Known as "paper paintings" and "painted pictures", New Year paintings are also a {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (specially) art form in Chinese folk culture. The paintings are {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (call) "New Year paintings" because they are mostly put up {#blank#}3{#/blank#} the New Year holiday for decoration.

    New Year paintings appeared around the Tang, Dynasty. In the Song Dynasty, New ear paintings {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (create) on a small scale(规模). Year after year, there are more {#blank#}5{#/blank#}more New Year paintings.

    New Year paintings show people's best{#blank#}6{#/blank#}(wish) for the future.  Every Spring Festival, almost all Chinese families put up two New Year paintings on {#blank#}7{#/blank#} front door. New Year paintings show the changes in the history of China.

    Yangliuqing woodblock New Year paintings,{#blank#}8{#/blank#}ancient town in Tianjin, have a history of over 400 years. They show the characteristics(特征) of both wood {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (cut)  and Chinese painting. They are about {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(day) life and old stories. In the 2010 World Expo, Yangliuqing woodblock New Year paintings were shown to the whole world.

    This is a true story. One evening, a woman drove home when she saw a truck close behind hers. She drove {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(quickly) to be far away from the truck, {#blank#}2{#/blank#} when she sped up(加速), the truck did too. The faster she drove, the faster the truck drove. The woman felt afraid, so she drove to a main street, hoping to lose the truck in the traffic. But the truck jumped a red light and went on  {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(run) after hers.

    {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(final) the woman drove her car into a service station and got out of her car shouting {#blank#}5{#/blank#} help.  The truck driver didn't leave. Instead he went {#blank#}6{#/blank#} of his truck and ran to her car.  He opened the back door, and pulled out a man hidden in the back {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(seat). {#blank#}8{#/blank#}  woman was safe at last.

    From the place where the woman stopped the car, the driver {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (find) a criminal in the woman's car. The driver drove after not to harm her but {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (help) her.