On Oct. 30, Ado Campeol who ran a restaurant passed away at the age of 93. He is known     1     “the father of tiramisu（提拉米苏）”.

Tiramisu is translated into English as “pick me up”. According to the BBC, it was an     2    （accident）invention. And it has been     3     （wide）accepted for about 40 years. One day, cook Roberto wanted to make ice-cream.     4     he carelessly dropped some cheese into the bowl. He was so     5     （amaze）and ran to tell his boss Campeol. Campeol and his wife Alba added some coffee-flavored biscuits and covered the surface with cocoa powder（粉）    6     （improve）the dessert. In 1972, tiramisu was on the list of his restaurant’s menu.

When the dish appeared in the local newspaper in 1981, it got tons of attention and became worldwide.

“The     7    （popular）of tiramisu has risen around because it not only could    8    （eat）as a dessert, but also would be an amazing choice at breakfast as well, noted National Geographic.

Many people want to make their marks and create their own dessert. Something from pumpkin to lemon to matcha（抹茶）has been added to it. In order to stick to the    9    （early）way to make tiramisu, an     10    （Italy）politician（政治家）, Luca Zaia, called on the European Union to give the dish protected status（状态）in 2013.

There are many TV programs on Chinese food, but few of them are like A Bite of China. It tells us something     1     (interest) about what the Chinese eat in different cultures and places.

China is famous     2     its delicious food. And food plays     3     important role in Chinese culture. You can see all     4     /kaɪndz/ of foods through the program. And you can also learn how to make the food. That’s why it     5     (become) so popular.

The program is also     6     /edʒuˈkeɪʃən(ə)l/ because it is not only food. There are also many great stories of food     7     people. It helps people from other     8     (country) know more about China. They can     9     /bəʊθ/ enjoy the beauty of Chinese food and learn Chinese culture.

You can watch the program     10     on the Internet or on TV.

Born in 701, Li Bai was one of the     1     (great) poets of the Tang Dynasty. At the age of 24, he left home and started to travel     2     China. Throughout his life, he wrote more than one thousand poems about     3     (nature) world, friendship and many other wonderful things.

“To Wang Lun” was one of Li Bai’s     4     (poem), which was about his friendship with Wang Lun, an important person to him. It is said that Wang Lun respected Li Bai for his talent and dreamt of seeing him.     5     he heard that Li Bai was travelling to a place nearby, he wrote a letter to Li Bai and invited him     6     (visit) his hometown. In the letter, Wang Lun pictured his hometown as having peach flowers extending ten li and ten thousand wine houses.

Li Bai couldn’t find the scenes described by Wang Lun when he arrived. Wang Lun explained that “peach flowers” was     7     name of a pool of water and Wan was the family name of the wine house owner. Li Bai laughed about Wang Lun’s little trick. He understood that Wang Lun really wanted to see him and the two became good friends.

It is known that Li Bai and the other poets of the Tang Dynasty     8     (leave) many great poems to us. Together they     9     (success) created the “golden age” of classical Chinese poetry and they will always     10     (remember) by Chinese people.

China is famous as the home of tea. Since ancient times, tea has been part of Chinese culture, leaving     1     (它的) smell in poems and customs. Many tea lovers enjoy tea not just for the flavor, but also for the     2     (美) of tea ceremonies.

Picking tea     3     (叶子) is an important spring activity in South China. The earliest batch of tea is often ready     4     (在……之前) Qingming Festival. It’s often in early April when the temperature begins to rise and rainfall increases. This great small output of tea is     5     (称作) Mingqian tea.

Zhejiang Province is a     6     (主要的) producer of tea. West Lake Longjing Tea in Hangzhou and White Tea in Huzhou are two well-known types of tea at home and     7     (在国外). In spring, local hillsides are filled with tea workers working on the land. In the peak seasons, lots of tourists rush to enjoy a cup of the     8     (最新鲜的) tea while seeing the wonderful scenery of tea farms.

    9     (千) of years ago, by the hands of the Chinese, a leaf was brewed into a delicious drink. It has traveled a long way and continues to     10     (扮演) a role in our life, even today.