Many people are     1     (confuse) about the meaning of the names: the United Kingdom, Great Britain, Britain and England.     2     (solve) this puzzle, it is necessary for people to know a little bit about British.

In the 16th century, the nearby country of Wales     3     (join) to the Kingdom of England, followed by the country Scotland in the 18th century. In the 19th century, the Kingdom of Ireland was added to create the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Finally, in the 20th century, the     4     (south) part of Ireland broke away from the UK,     5     resulted in the full name we have today: “the United Kingdom” or “the UK”. People from the UK are called “British”, meaning the UK is also often referred to     6     Britain or Great Britain.

Even though the four countries     7     (belong) to the United Kingdom work together in some areas, such as using the same flag, sharing the same currency and military     8     (defend), they also have some differences. Anyhow, the United Kingdom has     9     long and interesting history to explore     10     it can help you understand much more about the country and its traditions.

The Torch Festival (火把节) is a traditional festival which is celebrated among some ethnic groups in southwestern China, such as the Yi, Bai, Hani, Lisu, and Lahu, etc. It usually     1     (fall) on the 24th or 25th of June, with three days of celebrations. The festival came from worship (崇拜) of fire by ancestors. For some ethnic groups, it’s a tradition in the festival for elders to share farming experience     2     young people and educate them about taking care of crops.

During the festival, big torches are made to stand in all villages, with small torches     3     (place) in front of the door of each house. At night, the torches are lit and the villages are bright. At the same time, people walk around the fields and houses,     4     (hold) small torches and placing them in the field corners. Inside the villages, young people are singing and dancing around the big torches     5     keep burning throughout the night. Other     6     (activity) like horse races are also held during the festival.

In a horse race of the Yi people in Yunnan, torches are used to form hurdles for riders to get through. The Hani people in Yunnan     7     (tradition) tie fruits to torches with strings. When the strings are broken after the torches are lit, people struggle for the fruits for good luck.

For the Lisu people in Sichuan, the festival is     8     occasion for holding torch parades. Big torches     9     (carry) by teams of people, which is like a fire dragon.     10     different teams meet, it’s a tradition to exchange the big torches with one another.

Have you ever tasted or perhaps heard of sugar painting? As fewer people choose to make sugar paintings, the traditional Chinese folk craft might have been become a     1     (distance) memory in some ways. However, a craftsman, Li Jianzhong, is devoted to     2    (keep)the art of sugar painting alive.

Li worked as a miner for more than ten years. After     3     mine closed down, Li turned     4     housing decoration until he     5     (force) to give that up due to a finger injury. Later. he discovered sugar painting, something he really had an interest in.

Since there was no sugar painting craftsman in his village, he studied by     6    (he) through large quantities of videos and information on the Internet. Li loved painting when he was young, and he found it easy to learn the skill and could make     7     (vary) of sugar paintings. A sugar painting is made with     8     (melt) brown or white sugar. Craftsman     9     (basic) paint animals and flowers on a stone board with the syrup. When the sugar cools down, what     10     (appear) is a piece of sugar art.

Japanese fish industry is starting to use artificial intelligence (AI)     1    (select) high quality fish at markets and find good fishing grounds, areas where they have traditionally relied largely     2     experience. All tools are drawing attention because they can easily copy good skills, including those     3    (need) to evaluate the quality of tuna (金枪鱼) and determine good spots to catch fish.

When     4    (judge) the quality of fish, buyers look at     5     fresh and firm the meat is and how much fat it puts on. “You need over 10 years of experience to acquire     6     excellent eye,” a fish market worker said. An advertising agency developed and brought a smartphone app into     7    (practice) use that enables users to easily pick out delicious tuna.

According to the advertising agency, the AI tool, fed with data on how tail sections of frozen tun     8    (grade) by skilled merchants (商人), judges the quality of tuna     9    (instant). The app grades quality in three to five stages as soon as users hold their smartphones over a fish and is gaining     10    (popular) in the seafood processing industry.

Few discoveries are as amazing as discovering the Terracotta Warriors in Xi’an. But behind the lifelike masterpieces, there is a group of experts working hard     1     (keep) the more than 2 00-earold historical relies in good condition.

Lan Desheng, 52, is among the     2     (dozen) of experts on the restoration (复原) team at the Emperor Qinshihuang’s Mausoleum Site Museum in Xi’an. “    3     process of restoring Terracotta Warriors is very similar     4     doctors treating patients,” said Lan, who has spent 25 years     5     (repair) more than 150 figures of the Terracotta Army.

Lan said that most of the Terracotta Warriors showed signs of decay (腐化) after being buried for thousands of years, which was made     6     (bad) by oxidization (氧化) after they were discovered. The broken pieces, whose weight could sometimes reach hundreds of kilograms,     7     (make) the restoration both difficult and challenging. For Lan, the most challenging project was the restoration of a general,       8     took his team more than two years. Even so, Lan felt     9     (satisfy) with his job. “I hope that by restoring them, we are able to uncover historical facts     10     awaken the culture of Qin Dynasty.”

When Xu Beihong (1895~1953) returned to his home country in 1927, the painter had lived and studied art in Europe for nearly ten years, primarily in France,     1     has long been known as the “land of art”.

One of the earliest Chinese     2     (artist) to study fine arts in Europe, Xu was well-received in art and education communities back home. It then seemed a natural choice for him     3     (put) his time and effort into teaching at art schools     4     holding exhibitions of modern Chinese painting.

    5     (touch) by the bad situation of his country and     6     (it) people at that time, Xu spoke for the serious condition of the people through painting. The subjects in his works included those     7     (live) in mountainous Chongqing who had to go up and down to get water, boatmen working on the Yangtze River and women praying (祈祷) for the     8     (safe) of husband s who worked far away from home.

For those in the art community, Xu     9     (remember) mostly for blending (融合) Eastern and Western styles and doing a great job on the higher education of fine arts in China. While for his people,    10     artist is best known for showing the true life of those at the grassroots.