During national holiday, famous landmarks and tourist    1    (attract) in China are usually very crowded. For example, in Beijing the Forbidden City often    2    (become) overcrowded with tourists, so people can    3    (hard) enjoy themselves. Because of this, some tourists might get a bad impression    4    these places.

In order to deal with this situation,     5     could be best for people    6    (lower) their expectations of a perfect visit — it can’t be avoided that there will be a lot of tourists when you visit places of interest. This problem can    7    (solve) if people visit different places. Besides, it’s    8    (possibility) that we avoid this    9    (overcrowd) by choosing to visit famous places during the year’s off-season (淡季). You could also visit equally interesting but    10     (little) known places instead.

Wang Kun and Wang Wei are brother and sister. They have dreamed of    1    (take) a great bike trip.     2    was Wang Wei who first had the idea to cycle along the Mekong River. They    3    (ride) bicycles to travel along the Mekong River,    4    source is in Qinghai Province. When it    5    (enter) Southeast Asia, it travels slowly through hills and low valleys and the plains where rice grows. Despite the    6    (difficult), Wang Kun and Wang We were    7    (determine) to begin their journey at an altitude of more than 5,000 meters in Qinghai Province. During    8    (they) journey, they enjoyed the    9    (continue) change of the weather. Finally, they reached Dali in Yunnan Province,    10    Dao We and Yu Hang joined them. The four of them went on with their great bike trip.

Wang Kun and Wang Wei are brother and sister. They have dreamed of     1    (take) a great bike trip.It     2    (be) Wang Wei who first had the idea to cycle along the Mekong River. They rode bicycles to travel along the Mekong River,    3    source is in Qinghai Province.When it    4    (enter) Southeast Asia,it travels     5    (slow) through hills and low valleys and the plains    6    rice grows.Despite the difficulties,Wang Kun and Wang Wei     7    (determine) to begin their journey at     8    altitude of more than 5,000 meters in Qinghai Province.During their journey, they enjoyed the continuous change of the weather.Finally, they reached Dali in Yunnan Province,    9    which Dao Wei and Yu Hang joined them.The four of them went on with     10    (they) great bike trip.

As the sun rises over his tea farm in Ning’ er county in Pu’ er, Yunnan province, Li Xingchang walks around,     1     (examine) the leaves of the plants.

Last November, China’s traditional tea-processing techniques and their associated social practices were listed on the UNESCO’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Pu’er tea     2     (include) on the list.

Li’s family began making Pu’ er tea during the Emperor Yongzheng period(1723–35). He is now the     3     (eight) generation with expert skills in the process.

When Li was a child, he would go to the plantation with his parents     4     (help) them pick leaves at harvest time.     5     a history of several hundred years, the ancient plantation was his playground. Most of his childhood     6     (memory) are associated with it, such as climbing tea trees and playing games with his friends.

In 1987, Li started learning     7     to make Pu’er tribute tea from his mother,     8     he said was very strict. From planting to the complicated processes of tea making, it took him 10 years to win his mother’s     9     (approve).

“If I didn’t do well, she would throw away the leaves or refuse to drink the tea I made. When one day, she smiled after taking a sip, I knew I     10     (make) it,” recalls Li.

Pan, a silversmith (银匠) in Maliao village in Guizhou Province, used to dream of people living     1     abundant life in his village,     2     nobody has to work far away from home and customers go for beautiful silver jewellery. Now his dream has come true.

Maliao village is famous for its silver jewellery. In fact, Miao silver jewellery    3     (list) as National Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2006. But with cheaper, machine-produced trinkets (小首饰)     4     (rule) the market, they couldn’t rely on the old technique     5     (survive).

At that time, most people in the village lived with poverty, which means they could simply afford food and basic clothing, but seldom purchase things like bicycles or televisions. So many villagers left their hometown     6     (hope). But in 2019, the government allocated 580,000 yuan of poverty funds to set up the silverware workshop of Maliao village, helping Maliao villagers fight poverty with their own craft.

Since that year, most young craftsmen     7     (return) to their hometown and found a bright future.     8     the help of the government’s workshop, they learned the     9     (late) fashion trends and how to meet clients’ various     10     (request). Instead of holding on to old ideas and existing design, villagers enhanced their skills and made their products customized.