1 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或所给单词的正确形式。

The International Workers’ Day, sometimes     1     (call) Labour Day or May Day, is not only a celebration of workers’ rights, but also a seasonal celebration in many countries. The holiday is a     2    （celebrate) of laborers in about 90 countries.

People     3     (observe) this holiday since 1920 to show their     4     (aware) of protecting the working class    5     exploitation (剥削). In China, people don’t need to go to work from May 1st until May 3^rd, many of     6    take this opportunity to meet up friends     7     go for short trips, with no specific public events during the holiday.

A recent report was issued by the China Tourism Academy,    8     (say) that the number of domestic (国内的) tourist trips will reach about 4.55 billion,    9     increase of 73 percent year on year. “China’s tourism market has embarked on a track of recovery this year. And we will see a     10     (continue) ‘travel frenzy (狂热)’ during the May Day holiday,” said Li Huigin, a tourism expert with the China University of Geosciences.

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The Mid-Autumn Festival or the Moon Festival traditionally falls on the 15th day of the eighth month in the Chinese lunar calendar.

In the past, the Moon Festival     1     (observe) at harvest time. Ancient Chinese emperors worshiped (敬奉) the moon in autumn to give thanks     2     the harvest. The ordinary people took the Mid-Autumn Festival to be a celebration of     3     (they) hard work and harvest. Nowadays, people     4     (main) celebrate the Moon Festival as a time for family reunions. They have long believed that worshiping the moon and eating together around     5     round table will bring them good luck and happiness.

The common customs of the Mid-Autumn Festival include family     6     (member) eating dinner together, sharing mooncakes, worshiping the moon with gifts and displaying lanterns.

Mooncakes are the must-eat Mid-Autumn food in China. Other foods     7     (eat) during the festival are harvest foods, such as crabs, pumpkins and grapes. People enjoy them when they are in the     8     (fresh) and most nutritious state, and nice meanings are particularly connected with round foods.

Festival food traditions are changing. The younger generation have their own choices about     9     they eat. Many of them don’t like mooncakes very much and choose     10     (enjoy) their favorite foods.

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Xu Beihong, who developed the tradition of     1     (combine) poetry with painting, was important in modern Chinese folk art. His famous painting is Racing Horse. He used different shades of grey in a     2     (create) way to show the sweat along the horse’s body.

Qi Baishi was one of China’s greatest painters. He     3     (work) with wood during his early youth. Then his interest changed to simple     4     (picture) from everyday life, such as vegetables, flowers, birds and insects.

Chen Yifei was a very successful artist,     5     soft portraits of beautiful women are very valuable. His painting,     6     (name) Poppy, is a typical example of Chen’s style. In the painting,     7     young woman sits alone and is deep     8     thought. Her hand holding the fan is     9     (elegant) positioned above her knees.     10     (emphasise) the woman even more, Chen adds a lot of details to the fan and her dress, and chooses to paint the background behind the woman black.

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What comes to your mind when you think of music in Austria? You might think of Mozart or the film The Sound of Music, but Austrian music started off quite     1     (different).

One of the earliest types of Austrian music may not seem like music at all. Yodelling, a form of singing that alternates (交替) in pitch (音高) between low and high,     2     (be) thought to have begun as a way for animal owners in the mountains     3     (call) their animals. Even today, yodelling     4     (use) in pop, rock and country music.

In the 18th century the Austrian royal family drew many famous musicians to Vienna, making     5     a centre for musical innovation and performances. Some classical composers even used     6     (tradition) Austrian folk songs or tunes in their works.

Opera has also been popular in Austria. Not only rich Austrians     7     regular citizens flooded into Vienna to attend performances. Even today, there are operas     8     (perform) every year at the St. Margarethen Opera Festival, in a very unusual location: a quarry (采石场). They all take place in the open air under the stars,     9     (take) advantage of the quarry’s unique acoustics (音响效果).

Austria has a long and rich musical history, from folk songs and dances     10     classical symphonies and operas. The sounds of Austrian music are everywhere.

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Xu Xiake was born in 1587．    1     (he) parents were rich landowners. Yet he gave up a     2     (comfort) life, and decided to explore the mountains and rivers on foot.

China has more famous explorers. There was: Zhang Qian,     3     traveled into Central Asia during the second century BC, opening a trade road that became what is known as the Silk Road. Or Zheng He, the sailor who in     4     15th century sailed as far away as Africa. Yet these explorations     5     (support) by governments. Xu was totally different.

“On the surface, Xu’s travels can neither be classified as great affairs of state nor great adventures that changed the course of history,” writes cultural historian Cheng Pei-kai. “Xu travelled to satisfy his own     6     (curious).”

Scholar Julian Ward agrees, describing the lonely Chinese wanderer like the Middle Kingdom’s version of John Muir: “Deep in love with nature and eager to find freedom     7     worldly concerns, Xu was a man addicted to     8     (see) and describing the landscape.”

