The discovery of the first Dead Sea Scrolls(死海古卷),     1    (consider)to be the    2    (significance)archaeological event of the twentieth century, occurred in 1947 in Qumran, bordering on the Dead Sea.     3    (search)for a goat that had got lost, a shepherd named Muhammed walked along the sea cliffs and     4    (accident)came across a clay jar containing ancient scrolls. Then they were sold to Professor Eliezer Sukennik. He was sure that the scrolls were genuine(真的), which was the first time that a biblical(圣经的) scholar     5    (examine)the scrolls.

Ten years later, eleven more caves around the Dead Sea were found to contain tens of thousands of scroll fragments(碎片), among     6    are the oldest known versions of the Hebrew Scriptures. Some scrolls were carefully placed, while others appeared to be thrown in a hurry.     7    is remarkable about the ancient scrolls is their age.     8    (date) from the 3rd century BC to AD 68, the scrolls are mostly written in Hebrew and include the oldest biblical texts ever found, consisting     9    passages from every book of the Hebrew Bible, with the     10    (except)of the Book of Esther.

Peking Opera is a form of traditional Chinese theater that     1     (appear) in Beijing in the late 18th century.     2    (combine) music, song, dance and acrobatics (杂技动作) in a lively and colorful display, it is a     3    (relative) new style of drama, compared to other types of Chinese theater.

In the early years of Peking Opera, all the actors were men, with the roles of women played by young boys. The stories fell into two main     4     ( category) — wen, or civil theater, which focused on love, marriage and other civilian concerns, and wu, or military theater, which focused on the theme of war and was known     5    featuring thrilling stage actions.

In the first half of the     6     (twenty) century, the most famous actor of Peking Opera was Mei Lanfang,     7     played a key role in popularizing Peking Opera and introducing Chinese theater to the West. Additionally, Mei also took the bold step of taking on female students, which was     8    highly risky and unconventional (不因循守旧的) step at the time.

After the founding of the People’s Republic of China, Peking Opera performances, which dealt with contemporary and revolutionary themes, were encouraged. Despite     9    (it) ups and downs, Peking Opera was revived(复兴) in the 1980s and continues to     10    (perform) today.

China will encourage more non-profit funds to protect cultural relics, the State Administration of Cultural Heritage（SACH）announced     1    Wednesday.

"China     2    （spend）60 billion yuan（9.3 billion U. S. dollars）in protecting cultural relics during the past five years. The money went to more than 10,000 projects     3    did not cover privately owned cultural items," said Zhu Xiaodong,     4    （direct）of policy and law department of the SACH.

    5    cultural relics held as private property are included in the government programs, a lack of proper funding has left privately owned relics basically unprotected.

The SACH will help establish non-profit cultural heritage funds with the help of the Ministry of Finance, to channel     6    state subsidies and private capital into cultural relic protection.

China's traditional villages are in most     7    （urgency）need of protection. Among the 11,000 registered cultural relics in these 2,555 villages, 6,600     8    （be）in the possession of private owners.

With the help of non-profit funds, the SACH can encourage and urge private owners     9    （take）practical action to protect     10    （they）relics.

China has a rich history and profound culture, including clothing.     1    (it) traditional hanfu, which has long been neglected by the public, is making a comeback nowadays.

As one of China’s largest hanfu theme events, the Hanfu Cultural Festival     2     (hold) annually in Xitang ancient town, Zhejiang Province. According to statistics from the organizer, 157,326 visitors attended the festival last year, many of     3     were hanfu-wearing     4     (enthusiastic), called “tong pao”.     5     (origin) from the collection of ancient Chinese poems The Book of Songs, the phrase tong pao is now used     6     (describe) whoever appreciates the traditional Han Dynasty clothing.     7     (forbid) during China’s last feudal (封建的) dynasty, the Qing Dynasty, hanfu has been little known     8     the public for many decades.

Nowadays, both the government and the public are attaching great importance to the promotion and education of traditional Chinese culture. Tong pao     9     (rise) in number over the past 16 years since a worker named Wang Letian made a hanfu-style suit and wore it in public in 2003.

The regular hanfu theme event in Xitang has become     10     major platform for hanfu culture promotion as well as a calling card of Xitang’s tourism.