【推荐1】Dressed in a pretty long robe (袍服), stylist Xiao Hang walks across the busy Beijing metro, attracting curious glances.

China has been _________ by Western fashion in recent decades, but many young people like Xiao are looking to the _________ for their choices of clothing and wearing traditional hanfu. These historic costumes of the Han ethnic group are _________ a renaissance (复兴) in part because the government is promoting traditional culture to boost patriotism (爱国主义) and national _________. Period dramas have also contributed to the _________ in interest in traditional Chinese clothing — The Story of Minglan, a TV series set in the Song Dynasty _________ more than 400 million viewers in three days.

There is no _________ definition of what counts as hanfu since each dynasty has its own style, but the clothes are _________ by loose, flowing robes, with sleeves that hang down to the knees. “When we were little, we would drape (披) sheets and blankets to _________ we were wearing beautiful clothes,” Xiao said.

“Two-thirds of my wardrobe is hanfu,” said Yang Jiaming, a high school student dressed in a Tang-style robe and black boots at a hanfu gathering. He wears hanfu under his uniform at school and his classmates and teachers have been ____________ of his style.

The support of the government for Chinese culture has given the hanfu community a(n) ____________. In April 2019, the Communist Youth League of China ____________ a two-day conference on traditional Chinese clothing, including hanfu.

Clothes are the “____________ of culture”, said Jiang Xue, a member of Beijing-based hanfu club Mowutianxia, which has received ____________ from the Communist Youth League of China. “If we do not even ____________ our traditional clothes or don’t wear them, how can we talk about other essential parts of our culture?” she said.

【推荐2】Usually when another old cave is discovered in the south of France, it is not news. Rather, it is an ordinary ________. Such discoveries are so ________ these days that hardly anybody ________ them. ________, when the Lascaux cave complex was discovered in 1940, the world was ________. Painted directly on its walls were hundreds of ________ showing how people lived thousands of years ago, most of which were about people ________ animals, such as wild cats or dogs. Other images picture animals, ________ horses, which appear in more than 300 wall images by far ________ all other animals.

Early artists drawing these pictures finished a difficult but ________ task. They did not limit themselves to the easily ________ walls but carried their painting materials to spaces that required climbing high walls or going into narrow ________ in the Lascaux complex. ________, the paintings have been ________ to the destructive action of water and temperature changes, which easily ________ the images. Because the Lascaux caves have many entrances, air movement has also damaged the images ________.

Although they are not out ________, where natural light would have destroyed them long ago, many of the images are in bad condition and are ________ recognizable. Therefore, the place was closed to ________ in 1963, 23 years after it was discovered, to prevent further ________.

【推荐3】Many of China's ancient architectural treasures crumbled to dust before Lin Huiyin and Liang Sicheng began documenting them in the 1930s. The husband and wife team were by far the best-known __ to operate in China.Their __ have since inspired generations of people to speak out for architecture threatened by the rush toward development.

Becoming China's first architectural historians was no easy____.The buildings they wanted to___ were centuries old, often in shambles and located in distant parts of the country. In many cases, they had to journey through ___conditions in the Chinese countryside to reach them.     

___China's outlying areas during the 1930s meant traveling muddy, poorly maintained roads by mule, or on foot.This was a(n)____undertaking both for Liang,who walked with a bad limp(跛）after a motorcycle accident as a young man, and Lin,who had a lung disease for years. Inns were often unimaginably dirty,food could be tainted(污染的），and there was always __ of violence from rebels,soldiers and bandits.

Their greatest discovery came on an expedition in 1937 when they dated and extremely____catalogued Foguang Si, or the Temple of Buddha's Light, in Wutai County,Shanxi Province. The breathtaking wooden temple was____in 857 A.D.,making it the oldest building known in China at the time. (It is now the fourth-oldest known).

Liang and Lin crawled into the temple's most____areas to determine its age, including one aerie inhabited by thousands of bats and millions of bedbugs, covered in dust and littered with dead bats. Liang wrote of the____in an account included in "Liang and Lin:Partners in Exploring China's Architectural Past," the English-language story of their lives written by Wilma Fairbank,their close friend and correspondent.

＂In complete darkness and amid the___smell, hardly breathing, with thick masks covering our noses and mouths,we measured,drew,and photographed with flashlights for several hours,"Liang wrote."When ___we came out to take a breath of fresh air, we found hundreds of bedbugs in our backpack.We ourselves had been badly bitten.Yet the____and unexpectedness of our find made those the happiest hours of my years hunting for ancient architecture."

【推荐1】On a December morning in 1951, Malone left his home in downtown St. John’s in Newfoundland, to buy some butter for his mother. When he _________ the corner to Central Street, he saw _________ coming from one of his three-storey houses. A woman at its window _________, “Save the children! Save the children!” Malone _________ toward the burning house, through the front door and up a flight of _________, where he found a five-year-old girl. “I grabbed (抓住) the child,” he says, “but she _________, ‘No, no, my sister! You’ve got to get my sister!’” Malone _________ felt compelled (必须) to cross the hall and check the other bedroom. He reached under the bed and found the girl’s _________, silent three-year-old _________. As the ____________ intensified (增强), Malone carried the children safely out to the street and the waiting people. Then he ____________ pushed off — he was late for ____________ the butter for his mom!

Over the years, Malone thought about the fire and the children he had ____________ and wondered what had happened to the girls.

