A Bite of China

    No trip would be complete without experiencing the local food culture. Actually, China has various kinds of delicious food,{#blank#}1{#/blank#} (include) a wide variety of local snacks (小吃).

    Without a doubt, for the majority of the foreigners I contacted, and myself included, Peking Duck, Dim Sum, Mongolian Hot Pot were the favorite Chinese {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (dish). China is a place{#blank#}3{#/blank#} the food is not only delicious, but the {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (cheap) I've ever found.

{#blank#}5{#/blank#}my last night in Beijing before returning to the States, I went to a Peking Duck restaurant that had been suggested for me to try. What a beautiful place! Splendid woodblock prints on the walls, fresh flowers in the vases on the table,{#blank#}6{#/blank#} (attract) silverware (镀银餐具) and beautiful chopsticks. I was handed {#blank#}7{#/blank#} menu and found most of the prices{#blank#}8{#/blank#}(be) especially low for the high quality of the food. The duck came in whole or half, along with all the little decorations that you know if you've ever eaten Peking duck—a little tortilla (玉米饼) to put the sliced duck and vegetables in chopped onion, sauce.

    Anyway, I ended up ordering a whole duck and thought I'd just take the rest back to my hotel{#blank#}9{#/blank#}(eat) later if I couldn't finish it. Unbelievably, in the end there was none of the whole duck{#blank#}10{#/blank#}(leave) on the plate. Umm, yummy!

    The representatives from six major international film festivals attended a {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (week) programme. Maria says that the Venice Film Festival is the oldest film festival in the world, {#blank#}2{#/blank#}is an annual festival that {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (begin) in 1932. Kathy tells the audience that the Sundance Film Festival deliberately boycotts all Hollywood films and that they don't foresee ever including {#blank#}4{#/blank#}. Isabel says Cannes is {#blank#}5{#/blank#} festival that can make films famous, at which many films {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (show) to the public for the first time. At Berlin International Film Festival, Hollywood films are {#blank#}7{#/blank#}the minority, films that are likely to be overlooked at other festivals have a real chance of {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (become) champions. Mike thinks the Toronto International Film Festival is the {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(two) largest festival in the world. Xu Li says the Shanghai International Film Festival has a good reputation worldwide and they have {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (entry) from many different countries.

    The following are some greatest artists or painters in the world.

    Pablo Picasso was considered {#blank#}1{#/blank#}（be）the greatest western artist of the twentieth century,{#blank#}2{#/blank#}was a Spanish artist. Picasso and another painter, George Braque, started Cubism.

    Roy Lichtenstein was{#blank#}3{#/blank#}contemporary American artist. One of{#blank#}4{#/blank#}（he） works is a world famous example of pop art. Pop art was an important modern art movement that {#blank#}5{#/blank#}（aim） to show ordinary twentieth-century city life.

    Qi Baishi was one of China's {#blank#}6{#/blank#}（great） painters. He followed the {#blank#}7{#/blank#}（tradition） Chinese style of painting. Chinese painting is known {#blank#}8{#/blank#}its brush drawings in black inks and natural colours. Qi Baishi's paintings are special because he observed the world of nature very{#blank#}9{#/blank#}（careful）.

    Xu Beihong was one of China's best-known twentieth-century{#blank#}10{#/blank#}（artist）.

    Like Qi Baishi, Xu painted in the traditional Chinese style and is most famous for his lively paintings of horses.

    Chinese researchers have planned to build an airport in Antarctica in November. The Chinese {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (be) not very used to flying to the southernmost continent, because the country s first polar plane, the Snow Eagle 601, {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (put) into use only three years ago.

    Before the Snow Eagle 601, Chinese researchers traveled to the ice-covered land by ship, which took significantly {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (long) than flying. There are currently more than 20 airports in Antarctica, but none of them belong to China. The Snow Eagle 601 has to rely on Russian airports {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (take) off and land. That's {#blank#}5{#/blank#} the Chinese researchers decided to build their own. Building an airport in Antarctica is very different from building one elsewhere. The continent is covered by a {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (constant) moving layer of ice, so the builders must find somewhere that moves at the slowest possible pace and in a {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (fix) direction.

    The builders managed to find a spot back in early 2017 following {#blank#}8{#/blank#} tough measuring process that took place in the storm-like polar winds. The next problem is the snow. The soft nature of snow makes {#blank#}9{#/blank#} a bad material for a runway. So the builders must use road roller-like {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (machine) to press the snow, which can be very time-consuming in extreme coldness.

    One day, Daily dreamed {#blank#}1{#/blank#} dream. She flew in a wonderful carpet and talked with an antelope in Tibet. The antelope told her they {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (hunt) because of their fur {#blank#}3{#/blank#} can be used to make sweaters for people like hers. In the future they may all may die {#blank#}4{#/blank#}. Later, she flew to Zimbabwe {#blank#}5{#/blank#}, she talked with an elephant and got {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (know) the farmers there no longer hunted them. That's {#blank#}7{#/blank#} the government decided to help and the farmers {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (final) made a lot of money from the tourism , At last she arrived at the thick rain forest where a monkey told her "No rain forest , no animals {#blank#}9{#/blank#} no drugs." Although everything had gone, she had learned {#blank#}10{#/blank#} much!