In Western art there are several main    1    （风格）from the 5th century to the modern times. The time between the 5th    2    the 15th century AD was the Middle Ages, during    3    painters showed respect and love for God in their paintings. Then in the Renaissance, people    4    （concentrate）more on human and less on religion. Massaccio was the first person    5    （use）perspective, without which people would not have been able to paint such realistic pictures. From the late 19th to the early 20th century, the Impressionists began to pain outdoors. At first, their paintings were    6    （有争议的）, and people said they were ridiculous. But today they are accepted as the beginning of    7    we call “modern art”.

Our school organized us to watch the live show of the 60^th Anniversary of Miyun Reservoir yesterday, through which I learned about its history, the local people’s contribution in the process. Miyun Reservoir was built 60 years ago    1    (solve) the flood in Chaobai River and provide sufficient water supply for Beijing. At that time, there was no modern equipment and the reservoir was built    2    hands and wheelbarrows. 200,000 workers and soldiers worked hard and sweated in the place. In order to make room for the construction of Miyun Reservoir, more than 60, 000 local residents    3    (leave) the places where they had stayed for generations. As a member in Miyun, I decide to volunteer in all kinds of    4    (activity) of building my hometown more beautiful.

3 . Football is a popular sport with fans all over the world. There is, however, an indoor version of the game     1     (know) as “table football”. It was invented in 1921 and people     2     (get) great pleasure from it since then. The game is played on a special table. Players control their “team” by turning sticks, to which the “players” are attached. As in real football,     3     (point) will be awarded when putting the ball in the other players’ goal. Table football requires using hands and eyes together excellently, which is really exciting.

The “One Belt One Road” strategy proposed by President XiJinping has drawn public attention to Silk Road. Silk Road refers to the old overland trade route,     1    was formed in the Western Han Dynasty. This route stretched 4, 350 miles from Chang’an to western China, central Asia, and even to Europe,     2    （make）these have better communications in diplomacy, business and culture.

China was the first country       3    （produce）silk fabric. This skill reached a     4    （fair）advanced level in the Zhou Dynasty. As a major export to Europe, “silk”     5     (use) to name this great route by a German geographer, Ferdinand von Richthofen. China’s silk was introduced into western       6    （country）through this old trade route. People were not familiar with this product at the beginning, and made many guesses at how     7    was produced. According to the record, the idea that silk was picked from trees was widely accepted by folks in Europe.

Clothes made of this fabric were always best sellers, and were considered       8     social status symbol. Even the gorgeous Egyptian queen, Cleopatra, was also a big fan of the silk. This fascination led to an     9    increase）demand for this product, and promoted the       10     (develop) of this trading route.

Du Fu was a Chinese poet and politician of the Tang Dynasty. Along with Li Bai, he is     1       （frequent） called the greatest of the Chinese poets.     2    （bear） into a scholarly family, Du Fu received a     3    （tradition） Confucian education but failed in the imperial examinations of 735. As a result, he     4    （spend） much of his youth traveling. During his travels he was recognized as a poet and met other poets of the period,     5     （include） the great Li Bai. He had a strong     6     （admire） for this older, freewheeling contemporary.

Du Fu's early poetry celebrated the beauty of the natural world and bemoaned （惋惜）the passage of time. He soon began to write about war—as in “Bingche   xing”・ And with hidden satire （讽刺）9 he wrote “Liren xing",     7     speaks of the luxury （奢侈） of the court. As he matured, and especially during     8     chaotic period of 755 to 759, his poems began to sound a note of sympathy for humanity caught in the senseless war.

Du Fu's irreplaceable position in the history of Chinese literature     9     （rest） on his superb classicism。. He was an expert     10     all poetic styles current in his day, and his mastery was at its height in the lvshi, or "regulated verse”.

The distance between ancient Rome and ancient China was about 4,000 miles by land. It was a very     1     (danger) trip with deserts and mountains. The Silk Road was a nickname for any route     2     any trader took from China to Rome.

For a very long time, the ancient Romans did not know who was making the wonderful cloth     3     (call) silk. They tried to find the traders as they came into villages to trade other goods for silk, but the traders     4     (hide) from the Romans. Therefore, they had to trade for it     5     (themself). The trading along the Silk Road was a relay system. One trader would travel for a while, stop and trade, and return home.     6     next traveler would continue. And so it went. But     7     (actual) no trader made the whole trip. It was too risky.

As the years went by, a civilization of sorts grew up along the Silk Road. Temples appeared. There were even cities built on the rare oasis (绿洲). It was never easy     8     (travel) by land from China     9     Rome, but it was worth it. Rome traded gold for China’s silk and spices. But     10     (many) things traveled the Silk Road than traders and goods. Ideas that changed the world traveled along the Silk Road as well.

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.

Surfing, which is thought to have originated among the Polynesian peoples of the Hawaiian Islands of the Pacific Ocean,     1     (be) around for quite some time.   The earliest recorded account of it was made in the journal of Captain King in 1779, but there are pictures of surfers carved into volcanic rock that are thought to date back much     2     (far). Surfing was regarded by the Polynesians as the sport of kings. The     3     (chief) used surfing and other Hawaiian sports to display their strength and agility and even the types of wood used for the boards was determined   by the person’s rank in society.

Many traditional Chinese foods are intended to honor either the gods or extraordinary persons     1    history. Zong Zi is no exception. It is meant    2    (honor) Qu Yuan, the pioneer poet of ancient China.

Quan Yuan was a famous poet who was also concerned about the fortune of his government. Unfortunately his body shape made him an envy of the king,    3     forced him to go to a remote area.

The poet felt    4    (hope) about the government and its politics. When the state’s capital    5    (seize) by its enemies, he drowned (淹没) himself in the Miluo River (on May 5th according to the Chinese lunar calendar.) The Chinese people felt this loss deeply, as he was    6     respected poet. Local people searched for    7    (he) in the river, meanwhile dropping dumplings of sticky rice wrapped (包) in bamboo    8    (leaf) into the river in order to keep the fishes from attacking Qu Yuan’s body.

Since that time, it    9    (be) a custom on this day to enjoy Zong Zi as memorial to Qu Yuan. In addition, there is also a festival     10    (call) the Duan Wu or Dragon Boat Festival, when there is a nationwide custom of enjoying Zong Zi.

In China, the history of people planting and using bamboo dates back to as far as 7, 000 years ago. As early as the Shang Dynasty, bamboo was used for food, clothing, housing, transportation, musical instruments and even weapons. Since then it     1     (use) in many aspects of people’s daily lives.

The     2     (apply) of bamboo in science and technology is thrilling. In 51 BC, Li Bing, in Sichuan,     3     (lead) the local people in building the Dujiang Weirs, the first irrigation (灌溉) network in the world, in     4     bamboo played an important role. The world’s oldest water pipe was also made of bamboo. During the Han Dynasty, the people in Sichuan     5     (success) sank a 1600-metre-deep well with thick bamboo ropes. This technology did not spread to Europe     6     the 19th century, and it was by using the technology     7     the Americans drilled the first oil well in Pennsylvania in 1859.

In Chinese culture, bamboo is well-known as     8     of the “four gentlemen” in plants. To many distinguished men, bamboo is a symbol of goodness and honesty. It is always closely     9     (connect) with people of positive spirits. Bamboo culture always plays a positive role in encouraging people to hold on when     10     (face) tough situations.