The southern area of Jiangxi province    1    (produce) tea for hundreds of years. Villagers there often like to sing songs while    2    (pick) tea leaves. The beautiful tunes echo over the tea gardens in the hills. After over 400 years of development, this practice has transformed into a performance art.

The tea-leave picking opera, or Caicha Xi in Chinese, is    3    culture monument of Jiangxi province, having a history of more than 400 years. The opera can be seen on special occasions such as Chinese New Year,    4    the locals are looking to pray for prosperity and a good harvest. Tea-picking opera in southern Jiangxi province is a combination of folk songs and dancing.    5    (it)   repertoire(表演剧目) is not about royal families or government officials,    6    about the daily lives of local people.

After the founding of New China,    7    (music) created a number of songs based on tea -picking tunes and took the opera to a bigger stage. In 1960s, the popular “ See the Red Army off”     8    (compose) by drawing inspirations from one of the    9     (tradition) tunes of the southern Jiangxi tea-picking opera. 86 years ago, with the same tune, mothers saw off their sons, and wives saw off their husbands for Long March.

In 2006, it was listed    10    an intangible cultural heritage in China. To better keep the tradition and pass it on from generation to generation , the local government has provided free education to teenagers in love with tea-picking opera.

The Double Ninth Festival     1     (celebrate) on the ninth day of the ninth lunar month. It is also known     2     the Senior Citizens’ Festival. The festival     3     (base) on the theory of Yin and Yang, the two opposing principles in nature. The ancients believed that all natural     4     (phenomenon) could be explained by this theory. Numbers are related to this theory. Even numbers belong to Yin and odd numbers to Yang. The ninth day of the ninth lunar month is a day     5     the two Yang numbers meet. So it is called Chongyang.

    6     (appreciate) chrysanthemum (菊花) and drinking chrysanthemum wine have always been a tradition during the Double Ninth Festival. Chrysanthemums are regarded as a kind of flower     7    (have) the function of an antitoxin (抗毒素) and can drive the evil away.

As nine is pronounced “jiu” meaning long in Chinese, so people use the word jiu     8    (express)the meaning of longevity with a person’s life. In the year of 1989, the Double Ninth Festival was designated as Senior’s Day — a day to respect the elderly. Members of a family also     9     (company) their elders to have a     10     (relax) day in a natural setting while wishing health and happiness upon them.

In the state of Oaxaca. Mexico, you'l1 find the lively town of San Martin Tilcajete. The town is rooted in     1     (it) ancient Zapotec culture. The Zapotec people have been living in the area for     2     (century).

Look around, and you'll see     3     (amaze) colorful wooden animal carvings. These figures are called tonas, and creating them is a Zapotec tradition.

But slowly, Zapotec culture is dying. Young people are leaving Oaxaca     4     (find) work in larger cities. As     5     result, fewer people have the knowledge and skills     6     (need) to make tonas.

An organization called Jacobo y Maria Angeles hopes to change that. It teaches kids as young as five how to make tonas. The carvings take time and skill to create. They're made of soft wood from copal trees,     7    grow in the area.

After school, kids come to Jacobo Maria Angeles to learn the craft     8     teachers, or masters. Some of the masters have been making tonas for 50 years. In these workshops, kids learn about the copal tree. They learn to “see” an animal in a piece of wood before it's carved. Then the kids     9     ( give) a tona to decorate(装饰).

Some of these students might one day become masters. Those who do will help protect Zapotec culture through teaching the young people the ancient craft of     10     (make) tonas.

Felicity Miller, a 32-year-old British woman,    1     has a Chinese husband, still remembers the     2    (excite) when she first learned to use the “red packet” function on WeChat in 2015. She sent and grabbed some red packets in her Chinese family's group. The rule in her family was that the person who grabbed the     3    (high) amount sent the next.

Attracted by the unique way of communicating, many foreigners     4     (join) in sending and grabbing(迅速抓取) red packets so far. Usually, the money in each packet is random. Thus the amount of money one can grab     5       (large) depends on his or her luck, from 0.01 yuan to less than 200 yuan. Many foreigners get more familiar     6       Chinese culture through “red packets”. Two years ago, when Felicity Miller was sent 5. 20 or 8. 88 yuan red packets, she had no idea about the    7     (hide) meanings. Now, she has not only known about them, but also has sent a few.

However, the popularity of virtual red packets doesn't stop people sending paper red packets    8    (contain) real cash during the Spring Festival. It     9    (call) lucky money. In Chinese tradition, people take giving children lucky money as     10       blessing.

The Laba Festival is regarded as one of the traditional Chinese     1    （festival).It is celebrated on the eighth day of the twelfth month of Chinese lunar calendar,     2    (refer)to the traditional start of celebrations for the Chinese Spring Festival. "La" in Chinese means the 12th lunar month and "ba" means eight.

Legends about it also vary, one of     3    holds that over 3,000 years ago sacrificial rites(祭礼）called "La" were held in the twelfth lunar month when people offered their preys(猎物）    4    the Gods of heaven and earth. The Chinese characters for prey and the twelfth month were interchangeable then, and ever since "La"     5    (use) to refer to both. Since the festival was held on the eighth day of the last month, people    6    (late) added the number eight ( "ba" in Chinese), giving     7    (we) the current Laba.

