Most Americans don’t like to get advice from members of their family. They get advice from “strangers”．When they need advice, they don’t     1    (usual) go to people they know. Instead, many of     2    (they) write letters to newspapers and magazines     3     give advice on many different subjects,     4    (include) family problems, the use of language, health, cooking, child care, clothes, and even     5     how to buy a house or a car.

Most newspapers regularly print letters from     6    (read) with problems. Along with the letters are answers     7    (write) by people who are supposed     8    (know) how to solve such problems. Some of these writers are doctors, and others are lawyers or educators.     9     two of the most famous writers of advice     10    (be) women without special training for this kind of work.

【推荐2】A festival for the Dead is held once a year in Japan. This is a traditional festival in Japan and many    1    (celebrate) are held. This festival is a cheerful occasion.    2    this day, the dead are said to return to their homes and they are welcomed by the living. As they are expected to be    3    (hunger) after their long journey, food is laid out for them. Specially-made lanterns are hung outside each house    4    (help) the dead to find their way. All night long, people dance and sing. In the early morning, the food that has been laid out for the dead is     5     (throw) into a river or into the sea as     6    is considered unlucky for anyone living to eat it. In towns     7    are near the sea, the small lanterns hung in the streets the night before are placed into the water when the festival is over. Thousands of lanterns slowly drift (漂) out to sea     8    (guide) the dead on their return journey to the other world. At     9    same time, crowds of people stand on the shore watching the lanterns drifting away     10    they can be seen no more.

Edinburgh,     1     (locate) in the southeast of Scotland, is the capital of Scotland.

With its museums, shops, wonderful historic castles and many restaurants, there are many interesting things for visitors     2     (enjoy) all year round.

Besides, there is more to have fun in Edinburgh. Each year, the Edinburgh International Festival takes place in the city. In late summer, for three weeks,     3     festival presents classical music, theatre, opera and dance throughout the city. Whatever your cultural     4     (taste) are, you are sure to find something to enjoy.

So far, the Edinburgh International Festival     5     (earn) its reputation as one of the world’s     6     (great) celebrations of the arts. The founders believed that the programs should be of highest possible artistic standard presented by the best artists in the world, that the festival should enrich the cultural life of Europe     7     that it should provide a platform for the flowering of the human spirit.

The     8     (popular) of the festival led     9     the birth of another festival soon—the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Both of them have been     10     (wide) popular over the past 70 years.