With just one month to go to the Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022, the excitement is growing among winter sports athletes and    1    (fan) from around the world．

Thousands    2    the world’s best winter sports athletes will gather in Beijing as well as Zhangjiakou    3    (compete) for 109 gold medals to fulfill their Olympic dreams．

The Beijing 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games is    4    event of great significance for China. For all people in China, a strong sense of responsibility, mission(使命) and urgency(紧迫)    5    (need) during the preparation work.

Organizers of the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games have showed a menu of 678 dishes during the Games to athletes from different    6    (culture) backgrounds. As the 2022 Winter Olympics meet with China’s Spring Festival, it will be    7    (interest) for the global athletes to     8    (full) enjoy Chinese food.

A giant panda named Bing Dwen Dwen(冰墩墩) is the official mascot of the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games. “Bing”    9    (mean) ice and also symbolize(象征) purity and strength, and “Dwen Dwen” represents children. The mascot contains the strength and willpower(意志力) of athletes,    10    will help to promote the Olympic spirit.

New Year pieces, an ancient Chinese folk art, are well known. The Chinese people have the custom of sticking up pictures     1     (celebrate) the traditional Spring Festival. This dates from the Song Dynasty. The custom is    2     (particular) popular in the vast countryside,     3     every household will be busy cleaning the whole house and sticking     4     (color) pictures or paper cuttings on their doors, windows, walls, and stoves.

Traditional New Year pictures, usually     5     (create) by the block printing method, are famous for simple lines, brilliant colors and scenes of prosperity. The method     6     (consist) of several steps: drawing, block engraving, printing, and coloring. The finished pictures, therefore, have the features of both woodcut prints and Chinese paintings,     7     (make) a special branch in traditional folk art.

The themes expressed in New Year pictures cover a wide range, from plump babies holding a fish to the Old God of Longevity, from landscapes to birds and flowers, from the ploughing cattle in spring to rich harvests in autumn. Human figures often show artistic exaggeration (夸张), but     8     message in all pictures is always good luck,     9     (happy) or other nice things in the wish of the people.     10     the improvement of printing technologies, there are more and more new materials for New Year pictures.

Today I’d like to introduce a kind of traditional Chinese folk art, shadow puppetry, which     1    (call) “yingzixi” or “dengyingxi” too. Mixed with craftsmanship, fine art, opera     2    music, shadow puppetry is considered to be a predecessor (前身) of the movie and has existed in China for a long time.

As for     3     origin, shadow puppetry can date back to the Han Dynasty. Once grieving the loss of his beloved wife Li, Emperor Liu Che even ignored the state affairs, which worried his officials quite a lot. So they made a puppet with the image of Li, and     4     (perform) before the Emperor. He was     5     (please) and asked them to spread the art form.

But unfortunately, the ancient art     6    （gradual) fell due to the impact of modern audio-visual (视听的)     7     (medium) like television and movies. Both Chinese artists and the government are making every effort     8     (protect) the ancient art form. And it was selected into the world intangible cultural heritage list     9    2011. So, as the constructors of China’s future, we are responsible for     10    (preserve) the precious heritage.