Malone and his wife, Liz, spent four ____________ in Ontario until last October, when they ____________ to Newfoundland. The couple settled in Conception Bay South, 30 kilometers from St. John’s, in a house ____________ the water.

Shortly after they moved in, two of their new neighbors ____________ with a housewarming ____________ —frozen cod and salt fish. Malone and Liz invited Fowler and her husband in for a ____________, which is how Malone and Fowler, who are both in their seventies, ____________ a connection.

【推荐2】I’ve never done a romantic thing in my life. _______ five years ago, after getting a job _______ in China, I told my “on-again, off-again” girlfriend of several years that I wanted to _______ her house to talk to her.

We had _______ of living in _______ after a friend came back from Shanghai a few years ago and told us all about his _______. Neither of us had ever been to Asia, but it sounded_______.

So when the opportunity came, I had to _______   my girlfriend. We were, by the way, off again at that time. But I could not _______ going to China without her. It had been our dream. I realized I loved her and I didn't want to ________ her.

We each had a job and a house where we were living in the US, so it wasn’t like we________ needed to move halfway across the globe. But this ________ called to us. China drew us closer together and helped ________ our relationship.

Now it’s almost five years__________. March 31 is our fifth wedding anniversary. China has become our second ________. We feel ________ and have received many blessings here.

We hope to be able to show our relatives and friends around the world what China and her people are really like, and ________ we like it here—to be a bridge of sorts, at least in a small way.

The experience also ________ me that before you make a promise to someone, make sure they want to go on the same adventure in life with you. I still ________ I’m on my honeymoon five years later. I know I made the right ________ in a life companion and in a new home.

【推荐3】Very few of us become fluent in another language by studying it in high school.

I made a (an) _____ to maintain (保持) the little bit of French that I learned in school, but eventually realized that this was ____ . I was well aware that new languages are_____ learned when young, and that our abilities _____ with age. However, just before my 50th birthday, I ______ French classes.

After I was _____ to see which group I belonged to, I was placed at almost the _____ level. When I looked around at my first Saturday morning class, I was _____ by how many of the students were learning French as a third, fourth, or _____ fifth language.

While I’d always considered myself as a quick _____ , that was no longer the case. I _____ new vocabulary very slowly. What I learned one week seemed to ____   as soon as I learned the next skill. I looked up the same _____ and language structures over and over again.

Now, a couple of _____ in, I can listen to the news in French and catch 90 percent of it on the first try, read a novel if the language is not too difficult, and hold up my end of a _____ if it doesn’t go too fast. Who knows what I might still ____   ? I’ve learned so much beyond grammar and vocabulary. I’ve met people from around the world who have the ______to make fools of themselves to learn something new. I have a _____ understanding of how something can look _____ different from another perspective. I’ve learned that a language is not just a set of words, but a way of _____ .

But most of all, I’ve learned that it really is never too late to learn something new.

【推荐1】Anorexia nervosa (神经性厌食症) is an eating disorder that I struggled with for most of my middle school years and a part of my high school years.

At Riverview, ______ was usually a nightmare for me. As I ______ the dining hall, all the eyes would be fixed upon my bony figure. I would take my place at a table full of friends and ______ to enjoy a “normal” lunch. The ______ was that I would not always eat lunch, and that greatly ______ my friends. They would watch to make sure that I was eating properly, almost ______ food into my mouth.

And then, I transferred to Madison High School. I decided not to tell anyone at that school about my eating disorder since I had almost ______ by that time. Strangely, I stopped fearing lunch when I started at Madison. No one knew that I had an eating disorder, ______ they did not care what I ate. This ______ a huge amount of stress from my life. It was still hard for me to eat in front of others, which is ______ for an anorexic, but I was able to put some of my ______ aside.

I was thankful for the students at Riverview, but they knew me only as an anorexic. My friends cared about my health, but they ______ to care about me as a person. Truthfully, all I wanted was for them to ______ me and not to fix on my eating disorder.

The students at Madison took the time to know who I ______ was. They had no idea that I had been an anorexic, so that a particular label did not ______ their opinions of me. I was finally ______ for my talents and achievements, not my failures. I was honored as a good student. I was no longer afraid to show my true ________.

My days as an anorexic taught me many lessons that I would never _______. They taught me about life and how to be a better friend. I learned about the joy of ______ tasks such as eating lunch. I appreciated the people who helped me to see that there is more ______ life than having an eating disorder.

【推荐2】The past 10 months has been the most influential months of my life.

As a junior, I left my comfortable home in Illinois and ________going to the Navajo Indian Reservation in Arizona. There I attended a local poorly­equipped school and ________ for an adventure. I experienced so many________ when I arrived, fighting each day to ________ in a new social environment—overcoming racial differences, handling social ________...

During the summer vacation I ________to be a counselor (顾问) at an Easter Seals camp for people with ________ needs who require assistance because of disabilities and improve their ability to do things alone. It was the most tiring work I'd ever experienced but the most________. I knew that I'd helped improve over 850 campers'________.

As the new school year began, our department had a renovation (翻新). I offered to help clean up all the ________books. Instead of recycling hundreds of those books, I________the department that the books could serve a higher ________. This simple act resulted in an all－out book drive benefiting the schools in Arizona.

The 10­month experience in Arizona________me greatly. It made me become a person with patience, appreciation, determination, and ________enthusiasm. I trust that it is through enthusiasm, ideas and action that all changes can ________.