 200 photos     1     tell stories of Chinese Americans — on the first floor and three zones for regular displays.

Over the past few years, the museum has been committed to collecting, preserving, researching and displaying the history and culture of Chinese Americans. It also has told and recorded the stories and experiences of Chinese in the US and spread    2     (tradition) Chinese culture. Finally, it has promoted the exchanges of history and culture    3     the two countries.

So far, more than 15 high-quality exhibitions with different themes     4     (hold) in the museum. The     5     (exhibit) include artworks from China and the US, antique documents, calligraphy, paintings and clothing,     6     (attract) more than 150,000 visitors from all over the world.

Since 2020, the museum has made 60 videos for online activities. Last year, the museum     7     (organize) 20 online seminars (研讨会) and five exhibitions with various themes. The museum hopes to encourage Chinese Americans to show    8     (them) proudly and tell their own stories.

In the middle of the first floor, there is     9     touch screen to look through the history of Chinese Americans. At the end of the permanent exhibition on the first floor is a small theater for playing various discipline films     10     audio-visual materials.

“Climate emergency” was picked by Oxford Dictionaries as the word of the year for 2019 after     1     (use) on average 100 times more than in 2018.

Defined as “a situation     2     urgent action is required to reduce or stop climate change and avoid environmental damage resulting from it ”, the word became one of the most important     3     (term) of 2019. “Climate” did not have a place in the top words     4    (typical) used to modify (修饰) “emergency” in 2018. Instead, the top types of emergencies that people wrote about     5     (be) health, hospital and family emergencies. But with climate emergency, people saw something new,     6     extension of emergency to the global level. The choice was reflective, not just of the rise in climate awareness, but the focus specifically     7     the language used to discuss it. Oxford said the rise of “climate emergency”     8       (show) an intentional push towards language of urgency.

The dictionary’s word of the year is chosen     9     (reflect) attention of the passing year and should have lasting potential as a term of     10     (culture) significance. Previous winners of word of the year include “toxic” in 2018 and “youthquake” in 2017.

China is famous for its 5000-year-long civilization    1     has never been stopped. Among all the factors contributing to this is the Chinese writing system.

In the beginning, written Chinese was a picture-based language mostly    2     (carve) on animal bones and shells. By 1046 BCE, it had become a well-developed writing system. Over the centuries, it developed into different forms as people     3     (divide) geographically, leading   to many verities of different dialects and characters. However, this changed when Emperor Qin Shihuang united different     4     (country) into the whole country.

Since then, the unified written Chinese     5     (serve) as a role in uniting Chinese people and     6     (they) culture. The high regard for the Chinese writing system can be seen in the     7     (develop) of Chinese characters, an art form known     8     Calligraphy. Today, as China plays a     9     (great) role in global affairs than ever before,     10     increasing number of international students are beginning to appreciate China's culture and history through this amazing language.

Nowadays Chinese are using the solar calendar. But at the same time, Chinese are also using their own lunar calendar. Each lunar year     1     (give) the name of one of these animals: the rat, the ox, the tiger, the hare, the dragon, the snake, the horse, the sheep, the monkey, the cock, the dog and the pig. This list repeats     2     (it) every twelve years,     3     is a main feature of the Chinese lunar calendar.

Each Chinese month starts on the day of the new moon, and the full moon always comes on the     4     (fifteen) day of the month. The New Year,     5     (actual) well known as the Spring Festival, always falls     6     January 21st and February 20th.

On the last day of each lunar year, the Chinese will hold     7     big family reunion dinner. All the members of a family, with the     8     (except) of married daughters, will try to be present on this festival occasion, even if they have to travel many miles     9     (return) to the home of their parents. After the dinner, even children will stay     10     (wake) until the midnight to welcome the New Year.