The earliest Chinese kites     1     were made of wood were called muyuan (wooden kites) They date as far back as the Warring States Period (475-221 BC) at least two thousand years ago. After the     2     (invent) of paper, kites began to be made of this new material, paper, and this paper kite is called zhiyuan.

The method of making a kite can be divided into three parts. Firstly, use thin bamboo strips (条)     3     (make) a kite frame (框架), and according to taste, kites can have     4     (attract) shapes like a dragonfly, a swallow, a centipede or a butterfly. Secondly, glue paper onto the framework. The paper     5     (require) to be thin. Finally, decorate the kites     6     colorful paintings and ribbons.

Although the basic method remains the same, styles of kite making are presented     7     (different) in every place. The kites in the “World Kite Capital” of Weifang in Shandong Province are well known for     8     (they) fine materials, painting, sculpture and flexible flying movement. One of these kites, which was over 300 meters long and in the shape of a centipede with a dragon’s head, won the     9     (one) place in the International Kite Festival held in Italy. This kite is now shown in the Weifang Kite Museum. Every year, the World Kite Festival will be held there and is expected to draw many fans with a love for     10     (fly) kites.

A Chinese man’s    1    (tradition) carpentry(木工手艺)skills have caught the eyes of many people on    2    Internet as he makes some objects out of a piece of wood for his grandson to play with.

Wang Dewen,    3    (wide) known as Grandpa Amu on YouTube, has been considered a modern-day Lu Ban,    4    is regarded as the best builder, the famous woodworker in China with the    5    (invent) of the saw(锯子).Wang’s most popular works include a folding chair and an apple-shaped puzzle.

Wang’s wonderful woodworking skills were developed as a way    6    (support) his family in Shandong. Wang left Shandong to live    7    his children two years ago, and began to make many    8    (toy) for his young grandson. Soon his son    9    (decide) to film Wang’s efforts.

“We came up with this idea of making the videos because we wanted to bring    10    (we) rural culture to others and let more people learn about these old Chinese techniques,” said his son.

A dog named Peggy was unable to continue the job she was good     1    -herding (放牧) sheep一when at age 8 she lost    2    (she) hearing.

Peggy’s owners gave her to a local animal shelter (庇护所) when they found it hard    3    (communicate) with her. The manager of the shelter ChloeShorten    4    (offer) to help. Shorten and her husband, Jason,    5     had two other working sheepdogs, decided to take Peggy home.

While Peggy became deaf,    6     (obvious), her love for sheep herding hadn’t disappeared.“We knew Peggy wanted to work, so we taught her how to herd and work with us without     7    (depend) on voice commands (指令),Shorten said. With    8    help of a sheepdog trainer, Peggy finally learned to reply to sign language rather than traditional voice commands.

But the most important lesson Peggy learned had nothing to do with sheep. It was about trust. “It took her some time to learn that we love her, and understand our praise,” Shorten said.

These days, with her GPS tracker in place, Peggy heads out with sheep fom time to time, happily knowing that the     9    (mean) of a “thumbs (拇指)up” is that she’s a good girl. The Shortens couldn’t be     10    (pleased) with Peggy.

Like other Chinese festivals, there is also a legend behind the Dragon Boat Festival. Qu Yuan served in the Chu State during the Warring States Period. He was a wise and learned man. His     1     (able) to fight against corruption (腐败) annoyed other court officials,     2     exercised their evil influence on the emperor, so the emperor began to dislike Qu Yuan and     3     (final) exiled (流放) him.

During his exile, Qu Yuan did not give up. He traveled widely, teaching and writing about his ideas. His works, Li Suo, Jiu Ge and Tian Wen are     4     (value) for studying ancient Chinese culture. He saw his mother country, the Chu State, go downhill gradually. And when he heard that the Chu State     5     (conquer) by the Qin State, he felt so hopeless     6     he ended his life by throwing himself into the Miluo River.

After     7     (hear) the bad news, people were greatly     8     (shock). Fishermen raced to the spot in their boats to search     9     his body. Unable to find his body, people threw zongzi, eggs, and other food into the river     10     (feed) the fish so that they would not eat his body. Since then, people have been holding all kinds of activities, such as having dragon boat races, eating zongzi, etc. in honor of Qu Yuan on the anniversary (周年纪念日) of his death.

Over the centuries, farmers     1     (discover) thousands of different species of food crops. Each species has special qualities. To feed the seven billion people on Earth, most farmers today are growing only species of plants that are easy     2    (produce) in large numbers. Meanwhile thousands of other species are becoming extinct. For example, in China, 90 percent of the wheat     3     (vary) grown just a century ago have disappeared.

One solution     4     this problem is to collect and preserve the seeds of as many different species as we can     5     they disappear. This idea     6     (suggest) for the first time by Russian scientist Nikolay Vavilov. In     7     1920s and 1930s, he collected around 400,000 seeds from five continents. There are now around 1,700 seed banks in countries around the world. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, which preserves almost one million seed samples, has one of the     8     (large) collections.

In the US, Diane Ott Whealy and her husband founded Heritage Farm, a place     9     people can store and trade seeds. By doing this, they are reintroducing foods into the marketplace     10     haven’t been grown for years.

I, the computer, began as a calculating machine to     1     (simple) difficult sums in 1642 in France.     2     took nearly 200 years before I was built as an analytical machine,     3    was a technological revolution. I became     4    “universal machine” in 1936 to solve mathematical problems. From then on, I grew rapidly both in size     5    in brainpower.     6     time going by, I was connected with other computers by a network.     7     a result, I was able to share my knowledge with others through the World Wide Web.   

I have been     8    (wide) used in many fields, and many new     9    (apply) have been found for me, such as in communication, finance and trade. Also I have been put into space rockets to explore the Moon and Mars. I hope to achieve my goal of     10     (provide) humans with a life of high quality.

Mamoudou Gassma did what nobody else would or could do , without     1     second thought. On Saturday night in the north of Pairs, the 22-year-old risked his own life, climbed to the     2    (nine) floor of a building from the outside and saved a small boy dangling from a balcony.

The boy,     3     is believed to have been left at home alone, was rescued when Gassma scaled the outside of the building with his bare     4    (hand). “I just didn’t have time to think, and I ran across the road     5    (save) him,” said Massama. The boy was crying when Gassma took him to safety and he also suffered an injured foot.

It turns out that his act of bravery could lead him     6     a completely new life. Gassama comes from Mali. He     7    (enter) France secretly last year and is living in pairs illegally.

On Monday, French President Emmanuel Macron received Gassama and    8    (high) praised him for his courage,    9    (consider) him an example to all citizens. Besides, Gassama     10    (offer) a medal and the president also invited him to serve as a firefighter in Pairs.