6 . Every school day, we use schoolbags to carry all of our things to school. They are a big part of our lives. But have you ever thought about the_________of the schoolbag?

In the Han Dynasty, when old -style private schools were opened, students used bamboo boxes to carry books to school. People consider the bamboo box to be the_________schoolbag. There were usually two or three layers in the________. Kids put different things, like books, brushes, ink stones and paper in the boxes. You can see the bamboo box in many TV shows. ______, in the Legend of White Snake, Xu Shilin carries a bamboo box to the capital to take an exam.

Hundreds of years________ , people developed a new kind of schoolbag called the budai, or “hip-pocket”. The budai was lighter than the bamboo box. With the founding of the people’s Republic of China, military rucksacks(军用帆布包）became popular. Ask your grandparents or parents about these bags. Maybe they can tell you about their ______ of carrying them when they were in school.

A new style of schoolbag has   _______ in recent years. Many of them have colorful and fashionable______, such as pictures of cartoons or pop stars. And they are more comfortable to use. Some students pull wheeled bags ______ with heavy textbooks and others carry backpacks.

Schoolbags are still changing.Can you imagine ______ future schoolbags will be like?

7 . In 1896, the first modern Olympic Games was held in Athens, Greece. From then on, many countries had successfully held the Olympics, such as England, France, Germany, Canada, the USA, Spain and Australia. After more than a hundred years, the Games returned to its hometown in the year of 2004. When a country hosted the Olympic Games, they always made an emblem (会徽). The emblem of the Athens 2004 Olympic Games was a white circle of olive branches (橄榄枝) in the sky.

In 2008, Beijing hosted the Olympics. Its emblem is “Jing”. It means the capital of China and it is also like a runner or dancer. The running figure (人形) of the emblem shows the spirit (精神) of the Olympics: Faster, Higher and Stronger.

8 . The earliest maps were probably drawn in the Middle East. Some of     1    （this）maps have survived and they show us the people at that time thought the earth flat（平的）.     2    time went by, the pictures became more detailed and maps were more correctly made. Later on, ancient Greeks used their knowledge of     3    / mæθ/and science to make maps. Greek maps tell us the Greeks     4    （know）the world was round.

From simple pictures, mapmaking has turned into a science. Maps are made by surveying（勘测）land. In the 1900s, people around the world started to share information to make     5     (good）maps. Maps are now more exactly made than ever    6    the help of the photographs taken from the sky and space. since the world is always changing, we will always    7     /niːd / new maps.

There are many types of maps, but almost all use words and pictures to describe what a place is like when the map is made. A map    8    （usual）tells what the pictures stand for. Some maps may show the whole world. A road map will help you know    9     distance from one place to another. Other maps may use pictures to show the temperature and    10    /ˌpɒpjuˈleɪʃn/ in different places.

Why do we call women jinguo(巾帼）in Chinese?

In China, jinguo is a cool and somewhat literary way to refer to women.

But what does it    1    (actual) mean ?

It is a kind of    2    /skɑːf/ or head wrap that was worn in ancient China.

Before the Han Dynasty (206 BC - AD 220), it was fashionable for men and women to use jinguo to wrap their hair. Later on, only women wore them.

It is said that jinguo was used to refer to women because of Zhuge Liang—a famous statesman who lived    3    /ˈdʊrɪŋ/   the Three Kingdoms period(220-228).    4    (story) say that Zhuge once started a war    5    the Wei Kingdom. However, the Wei general（将军） Sima Yi didn’t want to fight and asked his army to stay in the city. Zhuge then    6     （send） a jinguo to Sima as a form of humiliation（羞辱）—implying that Sima was as timid（胆怯的）as a little girl.

After that, people started to use jinguo to refer to women, but as a form of praise    7     . There is a phrase“巾帼不让须眉”, which means “women are not inferior to men”. Xumei refers to men because men often have    8     /θɪk/ beards and eyebrows.

People also put jinguo and yingxiong together to make the phrase“jinguo yingxiong”, or “female heroes”.    9     example, Hua Mulan and Mu Guiying were both well-known jinguo yingxiong in ancient China.

Today, jinguo yingxiong doesn’t just refer to female warriors like Hua and Mu. It can refer to any outstanding woman who has made great     10    (achieve).

Pizza has a     1    [lכ:ŋ] history. The ancient Greeks first had the idea of putting     2     (vegetable) on pieces of bread, and "Pizza ovens" have been found in Roman cities. But for centuries, one important ingredient was missing—the first tomatoes were not brought to Europe     3    the sixteenth century from South America.It was the nineteenth century before Rafaela Esposito, a baker from Naples, began to    4     [sel] the first modern pizzas.He was asked to bake a special pizza for a     5     [ˈvɪzɪt] by the Italian King and Queen in 1889, and so the first pizza Margarita was     6     (create) which was named after the Queen.

Pizza became a favorite dish in Italy, but pizza really became an international dish after the Second World War, when thousands     7    American soldiers went home from Europe. Soon there were pizzerias all over the USA, and American chains(连锁店) like Pizza Hut spread the idea     8    the world. Today the each American     9    (eat) over ten kilograms of pizza a year, and the world's     10    (big) pizza was baked out not in Italy, but in Cuba!