“The few coins     9     (slip) from a hole in my pocket while I was climbing a mountain in Yunnan. When I finally managed to the town, I sold all my clothes, bought myself a bottle of wine and a good dinner     10     (celebrate) my survival,” the dreamy explorer wrote in his diaries, which mix details of geology, geography and botany with such personal travel experiences.

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Spring Festival Gala sees viewership rise nearly 13% to 679m

This year’s Spring Festival Gala (庆典), a celebration     1     (annual) produced and broadcast by China Media Group (CMG), unfolded on the eve of the Chinese New Year on Friday evening. This occasion stands for a     2     (significance) time when Chinese people around the world gather with their     3     (family) to welcome the Chinese New Year, attracting 679 million viewers,     4     15.13% increase from the previous year.

The gala was also broadcast in about 200 countries in 68 languages,     5     (receive) warm feedback.

This year, the gala, besides Beijing, had four branch venues (分会场) in Shenyang, Liaoning province, Xi’an, Shaanxi province, Changsha, Hunan province, and Kashgar in Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region.

Audience enjoyed a     6     (various) of local cultural elements from those places, such     7     folk musical instruments and folk dances.

    8     (support) by ultra-high-definition production, the gala was telecast (电视广播) on TV screens, public large screens, and mobile devices.

Since its first broadcast in 1983, the annual CCTV Spring Festival Gala     9     (become) a necessary part of celebrations in the country. A major entertainment during Lunar New Year’s Eve, the gala marks the joyous moment     10     families gather together to celebrate the upcoming year.

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Reading out loud     1    (regain) its popularity on the Chinese mainland since TV show The Readers hit the small screen last year. Airing on China Central Television, the show invites people from all walks of life     2    (read) aloud excerpts (节选) of poems or books they like or have written, and explain     3    a particular piece touched their hearts with stories from their own lives.

Last year, a product specially     4    (design) for people to read aloud and record their voices was launched in the market,     5    (draw) a great deal of attention. It looks like     6    public phone booth, but equipped with recording facilities inside. And on this year’s Mother’s Day, thousands of users used this device to record motherhood-related literature or even poems of their own composition     7    gifts to their mothers.

Lyu Quan,     8    company developed this product, says, “Language education is imbalanced in China. In some distant areas, teaching resources are not sufficient for learning Mandarin or English, and our product could be     9    (benefit) to local teachers.”

Therefore, his team is working on a standard reading demonstration    10     a system to review the accuracy of users’ reading. Last month, it released a new function of testing users’ oral English.

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In and around China’s southwestern Sichuan Province, one can often find folk artists producing sugar paintings with liquid sugar along the streets and in the parks.

According to some academic studies, sugar painting    1     (date) back to the Ming Dynasty when sugar animals and figures were made in moulds (模具)    2    part of a sacrifice in religion ceremonies. In the Qing Dynasty, the production techniques were upgraded and the patterns became more various, most of    3    stood for good luck such as the fish, dragon and monkey. Later, the folk artists developed this art by     4     (add) techniques of the Chinese shadow puppet and Chinese paper cutting, with the moulds     5     (replace) with a small bronze spoon. As time passed by, the contemporary form of sugar painting has gradually developed.

Although the number of sugar painters has    6     (remarkable) decreased, due to its unique charm,     7     certain number of artists are making efforts     8     (preserve) it. They offer classes, hold relevant     9     (activity) such as sugar painting contests and apply to be added to the list of National Intangible Cultural Heritage.

Nowadays, this art is getting support again from the general public and it has already been listed as Provincial Intangible Culture Heritage by the Sichuan Provincial Government. Moreover, the sugar painting artists have gained increasing    10     (recognize).

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    1     the most prosperous and powerful dynasty in the history of China’s feudal (封建的) society, the Tang Empire (618-907) was so famous in the world that foreigners call the overseas Chinese people “the Tang people”, the areas     2     they live “Chinatowns” and the clothes they wear “Tangzhuang” (Tang suit) .

    3       (refer) to as “Tangzhuang”, the Tang suit has two varieties in Chinese culture. One is the authentic Tang-era clothes evolving from hanfu,     4     (give) a free, easy and elegant impression;     5     other is the Manchu male’s jacket developing from magua of the Qing Dynasty. A typical design of a Tang suit employs the Chinese characters, such as Fu (literally meaning happiness in Chinese) and Shou (literally meaning longevity in Chinese)     6     (express) good fortune and best wishes, which are     7     (extreme) popular among Chinese people owing to the cultural connotation.

The Tang suit is an essential part of traditional Chinese culture. Nowadays, an     8     (increase) number of young Chinese people tend to wear Tang suits on their big days. Moreover, Tang suits     9     (wear) by overseas Chinese people during the Spring Festival each year, attracting many foreigners to wear them out of     10     (curious) .