【推荐2】The Double Ninth Festival (the Chongyang Festival) is celebrated on the ninth day of the ninth lunar month. With a history of more than 2,000 years,It ____in the Warring States period. It developed quickly and had already been quite common _____ the Tang Dynasty.In the 1980s,the Chinese government made it a public holiday also known as"Senior Citizens' Day", trying to_____the moral of respect for the elderly. On this day, people are supposed to visit and_____the elderly. Here's the customs of this festival.

Climbing Mountains

Climbing mountains is a main activity during the festival. Take your families to a mountain to get some exercise and breathe_____air in the woods. Take a deep breath on top of a mountain, enjoy the beautiful natural autumn _____ all to yourself, exercise your body and get prepared for the coming _____. This will provide you with mental peace and _____the ill-fortune or diseases as they may say.

Appreciating Chrysanthemums (菊花)and Drinking Chrysanthemum wine

Appreciating chrysanthemums and drinking chrysanthemum wine have always been a ___during the Double Ninth Festival. In history it was also called"the Chrysanthemum Festival",as it is the flowering time of chrysanthemums. Poets, celebrities and nobles would _____ a feast to write poems to appreciate the elegance of chrysanthemums. Today,_____ chrysanthemum exhibitions are often held in big cities to   _____people during the festivals.

Appreciating the Falling Autumn

As the Double Ninth Festival _____the early autumn in China every year, it also is a good time for families to get together for a hiking to ____ the colours of the falling autumn.

There are other customs _____ visiting the elderly, eating Chongyang cake and wearing cornel(茱萸).

【推荐3】Chinese Spring Festival marks the first day of a new year, so the first meal is rather important. People from the North and the South have different _______ about the foods they eat on this _______ day. In Northern China, people _______ eat Jiaozi. The word Jiaozi in Chinese means the _______ and the beginning of time. According to historical _______, in the past people from the North and the South both ate Jiaozi on Chinese New Year’s Day. Perhaps _______ the areas in Southern China _______ more rice than those in Northern China, southern people slowly _______ to eat many other kinds of food on New Year’s Day. _______, the most common foods for the first ________ are noodles, New Year Cake and Tangyuan. The noodle ________ long life. The New Year Cake is called Niangao in Chinese, which ________ the hope of improvement in ________ year after year. Tangyuan is a symbol of ________ according to the Chinese.

To ________ a New Year visit to relatives and friends is an important activity during the Spring Festival. People also send cards to ________ a New Year’s greeting. What children love most is to set off firecrackers. ________, as the pace of life is becoming faster and faster, people have ________ new ways to celebrate the Chinese traditional New Year. For example, many people no longer send out greeting cards. ________, they use short messages or emails. Also to travel during the New Year holidays has come into ________ .

【推荐1】Many Chinese people used to _______ each other with “Have you had your meal?” to show their friendliness. Recently, a new greeting has become _______ in many Chinese cities, namely “Have you _______ weight?”

Chen Xin, a manager of a media company in Hangzhou, has _______ his friends after successfully getting _______ . “Following instructions from my nutritionist, I went on a _______ and lost 10kg,” Chen said with a _______ smile.

In recent years, food-delivery services have been growing fast and entering every corner of Chinese cities. Also, Chinese people can _______ buy foods from all over the world. But people are paying more and more attention to their _______. More people are becoming ________ with various terms, such as “low calories”, “sugar cut-off” and “light food”.

“I used to eat a lot of unhealthy food, which brought me much ________ ,” Chen said. “Now my health indicators(指标)are becoming ________ , and I can feel that my body is in good ________ again.”

Chen is not alone. Many Chinese are troubled by “diseases of richness”, including obesity and high blood pressure, as the quality of life has greatly ________ over the past decades...Most people need to worry about if they have a healthy diet, ________ if they have enough food.

【推荐3】Praise for Pioneers in Science

In memory of Marie Curie on her birthday on Saturday, the official website of the Nobel Prize posted a photograph of her notebook saying. “Marie Curie died of aplastic anaemia (再生障碍性贫血) on 4 July 1934, a result of years of exposure to radiation through her work. Even today her laboratory notebook from 1899-1902, is _________ and will be for 1.500 years.”

The tales of Marie and other scientists of her time are in some sense very _________.

Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen discovered X-ray in 1895. A year later, Antoine Henri Becquerel found that some natural substances_________ rays, too. Later, Marie and her physicist husband, Pierre Curie, gave it a(n)_________ , radioactivity.

However, the _________ effects of radioactivity were not discovered until decades later. Marie and her _________ scientists dealt with radioactive substances for decades using little or no protection. Marie’s death is a reminder about the risks pioneers in science _________. It was only after people handling radioactive substances began to get similar _________ that medical experts asked people to use protection. Today, medical health workers and patients wear heavy protective _________ during X-rays.

It is almost __________ that those exploring new frontiers for science are exposing themselves to unknown dangers. There is a(n)__________ for better protection for the pioneers, but that is not possible until the dangers are fully known. For example, the space suits astronauts wear __________ them against radiation. However, only __________ will tell if there are some other unknown dangers.

The contributions and sacrifices by such pioneers to the field of science are__________ and deserving of our respect. Because the pioneers not only __________ new frontiers, but also help us better protect ourselves from unknown surroundings.