The very ancient poetry that     1     (write) a thousand or more years ago was simpler and about common things like love, romance and nature that people appreciate. Though much poetry was created in the eras following the Song dynasty, it is thought that the poets became increasingly     2     (academy) and hard to understand so that modern Chinese can’t appreciate the style and meaning.

For foreigners, ancient Chinese poetry     3     (be) more difficult     4     (comprehend). One of the reasons is the nature of Chinese characters     5     (they).Often one character has many meanings,     6     makes the translation of Chinese into English a key part of reading and understanding Chinese poetry. Put simply, good translation is essential to     7     (full) understand Chinese poems.

Another point worth     8     (notice) about ancient Chinese poetry is that itis influenced by Confucian and Taoist thinking. Ancient Chinese poetry has a focus of friendship besides love or being     9     lover. Friendships, to the village, the community, the country or your drinking friends are dominant themes. The poets’ main task seems to be just writing poetry, because a life as a poet is an important thing. In this respect, Chinese poetry is all     10     the poet, the “meaning” for the poet and not what is happening around the poet.

In 2013, Chinese President Xi Jinping     1    (propose) the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) (一带一路). Since then, the BRI has gone through a long journey of growth. This year marks the 10th anniversary of the BRI.

As the BRI     2    (gradual) links the world, young people from the Belt and Road countries are seeing how it continues to develop and are getting     3     deeper understanding of it. Lashyn Zeiin, a Kazakh (哈萨克的) student, said, “I am in support of a win-win relationship     4    (bring) by the BRI,     5    has helped widen and deepen connections all over the world.” The BRI has also promoted     6    (culture) exchanges between countries. For example, China invited Russian artists to Beijing     7    (perform) The Nutcracker《胡桃夹子》, one of the classic ballets in Russia. Using this     8     a basis, people from both countries can better understand another’s culture. In Kenya, there have been opportunities for educational exchanges where Kenya Students are sent to China,     9    (allow) them to further their studies.

Indeed, the BRI has brought transformative     10    (change) to the Belt and Road countries.

The Shenzhou XVI crew returned to Earth on Tuesday morning, concluding a     1     (history), five-month mission     2     also involved China’s first civilian astronaut.

The spaceship’s reentry capsule,     3     (contain) mission commander Major General Jing Haipeng, Colonel Zhu Yangzhu and Professor Gui Haichao, touched down at 8:11 am at the Dongfeng Landing Site in the Gobi Desert in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region     4     flying nearly 12 hours on   its return journey.

    5     (follow) safety checks outside, the ground recovery team opened the hatch of the bell-shaped capsule     6     conducted a preliminary examination of the astronauts’ health. Sitting   inside the capsule, Jing told ground controllers in Beijing via radio that his team had landed     7     (safe) and was “feeling pretty good”.

The astronauts     8     (carry) out and placed on chairs in front of the capsule, and they shared their experiences with a reporter in a     9     (live) program.

The Shenzhou XVI crew members had arrived at Tiangong on May 30. Their journey was China’s 11th manned spaceflight and the fifth crewed mission to the space station. For the next six months, Tiangong will be manned by the Shenzhou XVII crew, who     10     (arrive) at the space station on Thursday evening.

On Friday evening, the 33rd Qingdao International Beer Festival opened     1     Qingdao, Shandong province.

The coastal city’s Party Secretary Lu Zhiyuan announced the     2     (open) of the 24-dayevent and Mayor Zhao Haozhi opened the symbolic first barrel (桶) of beer during the ceremony.

The event, which runs until August 6 at the Golden Beach Beer City in the city’s West Coast New Area, has introduced more than 2, 000 varieties of beer from more than 40 countries and regions.     3    (help) visitors enrich their experience, the festival has organized more than 300 music and sports     4    (event) on the theme of beer.

This year the festival launched China’s first beer-themed show, a great experience     5    combined sound, light, fireworks and     6     (variety) performances.

The festival is also on     7     occasion of the 120th anniversary (周年) of well-known Tsingtao Brewery (啤酒厂), with celebrations organized during the event. The Qingdao-based brewery established two huge beer tents,     8    (cover) 4, 500 square meters, which     9     (offer) beer, food and fine view.

Started in 1991, the festival has become a major event in the calendar of the city and become one of the four     10     (large) beer festivals in the world, including Oktoberfest in Munich, Germany.

Delayed by a year because of COVID-19, the 19th Asian Games was held in Hangzhou, the Zhejiang provincial capital. By the end of last year, China     1    (host) two Asian Games in Beijing and Guangzhou respectively. However, as President Xi Jinping     2    (declare) it open, over 50,000 spectators burst into cheers,     3    (make) Hangzhou the third Chinese city to host the continental sporting gala.

Hangzhou made great efforts so as     4    (follow) the principle of delivering the     5    (green) Games of all time. The opening ceremony     6     drew inspiration from traditional Chinese culture and relied on the power of technological     7    (innovative) was a feast for the senses. The atmosphere at the opening ceremony reached a highlight     8     the digital torchbearer lighted the main cauldron (主火盆). Most     9    (amazing) of all, a “digital human” firstly participated in the torch-lighting ceremony. As a result, The opening ceremony held     10    special place in the heart of all participants and wowed the world.

