There are all kinds of festivals and     1     (celebrate) around the world, which are held for different reasons. Most ancient festivals were     2     (main) held to celebrate the end of cold weather, planting in spring and harvest in autumn.

Today’s festivals have many origins. Some festivals are held to honor the dead     3     to satisfied the ancestors in case they might do harm, while     4     festivals are held to honor famous people, such as the Dragon Boat Festival and Columbus Day, the former of which honors the Chinese famous poet, Qu Yuan, and the latter Columbus’     5     (arrive) in the New World. Harvest and Thanksgiving festivals are happy events because the food     6     (gather) for the winter and the     7     (agriculture) work is over, to which mid-autumn festivals belong.

The most     8     (energy) and important festivals are the ones that look forward to the end of winter and the     9     (come) of spring, such as the Spring Festival in China, during which people like to get together to eat, drink and have fun     10     each other.

One day, I took my daughter to the park. As soon as we got there, my daughter     1     (run) to the swing（秋千）and asked for a push. When I was helping my daughter, I noticed another girl trying to make her own swing    2     (go) high by herself. Her old grandmother was sitting on the chair nearby and smiling at us. Happily, my daughter     3     (push) higher and higher by me.

Then I walked towards the little girl. I asked     4     I could give a big push to her. She smiled and said “Yes”. For the next hour, I pushed the swings, and played     5     my daughter and the little girl. When we went home, I was tired     6     very happy.

One day two years    7     (late), after a day's work, I went to pick up my daughter before going home. While I was waiting outside the school gate, a little girl smiled     8     (sweet) at me and gave me a big hug. As I watched her run away, I realized that she was the girl whom I gave a big push in the park.

So far, I couldn't forget her sweet smile and the warm hug that she gave me. In fact, if we give love to others, love will find its way back to us. It may travel from heart to heart     9     it may blossom（开花）in the heart. The love we share, the     10     (kind) we give, and the happiness we create will come back to us with a pleasant surprise.

Once, three men got     1     (lose) in the forest. They decided they would stay in the forest until they found     2     (they) way. The next morning, one man went to find some food. Soon, the other two men were surprised to find him back with a deer and asked how he got the deer. The man     3     (reply), “I found tracks, I followed the tracks, and I got a deer.” They both were slightly     4     (confuse) because he had no weapons (武器). A few days     5     (late), the second guy went in search     6     food and soon came back with a deer too. The other two asked how he managed     7     (get) the deer. His reply was     8     same as the first man′s.

Then it was the turn of the third guy to look for food. Many hours passed, and the third man holding nothing in his hands came back, with blood on his face. The other two asked him     9     had happened.     10     (look) at them, he answered, “I found tracks, I followed the tracks, and I got hit by a train.”

Chinese telecom giant Huawei on Wednesday     1     (official) launched its operating system Harmony OS 2 for smartphones,     2     (provide) customers worldwide with a competitive alternative that works on a diverse range     3     devices. Harmony OS, or Hongmeng in Chinese, is     4     open-source operating system     5     (design) for various devices and scenarios. It was first lunched on Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices, including     6     (wearable) and tablets, in August 2019.

“We     7     (surround) by more and more smart devices these days, and are now in a world     8     all things are connected,” said Richard Yu, CEO of Huawei’s Consumer Business Group. “Every single one of us     9     (be) a part of this fully connected world, as is every device.” “We look forward to working with more partners and developers     10     (build) a thriving HarmonyOS ecosystem,” he said.

Why was the ox chosen to be one of the 12 Chinese zodiac signs (生肖)?

Centuries ago, most people    1    (earn) their living by farming. The ox was used to help plow, cultivate and carry heavy goods.

The ox has long had a significant place in Chinese culture. Ancient Chinese poets and     2    (writer) frequently described the ox in literature. In the Classic of Poetry, the     3     (old) existing collection of Chinese poetry, the animal was mentioned in 9 out of the 305 pieces. The ox     4    (consider)a symbol of diligence and earnestness in Chinese culture. To this day, the phrase "the spirit of ox" still refers     5     conquering anything that may present itself as an obstacle. The spirit is     6    (high) praised and many people follow it as their work ethic. When someone achieves a great accomplishment through hard work, people often use "niu", meaning "awesome",     7    (describe) him or her.

Oxen seldom bully the weak or fear the strong. They work hard and make sacrifices. This is reflected in the poem Self-mockery written by Lu Xun,     8     praises the ox's attitude of     9     (serve) without complaining.

So naturally, those who were born in the Year of the Ox are often expected to be hardworking, reliable     10     loyal.

Yangshuo,China

It was raining lightly when I    1    (arrive)in Yangshuo just before dawn.But I didn't care.A few hours before, I'd been at home in Hong Kong, with    2     (it)choking smog.Here,the air was clean and fresh,even with the rain.

I'd skipped nearby Guilin,     3     dream place for tourists seeking the limestone mountain tops and dark waters of the Li River    4    are pictured by artists in so many Chinese    5    (painting). Instead,I'd headed straight for Yangshuo.For those who fly to Guilin, it's only an hour away    6    car and offers all the scenery of the better-known city. 

Yangshuo    7    (be)really beautiful.A study of travelers conducted by the website TripAdvisor     8     (name)Yangshuo as one of the top 10 destinations in the world.And the town is fast becoming a popular weekend destination for people in Asia. Abercrombie & Kent,a travel company in Hong Kong,says it    9     (regular)arranges quick getaways here for people    10    (live)in Shanghai and Hong Kong.

Born in a poor famer's family in 1930, Dr Yuan graduated     1     Southwest Agricultural College in 1953. Since then,     2       (find) ways to grow more rice has been his life goal. As a young man, he saw the great need for increasing the rice output. At that time, hunger was a disturbing problem in China. Dr Yuan searched for a way to increase rice harvests without expanding the area of the     3     (field). In 1950, Chinese farmers could produce only fifty million tons of rice. Once in a harvest, however, nearly two hundred million tons of rice     4     (produce). He helped China make     5     great wonder — feeding nearly one-fifth of the world's population with less than 9 percent of the world's total land. He cultivated the world's first high-yielding hybrid rice strain in 1973,     6     was grown on a large scale in China and other countries later.

Dr Yuan was quite satisfied with his life. However, he didn't care about being famous. He felt it gave him less     7     (free) to do his research. Spending money on himself or leading a comfortable life also     8     (mean) very little to him. He therefore     9     (generous) gave millions of yuan to equip others for their research in agriculture.

Yuan once said he had two dreams — to “enjoy the cool under the rice crops taller than men” and that hybrid rice could be grown all over the world     10     (help) solve the global food scarcity.