More than 500 pieces of relics     1     (discover) at the Sanxingdui Ruins site last year. The relics include golden masks, jade and ivory artifacts and bronze wares     2     were exquisitely (精美地) built and     3     (unique) shaped, said the Sichuan Provincial Cultural Heritage Administration on Sept. 9, 2021. The new discoveries bring the total number of items unearthed at Sanxingdui     4     nearly 2,000 after the excavation of No. 3 to No. 8 sacrificial pits began in October of 2020.

Tang Fei, chief of the Sichuan Provincial Cultural Relics and Archaeology Research Institute, said, “The new discoveries demonstrate once again that the     5     (imagine) and creation of the ancient Chinese far surpassed what people today had expected”. Tang added that the excavation of the new pits has entered a critical stage, with more     6     (item) yet to be unearthed. He also anticipated that the items found will challenge the     7     (convention) wisdom of archaeologists.

Originally discovered in     8     late 1920s, the Sanxingdui Ruins have been considered as one of the world’s greatest archaeological finds of the 20th century.     9     (locate) in the city of Guanghan, around 60 km from Chengdu, the ruins covering an area of 12 square km are believed     10     (be) the remnants (遗迹) of the Shu Kingdom, dating back some 4,500 to 3,000 years.

Britons are well known     1     the amount of tea that they drink. The average person in the UK consumes around 1.9kg of tea annually. Tea     2     (drink)by all sections of society. But tea does not grow in Britain. The vast majority of tea is grown in India and China.

At the beginning of the 1700s，the amount of tea     3     (arrive)in Britain increased gradually. At first people drank the tea       4     (exact)as it was in China. They soon discovered that it mixed really well with a little milk and sugar，giving the drink a special British characteristic.

In the 1800s tea was still a product       5       (enjoy)only by people with money. At this time they began to have“afternoon tea”. This involves drinking tea with a snack around 4 p.m. to avoid feeling     6     (hunger) between lunch and dinner. It is a tradition that is still going today     7     has become less popular in recent times. Tearooms—shops     8     you could buy and drink tea—started to appear across the country. At     9     start of the 20th century，Britons began to make tea in their homes whenever they felt like it.     10     (kettle)became essential in every kitchen.