The traditional Chinese lunar calendar divides a year into 24 solar terms. The Spring Equinox(春分), as the fourth term of the year starts on March 20     1     ends on April this year.

The Spring Equinox signals the equal     2     (long) of the day and night time. The day of the Spring Equinox is     3     the sun is directly above the equator. After the equinox, the sun moves northwards, resulting in     4     (gradual) longer day time in the Northern Hemisphere and longer night in the Southern Hemisphere.

Standing an egg upright is a popular game across the country during the Spring Equinox. It is an old custom that       5     (date) back to 4,000 years ago. People practice this tradition to celebrate the coming of spring. It     6     (believe) that if someone can make the egg stand, he will have good luck in the future.

The Spring Equinox is     7     good time to fly kites. In ancient times, people did not have good medical resources. So     8     (pray) for good health, they wrote their medical issues on paper kite. When the kite was     9     the air, people would cut off the stringy let the paper kite float away,     10     (symbolize) the flying away of diseases.

Wearing wristbands with the names of LeBron James and Kobe Bryant     1     (write) on them, 17-year-old Tibetan girl Cigla plays her favorite sport — basketball — at Nagqu No 2 Senior High School in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region. For her,     2       (study) in Lhasa, the region’s most developed city, has made it much     3     (easy) for her to realize her basketball dream.

With     4       average altitude of over 4,500 meters, Nagqu is among the most uninhabitable places in Tibet.     5     have long compromised the health of Nagqu students are low-oxygen environment and extreme weather. “The students had barely played any sports due to     6       (limit) sports facilities and frequent bad weather in Nagqu.” said Bachug, the school's physical education teacher.

However, in a bid to ensure equal access     7     quality education, in recent years, the Tibet regional government     8       (establish) several schools in Lhasa to recruit Nagqu students. Like Cigla, many Nagqu students are from poor farming and herding families. The school     9       (campus) in Lhasa have seven concrete basketball courts, a standard soccer field and a sports stadium, which gives students opportunities     10       (train) their bodies and find the sport that appeals to them.

Hou Changliang volunteered to teach at Xiangyang Primary School in a remote village of Yunnan province in August 2017. Before that, the local government attempted     1     (close) the school due to inadequate (不足的) teacher supply. There     2     (be) just three temporary teachers for about 100 students across four classes. Shutting down the school meant that the students would have to go to another school far from     3     (they) homes. Hou’s     4     (arrive) helped keep the school open.

It is the third village school     5     Hou, 34, has taught since he graduated from university. Before Xiangyang Primary School, he     6     (teach) in Hechi, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region (自治区), for four years, and in Bijie, Guizhou province, for two years. “The longer I stayed in the countryside, the deeper I understood the     7     (challenge) in rural education. Rural schools need teachers,     8     (especial) good ones.” Hou says.

    9     a volunteer teacher, he holds the firm belief that a good teacher can make     10     real difference in a student’s life and can even change a village.

A coming-of-age ceremony is an event that marks the time when a young person moves from childhood to adulthood.

In Ancient China, a traditional capping ceremony     1     (hold) when a man turned 20. He was given a “style name”     2     is a name taken at the age of 20. For a young woman, a “hair-pinning ceremony” was observed around her 1st birthday.

On the South Pacific island of Pentecost, another tradition takes place-though only for boys. To prepare     3     it, each boy must go into the forest to find a long vine (藤). During the ceremony, he climbs to the top of a     4    (wood) tower 20 to 30 metres high. There, he fastens one end of the vine to the tower and the other to his feet, and jumps! The boy will not     5    (regard) as a man until he has made the jump.

A particularly modern ceremony takes place in the US. For Americans, 16 is the age at which they gain some significant rights, such as     6    (be) able to work and to drive. A     7    (celebrate) at the age of 16 is     8    (typical) the biggest and most memorable of a girl's or boy's teenage years,     9    (mark) the beginning of a new stage in life. It also should be     10     occasion to take responsibility for themselves.

Oil paper umbrellas have a history of over 1,000 years in China. Once they     1     （be）everywhere. Nowadays people use the hand-made umbrellas     2     （little）in daily life than before. However, they are a symbol of Chinese     3     （tradition）culture.

Yuhang in Hangzhou is known for     4     （make）oil paper umbrellas for over 230 years. Umbrellas here take more than 70 steps to make, such as making bamboo ribs and pasting（糊）paper.     5     takes at least a week to make an umbrella. In 2007, this kind of umbrella was added to Zhejiang province's intangible（无形的）cultural heritage（遗产）list.

In 2015, Liu Weixue left a well-paid job to learn     6     his grandfather the art. "I want to bring the art to life," Liu said. "When it rains, someone uses the umbrella, that's     7     I want to see.”

After Liu mastered the skills, a studio     8     （start）in Yuhang, where he gathered umbrella-making masters.     9     （sell）umbrellas, Liu opened an online shop in 2017. It now has more than 80,000 followers.

Liu hopes the art can be passed on. He goes to schools in Yuhang to teach students. He also shows up at     10     （event）and activities in different places to show more people about the art.

Time for people to pick up their loudspeaker boxes and dance to music,    1     Dec 7, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced that breaking（霹雳舞）would be     2     Olympic sport at the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics. It will be the latest modern sport     3     is added to the Games. IOC President Thomas Bach said that the new     4     (add) of breaking could help the Olympics event be “more youthful” and that IOC     5     (plan) to introduce sports particularly popular among the younger generation. Bach said they would also Yake into consideration the urbanization（城市化）of the sport.

Breaking was     6     (original) part of early hip-hop culture in New York in the 1970s. In the past decades, it has spread globally,    7     (enjoy) huge popularity beyond the US and particularly across Europe and Asia.    8     breaking is often considered as a style of street dance, it can be more easily sorted into sports than others for     9     (it) competitive nature. “Back in the Bronx, when it first started, it was always neighborhoods of     10     (child) just battling each other”, 26-year-old breakdancer Victor Montalvo told USA Today. “That’s how they did it back in the day.”

An ancient culture dating back more than 5,000 years proved China’s early exchanges with other societies, experts say.

Experts believe the Majiayao culture had a close     1    (connect) with other various cultures. They put it forward at a recent meeting     2     was held in Gansu Province. With more than 5,000 years of history, it plays an important role in the development of the Chinese civilization (文明). This culture spread to Central Asia through     3     is now China’s Xinjiang Province,     4    (bring) rice from China to the west.

Swedish expert Johan first     5    (investigate) cultural sites in 1924. In the 1940s, Xia Nai named the sites after the Majiayao, with painted pottery (彩陶) as     6    (it) most special feature. Some experts point out that the Majiayao culture     7    (obvious) shares similarities with the cultures of some parts of the Black Sea. People from these cultures used pottery     8    (make) human head sculptures.     9     addition, some Central Asian features also appeared on the painted pottery of the Majiayao.

Actions     10    (take) to protect the Majiayao culture by building museums, organizing meetings and doing more research so far.