Traditionally, the Laba rice porridge is also of great     8    (important). The porridge must be boiled for many hours and then offered as a sacrifice to ancestors. It was also a time for the ancient Chinese    9    (pray) to heaven and earth that there would be     10    abundant harvest. Many people hoped for good luck as well for the coming year.

The kite is believed to have originated in China. Since its invention, there    1    （be）many adaptations to the kite by    2    （vary）cultures around the world. A Chinese kite in ancient times would have used simple materials such as wood and cloth. They were often made    3    （resemble）the shapes of birds. Today, beautiful and large designs can be seen flying above parks in China. They often resemble real animals and members of the Chinese Zodiac（生肖）. Some kites have LED lights    4    （attach）to allow for night flights and fun light shows.

Kites    5    （invent）in the early Warring States Period（475-221BC）by Mozi and Lu Ban, two philosophers     6     came after the teachings of Confucius. The kites were specific to China for many years before the knowledge of    7    to make and use them gradually advanced. The period saw many attacks from foreign    8    （power）, as well as civil unrest. Kites played a role    9    providing military intelligence for the Chinese forces. The first Chinese kites were used for measuring distances, which was useful information for moving large armies. They were also used to calculate and record wind readings and provided    10    unique form of communication similar to ship flags at sea.

Chinese are the first people to have tea. One thousand and two hundred years ago, Lu Yu wrote a book called “The Classic of Tea ”,     1     is honored as “The Bible of Tea”. The book gives a detailed    2    (explain) of the origin, the processing skills and the classification of tea.

However, Chinese tea culture goes far beyond tea     3    (it). Take green tea for example, the ideal temperature of water should be around 80 degrees Celsius. If the water is too hot, nutrients(营养物质)in the tea     4    (destroy). On the other hand, if the water is not hot enough, the tea     5     (leaf) won’t open up and you will miss the pleasantly fresh flavor. So Chinese people are used     6     drinking hot tea. When you visit a Chinese friend, your friend will     7     (constant) add hot water to your emptying cup. It is polite     8    (offer) the tea cup to guests with both hands. Of course, the guests should pay respect as well,     9    (take) over the cup with both hands.

Talking about adding water to the tea cup, there is     10     saying: Wine full, full cup. Tea half, half cup. For wine, the full cup symbolizes whole heartiness. For tea, the half cup means modesty.

Many people lose their lives every year.     1     (actual), tobacco (烟草) use is one of the killers all over the world.

Indeed, lung cancer     2     (believe) to be the cause of the most cancer deaths worldwide, with tobacco being responsible     3     22% of all deaths from cancer. It is important for everyone to take steps to try to fight this by     4     (go) tobacco-free as much as possible. However, it is pretty obvious that we still have     5     long way to go when it comes to trying to get people to be as tobacco-free as possible.

For decades, tobacco     6     (company) have used their marketing strategies (策略) on purpose     7     (try) to aim at younger people, and this has led to a sharp rise in a lot of cancer deaths among young people. The idea of No Tobacco Day is to have a special day that people can use to give     8     (them) the motivation (动力) to get away from tobacco and tobacco-related products.

So if you’re one of the millions of people     9     light up a cigarette, step out for a cancer stick, or have a smoke, then let No Tobacco Day be your chance for a freer,     10     (healthy) future.

In western countries the only person who might dare to tell you that you are fat is your     1     (person) doctor. Then he would probably tell you how to lose weight. In China, there is no such inhibition (拘谨) as to     2     (talk) about people’s weight. It     3     (be) common for Chinese to go to foreigners, saying, “You are fat.” While talking with     4    Chinese friend about this, she told me that I was wrong and that Chinese will normally say, “You are so fat.” There are several reasons     5     people will say this. Firstly, there aren’t many fat people in China. It is almost a     6     (curious) to see someone fat. Secondly, there are     7     (few) private issues. Thirdly, people just feel freer to speak exactly what is on their mind. Try feeding Western dessert to Asians     8    you will always hear “too sweet, too sweet”. Some Chinese think that all Westerners are fat. Once I     9     (play) basketball when a guy said, “Why are you so skinny?” I thought all people from America were fat.” Perhaps if more people in American comment on others’ weight, then it might help remind people to try     10     (stay) fit.

Cave No.12 of the Yungang Grottoes (石窟), the 1,500-year-old masterpieces of Chinese Buddhist art, has been recently “moved” to the Zhejiang University Museum of Art and Archaeology by 3D printing technology,     1     (bring)the grottoes to the wider world.

Cave No.12,14 meters deep,11 meters wide and 9 meters high, also known     2     the Music Cave, was carved with rich images of heavenly figures and     3     (music)instruments from home and abroad. These figures represented the     4     (early) royal symphony orchestra (乐团) in ancient China.

The researchers     5     (overcome)many difficulties since August 2016.First,the project team spent three months laser-scanning (激光扫描) the cave and took 55,680.     6     (photo) of it.     7     (ensure) successful printing, a special 3D printer was tailored for the project. Then,     8     came after 3D printing was the coloring process, during which the images in the cave     9     (expect) to be covered with proper materials and colors. After eight months of coloring, the staff finally completed the replica cave. Experts believe that the completion of the project marked technical breakthroughs and     10     very important step forward in digital protection and inheritance of cultural heritages.