Do you know Confucius (孔子)? He is     1     famous thinker and educator in China.

Confucius started a private school in his thirties and     2     (begin) to teach students. Sometimes there were some questions that were difficult for students,     3     he did not quickly give them the answers. Instead, he encouraged them to find the answers by     4     (they).

His students were influenced deeply by what he said. They decided to record his words and life     5     (story). As a result, Lunyu was born. Confucius had ever talked about this before: Gentlemen have peace but disagree; flunkies (小人) agree, but they have no peace. This sentence means that flunkies agree     6     (easy), but they don’t really work together. However, even if gentlemen can get along well with others, they don’t just agree with     7     (other) opinions blindly.

Confucius wrote several great works in his life. He also edited (编写) the history book     8     (call) The Spring and Autumn Annals (《春秋》). His basic thoughts (思想) were to let people try to be kind to each other. So his works     9     (accept) and praised by people all over the world.

Even though Confucius has been dead     10     more than 2,000 years, he is still remembered by people. His works have always been popular at home and abroad.

During the Warring States Period, there was     1     man called Lu Ban. He     2     (know) as the most excellent carpenter (木匠) then. It is said that he once made a bird of wood. It was so lifelike that it flew     3     the sky for three days.

One day, a young carpenter came to a house which had a big red door. He     4     (hold) up his ax (斧) and said, “I am a great carpenter. No matter what kind of wood it is, I can make it into anything.” Hearing this, people around him all laughed. “This young carpenter     5     (talk) big now,” they thought. One of them pointed to the big red door behind him and said, “Young man, can you make a     6     (good) door than this one?” The young carpenter raised his head high     7     (show) his confidence. Then he said, “No problem! I used to be a student of Lu Ban.” The crowd laughed again. Someone said, “This is Lu Ban’s home. He made this door     8     (he).” The young carpenter’s face turned red and he ran away     9     (quick).

Thus comes the proverb “Ban Men Nong Fu”. It means showing off slight (微不足道的)     10     (skill) in front of an expert.

【推荐3】During the Warring States Period(475-221BC), there was a man called Yue Yangzi. One day he saw a piece of g    1     on the road. He picked it up and took it home. But his wife was not happy and said, “I hear that a great man doesn’t drink a thief’s water or accept alms(施舍物) . What do you think of the a    2     of keeping others’ thing for yourself?” Yue Yangzi felt s    3     for what he had done, so he put the gold back to the place where he found it.

The next year, Yue Yangzi decided to go to a faraway school to i    4     himself. A year later, he came back home suddenly. “Why have you returned?” asked his wife in s    5    , “You’ve only spent one year studying with scholars(学者们).” “I come back because I m    6     you very much.”

Without saying anything, his wife took a pair of s    7     and went to the loom(织布机) at which she had worked. Pointing at the half done cloth, she said, “The cloth is woven from the best silk. Now if I cut it, all my previous（先前的）work will be w    8    . It’s the same as your s    9    . You can learn a lot only by working hard. Now, you’ve stopped half way. Isn’t it the same as cutting the cloth on the loom?”

Yue Yangzi was m    10     by what she said. He again left home to visit scholars. Several years later, he became a learned man.

Most people in China know about the writer Lao She     1     has many successful works. Teahouse is one of Lao She’s most famous     2     (play). He wrote it in 1957. The play has three acts and shows the lives of common people in China from the end of the 19th century     3     the middle of the 20th century. This play tells us the story of Wang Lifa and the customers of     4     (he) teahouse in Beijing. It describes the changes in Chinese society (社会) over fifty years.

Lao She     5     (born) in Beijing in 1899. His mother sent him to a teacher’s school in 1913. He studied hard and got good grades.     6     finishing school in 1918, he became a head teacher of a primary school. In 1924, Lao She left home and went to England. He     7     (teach) Chinese at a college in London and returned to China five years later. He wrote many plays, novels and short stories about lives, he wanted to show common     8     (people) lives in front of readers, and was named “the People’s Artist”. Lao She is regarded as one of     9     (great) Chinese writers of the twentieth century.

At Lao She Teahouse today, customers can drink tea and eat delicious Beijing food. Whether you like the Beijing Opera, magic shows or     10     (tradition) music, you can enjoy them at the teahouse. Lao She Teahouse gives a warm welcome to everyone from all over the world.

Among all the poets in history, who is called “the immortal poet (诗仙)” ? Yes, he is Li Bai. Many people think he is romantic and free.     1    , in the Chinese cartoon movie 30, 000 Miles in Chang’an(《长安三万里》), we see a different Li Bai.     2     July 8, the movie got the high points of 8.1 on Douban, being one of the     3     (good) movies of the summer season.

In the movie, Li dreams about becoming     4     officer. But he faces so many     5     (difficulty). He can’t take keju because of his family. Later, he makes a mistake and is sent (被派往) to the northwestern China. He has problems just like every one of us. But his poems give us different     6     (idea).

Li Bai may not be as fantastic as we think.     7     it doesn’t really matter. As long as his poems are here with     8     (we), he is always the “immortal” in our hearts.

The director hopes we can know about these poets and classic works by     9     (watch) this movie. He hopes that     10     (many) foreigners than before will care about Chinese poets such as Li Bai and Du Fu.

Lu Xun is one of the greatest Chinese writers of the 20th century. Besides his famous stories, he also wrote many influential (有影响力的) articles about the life of Chinese people.

Born in a     1     (wealth) family in 1881, Lu Xun had a happy childhood.     2     (unlucky), his father became seriously ill and died in 1896. From that tine on, his family were no longer accepted by their relatives and friends. These early     3     (experience) deeply influenced his writing.

When he studied at university in 1899, he already believed that Chinese society had to change and become modern. In 1902, he went to study in Japan. There, he began writing articles     4     several Chinese student magazines to make a living. He showed a gift for writing and translating and he even wrote several books, though none was popular. He returned to China in 1909 because     5     (he) family was in need of money.

After working for several years as     6     teacher in Beijing, Lu Xun again returned to writing. In 1918, he created his famous short story Diary of a Mad Man     7     was the first Chinese novel to use the everyday language. So it came out to be a great success. And his other novels, such as The True Story of Ah Q and Kong Yiji,     8     (read) by Chinese young people in that period.

Although successful, Lu Xun still worried greatly about China’s future. In 1926, he moved to Shanghai and gave up     9     (write) stories in order to focus on articles which could call on people to fight for a better country.

Since his death in 1936, Lu Xun’s influence     10     (grow) with time. Today, many of his writings are included in school textbooks and his works are valued by millions around the world.