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From Monday to Friday, most people are busy working or studying, but in the evenings and on weekends they are free to relax and enjoy     1     (they). Some watch TV    2     go to the cinema. Others take part in sports. There are many different ways    3     (spend) their spare time.

Almost everyone has some kind of hobbies. It may be anything from collecting stamps to     4     (make) model airplanes. Some hobbies are expensive,     5     others don’t cost anything at all. Some     6     (collect)are worth a lot of money. Others are valuable only to the owners.

I know    7     man who has a coin collection worth $250. He was very happy about his purchase and     8     (think) the price was reasonable. On the other hand, my youngest brother collects matchboxes. He has almost 600 of them but I doubt if they are worth any money. However, to my brother they are     9     (extreme) valuable. Nothing makes him     10     (happy) than to find a new matchbox for his collection.

This is what a hobby means, I guess. It is something we like to do in our spare time simply for fun. The value in dollars is not important. We do it for the pleasure it gives.

【推荐2】Directions: After reading the passage below, 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.

Music Festival in Montreal

Every Sunday afternoon in the Plateau section of Montreal, thousands of people of all ages, nationalities, and economic backgrounds gather at the Jacques Cartier Monument in Mont Royal Park to play instruments, sing and dance. This weekly joyful event is called the “Tam-tam” —a name       1     (refer) to an African drum — and has become an institution among Montreal’s bohemians (放荡不羁的文化人).

The Plateau is one of Canada’s most racially varied districts where French and English are both spoken, unlike the rest of French-speaking Montreal. Many artists, musicians, and writers inhabit this area due to the cheap rent of apartments and studios. In the sixties, it became known       2     the bohemian area of Montreal, and the stores began selling clothing, music and books       3     satisfied the tastes.

Mont Royal Park is       4     many of these artists and musicians would meet in the sixties to have lunch or just spend an afternoon together. Musicians brought instruments, and eventually impromptu performance of jazz got started,       5     (attract) poets who recited their works to the music being performed.

Word got out about these gatherings, and it appealed to even more people until it was decided that these gatherings would happen every Sunday afternoon. Not only       6     people have a great time at these gatherings, but it was also an excellent opportunity for musicians       7     (schedule) further meetings in order to cooperate on musical projects.

Tam-tam       8     (become) a sort of Montreal institution already, which is drawing thousands of people every week and representing freedom and creativity, owing to       9     impromptu nature. The event begins around noon and ends at sunset. Everyone is invited to attend a Tam-tam with an instrument,       10     the hosts think the crowd participation can make Tam-tam a special occasion.

【推荐3】阅读下列短文，根据短文内容填空。在未给提示词的空白处仅填写1个适当的单词，在给出提示词的空白处用括号内所给词的正确形式填空。

On a family holiday last summer, my sister spent all her time     1    (complain) that she needed to charge her phone. When it    2    (charge), she just spent hours reading about her favourite pop-star; not once did she lift    3    (she) head to enjoy the view outside her window.

【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。

Duilian is traditional Chinese couplets, also known as yinglian or duizi. According to the usage, it can be    1    (general) classified into Spring Festival couplets, wedding couplets, trade couplets, social couplets and entertaining or    2    (humor) couplets. The traditional couplets vary greatly in    3    (long). The shortest one contains one or two characters, and the longest one contains several hundred characters, usually    4    (find) on ancient Chinese buildings. A couplet must have the following features:    5    number of characters of one line is equal to that of the other line and both lines have the same sense groups.

A couplet writer may show his feelings by means of describing the scenery or express his wishes in his works.    6    he wants to convey, the writer is expected to be good at summarization and Chinese    7    (produce) a couplet with several characters that is excellent in both content and language.

Chinese couplets are widely kept both in modern cities and rural areas of China.    8    the cultural exchanges among different countries all over the world, they also    9    (begin) to spread to Vietnam, Japan, and Singapore in the 20th century. As a result, the custom of putting up Spring Festival couplets    10    (observe) in these countries at present as well.

【推荐2】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。

Qing Ming Jie (All Souls' Day) is a time to remember    1    dead. It is a major Chinese festival which    2     (fall) in early spring. It is an occasion for the whole family to leave the home and to sweep the graves of their forefathers.

Qing Ming is     3     (popular) associated with Jie Zi Tui,     4    lived in Shanxi province in 600 B.C. Legend has it that Jie saved his starving lord's life by serving a piece of his own leg. When the lord succeeded in becoming the ruler of a small kingdom, he invited his faithful follower to join him. But Jie declined the invitation,     5    (prefer) to lead a quiet life with his mother in the mountains.

Believing that he could force Jie out by burning the mountain, the lord ordered his men to set the forest on fire. However, Jie chose to remain where he was and was burnt to    6    (die).     7     (honor) Jie, the "cold food feast day" began, when no fire could be lit.

    8     time passing, the Qing Ming festival replaced the "cold food" festival. To make the festival even     9     (meaning), some time should     10    (spend) to remind the younger members of the family of contributions of their ancestors, and the story of Jie Zi Tui.