When Beethoven was only four, his father decided to make him a musician. Beethoven was made to practice     1     (play) different musical instruments hour after hour. Whenever he did not put his heart into his practice, his father would be strict     2     him.

    3     (fortune), the boy loved music very much and learnt so fast that he was able to go around and give     4     (concert) when he was only 11. When he was 17, he received high praise from Mozart,     5     great Austrian composer. A few years later, Beethoven went to Vienna     6     ( study) under Haydn, another great Austrian composer. Then he     7     (write) a great deal of music, even at his most difficult time. But after one illness, he suddenly found     8     (him) deaf at the age of 31.

However, this didn’t stop Beethoven. During his life, he composed about 30 pieces of music. It is     9     (amaze) that he wrote some of his best pieces after he became deaf, many of     10     are well known and loved all over the world.

Archaeologists have excavated the ruins of house foundations     1    (date) back more than 5,000 years in the Yangshao Village site in China’s Henan Province.

“The house was once a large building     2     rammed earth walls that might have covered more than 130 square meters.     3     is believed that it belongs to the late Yangshao Culture period,” said Li Shiwei from Henan Provincial Institute of Cultural Heritage and Archaeology,     4     is in charge of the excavation (发掘) site.

“This is the first time that large house ruins     5    (discover) since the excavation of the Yangshao Village site in 1921. The findings can provide new materials for studying     6    (type), shapes and building techniques of houses during the Yangshao Culture period,” Li said.

In 1921, the first excavation on the Yangshao Village site, which is Mianchi County, Henan Province,     7    (mark) the birth of modern-Chinese archaeology.

Originating around the middle reaches of the Yellow River, the Yangshao Culture is considered     8    (be) an important stream of Chinese civilization and is     9    (wide) known for its advanced pottery-making technology.

The     10    (four) archaeological excavation on the Yangshao Village site began on Aug. 22, 2020, and is still in progress.

What comes to mind when you think of Chinese kung fu? For Laurence J. Brahm, a US filmmaker who recently completed his     1     (late)work Searching for Kung Fu, the first thing that springs to mind is the concept of non-violence.

The official Chinese name for kung fu is wushu. As Brahm explained, if you break down the character “wu”, it     2     (consist) of two character: one is “ge”, meaning dagger-axe (戈); the other is “zhi”, meaning stopping. So, the meaning of kung fu is not the “art of fighting”.     3     the contrary, he said, kung fu is the art of stopping fighting, the art of non-violence.

In making his film, Brahm looked into different forms of kung fu widely     4     (practice) in China, interviewing many masters and scholars. “Kung fu practitioners salute with ‘baoquan’, literally meaning ‘fist wrapping’,     5     shows two things at least. One is that you have a fist, but you're not using it. And then you’re showing ‘I have no hidden weapons’. It’s trust,” he said.

“Kung fu masters will avoid     6     (fight) at all costs. Although you know how to use force, you are the last one     7     (use) force, because you know the outcome of this thing.”

“Kung fu, in     8     (I) eyes, is a mirror of Chinese culture,” Brahm said. “It reminds you why China adopts a policy of not wanting to have conflict with other countries.”

Brahm believes that today’s world     9     (urgent) needs to restart equal exchanges between countries,     10     that culture and sports, such as kung fu, can serve as a great channel and platform.

The tea     1     has delighted and fascinated the world for millennia has finally received top-level global recognition as     2     shared cultural treasure of mankind. Traditional tea processing skills and     3     (they) associated social practices in China were added to UNESCO’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity on Tuesday.

The status was conferred by the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage,     4     (host) in Rabat, Morocco. It consists     5     knowledge, skills and practices concerning management of tea plantations, picking of tea leaves, and the processing, drinking and sharing of tea.

According to UNESCO, in China traditional tea processing skills are     6     (close) associated with geographical location and natural environment,     7     (result) in a distribution range between 18°-37° N and 94°-122° E. The     8     (technique) are mainly found in the provinces and autonomous regions of Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Hunan, Anhui, Hubei, Henan, Shaanxi, Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, Fujian, Guangdong and Guangxi. Associated social practices, however,     9     (spread) throughout the country and shared by multiple ethnic groups. Tea-related customs are not only found across the country,     10     influenced the rest of the world through the ancient Silk Road and trade routes.

Liangzhu Museum displays various burial objects found in the Archaeological Ruins of Liangzhu City, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The ruins have gained worldwide recognition     1     evidence for the existence of at least 5,000 years of Chinese civilization.

When Zhang Han set foot inside Liangzhu Museum, the 10-year-old embarked on a tour that took him back more than 5,000 years. Wearing the smart glasses, Zhang     2     (present) with virtual images of relics. Augmented reality glasses feature among a string of measures taken by the museum to give visitors a more vivid experience of Liangzhu civilization, while     3     (help) them gain a better appreciation of Chinese culture.

Tourists can also visit the official website of Liangzhu Museum to enjoy a virtual tour. With     4     click of the mouse, they can gain access to exhibition halls that they may never be able to visit     5     (physical).

    6     (advance) technologies are increasingly playing a major role in Chinese museums. In the northwestern Chinese city of Dunhuang,     7     is known for the UNESCO World Heritage Site Mogao Grottoes, the “digital Dunhuang project” has made extensive use of digitalization. By the end of 2021, it     8     (complete) the digital collection of 268 grottoes, the image processing of 164 grottoes, and so on.

The     9     (protect) and revival of Dunhuang’s ancient culture is not an isolated case in China. The Yungang Grottoes in Shanxi province also have 3D “digital archives”, which allow precious cultural relics and historical archives     10     (preserve) permanently.

I was there on doctor’s orders. He had advised a sugar detox (排毒) for me     1    (lose) visceral (内脏的) fat, which Mark Hyman,     2     medical director of the Cleveland Clinic’s Center for Functional Medicine, said “affects a whole range of diseases from cancer to heart disease, diabetes and Alzheimer”.

As I started my detox, Hyman advised me to add “a lot of fat, because fat makes you     3     (feel) full and speeds your metabolism (新陈代谢),”     4     I didn’t know. Then came a second disclosure: “Fat     5     (actual) helps you burn fat,” he     6     (explain), destroying many of the myths I’d grown up with.

For the first several days, frankly, my detoxing was hell (痛苦). Making certain foods     7     (forbid) made me want them more. Ice cream. Pasta. Chocolate. Even wine, which contains a fair amount of sugar. My eagerness were intense and seemed never-ending, and if I cheated I felt like a loser. I was easily angry and moody.

But by day five the eagerness had died down. I started to lose weight. Before the detox I weighed 166 pounds. Twelve weeks later, I hit a new low adult weight: 155. My blood work looks much better. And as my belly fat has reduced, I do feel better and more     8     (energy).

I’m now in my fourth month of a modified detox — I don't want to live without wine or some     9     (sweet). I know I can’t avoid all added sugars, no matter     10     vigilant (警惕的) I may be.

The big question: How long will I stay on it?