【推荐2】The sweetest memory of my childhood is about a round table. When the night ________, my whole family always got together on different traditional festivals to have dinner when I was still little. We were sitting around or playing hide-and-seek (捉迷藏) under the table ________ the grown-ups were having a talk.

When I got a bit older, my aunt brought back her boyfriend and my grandma happily added another ________ to the round table. It seemed a little more crowded, but we all felt much ________ to each other. When I was twelve, my grandpa _________. That made us feel sad. However, when the whole family ________ once again, we all agreed that his chair, bowl and chopsticks should remain the same. Though his seat was ________ we felt like that he had never left us.

We all have a table like this in our families. It is a (an) ________ of reunion (团聚) of our family and it shows our feelings. Although the reasons why we come together may be different, the feelings ________ it are the same. The round table has been a symbol of the Chinese feelings. It was, it is and will ________ be.

Chinese New Year is a very important festival in China. Chinese people like to be with their family at that time. They usually cook many kinds of delicious foods. Then they have a big ________ in the evening.

The Chinese like to eat dumplings during the ________. Dumplings have a history of about 1800 years. They really get very ________ in China. Chinese people usually make dumplings ________ meat and vegetables. There are also many other kinds of dumplings. Sometimes Chinese people ________ a coin in one of the dumplings. If someone eats the dumpling with the coin, he’ll be very ________ next year. The Chinese think it can ________ good luck to them.

Fish are ________ lucky food for the Chinese. In Chinese, the fish ________ like the surplus (盈余). The Chinese like to have a surplus at the end of the year because they think ________ they save some things at that time, they can make more next year.

If you come to China, don’t forget to taste these special foods.

【推荐1】What are these people saying? “AWSL” is not a new English word you need to remember. It ________ “Ah wo si le” in Chinese, or “Ah, I’m dead” in English.

If you watch videos on Bilibili, you might see words like this flying ________ the screen like bullets. “AWSI” is so ________ with young people that it got “2019 Bilibili’s Bullet Comments of the Year.” People use this ________ to show how happy and excited they are ________ when they’re watching videos of their favourite idols.

Bullet comments refer to real-time comments on video-sharing websites such as Bilibili. While watching videos, people can ________ comments at any time. These comments show up one after ________ on top of the screen, just like flying bullets. It’s a fun way for young people to ________ themselves and share their feelings.

The number of bullet comment messages people sent on Bilibili ________ from 1 billion in 2018 to 1.4 billion in 2019. Among them, “AWSL” was sent 3.3 million ________, according to Bilibili. “AWSL” was welcomed among people in 2019.

【推荐3】Recently, a show called Escape from the British Museum has become popular online with its ________ and creative story.

The show tells the journey home of a Chinese jade teapot (玉茶壶). It becomes a real girl. She runs away ________ the British Museum and meets a Chinese reporter named Zhang Yong’an who helps the artifact (文物)________ to China. The teapot follows Zhang to his home. She is surprised by his big house after comparing with her own ________ place.

Two Chinese, Jianbing Guozai and Xiatian Meimei, created the show and wanted more people ________ attention to Chinese artifacts abroad. To get ready for the TV show, the two persons stopped their work for three months. And then they went to the UK to ________ the story of the Chinese jade teapot.

Many people are touched by the lines in the show, such as “My family, I have been lost for a long time,” and “________ I’m with my family, I’m safe”. Some visitors found the jade teapot in the museum dirty. They thought the British Museum didn’t treat them ________. In mid-August, it was reported that more than 2,000 artifacts in the British Museum were ________ or broken. People in China were sad to heard of the news. It has caused an exciting ________ online. Lots of people are suggesting the return of Chinese artifacts.