Beijing will start repairing the eastern part of the Jiankou Great Wall soon.

The Jiankou section,     1     (locate)in Beijing’s Huairou District, is one of the most     2     (danger)parts of the Great Wall and called by mountain hikers as the “wild Great Wall.”

Zhang Tong, director of the Huairou district cultural relics office, said the repair of Jiankou Great Wall was initiated at     3     end of 2017, and repairs with a total     4     (long) of 2,232 meters, including 11 towers, have been completed. The repair on the eastern part, as long as 885 meters including, eight towers. will be finished this year.

The office     5     (carry)out aerial photographing and 3D modeling for the repair work so far.

    6     (Original)built in the Tang Dynasty(618-907)and restored in the Ming Dynasty(1368-1644), Jiankou Great Wall connects to Mutianyu Great Wall to the east and Huanghuacheng Great Wall to the west.

“The repair aims     7     (remove)potential safety hazards, and prevent the unique landscape and characteristics of the section     8     being damaged,” Zhang said.

The Great Wall is a UNESCO World Heritage Site,     9     (consist)of many interconnected sections. Beijing has planned to protect and develop the Great Wall Cultural Belt,     10     includes both heritage protection and ecological conservation.

Before tall buildings sprung up like mushrooms in Beijing, hutong dominated this city in the past and cultivated the unique culture.     1     (adapt) them to modern need, the Beijing government     2     (conduct) a series of policies to renovate (翻新) the city’s ancient streets in the last decade.

Yangmeizhu Xiejie is a key project in Bejing’s Dashilan Renewal Plan. This time-honored street is a traditional Beijing hutong alley     3     (line) by single-story residences. The 496-meter-longstreet is known     4     its good-natured atmosphere,     5     writers and artists can cooperate and perfect their crafts. According to the plan, 792 out of 1,700 households were relocated,    6    the old hutong preserving Beijing’s traditional lifestyle remains protected.

Compared to the previous one, now the street     7     (feature) more attractive local shops with a perfect combination of traditional craftsmanship and modern style. The Old Beijing Rabbit Figurine store is a     8     (shine) example. Opened by a fifth-generation heir (继承者) to the art of creating clay rabbit sculptures, it serves as     9     symbol of happiness and good luck in the city and conveys a sense of joy to     10     (visitor). They say that in Yangmeizhu Xiejie, an open market atmosphere and a sensational ambience (气氛) of literature coexist.

【推荐3】Tea house, a special place for the Chinese to have tea, is very popular in the Yangtze River area. It is mostly called tea house in provinces like Guangdong, Guangxi and Hainan,     1     it is called tea pavilion in Beijing and Tianjin of North China. Although these names vary, the forms and contents are basically     2     same.

To the Chinese people, tea house, similar to the cafes in western countries, are social places where various kinds of social information     3    (gather) and spread and where customers taste tea and talk about birds, news and     4    (day) things. In order to attract customers, stages     5    (be) built in some tea houses to play cross talk(相声), storytelling and Beijing opera, making these tea houses amusement places. The drama Tea House,     6    (write) by the famous Chinese writer Lao She, revealed     7    (vivid) the unstable society of the last phase of the Qing Dynasty through describing various kinds of people’s words and behaviors in a tea house.

The rise of tea house is closely related with Chinese tea culture. After several thousand     8    (year) of development, the tea house has become a part of life for the Chinese people. Now, people     9     come to Beijing will be attracted to those famous tea houses     10    (experience) Chinese tea culture.