SIT’N’SKATE is a non-profit organization that works towards a more inclusive (包容广阔的) society and aims     1    (reduce) prejudices (偏见) towards disabled people and wheelchair users. The project was started by Lisa and David Lebuser in Hamburg. The idea was to show that a wheelchair does not only have to be a basic aid but can also be a cool and stylish piece of sports equipment. The team around the two founders has grown     2    (rapid) since then and their wheelchair skate services can now     3    (find) in various German cities.

The vision of SIT’N’SKATE is to provide people in wheelchairs     4     a low-threshold (低门槛的) movement experience to make everyday wheelchair use     5    (easy) than before. For this purpose, regular wheelchair skate meetings are offered in Bremen, Dortmund, Hamburg and Hanover to improve the flexibility and     6    (independent) of wheelchair users.

The project also offers     7     variety of other activities. In SIT’N’SKATE’s latest programme, ramps (坡道) are spread to shops in Hamburg whose entrances have steps. This improves accessibility and removes many     8    (difficult) for wheelchair users.

Through their activities, SIT’N’SKATE makes a significant contribution to     9    (change) the way people with disabilities and wheelchair users are regarded. They promote an inclusive society in     10     prejudices are reduced and people with disabilities are recognised as equal members.

In recent years, many Chinese museums have opened online stores to sell cultural and creative products. Among them, the Palace Museum stands     1     Collectively more than 500 Palace Museum products are available for purchase online.

According to the Vice President of the Palace Museum, sales of the museum’s cultural and creative products     2     (total) 1 billion yuan last year. The museum has developed nearly 10,000 different cultural and creative products either     3     (independent), through IP authorization, or in     4     (cooperate) with other companies, with partners such as LKK,     5     creative design company, having designed over 800 categories of products across 17 themes for the Palace Museum.

Among the Palace Museum’s most popular cultural and creative products     6     (be) sticky tape inspired by beautiful     7     (pattern) from ancient bowls, plates or clothes. Many customers have used the tape to customize the casing of     8     (person) items, with the posting of finished goods     9     (become) a popular trend online.

“When developing cultural and creative products, we study people’s daily needs     10     that our products perform some sort of function. We hope users use our products to spread our culture,” the Vice President said.

The mouse is an effective device used by people to communicate with a computer. Most people find     1     almost impossible to operate a computer without a mouse. First, a mouse is really handy, flexible and convenient. Only by simply     2    (click) can we complete a lot of operations. Second, the functions     3     inserting, moving and copying enable us to edit texts, browse web pages and download     4     we want. Using it to email people, shop online and chat with friends is fast. Besides, it can help us enjoy all kinds of     5    (entertain) like music, movies and games.

Every coin has its two sides. As a convenient tool, the mouse can make our work much     6    (easy). However, using it too much can also be negative. For one thing, we may lack for thinking with so much ready information     7    (appear) in front of us. The ready answers may make us lazy and     8    (will) to create new things. For     9    , using the mouse for too long will hurt our wrists. So we had better use it     10    (proper).

The Chinese painting is one of the oldest artistic traditions in the world. The painting in the traditional style is known today in Chinese as guohua,     1    (mean) the “national” or “native” painting. It is different from Western styles of art which     2    (become) popular in China in the 20th century.

One technique of the traditional Chinese painting is ink and wash painting and in Chinese it is called shuimo. In fact this was an art form     3    (practise) by gentlemen from the Song Dynasty. This style is also referred to     4     xieyi or the freehand style.

    5    (traditional), the Chinese painting is done on rice paper or thin silk. There     6     (be) broadly three subjects for traditional Chinese paintings — portraits, landscapes, and flowers and birds — of     7     the landscape is the most familiar to people. Therefore the Chinese painting is often known as the landscape painting, or shanshui painting.

The landscape painting was regarded as     8     highest form of the Chinese painting, and generally still is. In the north, artists such as Jing Hao painted     9     (picture) of towering mountains and in the south, Dong Yuan, Juran, and other artists painted the rolling hills and rivers of their native countryside in     10     (peace) scenes.

China’s courier sector    1    (see) rapid growth in the last five-day May Day holiday, with parcels    2    (collect) and delivered both surpassing 1 billion pieces, People’s Daily reported. A total of 1.1 billion parcels were collected during the period, up 41.8 percent year-on-year, while 1.04 billion parcels were delivered, up 38.93 percent from a year    3    (early), the State Post Bureau said Wednesday. China’s express    4    (deliver) business rebounded from a low level in January, and experienced positive growth in February. At present, the growth remained    5    a high level of over 30 percent.

The online shopping festival,    6    runs from April 28 to May 10 and is jointly launched by the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the State Post Bureau and the China Consumers Association,    7     (promote) express deliveries in the near term,    8    official from the bureau said. The booming online sales of food, daily    9    (necessary) and electronic devices has stimulated small and medium-sized enterprises to resume work, the bureau said,    10    (add) that online sales of agricultural products also maintained fast growth thanks to sufficient supply and demand.