1 . “Long time no see” is a very interesting sentence. When I first read this sentence from an American friend’s email, I laughed. I thought it was a perfect _________ of Chinglish. Obviously, it is a word-by-word literal(照字面意思的) translation of the Chinese greeting with a _________ English grammar and structure! Later on, my friend told me that it is a standard-American _________. I was too _________ to believe her. So I did a _________ on Google. Much to my surprise, there are over 60 thousand web pages _________ the expression “long time no see” in them. This sentence has been _________ used in emails, letters, newspapers, movies, books, or any other possible place. Though it is a little informal, it is part of the _________ that Americans use daily. However, if you _________ this sentence in Microsoft Word, it will tell you that the grammar needs to be ____________

Nobody knows the ____________ of this Chinglish sentence. Some people believe that it came from Charlie Chan’s movies. In the 1930s, Hollywood moviemakers successfully ____________ a world-wide famous Chinese detective(侦探) named “Charlie Chan” on wide screens. Detective Chan liked to teach Americans some Chinese ____________ by quoting Confucius(孔子). “Long time no see” was his trademark. Soon after Charlie Chan, “Long time no see” became a ____________ sentence in the real world ____________ the popularity of these movies.

Some people ____________ America to a huge pot of stew(炖菜). All kinds of culture are ____________ in the pot together, and they ____________ the color and taste of each other. American Chinese, though a minor group in the United States, is also ____________ some changes to the stew! Language is usually the first thing to be ____________ in the mixed stew.

It was the night of the full moon,a time which always drives Java’s young people mad with excitement. Fireworks were lit long before the moon_______The big noise brought people out_______the warm night to enjoy the interesting scene.Everywhere,there were the paper remains of_______fireworks lying on the ground.Little boys___more and covered their ears as they waited_______for the explosions.

The moon appeared above the horizon(地平线)：huge,_______ball high above the city,and the____filled with people,as Java began to enjoy one of the year’s greatest_______：‘the Night of the Full Moon’,a festival(节日)that is especially popular_____young people.

More and more young Javanese_______together and walked slowly through the_______Joking and chatting,they moved towards the mountain__________the city.They continued to climb__________they reached the old temple(寺庙)at the_________of the mountain.

After they were__________the temple, they drank their water and ate their moon-cakes—delicious home-made ones,__________of dried fruit and nuts. Outside, on the mountain, young people__________cross-legged in circles, chatting and telling each other jokes. And__________,in their hundreds, more young people continued to make their way up the mountain to__________the brightly shining moon.

By midnight, the fireworks had stopped shooting up from the__________city in the valley below them. But during the night, the sound continued to be heard from the distance.