Most of us are familiar with the “Silk Road”, a network of land trading routes which connected northwestern China to Europe since the Han dynasty. With     1    (it) recent popularity, you may have heard of the “Ancient Tea Horse Road” as well, another network of land trading routes that connected China to various     2     (part) of Asia and Europe before sailing became common. Historically, the “Ancient Tea Horse Road” is no less     3     (value) than the “Silk Road". And because of their respective locations, sometimes the “Ancient Tea Horse Road” is referred to as the “Southern Silk Road”.

The “Ancient Tea Horse Road” got its name as Chinese tea and horses were the main products     4     (buy) and sold along the route. Recently, historians     5    (trace) the origins of the “Ancient Tea Horse Road" back to the Tang dynasty,     6     tea was being transported out of Yunnan to Beijing, Tibet, and other places. The “Ancient Tea Horse Road” was     7     (far) developed during the Song and Ming dynasties, and remained     8     busy trading route all year round until the Qing Dynasty.

The “Ancient Tea Horse Road” served     9     not only a trading route, but also a bridge connecting different races-such as Han and the Tibetan people. It is located near the“Roof of the World"，and is where many minority groups are located,     10     (make) it a spot of many attractions.

The Spanish flu     1    （start）on a small military（军事的）base in central Kansas in 1918，    2     one soldier came down with a fever. Within a few hours，about 100 soldiers were reported     3    （have）the same illness.

By 1919，the flu had spread around the world，    4    （kill）up to 50 million people. The flu caused over 600，000     5    （die）in the US，which included 195，000 just in the single month of October 1918.

The flu was     6    （particular）serious because most of the victims were young，healthy people. In fact，more adults     7     the ages of 20 and 50 got sick and died from the flu than any other group.

What made people especially     8    （terrify）was that the flu made people sick quickly. It was reported that many people who woke up with no flu symptoms got sick in the morning and were dead by nighttime. According to one story，four women played bridge late into the night，three of whom     9    （find）dead the next morning.

It was not until three "waves" of illness later     10     the flu eventually ended.

【推荐3】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.

Today the Statue of Liberty is a beloved landmark. It     1    (tower) above of the harbor of New York and is lovingly cared for by the National Park Service. Many thousands of visitors who visit Liberty Island each year might never suspect that getting the statue     2    (build) was a long slow struggle. More than a century ago, it     3    (be) the celebration of freedom and the commemoration of the friendship between America and France that inspired sculptor Auguste Bartholdi and finally he went forward with designing the potential statue and promoting the idea of building it. However, money was so big a problem     4    was haunting the two governments from the beginning to the end.

Donations for the building of the statue first began coming in throughout France in 1875.Numerous people gave donations. A copper company donated the copper sheets that would be used to fashion the skin of the statue. Various donations were helpful,     5     the cost of the statue kept riding.     6    (face) with a short fall of money, the French-American Union held a lottery. Merchants in Paris donated prizes, and tickets were sold. The lottery was a success, but more money was still needed. The sculptor Bartholdi eventually sold miniature versions of the statue,     7     the name of the buyer engraved on them.Finally, in July 1880 the French-American Union announced that enough money had been raised to complete the building of the statue.

While the French had announced that the funds for the statues were in place in 1880, by late 1882 the American donations, which would be needed to build the pedestal, were sadly lagging. The sculptor Bartholdi had travelled to America in 1871 top romote the idea of the statue. Despite Bartholdi’s efforts, the idea of the statue was difficult     8    (sell). some newspapers, most notably the New York Times, often criticized the statue as folly, and vehemently opposed     9    (spend) any money on it. The newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer, who had purchased a New York City daily, The World, in the early1880s, took us the cause of the statue’s pedestal. He mounted an energetic fund drive, promising to print the name of each donor,     10     small the donation, Pulitzer’s audacious plan worked, and millions of people around the country began donating whatever they could.

In August1885, that final $100,000 for the statue;s pedestal had been raised.Construction work on the stone structure continued, and the next year the Statue of Liberty, which had arrived from France packed in crated, was erectedon top.