New discoveries at Sanxingdui Ruins

Chinese archaeologists announced the discovery of over 500 cultural relics, during an ongoing excavation(挖掘) at the Sanxingdui Ruins site in Guanghan, Southwest China’s Sichuan province. The relics were uncovered in six sacrificial pits (深坑)     1     date back over 3,200 years.

Among the important     2    ( culture)finds are gold and bronze masks, bronze ware, more     3    100 ivory tusks, textiles and jade among other artifacts(手工艺品).

In No 3 pit, a rich reservoir for bronze ware, archaeologists found two square zun jars,     4    typical ancient Chinese bronze ritual vessel(容器).

Such artifacts were not found in 1986. Some of the bronze ware items     5    ( decorate)with dragon and ox patterns. The Sanxingdui Ruins is dubbed as one of the world's greatest archeological     6    ( discovery )of the 20th century. The site was     7    ( original )discovered in the 1920s     8     a farmer. A huge surprise came in 1986     9    two sacrificial pits filled with more than 1,000 relics,     10    ( include )gold masks, bronze sacred trees, bronze ware, jade ware and ivory, were discovered by local workers excavating clay for bricks.

Chinese archaeologists announced the discovery of over 500 cultural relics, during an ongoing excavation at the Sanxingdui Ruins site in Guanghan, Southwest China's Sichuan province. The relics were    1    (dig) out in six sacrificial pits (坑) that date back over 3,200 years.

Among the important     2    (culture) finds are gold and bronze masks, bronze ware, more     3     100 ivory tusks, textiles and jade among other artifacts.

In No. 3 pit, a rich reservoir for bronze ware, archaeologists found two square zun jars, and     4    typical ancient Chinese bronze ritual vessel.

Such artifacts were not found in 1986. Some of the bronze ware items     5     (decorate) with dragon and ox patterns. The Sanxingdui Ruins is dubbed as one of the world's greatest archaeological     6    (discovery)of the 20th century. The site was    7    (original) discovered in the 1920s     8    a farmer. A huge surprise came in 1986     9    two sacrificial pits filled with more than 1,000 relics,     10     (include) gold masks, bronze sacred trees, bronze ware, jade ware and ivory, were discovered by local workers excavating clay for bricks.

5 . The Double Seventh Festival, also known as the Qixi Festival, is a traditional Chinese festival. Here is a beautiful story _______ it.

Long，long ago, there was a young man named Niulang(Cowherd), One day, he_______a   beautiful girl- Zhinu( Weaver girl)， the Goddess s seventh daughter. She had just run away from the_______ heaven(天国) to look for fun on Earth. Zhini soon_______Niulang, and they got married without telling the Goddess. Niulang worked in the field and Zhinu wove(织布) at home. They_______a happy life and gave birth to a boy and a girl. Unluckily, the Goddess soon found out the fact and_______ Zhinii to return to heaven. After Zhini left， Niulang was _______upset. With the help of his magic cow,Niulang flew to heaven with his children to look for his wife. The Goddess discovered this and was very_______Taking out her hairpin(发簪), the Goddess created a wide river in the sky to separate(分开) the two_______. From then on, Niulang and Zhini had to live________ on the two sides of the river. However,their true love________ all the magpies(喜鹊) in the world, ________once a year tens of thousands of   magpies would fly up to heaven to make a bridge- the bridge of magpies for the couple to meet each other. At last, the Goddess allowed ________ to meet each   other on the 7th day of the 7th lunar month. That's________the Double Seventh Festival started. Today,   it is a great________for Chinese young people to express their love.