1 . Each year, thousands of people come to Shaanxi, China, to visit the Terracotta Army, which shows the life of Qin Shi Huang,    1    country' s first emperor.

As one of the most famous tourist sights in the world, the Terracotta Army is a form of funerary (葬礼的) art    2    (bury) with the First Emperor in 210 to 209 BC. It was designed    3    (protect) the emperor in his afterlife.

Since their     4     (discover), experts have questioned whether the life-size models of soldiers    5    (base) on real warriors (勇士) or whether they came off a production line.

In October a BBC documentary ( 纪录片) the Greatest Tomb on Earth: Secrets of Ancient China, suggested the inspiration for the Terracotta Warriors may have come    6    Ancient Greece, about    7    Archaeologist Li Xiuzhen said, “We now have evidence that close contact did exist between the First Emperor's China and the West.”

On the 41st International Museum Day, it was    8    (official) announced that new technology has just made    9    possible for visitors to be guided. Thanks to an interactive(交互式) 360-degree video, visitors can choose either to view the    10    (figure) close-up or from a distance.

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In much of Asia, especially the so-called “rice bowl” cultures of China, Japan, Korea,     1     Vietnam, food is usually eaten with chopsticks.

Chopsticks are usually two long, thin pieces of wood or bamboo. They can also be made of plastic, animal bone or metal. Sometimes chopsticks are quite artistic. Truly elegant chopsticks might     2     (make) of gold and silver with Chinese characters. Skilled workers also combine various hardwoods and metal     3     (create) special designs.

The Chinese have used chopsticks for five thousand years. People probably cooked their food in large pots,     4     (use) twigs (树枝) to remove it. Over time,     5     the population grew, people began cutting food into small pieces so it would cook more quickly.

Food in small pieces could be eaten easily with twigs which     6    (gradual) turned into chopsticks.

Some people think that the great Chinese scholar Confucius,     7     lived from roughly 551 to 479 B.C., influenced the     8     (develop) of chopsticks. Confucius believed knives would remind people of killings and     9     (be) too violent for use at the table.

Chopsticks are not used everywhere in Asia. In India, for example, most people traditionally eat     10     their hands.

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Praise can change a person. It is true that    1    (encourage) words can turn our lives around. Praise is really     2    (magic). Perhaps many of us have such experiences. Take myself     3    an example. I was very naughty in the primary school. Most of the teachers and even my parents were     4    (disappoint) in me. But it     5    (happen) that I once got a very high mark in     6    examination and the head teacher     7    (report) this to my parents. My parents praised me and told neighbors about it. I felt really happy     8    became polite to others. Every time I heard others talk to me about my excellent examination result, I thought to     9    (I) that I would work even    10    (hard) and make greater progress. Just as Shakespeare said, “Our praises are our wages.”