As the Mid-Autumn Festival approaches, people are attempting       1     (find) their favourite mooncakes with different fillings. Some like sweet mooncakes while others prefer savoury ones.

    2     unique kind of mooncake—filled with mature vinegar—recently attracted followers in Taiyuan, Shanxi Province. Based on traditional     3     (produce) processes and fillings, including different nuts and dried fruits, mature vinegar    4     (add) , which greatly improves its flavour. The vinegar removes some of the sweetness and greasy taste while leaving no sour flavour.

In recent years,     5     (vary) regions have introduced innovative mooncake flavours based on their local characteristics. Luosifen, a dish of rice noodles       6     (cook) with snails, is a signature street food. Luosifen mooncakes are filled with these local ingredients,     7     (offer) crowds a special festival experience. People in Sichuan Province love hot pot so deeply     8     many businesses have launched hot pot mooncakes. The filling of this mooncake is made up       9     brown sugar, flour, and signature hot pot broth, putting a new twist on this     10     (traditional) sweet desert. Guangzhou and Shenzhen have many milk tea shops. Named “cheese pop milk tea mooncake”, the mooncake is filled with the ingredients of milk tea, which caters to the tastes of young people.

5 . A little girl created a perfect gift for her mother’s birthday. It was a drawing of a ___________ on white paper with the words “For mom: love, love, love” decorated with hearts. She folded (折叠) her letter, but then she ___________ it.

For most people, that would be the ___________of this story, but this story had a different result. James Carrell found the letter. He had just___________ his mother, wishing her a happy birthday. After he hung up, Carrell saw the___________ on the ground outside of a hardware store in Manvel. “I___________ it was a gift,” said Carrell. “I opened it up and saw the flower and hearts. It really___________ me.” Carrell thought the letter would___________someone’s day and that maybe he could find the owner, so he posted it on the Internet. The message moved a lot of people,___________one man.

“I was sitting at my friend’s house and saw a man’s______________,” said Carrell. The comments (评论) included one from Robert Alvarado. He wrote, “I can’t ______________you found my baby’s letter.” Carrell reached Alvarado to______________ the letter. It took a few days, but the men finally met on Thursday night.

“Eventually the letter made it home,” said Alvarado. “We are______________ for what James Carrell did. We often forget the power of ______________ things, but for this family from Alvin, Carrell’s small act left a(n) ______________ impression.”

An Unforgettable Activity in High School

Yours,

Li Hua

These days more and more genetically modified crops have been appearing on supermarket shelves, which are favored by many consumers.