1 . In some parts of Central China’s Henan province, daughters will _______ wild goose-shaped cakes for their parents before the leap month (闰月) comes, wishing for auspiciousness. There is a _______ surrounding the tradition.

Long ago, there was a girl living at the southern foot of the Songshan Mountain in Henan, who was very _______. In a year which had a leap month, the married girl _______ of her parents, who never had enough food to eat and might suffer from hunger due to the _______ month. So, she collected some leftover millet (小米) and headed toward her parents’ home. On the mountainous road, she _______ fell down and when she woke up, the millet was already _______ up by birds. Seeing this and thinking of her parents, she cried loudly and slowly fell asleep again.

Then she heard some weak voice and woke up again, seeing a couple of wild geese were staying in her bag and not willing to leave, so she took them with her. When she arrived at her parents’ home, the village was _______ famine and plague, and her parents were on the verge of _______. She hurriedly boiled the wild geese and fed them to her parents, and her parents recovered soon. She then gave the leftover food to the neighbors and the ________ miraculously disappeared the next day.

After that, before each leap month, daughters began to visit their ________ and bring gifts. As wild goose is a ________ bird, people use dough to make wild goose-shaped cakes in ________ of the actual bird for their parents, wishing them healthy and hoping to banish any plagues.

In some parts of East China’s Shandong province, the married daughters will send dough-made fish and toad to their parents, which ________ “wealth” and “health” respectively. ________, it is said that the dough fish is for a mother and the dough toad is for a father.

Inside the 9th exhibition hall at Hong Kong Palace Museum (HKPM), paintings and sculptures both     1     Louvre Museum and the Palace Museum in Beijing reflect one theme     2     (precise): a historical China-West exchange.

Since the museum opened to the public in July, the museum has welcomed     3     large number of tourists and constant new exhibitions. For those     4     are in charge, it seems they have a rather permanent mission: making the HKPM a     5     (globe) center for cultural exchanges between the East and West.

Among the new 69 relics (遗址) are a set of three paintings from the Album of Beasts,     6     (create) by noble painters Yu Sheng and Zhang Weibang during the Qing Dynasty. The 180-page Album of Beasts has been considered as a     7     (combine) of reality and imagination, as well as the Orient and Europe, as the two artists painted images of animals from Chinese classics     8     (use) light and shadow techniques typical of Western art. The introduction to the painting explains that this kind of animal     9     (see) as a flying horse when walking on land, but when it flies it becomes the North Star.

For the staff, the best way to introduce to visitors the historic integration between the East and the West     10     (be) to put what the paintings convey right where they can see them.