In recent months, the China Grand Canal Museum in Yangzhou, which exhibits the history and culture of the Grand Canal,     1     (attract) a great number of visitors. Each day, the museum provides 15, 000 tickets for visitors to book     2     advance. They usually sell out on weekends, making the museum     3     popular landmark in East China.

    4     (locate) near the downtown, the museum is only 20-minute drive from the Yangzhoudong Railway Station to by taxi only takes 20 minutes. “My passion     5     (arouse) by those passengers, so I took my children to the museum too. I never knew why it had such great charm     6     I got there.”

The museum,     7     appearance resembles a giant ship, covers 80,000 square meters and houses 14 exhibition halls. While telling its story, the museum puts an     8     (emphasize) on improving visitors’ experience. Young people can take part in a live-action role-play game designed by the museum, transporting them back to the Ming Dynasty, and     9     (immerse) them in an amazing world. “It is     10     (true) a very meaningful experience,” said a visitor surnamed Chen.

Yingge Dance, a traditional folk art combining dancing, Chinese martial arts, and Chinese opera, is popular in the Chaoshan area of Guangdong province in South China. Yingge, written with the characters for “hero” and “song”,     1     (mean) heroic song in Chinese and Yingge dancers, as their name implies, are the avatars (化身) of     2     (hero). The dancers each hold a pair of short sticks and strike the sticks with force     3     (create) strong beats — an     4     (art) display of masculinity (男子气概). In 2006, the Puning Yingge Dance     5     (list) among the first batch of national intangible cultural heritages in China.

However, as young people move out of the villages, so are local folk arts     6     (gradual) disappearing all around China. In Puning, Yingge is still danced during holidays such as the Lunar New Year and its performers are generally amateurs — farmers     7     have put down their tools and put on costumes. Some of the parts are passed     8     in the family, from father to son, and so far some villages have started giving performers a basic salary.

    9     (dress) in colorful clothes and wearing heavy makeup, ordinary villagers have created a song of cultural confidence. The performance,     10     must-watch for the local people, graces the village square one more time.

No trip would be complete without experiencing the local food culture. Actually, China has various kinds of delicious food, including     1     wide variety of local snacks.

Without doubt, for the majority of the foreigners I contacted, and myself included, Peking duck, dim sum and Sichuan hotpot are the favorite Chinese     2     (dish). China is a place     3     the food is not only the most delicious, but the     4     (cheap) I’ve ever found.

On    5     (I) last night in Beijing before returning to the United States, I went to a Peking duck restaurant that had been suggested for me to try. What a beautiful place! Splendid woodblock prints on the walls, fresh flowers in the vases on the table, attractive silverware(镀银餐具)     6     beautiful chopsticks. I     7     (hand) a menu and I surprisingly found that most of the prices were especially low. The duck came in whole or half, along with all the little decorations that you know if you’ve ever eaten Peking duck-a little tortilla(玉米粉薄烙饼) to put the sliced duck, vegetables, chopped onion and sauce in.

Anyway, I ended up ordering a whole duck and thought that if l couldn’t finish it I’d just take the rest back to my hotel     8     (eat) later.     9     (believe), in the end there was none of the whole duck     10     (leave) on the plate. Unm, yummy!