【推荐1】Most Americans think of New Year as a single day on January lst. However, Chinese-Americans and people from other     1    (culture) that use different calendars each have another celebration as well. A good example of this is the Chinese New Year celebration in San Francisco, which is similar to     2     we do in Shanghai.

The most famous part of Chinese New Year in San Francisco is the parade, which     3    (watch) by over three million people every year. Over a hundred entries take part in the parade     4    (march) through downtown and Chinatown. In the course of the parade, cheering from the crowd is mixed     5     music as local community groups wave banners, flags, and carry lanterns. Chinese themed floats will “float” by, including     6     long Golden Dragon float that     7    (take) one hundred people to operate. Local kung fu schools will perform lion dances when firecrackers explode around their feet.

For many Americans, celebrating     8     (they) ancestral culture is as     9     (importance) as American culture, and they celebrate both. If you have a chance     10     (visit) the United States, you may have the chance to see some of the celebrations yourself.

Chinese New Year also     1    (know) as the Spring Festival, is the most important traditional festival in China. It is also the important celebration for family members who can have 7 days off.

    2     there are many interesting stories and legends    3     (explain) the start of the Chinese New Year Festival, the main reason     4     the festival is to celebrate a year of hard work ,have a good rest and relax with family.

Chinese people believe that a good start of the year will lead to a lucky year. Chinese     5     (tradition) celebrated the start of a new year of farm work and wished for     6     good harvest. This has now changed into celebrating the start of a new business year and wishing for profits and success in     7     (vary) vocations.

Chinese New Year is a time for family members to get together. Wherever they are, they will come home    8    (celebrate) the festival with their families. The New Year’s Eve dinner     9    (call) reunion dinner,     10     is considered as the most important meal of the year. Families of several generations sit around the tables, and enjoy the happy time.

Each year, the women of Olney, England, and Liberal, Kansas, compete in     1     unusual footrace. Dressed in     2     (apron) and headscarves, they wait at both towns’ starting lines. Each woman holds a frying pan     3     one pancake inside. At the signal, the women flip their pancakes and they are off.

This “pancake racing” tradition is said to have started on Shrove Tuesday, 1445, in Olney,     4     is the day before the Christian season of Lent(大斋期) begins. During Lent, many people decide to give up sugary or fatty foods.

Legend says that in 1445, an Olney woman     5     (make) pancakes to use up some of her sugar and cooking fats before Lent. She lost track of time and     6     (sudden) heard the church bells ring, signaling the     7     (begin) of the Shrove Tuesday service.     8     (realize) that she was going to be late for church, she     9     (race) out, still wearing her apron and headscarf and holding her frying pan with a pancake in it.

In the following years, the woman’s neighbors imitated her dash to church,     10     pancake racing was born. Olney women continue this Shrove Tuesday tradition more than five hundred years later.

Peru is a country on the central western coast of South America facing the Pacific Ocean. It consists of three parts: narrow, dry, flat land     1     (run) along the coast, the Andes Mountains, and the Amazon rainforest.

Spanish is the main official language of Peru. It is because Peru     2     (rule) by Spain from the 16th century to 1821. But before that, Peru was the centre of the ancient Inca Empire, and its emperor lived in what is now known as the site Machu Picchu.

Peru is an amazing destination with something for tourists. Here are two magical tours: Amazon Rainforest Tour and Machu Picchu Tour.

In Amazon Rainforest Tour, you can first take     3     short flight into the Amazon rainforest and then travel for a day to your     4     (accommodate) by boat. In the following three days. you can explore the unique rainforest with a local guide. In the other tour, you can take a four-day hike through the Andes to the city of Machu Picchu. You will be amazed at the ancient city after you explore it,     5     (especial) the Incas’ dry stone method of building. Inca builders cut stones so exactly that nothing was needed to hold walls together.

The United Kingdom     1    (consist)of England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Island. England is the largest and for     2    (convenient) it is divided roughly into three zones. London is the center of national government and its administration, with its fine museums, art collections,     3    the oldest port.

Why did only Northern Island join England? In the early 20th century the English government tried to form the United Kingdom by getting Ireland     4    (connect) without conflict.

However, the southern part of Ireland was unwilling and broke away     5    (form )its own government.    6    their credit ,the countries do work together in the currency, international relations and so on, but they still have very different institutions.

It is     7    pity that in England the     8    (industry) cities don't attract visitors. People can go to the older but smaller towns     9     (build) by the Romans for historical architecture and to the countryside     10     great scenery as well.

【推荐3】Around the year 1000 A.D., some people from Northwest India began to travel westward. Nobody knows why.    1     they left their homes, they didn’t settle down any more, but spent their lives     2    (move) from one to another. Their later generations were called the Romany people of Gypsies (吉普赛人). There’re Gypsies all over the world, many of     3     are still traveling with no fixed homes. There are about 8,000,000 of them, including 3,000,000 in the Eastern Europe. Gypsies sometimes have     4     hard time in foreign countries because they are different. People may be afraid of them, look down     5     them, or think that they are criminals (罪犯). The Nazis treated the Gypsies     6    (cruel), like the Jews, and nobody knows how many of them     7    (die) in Hitler’s death camps. Gypsies have     8     own language, Romany. They like music and dancing. Traveling is of great importance to them, and many Gypsies are unhappy when they have to stay in one place. Because of this, it is difficult     9     Gypsy children to go to school, so Gypsies are often unable to read and write. In some places, the educational authorities try to arrange special traveling schools for Gypsy children, so that they can get the same education     10     other children.