Which is the most significant classical Chinese painting? According to Paul Denlinger, who     1     ( come) to China many times when young, it should be Qingming Shanghe Tu or Along the River During the Qingming Festival. This    2    ( create) dates back to the Northern Song dynasty.

This painting is important    3     several reasons. First, up until this time, almost all Chinese     4     ( painting) were landscapes, which did not feature people at all or had only a few people.     5    ( two) , this is the first scroll (卷轴)painting to describe both Chinese urban and suburban life during the period in the capital, Bianjing ( now Kaifeng, in Henan province). Third, the painting is highly detailed,     6    ( feature ) shops of all kinds and different economic activities in and out of the city. People are able to see the Chinese technologies of the time, which helps them     7    great deal in understanding     8    the Chinese lived.

The Beijing Palace Museum keeps the    9    ( origin) Song painting and one of its famous copies—the Qing version     10    ( hold) in the M National Palace Museum” in Taipei.

The British have been drinking tea for over 350 years. But in fact, the history of tea goes much     1    (far) back.

The story of tea begins in China. According to the legend, the Chinese emperor Shen Nung was sitting     2    a tree while his servant boiled drinking water, when some leaves from the tree blew into the water. Shen Nung,     3     expert in herbal medicine, decided to try the water his servant created. As a result, it tasted so good that later the drink was     4     we now call tea.

It is     5    (possible) to know whether there is any truth in this story.     6    , tea drinking certainly was established in China many centuries before it had even been heard of in the west. Containers of tea     7    (find) in tombs dating from the Han dynasty (206BC-220AD) before tea was firmly established as the national drink of China in the Tang dynasty (618-906AD). It became     8     a favorite thing that during the late eighth century, a writer     9    (call) Lu Yu wrote the first book entirely about tea, the Ch’a Ching, or Tea Classic. It was shortly after this that tea was first introduced to Japan, by Japanese Buddhist monks who had travelled to China to study before. Tea drinking has become a vital part of Japanese culture,     10    may be rooted in the sprit described in the Ch’a Ching.