Archaeologists have excavated (挖掘) the ruins of a house   【小题1】(date) back more than 5,000 years in the Yangshao village site in Henan Province.

The house   【小题2】(be) once a large building that might have covered more than 130 square meters. 【小题3】 is believed that it belongs to the late Yangshao Culture period, says Li Shiwei from Henan Provincial Institute of Archaeology.

“This is the first time that large house ruins   【小题4】(discover) since the excavation of the Yangshao village site in 1921.” Li said.

Archaeologists also unearthed a large number of   【小题5】(culture) relics at the site. It is of great   【小题6】(significant) for studying the development of civilization in the Yellow River basin during the prehistoric period.

In 1921, the first excavation on the Yangshao village site, 【小题7】 is in Mianchi County, Henan Province, marked the birth of modern-Chinese archaeology.

Originating from the Yellow River, the Yangshao Culture is considered as   【小题8】 important stream of Chinese civilization and is   【小题9】(wide) known for its advanced pottery-making technology. The fourth archaeological excavation on the Yangshao village site began   【小题10】 Aug 22, 2020, and is still in progress.

Two young Chinese athletes placed a torch in the center of a giant snowflake during the opening ceremony of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games. One of the two athletes, Dinigeer Yilamujiang, was born in the Altay Prefecture,【小题1】(locate) in the northern part of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region,【小题2】(wide) acknowledged as the birthplace of human skiing.

In earlier times, artifacts from Scandinavian and Russian archaeology proved the【小题3】(exist) of ancient skiing, with the oldest found in Russia【小题4】(date) back to 7,000-8,000 years ago. In 2005,the record【小题5】(break). A group of farmers in the Altay region went to a cave to hide from the rain,only【小题6】(find) cave paintings describing men stepping on twin snowboards【小题7】prey（猎物）carried on their backs. It turned out that， according to archaeologists’ analyses, the cave paintings were drawn 12,000 years ago, some 4,000 years 【小题8】 the artifacts from Russia that were believed to have been made.

After Beijing’s successful bid to host the Winter Olympics, experts from 18 countries including Norway and Russia paid a visit to Altay to study the “potential origin of human skiing activity, ” after【小题9】they jointly issued a declaration in 2015, recognizing Xinjiang's Altay as the【小题10】(early) skiing region in the world.

Archaeologists have uncovered an ancient 【小题1】 (bury) town in Ethiopia that was inhabited for 1, 400 years. The town was part of a powerful civilisation called Aksum that dominated East Africa for centuries.

“This is one of the most important ancient 【小题2】 (civilisation), but people in the Western world don't know it,” says Michael Harrower, who has thrown himself 【小题3】the study of the surrounding area. After discussions with the local people, the archaeologists set out 【小题4】 (dig) near a village, where they found piles of stone wall spread over fourteen hectares of land, which turned out to be a hill created by 【小题5】 (ruin).

According to Michael, future research at the site has the potential to clarify a range of topics, including the rise of one of Africa's first complex societies. Currently, they plan to do a further 【小题6】 (investigate) to look 【小题7】this complex, yet still rather mysterious, society.