The full moon lights up the sky on the evening of the Lantern Festival. The festival, which falls     1    the 15th day of the first month in the Chinese lunar calendar, marks the end of more than two weeks of Chinese New Year    2     (celebrate) each year.

Solving “lantern riddles” is among the many popular traditional activities for the festival, which include eating tangyuan, enjoying the full moon, and     3     (lose) in colorful lighted lanterns. These guessing games    4    (refer) to as lantern riddles because they involve riddles written on lanterns or on slips of paper    5     (attach) to lanterns. They often contain messages of great     6     (wise) and good fortune, and give children and others of all ages the opportunity to have fun while practicing language and problem-analyzing skills. A good many of     7     classic riddles connect with Chinese characters, historical figures, literary references, or names of cities and other places in China. People must guess the answer by thinking about the     8     (variety) meanings of the words and phrases that make up the riddle.    9     (basic), a tip may be provided, such as indicating     10     the answer is a person, a place, or a thing.

Originated in the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368), Kunqu Opera is said to be the mother of all Chinese operas and is one of the oldest forms of opera still     1     (exist) in China. This traditional art was named after its birthplace, Kunshan,     2     is near the city of Suzhou in today’s Jiangsu Province.

The development of Kunqu Opera went through several     3     (stage). In the early days, the songs were     4     (main) composed of long and short lines. In the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644),     5     (reform) by Wei Liangfu, Kunqu Opera became mild, smooth and     6     (attract). The performers attached great     7     (significant) to clear recitation, correct singing and pure tunes. Meanwhile, the composers wrote the musical scores after working out the tunes, and the songs     8     (write) in seven-character or ten-character lines. Moreover, three types of musical instruments (stringed instrument, bamboo flutes, and drums and clappers) formed the accompaniment.

Kunqu Opera is acknowledged as     9     elegant opera. Carrying forward the tradition of ancient poetry and common speech, the art is also     10     very high literary value.

Yungang Grottoes(石窟 )in Datong, Shanxi province, are a world cultural heritage site that    1    (date) back to more than 1,500 years ago. In Yungang's 45 big grottoes and more than 200 small grottoes, there are about 59,000 figures of the Buddha,     2     are a priceless treasure of human culture.

    3     because of the effects of climate change and     4     (nature) disasters, the grottoes face damage year by year. Thanks to     5     (advance) digital technology, researchers are busy “duplicating” (复制) the Yungang Grottoes in an attempt to preserve the precious cultural relics. Employing 3D laser scanning technology, the researchers     6     (digital) record the shapes, colors and other fine details of the grottoes and later reproduce them using 3D printing technology.

The new technology could enable more people    7    (access) the cultural relics despite the distance.     8     June, 2020 the researchers successfully “copied and pasted” cave No. 12 of the Yungang Grottoes for an     9     (exhibit) in Hangzhou, in what is the world's first mobile 3D-printed 1: 1 “copy” of a grotto.

The Yungang researchers' attempt is a good example of technology helping to preserve cultural relics: It     10     (hope) that the new digitalized technologies will facilitate(促进) the “rebirth” of the cultural legacy, and bring them to more places worldwide.

A 63-year-old Chinese grandpa's     1     (tradition) carpentry(木工)skills attract tens of millions of viewers online as he creates woodwork without glue, screws or nails. The Chinese master carpenter, Wang Dewen,     2     (know) as “Grandpa Amu” on YouTube, has been considered as the modern-day Lu Ban. His most popular video,     3     shows him making a fantastic wooden arch bridge, rose to fame on the platform,     4     (gain) more than 42 million views.

Grandpa Amu follows an ancient Chinese mortise and tenon(榫卯) technique, which means no nails or glue are involved     5     the entire process of building the arch bridge.

