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A dog is a man's best friend. It is right, therefore,     1     there is a special day to celebrate dogs. National Dog Day takes place on the 26th of August every year. On this day you should let your dog     2    （know）just how important he or she is.

Humans     3    （keep）dogs as pets for over 15, 000 years. It's amazing how quickly word spread around the world that dogs were so     4    （intelligence） and helpful. The fact that people could tame dogs meant they interacted     5    （easy）with humans. This led to dogs     6    （help）humans hunt, herding animals and protecting people. It's also amazing how dogs migrated around the world.    7    （historian） believe it is because of sled dogs that the species moved from Russia to Alaska, across the Bering Strait.

Dogs are very important in our society. Of course, many of us keep a dog as a pet. However, working dogs help many people every day. Our world would not be the same     8     police dogs, sniffer dogs, rescue dogs and guide dogs for     9     blind. National Dog Day's founder, Colleen Paige, said we need to show deep appreciation for     10    （they） enduring patience, unquestioning loyalty, their work and their capacity for love.

【推荐3】阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

Many people cherish the magic of Father Christmas. That is the reason     1     Letters from Father Christmas could be the perfect book for those who regard Christmas     2     a special time of year. The man who wrote these letters is one of the     3     (famous) names in English literature—J. R. R. Tolkien. With his limitless     4     (image), he created new worlds for his readers to explore.

Every Christmas, an envelope with a North Pole stamp     5     (address) to Tolkien’s children. Each letter took Tolkien a long time     6     (complete). A regular character in the letters was Polar Bear,     7     once climbed the North Pole and fell through the roof of Father Christmas’s house.     8     (interest), the letters did not contain the usual warnings to children that they might not receive their presents if they were not good.

The book told us that as well as     9     (enjoy) the adventures of Father Christmas, Polar Bear and other     10     (character) at the North Pole, we can all share the true spirit of giving at Christmas time. By expressing love for his children in such a special way, Tolkien may indeed have been the real Father Christmas.

【推荐1】Directions: Read the following passage. Fill in the blanks to make the passage 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.

Do most British still keep the traditional activities such as afternoon tea?

Clearly you have been watching too many episodes of Downton Abbey. Anyway, afternoon tea is a snack between lunch and dinner     1     (accompany) by a cup of tea. We regular British people drink tea and eat snacks     2     we feel like it — 8 a.m., 9 p.m., 2 a.m.. In my house while I was growing up, we would have a big dinner at lunch time (weekends mainly) and then tea later. This would consist of a sandwich and a piece of cake that we ate in front of the telly. We were so full from the enormous lunch     3     all we could manage was small meal. Even now the meal after work/school is called tea whether you drink tea with it or not, and whether it consists of sandwiches or is a main meal.

However, if we visit someone in the afternoon     4     planned, they will make some scones, cake, sandwiches and other delicious food to be served and I suppose that is technically “afternoon tea”. If they were inviting you for dinner, they would say so. If they say nothing, you will absolutely be offered tea and scones/ sandwiches/ biscuits or     5     else they have.

Times and tastes     6     (change), but afternoon tea still exists.

Children come home from school at 4 p.m.. Parents will make them a drink and something to eat. Mum and Dad will probably join in. What do you call this? Afternoon tea!

I go shopping with friends to the town centre. We’ve looked in all the shops and now we need to sit down and think about     7     shops to return to for those final purchases. Look at that, it’s almost 4 p.m.. It may be that we sit down for a cappuccino and a couple of macarons but I can only think of one way to describe this…Afternoon tea!

We’re in the office. Boring!     8     we’ve more or less finished for the day, the clock says no. Someone puts the kettle     9     and we sit down for a chat about the next few days. Ooh someone found a box of cupcakes… Wow! We’ve just had afternoon tea!

We     10     not be using flowery teacups. We’re not dressed like characters from Downton Abbey either. We may not sit there for two hours. But do we still stop at 4 p.m. for a drink and something to eat? YES!

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China is     1     large country. About 1.4 billion people live     2     China and there are 56 ethnic groups and the     3    (large) group is the Han nationality. Different groups have different customs and traditions.

Like other aspects of Chinese life, cooking is     4    (extreme) influenced by the geography and ethnic cultures. There are eight main cooking styles. Every cooking style     5    (have) its own characteristics.

Chinese art is influenced by the country’s long history. Many     6    (music) instruments are very important parts of Chinese culture. Eastern-style martial arts were also developed in China,     7     is the birthplace of kung fu. This fighting technique     8    (create) a long time ago.

China has spent large amounts of money on scientific research and challenges. The most famous advancement is the development of new trains     9    (call) the “Fuxing bullet train”. These trains are considered     10    (be) the world’s fastest trains.

【推荐3】Recently some American scientists have a useful piece of advice to people in industrialized nations. They say people should eat more of the same kind of food eaten by humans living more than 10, 000 years ago.    1    

The scientists say that the human life has changed greatly. Our bodies have not been able to deal with these changes in lifestyle and this has led to new kinds of sicknesses. These new sicknesses were not known in ancient times.So they are called “diseases of civilization”.     2    

Scientists noted that people in both the Old Stone Age and the New Stone Age enjoyed very little alcohol or tobacco, probably none.    3     However, a change in food is one of the main differences between life in ancient times and that of today.

Stone Age people hunted wild animals for their meat, which had much less fat than domestic ones. They ate a lot of fresh wild vegetables and fruits. They did not have milk or any other dairy products, and they made very little use of grains.    4    We eat six times more salt than our ancestors. We eat more sugar. We eat twice as much fat but only one third as much protein and much less vitamin C.

    5     But scientists say that we would be much healthier if we eat much the same way the ancient people did, cutting the amount of fatty, salty and sweet food.

A. People today probably don’t want to live like our ancestors.

B. Ancient people also got lots of physical exercise.

C. Stone Age people lived a simple life.

D. Many cancers and diseases of the blood system are examples of such diseases.

E. Modern people used to suffer from “diseases of civilization.”

F. But today, we enjoy eating a lot of these.

G. In that case, they would live much healthier.