Sending gifts varies greatly from country to country. In Australia, Canada, the United States    1     European countries, sending gifts     2     (be) rarely expected. While seen as a nice gesture, it is more important to avoid    3     (give) highly personal gifts such as clothing. When visiting the home of a colleague from one of these    4     (country), it is normally appropriate to bring a gift to the hostess.

In America, expensive gifts are    5     (definite) out. A good choice is to take the deserving person to dinner, or to an entertainment or a sporting event.     6    the contrary, gift giving is a traditional custom in Japan. In Japan the proper gift is thought    7     (express) the giver’s true friendship, gratitude and respect far    8    (well) than words can. So if you plan to visit Japan or to have any Japanese visit you here, be prepared.

Australia is known for     9    (it) friendliness and informality. So modest gifts, such as a diary, a paperweight, or a coffee cup might be presented to a friend. But when visiting a German home, gifts    10     reflect your home country are popular, and you might want to bring small gifts for the children of the family you are visiting.

Health is     1    most important thing in the world. Nothing is more important than health. If one takes away our money, houses, cars, or even our clothes, we can still survive.     2    if our health is taken away, it is certain that we surely die. That is why we always try to eat in a     3    (health) way and exercise often.

How can we keep healthy? In order to eat healthily, I usually avoid    4    (eat) food high in fat, like French fries or cookies,     5    are junk foods. I eat lots of vegetables and fresh fruit. Besides, I only eat a little meat.

On the     6    hand, doing exercise is very important. Taking exercise every day     7    (help) us build a strong body. Regular exercise is an important part of keeping me healthy.

What’s more, I think friends are important part of one’s health. I always feel better when I am with friends than alone. When I am with friends I always laugh. Laughing is also an important part of health. It is good    8    (stay) with my friends. By eating properly and exercising    9    (regular), I can keep my body at a proper weight. By spending time with my friends, I can keep my mind as well as my body happy. These things sound easy to do, but not many people can manage     10    . I think a strong will is necessary if we want to keep fit.

In my hometown there’s a river. After school, many    1    (student) went there and swam, but my parents didn’t allow me to swim there. One reason was that almost every year one or two people died in the river and the second was that I was very thin and weak. My parents     2    (worry) about me.

One afternoon, I didn’t have class; my friends and I went outside to play. We went to the river and they swam there; they    3    (be) very happy. I stood on the bank. I really wanted to swim, but I was afraid. At that moment one friend smiled and    4    (persuade) me, “The river is shallow. You can swim here and I can teach you.” I walked down to the river and she taught me. After half    5    hour she said, You practice here. I want to swim for a while. I practiced    6    (happy) again and again. When I stood up, I felt the water was deep and I sank in the water. Suddenly a hand caught me. It was one of    7    ( I ) friends.

I went home but I didn’t tell my parents. Soon my parents knew that event, which made them very    8    (anger). My father has a friend,    9    knew that thing and told my father, “ Your daughter is so thin, and she needs to do exercise. I can teach her    10    (swim).” Dad thought he was right and allowed me to swim. Therefore I could swim every day.

I felt butterflies in my stomach when I started calligraphy class ten years ago. I wondered what I was doing there. At that moment, I couldn't have known that I'd just made one of the best    1    (choose) of my life.

I sat down and listened to the teacher    2     (introduce) the tools of the craft. Then it was the first time for    3    (I)that I had tried my hand. I took up the brush, using the correct gesture,    4    (dip) it in the ink, and carefully wrote "one"    5     Chinese.

Over the past five years, I have learned to make versions of well-known poems. Calligraphy seemed like a bridge，    6     connected me to authors from centuries past. Stroke(笔画) by stroke, word by word, I could feel their emotions, cherished my own peace and learned    7     (appreciate) my daily life.

Now, calligraphy is not just    8     hobby, It is a way to remove myself from the worries of life. Rolling out the paper, I can write for a whole day. Calligraphy     9     (able) me to balance my busy schedule and live    10    (peace).

In order to know a foreign language thoroughly, four things are necessary. Firstly, we must understand the language when we hear     1     spoken. Secondly, we must be able to speak it correctly with confidence and without hesitation.     2     , we must be able to read the language, and fourthly, we must be able to write it. We must be able to make sentences that are grammatically correct.

There is no easy way to success     3     language learning.     4     good memory is of great help, but it is not enough only     5    ( memorize) rules from a grammar book. It is not much use learning by heart long list of words and     6     meanings, studying the dictionary and so on. We must learn by using the language.     7     we are satisfied with only a few rules we have memorized, we are not really learning the language. “Learn through use” is a good piece of     8     (advise) for those     9     are studying a new language. Practice is important. We must practice speaking and     10    (write) the language whenever we can.

