It was Sunday, December 7, 1941.     1     usual, the wake-up call came at 5: 45 a. m. It looked like it was going to be a normal day on board the ship. Just then there was a huge crashing sound from above. The ship shook     2     (violent) and the men looked at each other in horror. Above their heads, hundreds of Japanese planes circled like eagles. They were diving down to drop bombs on Pearl Harbor. Moments later, a bomb hit the uses Arizona.

The surprise attack came as a great shock to     3     whole nation. The next day, President Roosevelt made his famous Pearl Harbor Speech,     4     (ask) the US Congress to declare war on Japan. In     5     (respond) to the attack and the president’s address, the US     6     (join) World War II. Today, the uses Arizona lies     7     it sank: in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Its location     8     (mark) with a memorial shaped like a bridge, which crosses the ship’s sunken     9     (ruin). Although about eight decades years has passed, the attack on Pearl Harbor, one of the     10     (dark) episode in American history, will never be forgotten.

UN Chinese Language Day is celebrated annually on April 20. The event was set     1     by the UN Department of Public Information in order to get equal use of all six of     2     (it) official working language throughout the organization.

The first Chinese Language Day was celebrated in 2010 on the 12th of November. But since 2011,     3     date has been the 20th of April. It’s because Chinese Guyu is the 6th of 24 solar terms in the traditional Chinese calendar, usually just     4     (begin) around the date, April 20. Each year they will celebrate Guyu in memory of one of the     5     (famous) people: Cangjie, who was believed to create Chinese characters. There’s a story that when Cangjie     6     (create) Chinese characters, it rained millet (粟); Guyu in some way means “rain of millet”.

    7     (help) people learn about Chinese characters based on symbols, the Chinese Language Day for 2021 was especially organized. In the building of the UN in New York, three events which were organized by an organization connected to the UN, focused on three types of Chinese characters based on symbols. The three events were a     8     (guide) tour of the Liangzhu Museum, a language class on Dongba words, and a lecture on the history of Chinese characters,     9     were held from April 19 to 21, 2021.

Chinese was allowed to be an official language of the United Nations in 1946. However, in the early years, Chinese was not commonly used in the work of the United Nations. The situation improved after the     10     (restore) of the lawful rights of the People’s Republic of China in the United Nations in 1971. Then Chinese was included as a working language. Then more and more UN offices and work members work with the Chinese language.

Yan Emperor and Yellow Emperor     1     (regard) as the common ancestors of Chinese nation. Huaihua     2     (undoubted) has historical and cultural relations with Yan Emperor, Yellow Emperor, Chinese culture, Chinese agriculture and TCM.

Yan Emperor is also known as Shen Nongshi, Lie Shanshi. As the     3     (late) academic report shows, about 5500 to 6000 years ago, he was born in the current Lianshan area, Huitong county,Huaihua city,     4     the leader of a tribe. He guided people making farm tools, planting many kinds of corn, and running the market for     5     first time. Planting hemp and then making it into cloth, so that people can wear clothes. He guided people making musical     6     (instrument), so that people can play music, and making pottery, which     7     (enable) people to have a better life. He inherited the Fuxi Eight Trig-ram and then created the Lianshan I Ching(Book of Changes). Yan Emperor was also the     8     (found) of the tea ceremony. He tasted hundreds of herbs and created the traditional Chinese medicine. It was said that Yan Emperor tasted a toxin herb,     9     (cause) his death finally. In honor of his great contribution to Chinese agriculture and traditional Chinese medicine, people used to call him“ShenNongshi”,i. e. , God of Agriculture. Because of his fire morality, he was greatly honoured,     10     (refer) to as Fire-God.

Around 200 more warriors from ancient China’s Terracotta Army (兵马俑) have been unearthed at the tomb of Emperor Qin Shi Huang. The discovery was made during the     1     (late) round of excavations (挖掘) of No.1 Pit in an area covering 400 square meters.

Shen Maosheng, who led the dig, said most of the newly found warriors can be divided into two groups. One group is carrying poles, while     2    other carries bows.

The Terracotta Army,     3    (build) around 2,200 years ago, was intended to protect Emperor Qin Shi Huang in his afterlife. The army,     4    consists of about 130 chariots, over 500 horses, 8,000 soldiers, was gathered in three main pits near to the emperor’s tomb.

It was first discovered in 1974 by farmers     5    (dig) in northwest China. The tomb is believed     6    (cover) around 38 square miles and, along     7     the Terracotta Army, contains a large grave of laborers and craftsmen. The     8    (construct) is believed to have taken around 30 years to complete.

Archaeologists started a new excavation at No.1 Pit in 2009. The 200 new warriors     9    (find) as a result of this effort.     10    (science) are still working to understand how this vast army was created.

Fireworks may seem like a very American tradition,     1     (particular) on the 4th of July. But fireworks date     2     a period well before the first American Independence Day celebration,     3     took place in 1777, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

    4     earliest fireworks can go back to around 2,000 years ago in China. People then are said to have burned bamboo stalks(竹竿). The stalks turned black and the air inside them would explode (爆炸). Baozhu is a Mandarin Chinese word for fireworks,     5     (mean) “exploding bamboo”. Years later, Chinese chemists took fireworks a step further between 600 and 900 A. D. People filled bamboo shoots with gunpowder and then threw them into fire. Some other materials     6     (add) to make them sparkle (闪烁).Now in China, firecrackers     7     (use) skillfully often can be seen in some celebrations.

In the 13th century,fireworks spread to Europe.In the next three     8     (century) that followed,Europeans began moving to North America.So     9     was no surprise that when July 4th began to be celebrated as America’s Independence Day, fireworks were part of the plan. The first July 4th celebration happened during the middle of the Revolutionary War. Guns,as well as fireworks,were fired     10     (mark) the occasion. Today, fireworks are an established July 4 tradition.