1 . 语法填空

Tomb-Sweeping Day is one of the eight most important traditional     1     (festival) in China. The actual day usually occurs around April 5 of the Gregorian calendar but the festival lasts longer. Traditionally,10 days before and after Tomb-Sweeping Day can be counted as the festival. The festival is said to originate from the funerals of emperors, generals and ministers     2     ancient times. The rituals (仪式)     3     (perform) at these funerals later became popular among ordinary people. Over time the tradition of offering sacrifices to the ancestors and sweeping tombs has been passed down from generation to generation and evolved into     4     custom widely observed by the Chinese nation. Despite the festival having no official status, the overseas Chinese communities take this festival     5     (serious) and observe its traditions faithfully .

Tomb-Sweeping Day is also known as the Qingming Festival-when spring is in the air, the earth looks clearer and     6     (bright) with increasing rainfall, and everything in the natural world waves goodbye to the unpleasant memory of winter. This     7     (consider) as a shift from yin to yang. During this beautiful season, flowers blossom in the     8     (warm) and everything is full of vitality. The tradition of spring outings     9     (date) back to the Tang Dynasty. Apart from enjoying glorious natural scenery, outings involve other activities     10     serve to bring out the best of the festival.

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Sure, chocolate is a delicious treat, and it’s a staple of some of our favorite desserts. But it’s not exactly a health food, so it should be enjoyed in moderation — right?

Well, it turns out that     1     (eat) chocolate might actually have a pretty significant health benefit. According to recent research     2     (conduct) by five scientists in Italy, compounds found in chocolate, called flavanols(黄烷醇), can help boost cognitive performance. Yes, chocolate’s good for your brain.

The scientists, studying at the Universities of Rome and L’Aquila,     3     (record) research from 10 different studies. The studies assessed people’s performance on cognitive tests before and after eating cocoa or chocolate. The results were telling: in nine out of the 10 studies, there was a noticeable improvement     4     the subjects had eaten the chocolate. The scientists found improvements in “general cognition, attention, processing speed, and working memory.” Sounds pretty good to us!

And that’s not all. In subjects, especially women, who performed the tests while sleep-deprived, the flavanols helped “counteract” the negative effects of the sleep deprivation. And there’s even more good news.     5     (take) daily over periods ranging from five days to three months, chocolate can produce noticeable long-term improvements in cognition. Older adults,     6     memories were already declining, saw an especially significant improvement. Be right back, we’re gonna go stock up on Hershey bars. Here are some more strategies that can help improve your memory.

All chocolate has flavanols, since they occur naturally in cocoa. However, dark chocolate lovers feel happy,     7     it has more flavanols than any other type of chocolate. In fact, the scientists     8     have claimed that, after doing this research, they’ve started eating dark chocolate every day! Here are some other health benefits of eating dark chocolate. Now, we’re not saying that you     9     start eating chocolate for breakfast, lunch, and dinner — it’s still high in sugar and low in nutrients. But next time you find yourself yawning after a sleepless night, snack on some chocolate and let the flavanols work their magic. Go ahead,     10     take advantage of chocolate’s newfound brainpower with these delicious recipes.

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Li Ziqi didn’t own a happy childhood. Her parents got     1     (divorce) and her father died when she was a child. She started living with her grandparents. Their life was poor    2     peaceful. Her grandfather was a cook in the village. When there was a ceremony going on, such as a wedding or a funeral, her grandfather would be in charge of the cooking.

    3    the age of 14, she dropped out of school and went to work in big cities, trying to support herself and her family. In 2012, her grandmother had an illness, so Li Ziqi came back home     4     (take) care of her grandmother. It was during that time     5     she decided to become an online celebrity.

She started making videos of cooking meals, using all ingredients in her farmland, and uploaded them on to the network. Finally, in 2016, her video series became a hit online. Now, Li Ziqi has    6    (true) become an online celebrity in China. Living a peaceful life like her    7    (be) just the dream of many people. In front of the camera, she always appears in a set of traditional hanfu,     8    makes her videos more charming and     9     (attract). Many people show great interest in her clothing as well as her cooking.

Also, her videos help more foreigners learn and understand Chinese traditions and culture. The spirit of struggling for independence and self-reliance     10    (convey) by her life experience has attracted great attention at home and abroad.

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An organization has taken measures     1     (add) chopsticks to the Shanghai Intangible Cultural Heritage list recently. Xu, chairman of the organization, says chopsticks are increasingly ignored in modern China despite the fact    2     they are unique Chinese items. Even China’s neighbor Japan has set aside August 4th as Chopstick Day already.

Chopstick culture in Shanghai     3     (date) back to the Tang Dynasty, when these items    4     (make) in the City God Temple area enjoyed widespread    5     (popular).

After opening as a commercial port, Shanghai is proud    6     having the first mechanized production line for chopsticks,     7     are not only supplied to Zhongnanhai and Diaoyutai State Guesthouse but also presented to foreign friends as gifts.

At least 1.8 billion people    8     (current) use chopsticks worldwide. Chopsticks, though small, serve as     9     means to pass down Chinese civilization. It’s believed that    10     (recognize) the cultural value of the custom matters in the promotion of Chinese traditions.

8 . 语法填空

Have you ever asked yourself why children go to school? You will     1     (probable) say that they go to learn languages, history, science and some other knowledge. That’s quite true, but do you know why they learn these     2     (thing)?

We send our children to school to prepare them    3     the future when they grow up and have to work for     4     (they). Nearly everything they study at school has some practical use in their life. But is that     5     only reason why they go to school?

Actually, there is more in education than just    6     (learn) facts. We go to school above all to learn how to learn, so that when we graduate we can continue to learn.     7     a man really knows how to learn, he will be     8     (success). Because when he has to do something new, he will not only be able     9     (do) it well himself, but he will also be able to teach others how to do it in the     10     (good) way. So the purpose of schools is not to teach languages, history, science, etc., but to teach students the way to learn.