Festivals are occasions that allow us to relax and enjoy life. Their     1     (origin) range from the seasons of the year to important events. When it comes to celebrating   festivals,   different   cultures   actually   have   a lot     2     common. People celebrate the harvest festival after all the crops     3     (gather) in. Festivals are becoming more and more commercial, with businesses     4     (take) advantage of the celebrations.

At age 18, Dr Lin Qiaozhi chose to study medicine instead of marrying like the     5     (major) of girls. After graduation, she became the first woman ever       6     (hire) as a resident physician in the PUMC Hospital. When studying in the US in 1939, she impressed her American colleagues who invited her to stay. Dr Lin,     7    , rejected the offer.

San Francisco was able to rebuild itself after the earthquake that     8     (occur) in 1906.The Mission District, one of the oldest parts of the city, used to be a poor area of town,     9     is now a center for art, music, and food. When gold was discovered in 1848 near San Francisco, many people came to seek their fortune and some Chinese opened up shops and restaurants to earn     10     living.

For months, people have told inspiring stories about their battle against COVID-19 in newspapers and videos. 65-year-old Zhao Wei     1     (complete) 65 eggshell painting works related to COVID-19 since January. She is willing     2     (donate) her creations to museums to let more people know the stories.

    3     a traditional Chinese folk art, painting on eggshells has a history of more than 2.000 years. When a baby is born, friends and relatives will send eggs     4     (color) red as good luck gifts. From a variety of egg options, she chose duck eggs and chicken eggs this time,     5     can offer her more space to describe stories.

Drawing on a curved surface is quite different from doing so on     6     flat piece of paper, " Zhao said,     7     (note) that the pigments (颜料 ) cannot be too dry nor too wet. Each of his paintings     8     (feature) vivid details. The wrinkles on doctors’ protective suits and naughty expressions in children’s eyes can be     9     (clear) seen on the painted eggshells. "Although I cannot go to the frontline and save     10     (life), I can tell the heroic stories through drawing and inspire more people to defeat the coronavirus,” said Zhao

The harvest festival can be found in almost every culture. This important    1     (agriculture) festival takes place after all the crops    2    (gather) in. People celebrate to show that they are grateful    3     the year's supply of food. Today in European countries, people decorate churches and town halls with flowers and fruit, and get together    4     (celebrate) over a meal. During the Mid-autumn Festival in China, families usually gather to admire the shining moon and enjoy delicious mooncakes.

With the development of modern society and the spread of new ideas, some traditions may die out and others may be established. In order to avoid air     5     (pollute), many big cities have given up     6     custom of lighting firecrackers to drive away the evil spirits during the typical Chinese Spring festival.

Festivals are becoming more and more commercial, with business    7     (take)advantage of the celebrations. Online shopping websites and social media apps have made it much    8    (easy) for the public to spend more on gifts for their loved ones.    9     some believe festivals should not be commercialized, others believe the increase in spending     10    (be) good for the economy and public happiness.

The story happened in Japan     1     a house was redecorated and the wall inside a room was removed. The inside of the wall was hollow. When the owner of the house removed the wall, he saw a gecko (壁虎) inside the wall. Its tail     2    (pin) by a nail     3     (come) through the wall from outside. The owner was very curious why the gecko was still alive. Then the nail caught his eye. Goodness! It is the nail that was driven here ten years ago when the house was built! How amazing it is    4    the gecko to have lived in the wall in complete    5    (dark) for ten years!

But on second thought, the curious house owner wondered how this gecko could live through 10 years with its tail     6     (nail) down and being unable to go anywhere? So he tried to find out how this small creature could be fed. After a little while, there appeared another gecko with food in its mouth! What a shocking scene! For ten years, this little gecko had never failed to feed the trapped one.

The story touched me so    7     (deep) that it is useless to find out     8     relationships they had between them. Parent     9     child? Friends? Lovers? Brothers or sisters?     10     last thing we should do is to abandon your beloved in hardship.

China has a very rich and brilliant tea culture. It is one of the most important parts of Chinese tradition. A small cup of tea contains the spirit and     1     (wise) of the Chinese people. It seems like the most     2    (enjoy) thing to drink a cup of tea on a quiet day.

Just like coffee, tea grown in different areas     3     (have) different flavors. Some needs drinking with small and delicate tea cups, and some can     4    (drink) from a big bowl.

Chinese people believe tea needs drinking quietly,     5    many of the tea shops are located in a corner of a Hutong, providing customers     6    a very quiet and comfortable environment---but the fast pace of life sometimes doesn’t allow that. So there are tea shop owners who, just     7     Starbucks does, locate their shops in the downtown area to provide service for quick customers.

Take Heytea as an example. It was just a small tea shop    8    locate) in a small lane in a small city of Guangdong province in 2012. But in only 5 years, it     9    (expand) 83 stores over China, including big cities like Beijing. Waiting in lines for more than an hour for their tea is a common     10    (occur).

The Budj Bim Cultural Landscape has long been regarded as a wonder of ancient engineering. The water system in Australia    1     (build)more than 6, 000 years ago-   long before even the Egyptian pyramids took shape.

