【推荐1】World Read Aloud Day     1    (celebrate) each year on the first Wednesday of March. It was started by the LitWorld. Org website in 2010, and till now it has reached 65 countries.     2     (it) aim is to encourage people worldwide     3    cannot read to enjoy the benefits of a book. The website asks everyone to celebrate the day     4    taking a book, finding an audience, and reading out aloud. It is about taking action to show the world that the right to read and write belongs to all people.

The website asks visitor     5     (join) in the movement to reduce     6    number of illiterate people in the world. It is     7     (absolute)necessary to help those who cannot read. The website says, “It’s time to start by reading aloud to     8    might like it. Share a book with a child who might need it, share a story with someone who would treasure it, and listen patiently to someone else’s story     9    they share it with you.” The United Nations says, “ Literacy involves a variety of learning in enabling individuals to achieve their goals, to develop their knowledge, and to participate fully in society.” In that way, World Read Aloud Day does help make a     10     (different).

【推荐3】Yesterday I came across an interesting new book,    1    I would like to recommend here. It is     2    Adventure story. The title is Voyage to an Amazing Kingdom. The publisher said that the novel     3    (write) by a 17-year-old boy. The publisher also said that readers would be amazed by the writer’s unique way of thinking and skilful writing. According     4    The publisher, readers do seem to be interested in this new novel. One reader said that he     5    (read) the book twice that week and that he would never forget the fantastic story.    6    Reader said that she had bought another two copies that afternoon and that she     7    (give) those books to    8    (she) friends later. I believe Voyage to an Amazing Kingdom would be a good choice for senior high students.    9    The writer is approximately the same age as our students, I think that they will understand him and his book     10    (easy).

In modern society, many traditional Chinese festivals are becoming less and less popular. However, they are important part of Chinese culture, and it’s our     1    (responsible) to protect and maintain them. This article focuses on a festival that many people are not familiar with ----Hanshi Festival.

With a history of more than 2,600 years, Hanshi Festival is the only traditional one in China named     2     food, and it is also known as the Cold Food Festival as people are only allowed to eat cold food on this day. Hanshi normally     3    (fall) around April 3 in the solar calendar, one to two days ahead of the Qingming Festival.

In most parts of China, fires might start easily in the dry early spring due to the flammable substances     4    (store) by people and the spring thunder. As a result, the ancients usually held grand ceremonies of sacrifice in     5     the fire stored from the previous year would be put out. Later, they would drill wood to get new fire for a new year. The gap between putting out old fire and     6    (burn) the wood to obtain new fire ranged from three, five, or seven days according to different     7    (history) records.

During the gap days, fires     8    (prohibit) in households. As a result, people would eat what they had prepared previously, namely the cold food, or hanshi in Chinese. That’s     9    the Hanshi Festival gradually came into being.

As the Hanshi Festival is one to two days ahead of the Qingming Festival, they gradually got combined with one another. After the Song Dynasty, cold food did not remain a necessity on this day, and gradually, Qingming Festival took over the folk activities of Hanshi     10    (become) a major festival on this subject.

The Lantern Festival, falling in the first Chinese lunar month, is an important and traditional festival celebrated by people nationwide. It is the first time that people     1    (see) the full moon in the lunar year. In ancient China, night is called Xi and ao and the first lunar month is called Yuan month, so this festival is also called the Lantern Festival in China. It marks the end of the     2    (celebrate) of the Spring Festival and is also the first major festival for people     3    (observe) after Chinese New Year.

Like the Spring Festival, on the Lantern Festival, all the family members go home     4    a reunion. In the evening, people usually watch beautiful lanterns, guess interesting and     5    (challenge) lantern riddles and perform wonderful dragon dances. In addition, it is     6    custom for people to eat yuanxiao, a kind of sweet dumpling,    7    is made of sweet rice flour into balls with     8    (vary) fillings. In some places people sometimes put a coin into a certain yuanxiao when making sweet rice dumplings. It is believed that the one who     9    (happen) to find and eat the sweet rice dumpling with a coin in     10    will have good luck for the whole year.