【推荐1】Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passages coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank. (1'*6=6')

The Pain of Losing Your First Language is an essay which outlines the suffering Wong     1    (endure) since she abandoned her native language as a child for the sake of assimilating(融入，同化)into America. Wong does a job of incorporating linguistic research in her analysis, giving academic weight to her regrets. The balance of personal narrative and analysis of English language adoption and native attrition (消耗 n.) flows through the essay as studies confirm Wong’s feelings, yet don’t free her from     2    (long) for her first language. “I wonder what Cantonese words my brain pushed out when I started speaking mostly English at age six. And is attrition limited to words? What else did I lose to assimilate?” During her pregnancy, Wong commits to relearn her native Cantonese so she can pass it on to her child. However,     3    her efforts, she feels the impossibility of her task.

“Like learning how to spell only, the more I look at Jyutping, the more the words start to make sense. But part of me knows better. I’ll never speak Cantonese the same way I would have     4    I’d never stopped speaking it to begin with. Like a phantom limb(幻肢), the memory of my first language stays with me even with it     5    (go), but that’s all it is: a memory.     6    occurs to me that trying to relearn this language is the embodiment of my bicultural identity. The American in me is determined to reclaim the Chinese part of myself. ”

【推荐2】语法填空

Today, four Sinologists and translators share their experience of Chinese literature with us.

When Petko was a boy, The Shaolin Temple gave him so many reasons to fall in love with China. He was     1     (amaze) by Chinese kung fu, and he also thought the Chinese language sounded so beautiful. He particularly likes classical Chinese literature,     2     (especial) works from the Ming and Qing dynasties. He was determined     3     (translate) it into Bulgarian once he read Dream of the Red Chamber.

When Annelous started high school, she began reading books about Chinese history and culture,     4     inspired her to choose Chinese Studies as her academic major at university. She's so far translated the writings of Han Han, and she is now working     5     those of Xu Zechen. She says that each year sees more works by Chinese writers     6     (publish) in the Netherlands, and they are well­received.

When Joachim was 15 years old, his mother bought him a copy of the classic Shi Ji. After     7     (read) it, he realised the true genius of China's “Grand Historian”, Sima Qian. He has translated several short stories by Mo Yan. He says literature has a lot of     8     (significant) to the French, and Chinese literary works tend to be highly thought of.

Mai gradually fell in love with Chinese literature     9     she started working as a translator. In her eyes, reading Chinese literature was a stimulating and     10     (inspire) experience. She thinks Chinese literary works really strike a chord in the hearts of Egyptian readers.