Watching the latest movies is a good way for Australian audiences to know more about both the history of,     1     daily life in, China. The 2023 Chinese Film Festival     2    (hold) in Darwin, Australia, last weekend.

    3    (joint) hosted by the Australia China Friendship Society’s provincial branch and the Chinese embassy (大使馆) in Australia,     4     festival presented three Chinese films, namely Hidden Blade, New Gods: Yang Jian, and My Country, My Parents.

Hilary Winchester, vice-president at Charles Darwin University, said at the film festival’s opening ceremony on March 30, “Up to now, I     5    (watch) some Chinese movies with English subtitles (字幕), and     6     I want to emphasize is that movies are a great way to bring people from all walks of life and cultures together.”

James Ashbridge, president of Australia China Business Council’s Northern Territory branch, said that he lived in Beijing and Shanghai for about 10 years and loved watching Chinese movies,     7    (add) that he feels their quality has improved a lot in recent years. “I can also practice my Chinese listening and speaking ability     8     means of watching such movies,” he said in Chinese.

Ashbridge noted that the Northern Territory, the closest part of Australia to China, has great potential     9    (cooperate) with Chinese partners in trade, tourism and     10    (educate).

Last Friday,    1    exhibition of artifacts (古器物) associated with Spring Festival traditions and     2     (ceremony) of the Qing royal family from the Palace Museum’s collections    3    (open) in the Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR).

    4    (name) “Auspicious Beginning: Spring Festival Traditions in the Forbidden City,” the exhibition features over 100     5    (value) items of utensils, paintings, clothing and musical instrument to display traditional Spring Festival rituals    6    (include) family reunions, tea feasts, as well as recreational activities such as ice-skating games, fireworks and Chinese operas.

Leong Wai Man, director of the Cultural Affairs Bureau of the Macao SAR government, said she hoped the audience can    7    (deep) understand traditional Chinese culture.

A large number of visitors    8    (pay) a visit to the exhibition so far,    9    demonstrates local people’s enthusiasm for traditional Chinese culture. There is no doubt    10    more and more people will love Chinese culture in the future.

The Xi’an City Wall,    1    is a symbol of the history and culture of Xi’an, the capital of Shaanxi Province, has become an important city brand after continuous improvements.

The Xi’an City Wall    2    (build) in the early Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) on the foundation of the imperial city walls of the Sui (581-618) and Tang (618-907) dynasties. It is the    3    (old), most well preserved, and largest ancient city wall in the world.

The city wall is more than 600 years old and suffers from cracks and flaky (薄片的) soil on a daily basis. In addition to    4    (extreme) large amounts of manual work, technology also provides    5    protective barrier for the city wall. “We have installed 8,700 metal detectors on the city wall    6    ( monitor) various dynamic data such as the pH level    7    the soil, moat (护城河) water level and daily soil moisture (水分) changes,” said Wu, who is a worker of the Xi’an City Wall Management Committee.

In addition to the Hanguang Gate Relic Site Museum, the watchtowers on the city wall have also been transformed into public cułtural and art    8    (site) such as the Jinhuidui Art Museum, Armor Museum, and City Brick Museum. So far, the city wall    9    (launch) a series of cultural and creative products, mystery boxes, and digital collections,    10    (attract) many visitors.

The 2022 Serbia’s Chinese Literature Readers’ Club held an activity themed by “The Translation of Chinese Contemporary Literature in Serbia” in the National Library of Požarevac in Serbia.

The event     1     (comprehensive) and systematically introduced to local readers the     2     (develop) and the translation of Chinese contemporary literature in Serbia. It increased Serbian readers’ understandings of Chinese literature and culture     3     (continue) to enhance people-to-people ties between China and Serbia.

    4     activity was hosted by Vera Zaric, director of National Library of Požarevac. Mirjana Požarevac, an associate professor of Chinese language and literature, was the speaker. More than 30 people, including local college students, attended the lecture.

Library director Vera Zaric said that almost all Chinese contemporary literary works     5     (collect) by the library were translated into Serbian. It is hoped that the Chinese Literature Readers’ Club will bring Chinese literary works closer to local readers, and the library will continue to share excellent Chinese literary works     6     the readers.     7     (take) part in this activity, many members of the audience said they learned a lot about Chinese contemporary literature.

