At about 3:00 am on July 28, 1976, a destructive earthquake     1     (shake) Tangshan, causing great suffering. The earthquake     2     (feel) even in Beijing, which is a long way away. In the     3     (frighten) 15 seconds, the whole city was gone, leaving people homeless and children     4     parents. Everywhere you looked, buildings fell down. Water, food and electricity were hard     5     (get). Soon after the quake,     6     (thousand) of soldiers were sent to dig out those     7     (trap) under ruins and bury     8     dead. Construction workers built shelters for the sufferers     9     homes were in ruins. Luckily for the     10     (survive), with flood of help from all over the country, the city began to breathe again.

Chinese drinking vessels (器皿) have kept evolving throughout the dynasties of China,     1     reflect the ceremony system,     2     (culture) ideas, customs and manners at that time.

In Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, ancient China established itself a complete ceremony system.     3     (drive) by the system, it’s widely believed that it’s impolite to serve     4     alcohol, which helped greatly promote the     5     (popular) and use of bronze (青铜) drinking vessels,     6     (make) them a significant symbol of bronze culture in this period. The drinking vessels came with a variety of shapes and sizes.

Drinking wine was     7     (extreme) popular in the Tang Dynasty. Among more than 40,000 poems included in the Complete Tang Poems, there are up     8     5,400 poems written about wine. The drinking vessels mentioned in Tang poetry are rich in material, including metal vessels as well as ceramic (陶瓷) vessels, which boomed in the Song Dynasty.

Jingdezhen ceramics in Jiangxi Province     9     (last) for five or six hundred years throughout the Ming and Qing dynasties, where a surprisingly large number and a wide variety of wine sets were created. Ceramic wine sets reached the peak of perfection in the Qing Dynasty, which     10     (represent) by the set of wine cups with flowers of the twelve months from the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty.