Shijing, also The Book of Songs or Shih Ching, is the     1     (early) collection of Chinese poetry. It     2     (make) up of 311 poems dating from the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty to the middle stage of the Spring and Autumn Period. Nowadays, Confucius is generally believed to be the     3     (edit) of the book.

Shijing is rich in content,     4     (describe) love and labour, war and slavery, customs and marriage, ancestor worship and special events. It is called a mirror of social life.

Poems included in Shijing fall into three sections-poems that come from villages belong to Feng; those written to persuade or praise the rulers belong to Ya; those used at religious     5     (ceremony) belong to Song. Ya and Song are flowery and serious in language.     6    , Feng is relatively inspiring and full of passion.

The opening poem of Shijing, “Cooing and Wooing” (《关雌》), is about love,     7     reads:

By riverside are cooing, a pair of turtledoves;

A good young man is wooing, a fair maiden he loves.

It is vivid that the man is longing     8     (win) over the girl.

Shijing enables people to have a better understanding of Chinese civilization and is also     9     beginning of ancient Chinese poetry. Additionally, it is also frequently quoted in other Chinese texts and has always been referred to     10     moral truth and lessons.

Thanks to advances in technology, how we make friends and communicate with them has changed     1     (significant). Nowadays, we can move around the world and still stay in touch     2     the people that we want to make friends with.

Social media tools let us see what our friends are up to and maintain friendships. The digital age also enables us     3     (find) people who share our interests, such as collecting model cars or     4     (play) an unusual instrument. Whatever our     5     (hobby) are, the Internet can connect us with others who also enjoy doing them, even if they live on the other side of the world.

However, the “friends” online don’t necessarily become our real friends. If people always exchange true     6     (person) information online, then these friendships can be real and meaningful. But we need to keep in mind that what we see on social media     7     (be) often not the whole truth about a person. On social media sites, people tend to post only positive updates    8    make them appear happy and friendly and the smiling photos can hide real problems.

    9    , this doesn’t mean that we should throw the baby out with the bath water. Although in recent years technology    10     (change) the way we acquire friends, the meaning of friendship and our longing for friends remain the same.

I experienced the Naadam Festival in China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region for the first time this year. Naadam means “games” in Mongolian, and it     1    (represent) by three events: horse racing, wrestling, and archery. Mongolian wrestling is different from the wrestling in the Olympic Games. There are no rounds, and     2    (wrestle) are not separated by weight. Though the three events all left a deep impression     3     me, I liked horse racing best. I was surprised     4    (see) that riders were boys and girls! People say it is     5     children are lighter and the horses can run faster and farther.

It was Mother’s Day morning last year. My son, a five-year-old boy     1    ( name) Tom, and I were leaving the supermarket after shopping. Suddenly an old woman    2    (fall)over at the entrance and hit her head on the ground.Her husband was with her,but the woman was    3    (serious) hurt and shaking with pain.

At the front of the supermarket a charity group was selling some beautiful     4    (flower)to raise funds. Tom wanted    5    (buy)the lady a flower. “It will make her feel better” he said. I was    6    (surprise)that he’d come up with such a sweet idea. So we went to the flower seller to buy a flower    7    the lady. By now rescuers had arrived,and they were    8    (take) care of the injured woman. As we walked up to her,my son became scared by all the blood and medical equipment. He said he was just too scared to go up to her.

Instead I gave the flower to the woman’s husband    9    told him,“ My son was very upset for your wife and bought her this flower to cheer her up. ”At that moment,the old man was moved and said,“Thank you so much,you have     10    good son. Happy Mother’s Day to you. ”

The man then gave his wife the flower,telling her who it was from. Although badly hurt,the old lady looked up at Tenyson with thanks in her eyes and gave him a little smile.

Far out in the ocean, where the water is as clear as glass, lives the Sea King. The ocean is too deep     1    (measure). We may imagine there is nothing except yellow sand under the sea, but actually it is not rare     2    (see) the most unique flowers and plants     3    (dance) in the fast-moving water. In the deepest spot of all stands the Sea King’s castle, which has walls of coral and a roof     4    (form) of beautiful shells. The mother of the king, a wise woman who is proud     5    (be) born into the royal family, takes care of his six daughters. Among the six sea-princesses, the youngest is the prettiest. Although she has delicate skin like a rose-leaf and eyes as blue as the deepest sea, she has no feet but a fish tail just like her sisters. The most common way for the princesses     6    (play) all day long is     7    (swim) in the halls of the castle or among the flowers growing out of the walls, feeding and touching the fish     8    (swim) up to their hands through the windows. They seem not     9    (worry) about anything, except for the youngest, who wants to see what life is like on land. She swims all the way to the surface and sees a large ship. It travels toward her at great speed and terrifies her. She swims below the surface of the water and just manages     10    (swim) away from the big ship. She now realises that it is a scary world outside of the ocean, and she decides to stay with her family and friends under the sea.