For     6     (decade), Wang worked as a farmer and a carpenter, making furniture for local building projects. Several years ago, Wang left Shandong     7     (live) with his children in Mengshan county. It was a natural step to turn his skills into an opportunity to make all kinds of toys for his young grandson, and it was not long     8     his son and daughter-in-law decided to video Wang's efforts. The master carpenter     9     (attract) over 1.18 million viewers on YouTube so far. Grandpa Amu insists that he isn't an internet celebrity(名人)     10     just an ordinary farmer.

The Chinese government created the Chinese Farmers' Harvest Festival in 2018,     1    (make) it the first time that a national festival has been specially set up for farmers. It will be celebrated    2    (annual) on the autumnal equinox (秋分).

    3    foundation of this festival will undoubtedly attract more young people to the agricultural field. At present, most farmers taking up agricultural production    4    (be) at the age between 40 and 70. China's agricultural field obviously doesn't have enough staff. The creating of the harvest festival is meeting Chinese farmers' expectation for the whole society's emphasis on agriculture.

The festival is especially for farmers. Only when farmers get widely involved will its purpose     5    (realize). To this end, we need    6    (pay) attention to the differences in local cultures and harvest time to organize rich and colorful harvest activities instead of uniform ones. Festival celebrations, therefore, must be done in ways    7    fully reflect the characteristics of the countryside. They should present a sense    8    ceremony, but at the same time be    9    (practice) rather than wasteful. In a word, farmers are the major players of this festival, and therefore their participation is of great    10    (important).

World Environment Day is     1    annual event that is aimed at being the biggest and most    2    (wide)celebrated global day for positive environmental action.

World Environment Day activities take place all year round but climax on June 5 every year，    3    (attract) everyone from everywhere.     4    (celebrate)are held in many ways in countries like Kenya，Poland，Spain and the United States. In many countries，this annual event is used     5     (increase)governments' attention and action towards improving the environment.

World Environment Day     6     (establish) by the United Nations General Assembly in 1972 to mark the opening of the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment. It has grown to become one of the main vehicles through     7    the UN increases a worldwide awareness of the environment and encourages           8     (politics) attention and action.

World Environment Day is a day for people from all walks of life to come together to ensure a cleaner, greener and brighter outlook for     9     (they) and future generations. Everyone counts in this initiative(方案)and World Environment Day relies     10     you to make this happen！

Decoding respirator cultures

As the global pandemic speeds up, many are wondering about the     1    (effective) of masks and when it's appropriate to wear them. Most people from the East believe that     2    (wear)a mask is essential to control the spread of the novel coronavirus pneumonia (NCP). But people in the West generally would argue that, unless one is already ill, wearing a mask is simply     3    (necessary).

In Eastern countries like China, mask-wearing is engrained in their cultures. In fact, people in the East wear masks not just to protect     4    (they) from illness but also for a variety of other reasons.

In many Asian countries, masks are worn in many scenarios in daily life, such as doing housework     5     visiting patients in the hospital. They can give people the comfort of being protected.

In recent years, they are worn simply for cosmetic reasons. Young people in Japan, for example, wear masks as a fashion statement, expressing their personal style through unique designs and patterns.

In Asia, wearing a face mask is also     6     outward expression of group-oriented values.

    7    one’s face partially covered, one becomes part of a giant collectivist whole. ''People communicated their responsibilities to the social group of     8    they were members, '' wrote Peter Baehr, a research professor in social theory at Lingnan University, Hong Kong. ''By disguising an individual’s face, it gave greater salience to collective identity. ''

In Western countries, however, individual values are the most important.

As a citizen, it is one's duty to prevent the spread of illness by following proper hygienic procedures, such as washing one's hands and limiting one's contact with others. A face mask    9     (reserve)only for those showing symptoms of illness.

Whether from the East or the West, social culture and peer pressure have played an important role in one's decision about whether or not to wear a mask. That's because human beings are social creatures who take into consideration what other members of society think of us. The most important thing is to respect others' opinions, no matter how     10    (differ) they are.