Kaifeng, Tianjin and Weifang     1     (say) to be the top 3 traditional homes of Chinese kites. As an art, Chinese kites have developed for all time along the long history of local     2     (culture) traditions.

Weifang is a city of Shandong Province. It’s known     3     the “world kite capital”   because of its famous, well-made kites that/which are painted beautifully and fly perfectly. Weifang kites fully show general custom. Kite art has used     4     (method), skills and bright color style from this traditional Chinese painting. It     5     (become) one of the important kinds of Chinese kites.

The cool facts of Tianjin kites are the manners of the organization and connection and     6     (especial) the using of bright colors. Built on traditional Spring Festival wood block print in Yangliuqing, Tianjin kites try to be unusual,     7     (hope) to find something new in design and painting.

As one of the most ancient capitals in China, Kaifeng has    8     long history of kite making as well. In Kaifeng, during Qing Ming Festival, local people fly kites. When the kite fly up, they cut the kite line on purpose to let the kite go with the wind,     9     means letting go of all the stress and     10    (sad) from the past year, so as not to get sick in a coming year.

China State Railway Group Co., Ltd. (China Railway) said on Saturday that     1     sold 22.88 million train tickets on Friday,     2     (set) a new record for single-day ticket sales. Of the total, 20.95 million train tickets     3     (sell) on China’s official railway ticket-booking website.

Friday marks the presale of train tickets for the first day of the Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day holidays,     4     extend from Sept 29 to Oct 6 this year.

Ticket sales volumes reflect the travel demands of the people and the trends in economic and social development, said     5     official of China Railway, adding that the record-breaking ticket sales     6     Sept 15 are indicative of the strong demand for travel during the upcoming Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day “golden week” holiday.

China     7     (expect) to see 190 million railway     8     (trip) during the upcoming 12-day travel rush, which will last from Sept 27 to Oct 8. The Mid-Autumn Festival, falling on Sept 29 this year, is a     9     (tradition) Chinese Festival usually     10     (mark) by family reunions, watching the full moon and eating mooncakes.

Cheering, dancing and singing, local people and tourists gathered around the fire during the Torch Festival of the Yi People in Bijie’s Hezhang county, Guizhou, on Aug 12. The festival was listed     1    a national intangible cultural heritage in 2011.

Though there are many     2    (describe) of the origin of the festival, it mostly relates to the natural worship of fire. For the early Yi people who lived in high-altitude-mountainous-areas, fire     3    (be) essential to light, warm, and cook food. There was     4    old practice: Before bringing animal meat into the home, a small fire must first be lit outside the door and the meat should     5    (smoke) on the fire to drive away filth. That’s     6    the Yi people have a proverb that says, “Everything you eat must ‘see’ fire.” In farming, they used to light     7    (pile) of branches and leaves and bury them in the ground later,     8    (use) them to fertilize the land.

The Yi people used to celebrate the festival as a way to pray for a good harvest and to drive away evil from their home and farmland. Today, it has become a     9    (society) event, through     10    the Yi people not only share their joy and thanks for their good life, but also get more people to understand their lifestyle and traditions.

Falls Festival in Australia is held every year between December and January, usually ranging between December 28 and January 8.

The story begins in 1993, with a small one-day concert held in Lorne, Victoria,     1    (name) Rock Above The Falls. This first event attracted nearly 11,000 people,     2    (exceed) the organizers’ expectations, and they had to negotiate the use of neighboring land     3    (accommodate) the crowd. The festival became a two-day event in 1995, and the following year the name was changed to The Falls Music &Arts Festival.

The 2003 festival was     4    first time two events were held simultaneously, one in Lorne, and an     5    (addition) event at Marion Bay, Tasmania. The same performance took place at both events; the December 30 acts     6    played at Lorne, and the December 31 acts that played at Marion Bay, and vice versa. Both the Lorne and Marion Bay festivals have continued to run at the same time, except for the 2002 edition, and    7    (art) continue to be exchanged between the two locations throughout the festival.

In 2013 the Byron edition of the event    8     (introduce), increasing the reach of the festival across the country. In 2019, the festival at the Lorne site was canceled    9    extreme bushfire risk during the 2019-2020 Australian bushfire season. The Marion Bay edition of the festival was     10    (fortunate)canceled permanently in 2021, with organizers citing low revenue from the event.

The English phrase “it’s a small world” has been commonly used, and the recent coronation (加冕) of King Charles III and Queen Camilla in London on Saturday made me appreciate     1     (it) real meaning.

I was one of those who were viewing this once-in-a-life-time event on television. This meant that I literally had a front-row seat to a ceremony     2     has been virtually unchanged for centuries. The coronation of a new king is a significant moment in the life of many British people, but until the 20th century, the opportunity to see this     3     (impress) event was limited to a select group of people. All that was changed by the development in mass     4     (communicate), particularly the development of cinema and television.

In fact, the first time that    5     “ordinary” person in Britain could have seen, or heard the coronation was in 1937. In that year, film cameras     6     (allow) inside London’s Westminster Abbey     7     (record) the event for the first time.     8    , what was special about the coronation of King Charles III was that this centuries-old ceremony had a global audience.

The fact that I could sit on my sofa, many     9     (thousand) of kilometers away from those events in London on Saturday and see the coronation as it actually happened really brought this fact home to me,     10     (make) me truly appreciate that we are now really living in such a “small world”.