When my friends ask me    1    (take) pictures of them, I will take a lot of pictures but they only keep a few of them because they are not    2    (satisfy) with most pictures, and they think they are not perfect.     3     fact, when I look at the pictures, there is nothing     4    (difference) in my eyes. Every picture I take looks almost the same.

People run after the perfect side and that's     5    more and more people choose to take the plastic surgery（整形手术）．Take many stars for example. In order to make themselves look perfect, most of them take the plastic surgery,    6    makes them look unnatural. Meanwhile,many people spend too much time     7    (go) after the perfect side,     8     no one is perfect.They always focus    9    what they want instead of what they have. If we accept our imperfect sides, we will live    10    (comfortable) and enjoy the life.

President Xi Jinping signed a presidential order on Tuesday to award four people national medals and honorary titles for their outstanding contributions     1     fighting the COVID-19 pandemic.

Zhong Nanshan,84,     2     excellent disease expert, was awarded the Medal of the Republic, the highest national honor, for his outstanding work in fighting COVID-19 in China. Three    3    (other) were also awarded the “People’s Hero” national honorary title for helping fight against the novel coronavirus(新冠病毒).They are Zhang Boli, a    4    (tradition) Chinese medicine expert; Zhang Dingyu , head of Wuhan’s Jinyintan Hospital; and Chen Wei, a medical scientist     5     made major achievements in COVID-19-related basic research.

Zhong also has long been devoted to the research ,prevention and    6    (treat) of major infectious and chronic respiratory diseases(慢性呼吸病), and has a long record of achievements. He was a major figure in the fight against the severe acute respiratory syndrome(综合症状) outbreak in 2003 in China.    7    (follow) the COVID-19 outbreak , the Chinese government encouraged the country    8    (contain) the disease in Wuhan, Hubei province, after the city was locked down in late January. More than 42000 medical workers from across the country     9    (send) to Hubei to fight the disease. The pandemic has been     10    (effective) placed under control on the Chinese mainland since early March.

You may often see young people in Asian countries wear their masks in public. What makes them do so?

Asians often wear face masks to prevent one’s own germs or sickness from spreading in public places. In many Asian countries, people value collectivism,     1     means they will try their best to make a contribution to their group. Amid the novel coronavirus outbreak, Asians will wear masks to prevent both     2    (they) and others from being infected which will ultimately benefit the whole group.

Apart from physical protection, masks    3    (develop) into social firewalls among young people in Asian countries already as well. Young people are more concerned about their     4    private) than their parents and grandparents. In public such as on a crowded subway,     5    (hide) their faces with masks can sometimes help them feel at ease. For some young girls, wearing masks can give them confidence and     6     sense of security when they don’t have enough time to do makeup.

    7    this reason, wearing masks has become a fashion trend among young people. They wear them, along with audio headsets, to signal a lack of desire     8    (communicate) with those around them, according to Quartz.

Not only     9     (use) to prevent the spread of disease, masks have indeed made their way into the mainstream and are here to stay in Asian     10     (country).

Li Daiyu and her cousin Liu Qian were on a trip     1     Canada to visit their cousins on the Atlantic coast. Rather than     2    (take) the airplane all the way, they took the train from west to east across Canada. The     3    (think) that they could cross the whole continent was exciting.

Canada is the second     4    (big) country in the world. People say Vancouver is Canada's most beautiful city     5    (surround) by mountains and the Pacific Ocean. On the coast north of Vancouver, it is so wet there     6     the trees are extremely tall.

That afternoon aboard the train, the cousins settled down in their seats. They know cowboys from all over the world compete in the Stampede. Many cowboys have     7     gift for riding wild horses. They also learned that most Canadians live     8     320 kilometers of the USA border and the population is only slightly over thirty million, but now they were     9    (amaze) to see such an empty country. Then they arrived in Thunder Bay, a city at the top of the Great Lakes and learned even more about Canada and its     10    (nature) resources.

Wang Shu, a 49-year-old Chinese architect, won the 2012 Pritzker Architecture Prize—which is often referred to     1     the Nobel Prize in architecture—on February 28. He is the first Chinese citizen     2     (win) this award. Wang serves as head of the Architecture Department at the China Academy of Art (CAA). His office     3     (locate) at the Xiangshan campus (校园) of the university in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. Many buildings on the campus are his     4     (origin) creations.

Wang’s     5     (work) show a deep understanding of modern architecture and     6     good knowledge of traditions. Wang     7     (believe) traditions should not be sealed in glass boxes at museums. “That is only evidence that traditions once     8     (exist),” he said. Wang thinks the study of traditions should     9     (combine) with practice.     10    , the recreation of traditions would be artificial and empty.