Ancient inhabitants of the region made the system of channels and dams as an     2    （extraordinary)complex trap for the eels(鳗鱼）that locals depended on for food. Budj Bim was recognized as    3    World Heritage site today, but few suspected the system ran so far and so deep.

In fact, it took a disaster for Budj Bim     4    (reveal)itself in all its former glory. Bushfires,     5    (spark)by record temperatures and lasting drought, have burned away the thick leaves covering the water system,     6    (allow)the full scale of Budj Bim to emerge from the flames.

The Egyptian pyramids were made with materials that were plentiful nearby, and    7    was Budj Bim. It was made with the area's most ready resource: volcanic rock. That building block came from the lava of a now-inactive volcano,     8     the ancient people used to redirect waters from Lake Condah-waters heavy with eels.

Now the Aboriginals still call parts of the area home, and their population     9    （decline)dramatically since Europeans arrived on the continent. But their    10    （achieve)stand the test of time-even if it took a tragedy to reveal them. It's an important acknowledgement of the work their ancestors have done.

Peking Opera is a form of traditional Chinese theater that    1    ( appear) in Beijing in the late 18th century.    2    (combine) music, song, dance and acrobatics (杂技动作) in a lively and colorful display, it is a    3    ( relative) new style of drama, compared to other types of Chinese theater.

In the early years of Peking Opera, all the actors were men,    4     the roles of women played by young boys. The stories fell into two main    5    ( category) -wen, or civil theater, which focused on love, marriage and other civilian concerns, and wu,or military theater, which focused on the theme of war and was known for featuring thrilling stage actions.

In the first half of the    6    (twenty) century, the most famous actor of Peking Opera was Mei Lanfang,    7     played a key role in popularizing Peking Opera and introducing Chinese theater to the West. Additionally, Mei also took the bold step of taking on female students, which was    8    highly risky and unconventional step at the time.

After the founding of the People' s Republic of China, Peking Opera performances, which dealt with contemporary and revolutionary themes, were encouraged. Despite    9    ( it) ups and downs, Peking Opera was revived(复兴) in the 1980s and continues to    10    (perform) today.

Bullying (霸凌) among elementary, middle and high school students has become    1    increasingly talked-about subject in Japan, with many parents and educators    2    (struggle) to find the best way to deal with the problem.

    3    (deal) with the bullying in schools, a bully insurance company, Yell, was set up in Tokyo.

Japan. Parents    4    want to buy bully insurance can consult with its lawyers, free    5    charge, if they feel    6    (they) children are faced with the threat of being bullied.

Bully insurance    7    (cost) 2,640 yen a month. Medical fees    8    (cover), both for injuries the child have suffered at the hands of a bully, and for injuries caused by the child’s fighting back.

While still others may hold that the best way to deal with bullying is a swift fist in the face, the Japanese    9    (general) don’t go for violent problem-solving methods, and it is likely that Yell’s service is going to be a very     10    (attract) solution to the Japanese parents.

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This summer`s surprise hit at movie theaters across China was the re-telling of the ancient myth of Nezha. The animated film     1     (take) in over four billion yuan at the box office and become one of the country`s most successful films ever. It proved that China could produce animated films comparable to     2     produced in Hollywood and Japan.

The film,     3     (direct) by Yang Yu, was a massive undertaking (任务) from start to finish. He spent two years writing the script (剧本) and three more years making a film which required the efforts of 1,600 animators. But for Yang, it was a way to prove to     4     (him) that he could change his fate and inspire others to change their fate as well.

“I used to suffer from a lot of prejudice after changing my career,” said Yang, “    5     then I have thought about making an animated film to encourage young people to persist in their dreams.”

    6     (convey) the message that “ your fate is in your own hands, ” Yang made some changes to the     7     (origin) myth. Nezha was born a devil (恶魔)，fated to cause mischief (恶作剧), but he decides to overcome his fate and to save the people of his hometown from     8     (destroy) by Ao Bing, the third son of the Dragon King.

Despite the ancient myth being very clear about the differences     9     the good and the bad guys, in Yang`s film, all of the characters are treated with empathy, and even the “bad” people are also victims of their fate,     10    , actually, have the potential to change and become good.

The national college entrance examination, or gaokao, will be postponed (推迟) for a month to July 7 and 8 due to the novel coronavirus (新型冠状病毒) outbreak, the Ministry of Education said.

Because of the epidemic (流行病) situation, authorities in Hubei province and Beijing can come up with their own suggestions on gaokao dates,     1     will be published after consulting with the ministry.     2     postponement is mainly to ensure students’ safety and the fairness of the exam. More than 10.7 million students have signed up to participate     3     this year’s gaokao, up by 400,000 from last year.

The gaokao, widely       4     (consider) one of the most important exams in the country, has been held every year from June 7 to 8 since 2003. The country resumed (恢复) gaokao in the winter of 1977 after it was stopped for 10     5     (year) during the “cultural revolution”. The exam       6       (hold) every year in July from 1978 to 2002. In 2001, the ministry decided     7     (move) the gaokao earlier a month from 2003 because of hot weather and frequent     8     (nature) disasters in summer.

Chinese people often compare the     9     (high) competitive exam to “crossing a narrow bridge”, because for many students, especially those from rural areas, studying at a good university     10       (be) an opportunity to change their future.