Beijing culture’s time-travel comedy (喜剧) Hi, Mom, which     1    (open) the Lunar new year holiday in the     2    (two) place behind Detective Chinatown 3, suddenly rose to the front of the pack.

Written,     3    (direct) by and co-starring female filmmaker Jia Ling, Hi, Mom     4    (receive) the best user review ratings of the seven films currently on release by now. Interestingly, Jia make up a time-travel story to tell her mother’s love story .

The film stars Chinese comedy veteran Jia as a devoted daughter whose world is turned upside-down     5     her mother dies in an accident. In     6     state of emotional crisis, Jia Ling finds herself mysteriously transported back to 1981,     7    she meets her mother (Zhang Xiaofei) and the social group of her youth. Jia’s character tries to improve her mother’s life by using ideas from the future, but her plans repeatedly go wrong.

Hi, Mom reflects     8    how Jia misses her late mother Li Huanying, who encouraged her to go after her artistic dreams. The film     9    (base) on her memories of their time together. Thanks to Hi, Mom’s     10    (power) performance to date, Jia is already China’s most commercially successful female filmmaker ever.

    1    (base) on the story of the Trapp Family Singers by Maria Von Trapp, the film ---- the Sound of Music, is about a young Austrian woman     2    (study) to become a nun(修女) in Salzburg in 1938. She is sent to the villa（别墅） of an officer,     3    has lost his wife, to bring     4    his seven children alone.     5    bringing love and music into the family through     6    (kind) and patience, she marries the officer.

The film was     7    great success and soon got popular throughout the world. The Los Angeles Times described the movies as “three hours of visual and vocal brilliance”. It     8    (list) as the greatest movie of all time.

    9    is thanks to this Hollywood movie that Salzburg City has become    10    (true) world-famous. Visitors from all over the world come to Salzburg every year.

Charlie Chaplin is absolutely a master of nonverbal humor, who made people happy. However, his life was anything but easy. He was born in a poor family in 1889. His parents were both poor    1    (perform), and    2    is astonishing that Charlie was taught to sing as soon as he could speak and dance as soon as he could walk.    3    (fortunate), his father died，    4    (leave) the family even worse off. By his teens，Charlie had become one of the most popular child actors in England.

As time went by, he began making films. His    5    (fun) performance made the audience laugh at a time    6    they felt depressed. He brightened the lives of Americans and British through two world wars and the hard years in between. Charlie Chaplin wrote，directed and    7    (produce) the films he played a leading role    8    . Because of his outstanding performance，in 1972 he    9    (award) a special Oscar and remembered forever. To this day, Charlie Chaplin is still considered as one of the    10    (great) actors in the history of the cinema.

Chopsticks play an important role in Chinese food culture. Chinese chopsticks are round on the eating end which symbolizes heaven, while the other end is square which symbolizes earth.This is because keeping enough food is     1     (great) concern than anything else.

It is important to note that chopsticks are used in many different cultures and there is no single standard for the use of chopsticks. Here are some customs     2     (associate) with chopsticks in China. Playing with chopsticks     3     (consider) bad manners. And chopsticks should not be placed     4     (vertical) in a bowl of rice or other food. Any stick-like object pointing upward     5     (resemble) the incense (香) sticks that people use     6     offerings to their dead family members. It is also bad manners to tap chopsticks on     7     edge of one’s bowl, because in ancient China beggars often made this noise     8     (attract) attention.

In Chinese, “chopsticks” reads “kuai zi”, which means “to have sons soon,” so a newly-married couple will be very happy to accept chopsticks as     9     (they) wedding gift.

    10     has already been found out is that using chopsticks improves one’s memory, increases finger dexterity (灵巧) and can be useful in learning and improving skills such as Chinese character printing and brush painting.

Some festivals are     1     (hold) to honour the dead or to satisfy the ancestors, who might return either to help or to do harm. For the     2     (Japan) festival Obon, people should go to clean graves and light incense in memory of     3     (them) ancestors. They also light lamps and play music     4     they think that will lead the ancestors back to earth. In Mexico, people celebrate the Day of the Dead in early November.     5     this important feast day, people eat food in the shape of skulls and cakes with “bones” on them. They offer food, flowers and gifts to the dead. The Western holiday Halloween also had its origin in old beliefs about the return of the     6     (spirit) of dead people. It is now     7     children’s festival, when they can dress     8     and go to their neighbours’ homes to ask for sweets. If the neighbours do not give any sweets, the children might play a trick on them.

Festivals can also be held to honour famous people. The Dragon Boat Festival in China honours the famous ancient poet, Qu Yuan. In the USA, Columbus Day is in memory of the     9     (arrive) of Christopher Columbus in the New World. India has a national festival on October 2     10     (honor) Mohandas Gandhi, the leader who helped gain India’s independence from Britain.