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Incense (香) is material that releases fragrant (芳香的)smoke when burnt. Yang Jinqing, an inheritor of Qingyuan traditional incense making, has a burning desire     1    (develop) popular fragrances. For decades, Yang has committed himself     2     the traditional incense craft in Qingyuan,     3     was named a national intangible cultural heritage by the State Council in June 2021.

The country boasts a profound incense history     4     (date) back to before the Qin Dynasty. The craft and its culture thrived during the Song Dynasty. It found wider     5     (popular) during the Ming and Qing dynasties when it was used to fend off diseases, insects, mosquitoes and preserve people’s health.

Qingyuan saw many incense workshops set up during the Song Dynasty, thanks to its close geographical location to abundant herbal resources     6    (hide) in the Taihang Mountains.

Nowadays, with the     7    (increasing) expanding market, more than 50,000 people     8    (engage) in the incense business in more than 500 local incense businesses.

Yang Jinqing has helped to establish an engineering center for herbal incense in Hubei that specializes in studying ancient recipes     9     developing new crafts based on the fragrance. “We might think incense culture is very elegant and, therefore, far away from us, but it is actually very close to our lives.” he says. “When drinking tea, playing chess, reading or writing,     10    (light) an incense stick can help calm the nerves and concentrate the mind.”

“I want future generations to appreciate the charm of China’s incense culture and craft.” he adds.

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Diaojiaolou is a traditional residence of several ethnic minorities in China such as the Miao, Zhuang, Buyi and Tujia people. You can find a group of these houses     1     (locate) beside a river or in the mountainous areas of Yunnan, Guangxi, Hunan and Sichuan. The history of Diaojiaolou     2     (stretch) back 1,400 years.

The traditional residence, typically two to three stories high, is a wooden house built on stilts (柱子). The unusual structure is considered     3     masterpiece of clever carpentry. The high hanging floors of the structure     4     (hold) up by wooden stilts, which give the house an unsteady appearance from afar. But a Diaojiaolou is, in fact, firmly fixed because its stilts are further reinforced by stone blocks at their bases. Even if one of the stilts were destroyed, the building would still have a strong foundation. The ground floor tends     5     (use) as storage space for firewood and farming equipment. Livestock stay on the ground floor, while people always live     6     it.

One of the     7     (benefit) of Diaojiaolou is that,     8     in ancient times, these stilted buildings would provide protection from fierce beasts. Nowadays they continue to provide protection from venomous snakes and insects that are not uncommon throughout China. These buildings also help prevent humidity-related diseases that are common in southern China.     9     (additional), the cool breeze blowing through the windows of the upper levels acts like a kind of natural air conditioner. In mountainous regions, the level of humidity on the ground during summer is almost     10     (bear) and potentially dangerous, so elevated living spaces are particularly necessary.

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Inside the 9th exhibition hall at Hong Kong Palace Museum (HKPM), paintings and sculptures both     1     Louvre Museum and the Palace Museum in Beijing reflect one theme     2     (precise): a historical China-West exchange.

Since the museum opened to the public in July, the museum has welcomed     3     large number of tourists and constant new exhibitions. For those     4     are in charge, it seems they have a rather permanent mission: making the HKPM a     5     (globe) center for cultural exchanges between the East and West.

Among the new 69 relics (遗址) are a set of three paintings from the Album of Beasts,     6     (create) by noble painters Yu Sheng and Zhang Weibang during the Qing Dynasty. The 180-page Album of Beasts has been considered as a     7     (combine) of reality and imagination, as well as the Orient and Europe, as the two artists painted images of animals from Chinese classics     8     (use) light and shadow techniques typical of Western art. The introduction to the painting explains that this kind of animal     9     (see) as a flying horse when walking on land, but when it flies it becomes the North Star.

For the staff, the best way to introduce to visitors the historic integration between the East and the West     10     (be) to put what the paintings convey right where they can see them.

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Acrobatics, whose Chinese name is zaji, is popular with people. Modern acrobatics mainly depends on performer’s soft body    1    (complete) a series of highly difficult movements. It can     2    (find) in many of performing arts and many sports. Acrobatics is often associated with the activities     3     make extensive use of gymnastic skills, such as circus and gymnastics, but many other athletic activities, such as wushu, ballet and diving may also employ     4    (element) of acrobatics. The items in Chinese acrobatics include lion dance, oral stunts, pagoda of bowls, juggling, wire walking, etc.

Chinese zaji can date back to Neolithic times. As one of the traditional art forms, acrobatics has been popular among the Chinese people for more than 2, 000 years. As early as the Warring States, there appeared early stages of acrobatics. By    5     time of Han Dynasty, the acrobatics art further developed both in content and form and there appeared superb performances     6     music accompaniment on the stage. In the Tang Dynasty, the most flourishing period in ancient China, the number of acrobats increased     7    (significant) and their performing skills gained much improvement.

There is much    8    (stable) involved in dangerous movements and quietness in actions. The modern acrobatics aims at creating graceful stage images,     9    (harmony) musical accompaniment, and good supporting effects, props and lighting. In the past 50 years, many Chinese acrobatic troupes (表演团)     10    (visit) more than one hundred countries and regions around the world, winning dozens of prizes in the international acrobatic festivals and championships.

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March 14 is right around the comer, and math learners know     1     that means. It’s Pi Day, a holiday honoring one of math’s most famous constants (常量): pi.

The number pi, or π, is equal to the circumference (圆周长) of a circle     2     (divide) by the circle’s diameter (直径). That comes out to about 3.14159. This is true for circles of all sizes, from     3     (penny) to pizzas to planets. Pi’s value is often rounded to 3.14. That’s why Pi Day     4     (celebrate) on March 14. It’s also why one Earth-sized planet orbiting another star every 3.14 days is nicknamed “Pi Earth.”

But the exact value of pi is     5     (actual) impossible to write out. Last year, a     6     (power) computer calculated pi to record-breaking 62.8 trillion (万亿) figures. And in 2005, one 23-year-old used clever mental tricks to recite nearly 68,000 of those figures from memory. No one, though, will ever get to     7     end of pi.

Historians aren’t sure when people first     8     (discover) the concept of pi. But it’s been known in some form     9     almost 4,000 years. Ancient Greeks and Babylonians knew estimates of it. The Egyptians may have used pi     10     (build) the pyramids. And still today, pi is used in just about all math involving circles.

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The Mid-autumn Festival

The Mid-autumn Festival, which is one of the most important traditional festivals in China, falls on August 15th of the Lunar calendar every year. Not only is it popular in China but it is also celebrated in many other Asian countries.

On that day people usually go back home to have family reunion, enjoying a large meal with their family. They will also eat moon cakes, which are round cakes with meat, eggs, nuts and other things inside. It’s a family reunion festival when people express best wishes to the beloved ones at this particular time.

注意：1. 可以适当发挥，以使行文连贯；
2. 词数100左右；
3. 要点提示：
① on May 5^th of the Lunar calendar
② popular in China
③ celebrate in many other Asian countries
④ eat Zongzi (meat, rice, beans)
⑤ have dragon boat races
⑥ in memory of Quyuan

The Dragon Boat Festival

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