This year, my son has booked a table at the best restaurant in town,     1    made me a bit unhappy, though. For me, it just won’t feel like Spring Festival     2    out.

When I was a little boy, the dinner on the eve of Spring Festival was     3    I looked forward to most. It was not only for the delicious food that we seldom     4    to eat, but for the opportunity to have our whole family gathered together. I would run around the house, listening to the adults chatting about their year. I’d get     5    my mother’s feet in the kitchen, watching her making dumplings. She’d put     6    in some dumplings: candies for a sweet life and peanuts for a long and healthy one. In the evening, all of us would sit around the table,     7    the food and being together again. Simple, homemade dishes tasted more delicious than anything     8    by a top chef.

    9    , my children and their children will still value our memories of preparing the dinner together. For me, the process is even     10    than the delicious food itself.

A recent survey reported that by 2023, China’s hanfu fans     1     (reach) 6.89 million. Currently, there were more than 3,000 registered hanfu-related businesses in china, 60% of     2     were registered in the past five years. Minghuatang, known as the “King of hanfu”, is a hanfu business. Data from Minghuatang’s official website on May 17 showed the customer service is busy     3     (handle) orders submitted on May17, and the tailoring period has been scheduled to mid-March 2023. Apart from high-end markets,     4     (expensive) hanfu are also popular. Data from Taobo’s platform showed that hanfu priced     5     100 yuan and 300 yuan     6     (take) up over 60 percent of sales, while those over 500 yuan accounted for       7     (rough) 30 percent of sales only.

Expert analyzed that the     8     (popular) of hanfu was mainly driven by young people who often shared their hobbies with others online. Additionally, hit Chinese dramas on TV also accelerated the development of hanfu-ralated businesses. Key leaders’ reactions to characters       9     (wear) hanfu draw millions of online audience members into the sector.

Hanfu eventually became     10     mass fashion because it is a carrier of traditional culture, not merely a clothing.

Qing Ming Jie (All Souls' Day) is a time to remember    1    dead. It is a major Chinese festival which    2     (fall) in early spring. It is an occasion for the whole family to leave the home and to sweep the graves of their forefathers.

Qing Ming is     3     (popular) associated with Jie Zi Tui,     4    lived in Shanxi province in 600 B.C. Legend has it that Jie saved his starving lord's life by serving a piece of his own leg. When the lord succeeded in becoming the ruler of a small kingdom, he invited his faithful follower to join him. But Jie declined the invitation,     5    (prefer) to lead a quiet life with his mother in the mountains.

Believing that he could force Jie out by burning the mountain, the lord ordered his men to set the forest on fire. However, Jie chose to remain where he was and was burnt to    6    (die).     7     (honor) Jie, the "cold food feast day" began, when no fire could be lit.

    8     time passing, the Qing Ming festival replaced the "cold food" festival. To make the festival even     9     (meaning), some time should     10    (spend) to remind the younger members of the family of contributions of their ancestors, and the story of Jie Zi Tui.

You may think you cannot live through summer without air conditioners. But in ancient China, hand fans were almost the only help for people       1     (drive) the heat away.

Chinese people started to use hand fans over 2,000 years ago. The fans came       2     different shapes, such as round and square and they were made from various materials. Palm leaf fans were cheap and easy to make. Feather fans showed the owner’s high status. Sandalwood fans     3     (send) out a fragrant smell.

    4     (late), hand fans became more than something     5     could cool you down. They developed into art works, in which tuanshan and zheshan were the most common.

Shaped like     6     full moon, tuanshan was usually made of silk. They had beautiful embroidery(刺绣) featuring birds and flowers on them. Females, especially     7    (woman) in the royal palace,liked to use them. Poets in ancient China often compared a woman’s abandoned fate to tuanshan. A poet wrote during the Qing Dynasty, “If only life were as     8     (beauty) as when we first met, why should the autumn wind bother to pity deserted painted fans?”

Meanwhile, men, especially the literati (文人), used zheshan. The literati liked them because they could paint and write poems on them.     9     was a way for them to show off their talent in literature, painting and calligraphy. Almost anything could     10       (paint) on zheshan, but the most popular ones usually featured landscapes.

The origin of facial makeup used in Peking Opera can date back to more than 1,400 years ago,     1    leading actors used to wear masks. As the operatic arts developed,     2     (perform) gradually took off their masks and painted colorful patterns on their faces instead, so people could better see    3     (they) facial expressions.

Chinese Opera facial makeup is a special makeup method    4    Chinese cultural characteristics.     5    painting technique for Chinese facial makeup in dramas is closely related to the character's personality. Over the years of development, it    6     (become) an important part of Chinese culture.

There    7     (be) four roles in facial makeup, sheng, dan, jing, and chou. Chinese facial-makeup is    8     (extreme) stylized in the colors and patterns used, but no two painted faces are alike. For example, there are more than 100 face-painting styles    9     (design) for Xiang Yu, the hero in Farewell My Concubine, and each one is different. Various types of Chinese facial makeup enable the audience    10     (know) a character easily and get more involved in the appreciation of the performance.

According to Xinhua News Agency, the Palace Museum and Huawei signed a cooperation agreement on March 15. The two sides will set an example    1    5G application.

The Palace Museum received more than 17 million visitors in 2019,    2    （make）it the most visited museum in the world. In the past 20 years, an office information network covering the whole museum    3    （build）gradually. The museum has developed an App that    4    （provide）an in-depth explanation of cultural relic information and cultural services. Also, the museum has researched on the    5    （apply）of VR, AR, AI in museums.

    6    signing of the agreement marks a new chapter in the strategic cooperation between the Palace Museum and Huawei Technologies Co. So, Huawei will make efforts    7    （speed）up the intelligent construction of the Palace Museum.

"The 600-year-old Palace Museum has never been so close to science and technology." Shan Jixiang said    8    （proud）, former director of the Palace Museum.

Shan shared many ideas about the 5G Palace Museum. With the help of advanced technology,    9    is expected that in the future, audiences around the world will be able to experience and visit the Palace Museum, whether it is a field trip or a virtual tour. Also, the use of AI technology provides a    10    （broad）platform and stronger knowledge support for cultural relics among young people.