1 . After reading the sentences below, fill in each blank with a proper word given in the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. analyzed   B. maintaining   C. valuable   D. quality   E. processed F. luxury   G. vast   H. attractions   I. fascinating   J. stuck   K. practical

1. I find good novels really ________ as the plots are well-designed to engage readers’ attention.
2. Many people book cheap hotels and visit typical tourist ________ in the city to enjoy their holidays.
3. Researchers ________ the data and compared them with those of the control group.
4. He treated the painting that survived the war as his most ________ property and put it in the drawer with great care.
5. Environmentalists who call air-conditioning a（an）________ we cannot afford as air-conditioning contributes much to global warming.
6. Sometimes I would play with some bands. But I never really ________ to it, though I did keep playing the guitar and end up getting pretty good at it.
7. When the scientists studied scans of the brains of pet dogs, they found that theirs, like ours, ________ the sounds of spoken words in a multi-step manner.
8. Imagine living on the edge of a（an）________ desert, which is moving quietly closer to your village every day and covering your fields. How terrible!
9. In Western cultures, ________ eye contact in conversations is necessary. A westerner might, in fact, consider a lack of eye contact as a lack of interest.
10. It was because of a strong sense of responsibility and much ________ experience that the teacher who worked in the countryside cultivated a great number of excellent students.