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Giant pandas Yang Guang and Tian Tian arrived in southwest China’s Sichuan Province on Tuesday morning, after wrapping up     1     (they) stay in Britain. The pair     2     (touch) down at the Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport at about 6: 50 a.m., before     3     (send) to the Bifengxia giant panda base in Ya’an for a month-long observation and detection.

Yang Guang and Tian Tian,     4     literally mean Sunshine and Sweetie, arrived at Edinburgh Zoo in December 2011 on a 10-year loan. The loan extended for an additional two years subsequently.     5     the only pandas in Britain, they acquired significant attention, attracting a record number of visitors to the zoo.

They did not give birth to any cubs (幼崽) during their stay in Britain. There were several attempts to get Tian Tian pregnant     6     none of them were successful.

Before their     7     (depart), Edinburgh Zoo conducted training sessions to acclimate the pair to the upcoming journey.     8     zoo had also prepared fresh bamboo for the pandas as food during the flight.

According to the National Forestry and Grassland Administration, Chinese pandas     9     (live) in 23 institutions in 19 foreign countries are generally in good health condition, and international cooperation in this respect has been     10     (fruit).

The Two Tree Coffee, located in the Liyukou Village of Huyi District in the city of Xi’an, quickly went viral (走红) on social media.

The popularity of the cafe is     1    (large) due to the boom (暴涨) in cultural and ecological tourism in recent years,     2    (combine) with the government’s efforts at environmental preservation.

In recent years, the Chinese government     3    (strengthen) the long-term protection project, and adopted     4    (measure) such as the establishment of the five-level forest chief system. More and more urban residents, especially those     5     Xi’an, are attracted to the mountain villages for slow-paced vacations.

Wang visited many places before     6    (decide) to build the cafe here. “Cafes are among the favorite businesses of young people, and they provide     7     strong sense of uniqueness when they appear in the countryside,” she said. “People come here not only to consume coffee,     8    to ‘pay’ for the green ecology and the pastoral (田园的) environment.”

In front of the cafe is a tourism highway,     9    connects the store with many artistic villages along the mountain range. Art helps the villages to become     10    (fashionable) and livable, while retaining their natural beauty, than before.

One Hundred Horses is a famous artwork by Giuseppe Castiglione (1688-1766),     1     was a European artist. The artist was born in Milan and learned to paint under the     2    ( guide) of a master. In 1715, Castiglione arrived in Macau, then reached Beijing and     3    (stay) at a Jesuit church. Emperor Kangxi (1654-1722) thought highly of his     4    (painting). In China, Castiglione became known under the name of Lang Shining. He served as     5     artist for three emperors: Kangxi, Yongzheng, and Qianlong. And his Western painting style     6    (adapt) to Chinese themes and tastes at that time. For example, strong shadows     7    (use) in chiaroscuro(明暗对比法) were unacceptable in Chinese portraits. Emperor Qianlong hated shadows. Therefore, when Castiglione painted the emperor, he cut down the intensity of the light,     8    (make) no shadow on the face.

Castiglione completed his One Hundred Horses     9     the form of a Chinese hand scroll(卷轴) of nearly eight meters in length. He painted it     10    (large) in a European style. Nevertheless, Castiglione reduced the dramatic chiaroscuro shading. There are only traces of shadow under the hooves(马蹄) of the horses. You can also see some of the horses, are in a flying pose that was not conventional in European paintings.

The documentary film The Magical Craftsmanship of Suzhou, featuring Chinese intangible cultural heritages, was launched in Australia and New Zealand on July 28, 2022. Before launching, it was released in North America in June,     1     stimulated a wide discussion on the eastern aesthetics(美学)and the intangible cultural heritages. It gave the     2     (local) a close up look at how ancient handicrafts continue to color modern Chinese life.

