As we all know, the Spring Festival is     1     most important festival in China. It is meant     2     (celebrate) the lunar calendar’s new year. During the Spring Festival, family get together and have a big meal in many places.     3     many people like best is setting off fireworks, which is one of the most popular     4     (activity) during the festival, though it may cause air pollution. Dumplings are the most     5     (tradition) food. Children are fond     6     the festival very much, because they can have delicious food and wear new clothes. They can also get some money from their parents, which is given to children for good luck. The Spring Festival     7     (last) about 15 days long when people visit relatives and   friends     8     (happy)with the words “Best Wishes”. Nowadays more and more people are enjoying the Spring Festival around the world. People hold the belief     9     the Spring Festival and other traditional Chinese Festivals will not     10     (replace) by the foreign festivals like Christmas.

Kang Yu, a 24-year-old volunteer teacher in a remote town in the mountains of Yunnan province, was teaching calligraphy to the eighth graders when all of    1    sudden, the clouds seemed to burst and the electricity went out.     2    (see) that the students were staring at the rain, Kang    3    (instant) got a burst of inspiration.

She told them to go outside, under a shelter, to enjoy the rain and come back to write something like a poem. Much    4    her surprise, the works written by the students were far beyond her expectations!

Inspired by that class, Kang founded the non-profit organization, Enlighten Our Future, to help Chinese youngsters improve their mental well-being and their exam grades through poetry composition and    5    (appreciate). She managed to persuade 13 schools    6    (adopt) the “Four-Season Poetry Lessons” project, with a teaching plan, content and methods she provided. So far, the poetry lessons    7    (design) by the organization have helped 68,000 students in 823 primary and middle schools, mostly in poor areas. Now Enlighten Our Future    8    (run) by three full-time workers, including Kang, 60 part-time workers, 280 backups and more than 1,000 volunteers.

What’s great about poetry is that it can help one to find an    9    (effect) way to communicate with oneself, she says. “    10    they need is not sympathy, but recognition, which I think will influence their whole life.”

The poem The Road Not Taken has in fact become one of the most famous American    1    (poem) of all time, not only because of its    2    (nature) style, but also because of its thoughtful insights into human nature.

When reading The Road Not Taken, one cannot help but see in one’s mind images of a peaceful wood deep within the countryside. Paths in the woods    3    (use) to symbolize how our lives progress and change. Of course, the greatest dilemmas arise    4    moral problems, when we are uncertain which choice results in doing the right thing.

Whether big or small,    5    all our choices have in common is that they lead to specific consequences. Although the writer of the poem considers    6    (take) the other path another day, he knows it’s unlikely that he will ever have the opportunity    7    (do) so. Like the writer, all we can do is look backwards “with a sigh” and imagine what could have been.

Although we may be free to choose which path to take, this choice isn’t easy when those two paths look similar. For example, when    8    (present) with two job offers, we may wonder    9    (exact) what it is we’re choosing between.

Nonetheless, part of the art of decision-making is learning to make    10    most of our decisions. Instead of looking back with regret, we should be facing our future with energy and optimism.

There are all kinds of poems in the world,from ancient times to nowadays. Some poems are used to express one’s love for their countries. Some poems tell a story or describe some-thing       1    a way that will give the reader a strong    2    (impress). Others try to convey certain emotions.    3    (poem) use many different forms of poetry to express    4    (they). For example, the language of nursery rhymes is concrete but imaginative, and they delight small children because they have strong rhymes and a lot of repetitions. And list poems have    5    flexible line length and repeated phrases,which give both a pattern    6       rhythm to a poem. In a word, different sorts of poems can express completely different attitudes and emotions.

Another simple form of poem is the acquaint(五行诗)，    7    consists of five lines and can convey a strong picture in just a few words. Haiku is a Japanese form of poetry that    8    (make)up of 17 syllables(音节). And of course there are Tang poems from China which you may enjoy in particular.

With so many different forms of poetry    9    (choose)from,students may    10     (eventual) want to write poems of their own. So why don’t you have a try?