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The seventh day of the seventh lunar month is the only Chinese festival    1    （connect）

with love in the lunar calendar. Valentine’s Day in China usually    2    （fall） in August.
    3     the evening of the 7th day of the 7th lunar month, Niulang and Zhinü meet on a bridge of magpies （喜鹊）across the Milky Way. If it rains that night, the rain will be the tears of Niulang and Zhinü.

Compared with love stories in western legends（传说），    4    story of Niulang and Zhinü seems not so romantic. They just wait patiently on the riverbank,    5    （believe） that their love can be worth their not staying together. Unlike St. Valentine’s Day in other    6    （country ），there is not so much importance on giving chocolates，    7     （ beauty ） flowers and kisses. Instead, Chinese girls prepare fruits, melons and so on as offerings to Zhinü. They ask Zhinü to give them wisdom and high skills in making hand-made arts with needles in the hope of finding their satisfactory husbands. On that day, people in love like to go to the local temple and hope     8    （ get） their love and possible marriage.

At night, people sit outdoors to observe the stars     9    （happy ）.Some old people say that if you stand under a grapevine （葡萄藤） ， you can probably overhear    10    Niulang and Zhinü are talking about.

【推荐1】阅读下面短文,在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Antarctica, the southernmost part of Earth, is covered with snow and ice all year round.     1     it has amazing views, many people are still frightened by this icy desert.

But 34-year-old US explorer Colin O’ Brady is different. Three    2     (month) ago he became the first person     3    (cross) Antarctica alone. During the 932-mile journey, O’ Brady spent 54 days in extreme conditions. He had to push     4     (he) to the limit. He carried everything he’d need on a sled. But even with enough food, O’ Brady began to become     5     (thin) and weaker after six weeks. “I     6     (lose) a ton of weight so far. My legs feel more like the size of my arms at this point,” he wrote on US social media Instagram.

Adding to the pressure, O’ Brady was racing against Louis from the UK. The two men set off together, with Brady     7     (take) an early lead. But on Christmas Day, O’ Brady resolved to make a final effort without stopping for a rest.     8    (lucky) for him he made it, getting to the finish line earlier than Louis.

O’ Brady thinks that he has the spirit     9     exploration in his blood: He is    10    athlete, who loves to move. He also believes we can all have this strength and achieve much.

【推荐2】阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Although it was autumn, the snow was already beginning to fall in Tibet. Our legs were so heavy and cold that they     1    (feel) like big blocks of ice. Have you ever seen snowmen     2    (ride) bicycles? That’s what we looked like! Along the way children who     3    (dress) in long wool coats stopped to look at us. In the late afternoon we found it was so cold that our water bottles froze. However, the lakes shone like glass in the setting sun and looked     4    (wonder). Wang Wei rode in front of me as usual. She was     5     high spirits and I knew I didn’t need to encourage her. To climb the mountains was hard work but as we looked around us, we were     6    (surprise) by the view. We seemed to be able to see for miles, and we were so high that we found ourselves     7    (cycle) through clouds. After     8     while, we began going down the mountains. It was great fun especially as it slowly became much     9    (warm). At the foot of the mountains, colourful butterflies flew around us     10     we saw many sheep eating green grass. Then we had to change our caps, gloves and trousers for T-shirts and shorts.

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My time in China was a(n)     1    (forget) experience. Every day was a new adventure. I made life-long friends and had many     2     (last) memories. My study abroad program organized trips for us to learn about each city and to visit cultural     3     (sight). While I was in Beijing, I climbed the Great Wall of China, and visited Tian'anmen Square, the Forbidden City and the Bird’s Nest Olympic stadium. I also had the opportunity of     4    (stick) in a Beijing thunderstorm, bargaining in the market, and riding the high-speed train. While I was in Tianjin, I     5    (study) at Nankai University. I was taking the Chinese language and culture courses.

    6    I enjoyed most is that whatever I learned in class. I would use it outside to communicate with people. Having the opportunity     7    (speak) Mandarin every day really improved my learning. In the afternoon I would have culture classes     8    I would learn about Chinese calligraphy, Beijing opera, Chinese martial arts, Chinese cooking and many other subjects. The mix of learning about the language and culture made each day of class     9     (enjoyable) exciting.

I believe that the key       10       studying abroad successfully is the attitude you carry. Going to China, I was open-minded and had a very positive attitude.