Brandon Collins-Green is a man from Canada. He is 【小题1】 (interest) in Chinese poems. He spends 【小题2】 (near) ten hours a day translating Chinese poems into English. He 【小题3】 (translate) more than 1,000 Chinese poems since six years ago.

After translating a Chinese poem into 【小题4】 English one, Brandon often writes it down on a piece of paper with a brush pen. He also draws a picture beside the poem to help show the 【小题5】 (mean) of the Chinese poem. He connects Chinese and foreign cultures 【小题6】 his paintings, so his readers can have a better understanding about Chinese poems, even Chinese history and culture.

Brandon is studying for his doctor’s degree in China now. He expects 【小题7】 (learn) another foreign language if his Chinese is good enough, but that day hasn’t arrived yet. He has found there’s always new knowledge to learn in Chinese.

Brandon has a small workshop (工作坊) near his university. The place is small, 【小题8】 he likes it very much because he can pay attention to his translation work in his workshop.

Brandon hopes that his works can help 【小题9】 (many) western people know China than before. He also hopes they’ll come to see how fast China is developing and enjoy the beauty of 【小题10】 (it) culture. To achieve the goal, he keeps working on his poetry translation.

Tea to the Chinese is like coffee to the Americans. Most people from 【小题1】 (China) like tea very much. For Chinese people, tea is 【小题2】 important kind of drink in their life.

Chinese tea has a history of over 5,000 【小题3】 (year). There are mainly six kinds of tea: white, yellow, green, oolong, black 【小题4】 dark.

People in different 【小题5】 (place) like different kinds of tea and they drink tea in different ways. In Guangdong and Fujian, people like 【小题6】 (drink) “Kung Fu Tea” in small tea cups. 【小题7】 (first), they clean the teapot. Then they put some tea 【小题8】 (leaf) into the teapot before putting the water in. In Tibet, butter tea is people’s favourite. But 【小题9】 Beijing, people like flower green tea. So 【小题10】 (remember) to tell people what kind of tea you are giving to them.

Shadow puppet (皮影) shows started in the Han Dynasty. One day, a man saw 【小题1】 (children) shadows under the sun. He got a great idea. He made a show like that. And it 【小题2】 (quick) became popular.

In a shadow puppet show, actors hold puppets from behind a white cloth. 【小题3】 music and songs, they make the puppets move.

Believe it or not, playing in a puppet show is not 【小题4】 easy thing. This term, our teacher asked us 【小题5】 (put) on a show for kids. We wanted to do a puppet show.

Things didn’t go well at first. 【小题6】 is hard to hold a puppet. We needed to hold it really high 【小题7】 keep it there for the whole show. You will find that your arm can become really sore (酸痛的). You also need to keep your wrist (手腕) at 90 degrees (度) 【小题8】 (make) the puppet face the kids.

During practice, my arm 【小题9】 (begin) to shake (抖) after a while. Backstage, we looked very funny, 【小题10】 long-necked kangaroos (袋鼠). We practiced for days. I hope that the kids liked it!