【推荐1】Last year I went to America and stayed there with an American family for two months.

As is said, “the best house is in America, the best wife is in Japan, and the best food is in China.” So I ______ pride and felt pleased to ______ “the best food” for my American family. Each day, regardless of my poor skill of cooking, I would do something in ______ way: changing the dishes’ color, the meat’s type or the soup’s style. Thus, my American friends could discover the ______ of eating Chinese food. Because of my “______” job, I was often rewarded by their ______ of thanks such as “very delicious”, “excellent”, etc.

But something funny happened yesterday when I cooked Sichuan style ______ for dinner. I was ______ with my work.

When the whole family sat round the table, they first looked ______ at the fish, then looked at me. “______ do all the fishes have their heads?” they asked, “It’s terrible!”

Beautiful or terrible? I can’t understand. But I ______ know that fish heads are delicious. The ______ is the best part of fish; in ______ only the important guest can have the ______ of enjoying it.

Another ______ thing is: the American friends often said to me “______” as they brought home fruits or other things. ______ Chinese tradition I would simply smile in answer to their kindness ______ actually helping myself to any of the food. ______ , I said “help yourself” to them whenever I brought home fruits. Dear me! No matter how much or how often I brought home food, as long as it was nice to their taste, they ______ hesitated (犹豫) to use their hands to “help themselves” until all was finished.

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A．a simple

B．a new

C．the same

D．their

【推荐2】In India, almost all marriages are arranged. Even among the educated middle classes in modern urban India, marriage is as much a concern of the families as it is of the___________. So customary is the practice of_________marriage that there is a special name for it: a "love match".

On my first trip to India, I met many young men and women whose parents were in the process of "getting them married". In many cases, the bride and groom would not meet each other before the marriage. _________they might meet for a brief conversation, and this meeting would take place only after their parents had decided that the match was___________. Parents do not force their children to marry a person who either marriage partner finds unacceptable. But only after one match is refused will another be sought.

As a young American woman in India for the first time, I found this custom of arranged marriage _________How could any intelligent young person _________ to such a marriage without great reluctance? It was_________ to everything I believed about the importance of romantic love as the only basis of a happy marriage.   It was also in conflict with my strongly held beliefs that the choice of such a close and permanent relationship could be made only by individuals___________If anyone had tried to arrange my marriage, I would not have been___________!

Sita, one of my young friends, was a college graduate with a degree in political science. She had been____________ for over a year while her parents were arranging a match for her. I found it difficult to accept the obedient （顺从的） manner in which this well-educated young woman awaited the outcome of a process that would __________ her spending the rest of her life with a man she hardly knew, a total stranger, __________ by her parents.

In frustration and distress, I asked her, "Don't you__________who you marry? ""Of course I care, "she answered." This is why I must let my parents choose a boy for me. My marriage is too important to be arranged by such a (n) _   ________ person as myself. In such matters, it is better to have my parents'__________”。

【推荐3】Confucius was born on September 28, 551 BC in the Kingdom of Lu, in today’s Shandong Province. Chinese people regard Confucius as the greatest thinker and also the greatest _______ who had about 3,000 students.

Confucius himself was a(n) _______ learner who always reflected (反思) on his own _______. One day his student was cooking porridge for the teacher when something _______ dropped into the pot. He _______ got it out with the spoon and wanted to _______ the porridge away. But it occurred to him that it’s not _______ to gain the food, so he ate it. Just then, Confucius happened to come into the _______. He thought his student was _______ food to eat. So Confucius was ________ and decided to punish his student. But when the student ________ what had happened before, Confucius came to know that seeing is not believing.

For more than 2,000 years, Confucius’ ________ have been around in people’s everyday lives. But some people are concerned that young Chinese today are ________ their own history and culture. As a matter of fact, Confucius’ ideas are still ________ today’s Chinese youth. As a teacher, he said that all should go to school if they could and wanted to ________. His most important ideas are ________ and good manners. He had many ________ quotes, such as: young people should take care of the ________; people should think more of others instead of ________.

Nowadays, more than 100 Internet ________ are teaching people about Confucius and his ideas.