Xi (玉玺) is the seals(印章) owned by the Chinese emperors. Dynasty after dynasty the emperors used the seals     1     ( establish) their power and identity. For their unique function, seals reflect Chinese history in     2     special way.

In Zhou Dynasty, emperors     3    (start) to use seals. When it came to Qin Shihuang, the jade(玉制的) seal got     4    (it) name, Xi. Different     5     Yin, the seals were used by officials and ordinary people.

In history, the emperor     6     (own) the most seals is Emperor Qianlong,     7     is said to have more than a thousand seals.

As a royal symbol, the creation of jade seals     8     (consider) a form of art. They are     9    (usual) made from jade and other twenty kinds of materials. And     10    (pattern) on the face are various, including Chinese characters, landscapes, figures, birds, or flowers.

In ancient times, the Chinese kite was known as "Zhiyuan", and was considered to have unique artistic values. It first     1    (appear) in the wars of the Spring & Autumn Period (770 BC - 476 BC). According to historical records, Mo Zi spent three years constructing a wooden kite,     2     failed after one day's flight.     3     book noted that the master carpenter Lu Ban also made several kites which were flown high to spy     4     the enemy.

The technology developed further during the famous Chu-Han War. The general(将军) of the Han troops Zhang Liang once ordered his soldiers     5    (fly) kites in the heavy fog around the Chu troops     6    (lead) by Xiang Yu. Children sitting in the large kites played tunes（曲调）of Chu on flutes.

The making procedure can     7     (divide) into three parts, while the     8     (base) one remains the same. However, styles of kite-making vary in different     9     (region). These in the ''World Kite Capital'' of Weifang in Shandong Province are well known for their nice craftsmanship, materials, painting, sculpture and they can fly     10     (flexible).

6 . Tea drinking was common in China for nearly one thousand years before anyone in Europe had ever heard about tea. People in Britain were much slower in finding out what tea was like, mainly because tea was very expensive. It could not be bought in shops and even those people who could afford to have it sent from Holland did so only because it was a fashionable curiosity. Some of them were not sure how to use it. They thought it was a vegetable and tried cooking the leaves. Then they served them mixed with butter and salt. They soon discovered their mistake but many people used to spread the used tea leaves on bread and give them to their children as sandwiches.

Tea remained rare and very expensive in England until the ships of the East India Company began to bring it direct from China early in the seventeenth century. During the next few years so much tea came into the country that the price fell and many people could afford to buy it.

At the same time people on the Continent were becoming more and more fond of tea. Until then tea had been drunk without milk in it, but one day a famous French lady named Madame de Sevigne decided to see what tea tasted like when milk was added. She found it so pleasant that she would never again drink it without milk. Because she was such a great lady that her friends thought they must copy everything she did, they also drank their tea with milk in it. Slowly this habit spread until it reached England and today only very few Britons drink tea without milk.

At first, tea was usually drunk after dinner in the evening. No one ever thought of drinking tea in the afternoon until a duchess (公爵夫人) found that a cup of tea and a piece of cake at three or four o'clock stopped her getting “a sinking feeling” as she called it. She invited her friends to have this new meal with her, and so tea-time was born.

8 . The Sanxingdui Museum in southwest China’s Sichuan Province enjoyed huge popularity during the three-day Qingming Festival holidays by receiving nearly 20,000 visitors on the peak day, after the new archaeological discoveries brought international attention.

According to media reports, the museum saw over 15,000 visitors on Saturday, the first day of the Qingming Festival, breaking its record for daily visitors. And on the next day, more visitors flooded into the museum to exceed 19,800. To cope with the large flow of people, on Sunday afternoon, the official Weibo account of the Sanxingdui Museum released advice to visitors to reschedule their visiting time and travel off peak.

The Sanxingdui Museum showcases various kinds of precious cultural relics unearthed at the site, such as the 2.62-meter-tall standing statue, 1.38-meter-wide bronze mask, 3.95-meter-high bronze tree. Earlier on March 20, Chinese archaeologists announced some new major discoveries made during the 37^th excavation since its last excavation 35 years ago. The ruins were first discovered in the late 1920s and first excavated in 1934. More than 500 important cultural relics have been unearthed in the six newly-found pits. Since the new discoveries were known to the public, the number of people visiting the Sanxingdui Museum has increased sharply.

The museum said although they are open as usual, the newly-found pits have not opened to the public yet and the newly-excavated cultural relics are still under repair and cannot meet the public at present. But a hall for cultural relic conservation and repair will be in pilot operation in April and officially open on May 18. Visitors to it can see how the relics are repaired, according to Zhu Yarong, vice director of the Sanxingdui Museum.

Dating back about 3,000 years, the Sanxingdui Ruins have cast light on the ancient Shu civilization and cultural origins of the Chinese nation, and have been regarded one of the most important archaeological discoveries in the 20^th century.

Neil Armstrong was an astronaut. He made history July 20, 1969. He was the first man to walk on the moon! While Armstrong step on the moon, he said, “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” Millions of people were watching this amazingly event on TV. It was a awesome thing to look it up at the moon that night and know that a man was walking around on it! For years, people had wondered that there would be moon creatures lived there. But the only things Armstrong found was moon rocks and moon dusty.

In much of Asia, especially the so-called “rice bowl” cultures of China, Japan, Korea,     1     Vietnam, food is usually eaten with chopsticks.

Chopsticks are usually two long, thin pieces of wood or bamboo. They can also be made of plastic, animal bone or metal. Sometimes chopsticks are quite artistic. Truly elegant chopsticks might     2     (make) of gold and silver with Chinese characters. Skilled workers also combine various hardwoods and metal     3     (create) special designs.

The Chinese have used chopsticks for five thousand years. People probably cooked their food in large pots,     4     (use) twigs (树枝) to remove it. Over time,     5     the population grew, people began cutting food into small pieces so it would cook more quickly.

Food in small pieces could be eaten easily with twigs which     6    (gradual) turned into chopsticks.

Some people think that the great Chinese scholar Confucius,     7     lived from roughly 551 to 479 B.C., influenced the     8     (develop) of chopsticks. Confucius believed knives would remind people of killings and     9     (be) too violent for use at the table.

Chopsticks are not used everywhere in Asia. In India, for example, most people traditionally eat     10     their hands.