The Serbia’s Chinese Literature Readers’ Club has successfully held two literature exchange activities,     8     not only aimed to introduce more and better Chinese literary works to Serbian readers, but also intended to seek     9     (many) young translators from Serbia. It is hoped that through attending the club activities, more young Serbians will     10       (motivate) to read Chinese stories and understand Chinese culture.

Beijing’s siheyuan,     1     has a long history of more than 8000 years, is a     2     (tradition) building in China. “Si” means east, west, south and north, the four directions and “he” refers to that houses are distributed like a “口”.

Siheyuan is constructed in an enclosed style. There are walls in four directions and the gate is closed in most cases except for going out. A regular siheyuan in an east-west hutong     3     (general) faces south in Beijing, and its unique orientation (朝向) is determined on     4     basis of Feng Shui Studies of China. Different rules and regulations to make a siheyuan can     5     (set) up according to the size of it. There     6     (be) three major sizes: large size, medium size and small size. A medium siheyuan is a more common one, which consists    7     the gate, the outer yard, the inner courtyard and the backyard. It is made of tiles (瓦) and wood, and the relatively light structure is resistant to earthquakes. The overall tone is gray,     8     (give) people a simple and comfortable feeling.

The     9     (preserve) siheyuans of Beijing are mainly found in the hutongs around Shichahai. Other     10     (place) in China like Shaanxi Province and Shanxi Province also have siheyuans. All these are essential architectural relics of China and need further protection.

The Mogao Caves or Mogao Grottoes (莫高窟), also     1     (know) as the Caves of the Thousand Buddhas and the Dunhuang Caves, is a series of grottoes located about 25 kilometers southeast of the city of Dunhuang in Gansu Province, China.

Mogao Grottoes, inarguably the     2     (great) treasure of Buddhist art found in a single locality anywhere in the world, consists     3     numerous temples that contain countless sculptures, wall paintings and manuscripts.     4     (initial), Dunhuang was only a stopover point — though     5     important one — on the Silk Road. However, it quickly     6     (become) a Buddhist learning center,     7     Buddhist texts were translated into Chinese to be spread from there to other cities throughout China.

These grottoes     8     (carve) out of the sandstone cliffs (峭壁) of Mingsha Mountain and extend some 1600 meters from north to south. The     9     (construct) of these grottoes takes over a period of a thousand years, from the 4th to the 14th century AD. The ones     10     (survive) the natural disasters (only a little more than half of them are still complete) contain some 45, 000 square meters of wall paintings and more than 2, 000 painted sculptures.

Preserving     1     (local) important old architectural buildings is really beneficial.

Firstly, preservation plays a cultural role. Old buildings teach us about the history that happened before we were born and promote the respect for those     2     lived in different times and different societies. Architectural monuments cultivate pride of our past and heritage,     3    (make) us unique in the world. Historical structures bring character and certain charm to the    4     (neighbor) that people live in.

Secondly, economy is an important merit of keeping the old. A growing number of tourists choose     5    (visit) architectural monuments because everyone likes to experience the "spirit" of the place, which most often     6    (represent) through architecture. Therefore, restoring old buildings promotes tourism and generates workplaces for both local people and international experts. Restoration work     7    (it) requires more skills and knowledge than simple building     8     thus results in higher salaries which also contribute to boosting the economy.

Finally, restoring old buildings     9    (be) as "green" as it can get. As the ultimate form of recycling, preservation helps reduce construction waste and save the energy that is usually put     10     manufacturing and transporting building materials.

CCTV's Spring Festival Cala     1     (gain) great popularity at home and abroad in recent years.     2     total of 1.14 billion people watched CCTV's 2020 Spring Festival Gala, which was broadcast at 8 pm, Feb 11, via television, the Internet and other outlets during the live broadcast.     3     the most—watched television program in the country, the gala was also livestreamed in over 170 countries and regions.

Besides a diversity of programs, such as singing, dancing, acrobatics and classic Chinese     4     (opera), the gala also focused on critical moments which received worldwide attention during the year of 2020, such as the landmark Chang'e 5 lunar sample —return mission and the country fulling its     5     ( commit) to poverty relief under the current standards by 2020.

One of the programs,       6     (title) Balcony, portrayed(描述) the lives of local people of Wuhan, as well as the people who fought against the pandemic. It also reviewed the moments     7     the lockdown in Wuhan was lifted in April 2020, which touched many audiences     8     (deep). This program I also got a lot of likes. Besides, many     9     (tradition) songs during the gala appeal to audiences of different generations,     10     (feature) old artists and young music and movie stars.