I haven’t written my blog(博客) for two weeks ______ I’ve been really busy with my work. And for me, being busy ______ being happy. I showed some Wharton classmates around ______ Shanghai. It’s too bad that I don’t have ______ time to meet all the people on the website. But I enjoyed ______ when I meeting online friends, and it’s also ______ great way to learn Chinese.

I can spend two more weeks ______ in Shanghai and then I ______ to New York for training. In early September I will go to Hong Kong to start work with Morgan’s Asia Special Situations Group. I will mostly stay in China, and will come here often for business. But I will not go to places ______ Beijing and Shanghai, often to much smaller cities. That’s always an ______ experience. However, for me, it can be hard.

Tomato festival, also _______ La Tomatina, is very popular in Spain. It is in a small town Bunol on the last Wednesday of August every year. During the festival there are all kinds of activities, but the most _______ part is the tomato fight. You can throw(扔) _______ in the fight. There are many stories about _______ the festival began. Anyway, everyone in Bunol seems to have a(n) _______ story.

On the day of the fight, shopkeepers close their windows and doors to _______ the tomato fight. Then large cars with tomatoes come. A great town band starts to throw tomatoes at others. Then people _______ back, throwing tomatoes at someone. Soon the _______ are in the sea of red tomato juice.

Everyone should obey(遵守) a number of rules: You must squash(压烂) the tomato and _______ throw tomatoes.

It is usually over in less than half an hour. Everyone then runs to the river to _______. Sounds like fun!

Lu Xun is one of the greatest     71     in the 20th century in China. He was born     72     September 25th, 1881 in Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province. He started school     73     he was seven. In 1898, he     74     his hometown for Nanjing to study. In 1902, he went to Japan to study to be     75     doctor, but then he started to work on writing. He returned home from Japan in August, 1909. Then he moved to Beijing. In 1918, he took the     76     of Lu Xun and finished his first novel Cry out. He was very friendly to the young man and also     77     the “New Youth” club and became a writer.

Lu Xun married his second wife Xu Guangping in October, 1927 in Shanghai and had a son. He died in 1936 in Shanghai at 55. He wasn’t very rich     78     successful(成功的). Now we can still read     79     works in many languages and still     80     of people visit Lu Xun’s old family houses in Beijing and Shanghai every year.

Many Americans like basketball. In many places, people have basketball matches every year. NBA is the most famous match and many young people have their own favourite players too, such as James Harden and Stephen Curry

Golf is also very popular. Although golf comes from Scotland, it is probably more popular in the United States than in other places. Rich people often talk with each other about their work when they play golf.

A lot of people like swimming, too. In most places of America, even in the north, summer is very hot. So many people like to swim. A lot of them swim in lakes or rivers from July to early September every year.

Some people also like tennis, skating, cycling (骑自行车), fishing, hunting (打猎) and so on. Today bowling is becoming more and more popular. People think playing bowling makes them excited because it is easy. People can play bowling in all the four seasons of the year. And both the young and the old like it.

Hello! Thank you for your letter. Yesterday I read a passage about American’s favorite sports.

What about you? What is your favorite sport? Can you tell me?