The film,     3     (joint) produced by Suzhou Broadcasting Cooperation and Suzhou Protection and Management Office of Intangible Cultural Heritage, aims     4     (present) an elegant and fresh Chinese culture to overseas audiences. It mainly focuses     5     nine handicrafts with long-lasting lineages in Suzhou city and     6     (share) the story about Chinese artists, conveying the eastern manufacturing concepts and craftsmanship spirits.

Caitlin Nugent, a 26-year-old teacher from Sydney, attended one of the documentary’s screenings. She said she     7     (draw) by the process behind silk brocades(锦缎)and the film added to her dream of     8     (make) the trip to China that she had never been to. Peter Hannam,     9     writer, said the film gave an insight into the importance of passing     10     (tradition) skills from generation to generation.

Pingyao County is located in central Shanxi Province, China. It     1     (consist) of five towns and nine villages, covering an area of 486.5 square miles. This small county was noted for some     2     (impress) architectures in ancient conventional styles.

As the birthplace of the Jin Businessmen during the Ming and Qing     3     (dynasty), it played an important role in the economic development of Shanxi during that period. The first Chinese trading shop was opened there. For     4     next hundred years, the city was home to almost all of the large trading shops in the country.

Its City Wall is rated     5     (high) of the “Three Treasures” of the county together with Zhenguo Temple and Shuanglin Temple. With a total length of six kilometers, the City Wall covered by bricks and stones is about 12 meters tall and 3 to 6 meters wide on top. From a bird’s eye view, the rectangular (长方形的) wall represents a tortoise (龟). A tortoise was     6    (traditional) considered a symbol of longevity, conveying the residents’ hope     7     the Ancient City would be permanently secure.

Pingyao is no longer very prosperous (繁荣的),     8     the grand Pingyao Old City, constructed a thousand years ago, stands the test of time.     9     (wander) along the Ancient Street inside the old town, you can still sense its former grandeur. Since it was listed as UNESCO World Heritage in 1997, Pingyao     10    (become) a hot destination of millions of tourists.

Set in the War to Resist UIS Aggression and Aid Korea, The Battle at Lake Changjin topped the Chinese mainland box office according to the China Morie Data Information Network. The film    1     (direct) by Chen Kaige, Hark Taui and Dante Lam, does     2     extraordinary job of highlighting the bravery and tenacity(不屈不挠) of the heroes in the war from multiple     3     (angle) .

However, the real battlefield is    4    (impressive) than the scene in the film. The war was on in the freezing temperature of around -40℃. Chinese People's Volunteers soldiers not only needed to fight against United Nations forces, but had to battle over the nature     5     their strong will. In order not to expose the target, the soldiers remained motionless in the ice and snow, and when the follow-up soldiers arrived, all 125 officers and soldiers were found frozen to death     6     (charge).

What    7    (make) people moved is not the film itself but the heroes of the war years.    8    is shown in the comments of the audience, the spirits of the heroes who fought    9     (bloody) for our county and the people have aroused     10    (they) national pride and reminded them to value today's peaceful life.

Herbal medicine (草药) is     1     vital part of Chinese culture and the practice of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM)     2     (use) for thousands of years. It’s said that emperor Shennong had tasted 100 herbs,     3     allowed him to teach the Chinese people how to use them in their diets and treatment for illness.

Reishi, or Lingzhi in Chinese, is known as the “king of mushrooms” because of its health benefits. In TCM,     4     (common) dried, cut into slices,     5     (boil) in hot water and steeped, reishi mushroom can make a healing soup or tea. It is also declared that red reishi was the     6     (important) cure as a result of its amazing health benefits, primarily its     7     (able) to cure disease and slow down aging.

With a rate of about 1 in every 4 000 mushrooms     8     (be) a species of reishi, it is a very rare mushroom to find in the wild. Today, it’s common to find reishi mushroom in powder, capsule and juice     9     (form), as it has become a popular cure     10     fighting health conditions naturally. It is used to reduce inflammation (炎症), prevent heart disease, stabilize blood sugar levels, balance hormones (激素) and even work as a natural cancer treatment.