Last week, I served as a volunteer at a competition     1    (由学生会举办的) to     2    (提高我的交流技能).     3    (被邀请的裁判)were from Grade Three.     4    (所有感兴趣的同学) were allowed to attend the competition.     5    (所有的准备工作完成), the competition went on smoothly. At last, the competition was very successful, and we were all to     6     (看到我们的努力被认可)by students and teachers.

Our school organized a cross­country running race and     1     (大量学生参与其中). The route which was narrow and rough went from our school gate to the foot of the South Mountain. Tired as they were, they didn’t     2     (中途放弃 ); instead, they     3     (他们竭尽全力到达目的地).     4     (多么的激动人心啊) to see all the participants finish their task!

    1    (来好消息了).   The Campus Culture Festival will be hosted this Friday. Since you have a strong passion for Chinese folk art, it’s a great pleasure for me to invite you to join us.

The activity is scheduled to last about two hours, from 3: 30 pm to 5: 30 pm in the school hall. It covers a wide variety of content.     2    (我们不仅能够欣赏到许多吸引人的编织艺术作品, 从桌椅到各种装饰品不一而足), but also we’ll watch the documentary     3    (有关的) the history of the weaving art.

In addition,     4    (一些著名教授)will be invited to deliver lectures about     5    (如何促进编织艺术的发展),     6    (在这期间你一定会对它有更好的了解). By the way, if you are available, we’ll meet at three outside the school gate.

    7    (我多么希望你能考虑一下我的邀请啊)!   I’m expecting your reply.

Yours,

Li Hua

The Starry Night was painted by Vincent van Gogh during his stay at a home for the mentally ill. Besides the clouds, he also painted the     1     circles of white and yellow     2     across the sky. His unusual use of colour has     3     experts to think that his mental illness may have affected his sense of sight. Unfortunately, Van Gogh’s unique paintings weren’t very popular during his life time.

The Scream shows a thin     4     with an expression of fear—his mouth is wide open and     5     out a powerful scream. Munch said what     6     him was his experience of walking down the road with two friends when the sun     7    .

The Empire of Light shows a beautiful house lit by lights from inside, surrounded by the     8     of night. It seems like quite a mysterious scene and has produced different     9     in viewers. Magritte’s paintings were visual experiments as he tried to play with     10    .