Twenty years ago, a 9-year-old girl insisted on going to Beijing for following her dancing dream. She did not know    1    pursuing dance would bring her, but only took on the challenge    2    her full passion and love for dance.

    3    (drive) by her dancing dream, Meng Qingyang was    4    (successful) admitted to the major of classical Chinese dance at the well-known Beijing Dance Academy — the     5     (high) dance education institution in China — at the age of 14,and became a dancer at the age of 20.

The young artist encountered luck as well as unimaginable difficulties while    6     (pursue) her dream. But because of the dream, she would return to the stage again and again and express    7    (she) and the traditional culture through her elegant and graceful dance.

Dancing on the stage of CCTV's Chinese Lunar New Year Gala (春晚) is certainly the dream of many dancers including Meng. In 2013, she    8    (cast) as the lead dancer in two dance performances in the gala feast. Happiness, excitement, and     9    (nervous) swallowed her at the same time. After practicing day and night, Meng delivered a perfect performance.

In 2022, Meng landed    10    role of “Green”, which made her an overnight hit at the 2022 Chinese Lunar New Year Gala.

Located in Guanghan city of Southwest China’s Sichuan Province and covering an area of 12 square kilometers. Sanxingdui Site is the remains of the ancient Shu culture, which dates back     1     4,800-2,600 years ago, and is considered to be one of the     2     (great) archaeological (考古的) discoveries in the 20th century. This particular discovery is a strong proof of the     3     (exist) of the ancient Shu State and the integrative pattern of the multi-cultures of the Chinese nation.

In fact, as a cultural site,, Sanxingdui had come into the notice of archaeologists in as early as the 1930s, and     4     (exploration) were made soon. It all began     5     a farmer called Yan Daocheng dug out a number of treasures     6     (accidental) in the spring of 1929. In the summer of 1986, thousands of rare treasures were unearthed from two large newly-discovered sacrificial pits (祭祀坑). The unearthed objects are unique in shape and superior in techniques,     7     (confirm) the extraordinary creativity of the ancient Shu people and their desires     8     (connect) with and understand the universe.

After sleeping for 3,000 years, their awakening has shocked the world. When our eyes     9     (caught) by the creations of the ancient Shu ancestors, it is     10     encounter with a civilization lost for 3,000 years.

More than 10,000 years ago, people in Mexico and Central America gathered and ate the fruit of wild avocado (牛油果) trees and    1    didn’t take long before they started to plant this high-fat, tasty food.

The name “avocado”    2    (be) from an Aztec word, ahuacatl, which refers to the shape of the fruit. The earliest evidence of human    3    (consume) of avocados is the seeds, or stones, found in Coxcatlan Cave in the Tehuacan Valley, Mexico,    4    have dated back to around 8,000 BCE. The high oil content of the avocado’s green flesh would have made the fruit a valuable addition    5    the prehistoric diet.

Domestication of the avocado soon followed, with the trees    6    (plant) in Mexico and Central America. By the time the explorer Christopher Columbus    7    (reach) South America in 1492, avocados were being consumed as far south as Peru. Today, Mexico is the world’s leading avocado producer, and the fruit is also    8    important crop in the US state of California, the Dominican Republic, and Indonesia.

With an amazing flavour, buttery flesh, and high nutrient content, the avocado has enjoyed a recent rise in popularity, and people continue to find innovative ways    9    (enjoy) it. It is perhaps most famous as the main ingredient of salad, but in Latin America avocados are still    10    (wide) used to garnish (搭配) chicken and potato soup.