As a saying goes, he who doesn't reach the Great Wall is not a true man. The Great Wall in China {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(impress) everyone who sees for the first time {#blank#}2{#/blank#} the general tourists to scholars. The vastness of the structure helps children grasp the great {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(achieve) in human history and can help inspire them {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (learn) more about human success over one thousand years.{#blank#}5{#/blank#} (construct) over a period of 2,000 years, the stone solider {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(actual) consists of many great walls, some of{#blank#}7{#/blank#}date back to the fifth century B.C. The first emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang,{#blank#}8{#/blank#} (order) these earlier long wall sections linked and extended with watchtowers to protect the new empire from northern tribes. Succeeding emperors and dynasties continued the construction.{#blank#}9{#/blank#} (spread) westward into the Gobi desert to guard{#blank#}10{#/blank#}Silk Road. All together, the walls may have stretched more than 30,000 miles.

    A farmer once organized a competition between his dog and his rabbit. He dug a hole in one of his biggest fields, and hid a carrot and a bone in it. He wanted to see {#blank#}1{#/blank#} animal would find them first.

    The {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(cheer) and optimistic rabbit threw himself into looking for the carrot, {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(dig) here and there, totally convinced that he would find it. But the dog, after sniffing around for a bit, {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(lie) down and began to complain about how difficult it was to find one bone in such a big field.

    The rabbit dug {#blank#}5{#/blank#}hours, and with every new hole the dog complained even more about how difficult this was, even for the rabbit. {#blank#}6{#/blank#}the rabbit thought that each hole dug was one hole less that needed digging. When there was no place in the whole field {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(leave) to dig, the rabbit dug a tunnel right to {#blank#}8{#/blank#}the dog had been lying all the time. There he found the carrot and the bone.

    This is how the dog lost the game. He had come to {#blank#}9{#/blank#}right place at the very beginning but failed to find the bone {#blank#}10{#/blank#}he only complained and didn't try at all.

    The national college entrance exam in Russia, Unified State Exam, will include Chinese as {#blank#}1{#/blank#} elective foreign language starting from 2019. Chinese will become the fifth elective test item for the Unified State Exam {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (follow) English, German, French and Spanish.

    The number of Chinese learners in Russia {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (grow) quickly in the past decade, according to a survey {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (conduct) by a linguistic research center in Russia.

    Approaches to learning Chinese vary from person to person, {#blank#}5{#/blank#} more and more people choosing university courses in Russia.

    The three-hour-long Chinese test will quiz students on {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (they) listening, reading, and writing abilities and a fourth section will examine students on grammar, vocabulary and Chinese {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (character). Some parts in the exam are even a little bit difficult for native Chinese speakers.

    According to the Office of Chinese Language Council International (Hanban) 7 as of 2017, some 100 million people, excluding native speakers, use Chinese {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (global).

    The United Nations (UN)in 2010 suggested a Chinese Language Day {#blank#}9{#/blank#} falls on April 20 each year {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (celebrate)cultural diversity as well as to promote the equal use of all official languages.