I seldom thought I had a passion. I would sit before the TV all day, thinking nothing but the next shadow. It was not long ago that I first learned how important having a passion is to life.
One day I went with Mum to drop my sister off at the gym. Then, Mum stopped at a red light, someone on the roadside caught my eyes. It was a man
(dress) in rags, homeless. That didn’t interest me, for I
(see) many like him before.
But he man wasn’t sitting down with a sad (express). He had a radio in his hand and was dancing
(merry) to the music. The radio seemed to be the most precious thing
he had.
“Mum, why does that man have a radio even though he’s homeless?” I asked.
“He bought ,” she replied.
“But if he’s homeless, why doesn’t he use the money to buy food or clothes? He wasted it on something he doesn’t need.”
“Well, Sarah, sometimes food and clothes aren’t only important things. We need happiness, too.”
“I see.” The man must care too much about music, so he bought a radio instead of food and clothes. I realized that happiness is the key to life. it, there’s nothing to look forward to. A passion gives a person the happiness they need to keep going!
In most Chinese tea villages, March is the time of year in locals start to pick and process tea. The usually quiet villages suddenly become busy centers of activity, as people take out special tools and prepare
tea processing. In some villages, local residents hold traditional ceremonies,
(thank) heaven for its blessing. The price of tea
(pick) in March is extremely high because
is fresh, tender and contains multiple trace elements.
China (be) famous for tea production since ancient times. Of the goods transported and traded along
Old Silk Road linking China to the Middle East and Europe, the importance of tea was matched only by silk. China produces Oolong, black, green, white, yellow
dark (aka post-fermented) tea. The Oolong, green and black
(vary)are most notable for their high quality.
Most of China's tea villages are found in remote mountainous areas in the country's south and southwest, the beautiful scenery is often hidden under clouds.
My friend Vernon Davies kept birds. One day he called and told me he was going away for a week.He asked me to feed __ birds for him and said that he would leave the key_
_ his front door in my mailbox.
__ (fortunate), I forgot all about the birds until the night before Vernon was going to return. What was worse,_
_ was already dark when I arrived at his house. I soon found that the key Verson gave me could not unlock either the front door _
_ _the back door. I was getting desperate. I kept thinking of
_ _Vernon would say when he came back.
I was just going to give up_ _I noticed that one bedroom window was slightly open. I found a barrel and pushed in under the window. As the barrel was very heavy, I made a lot of noise. But in the end, I managed to climb
_ _and open the window.
I actually had one leg inside the bedroom when I suddenly realized that someone __ (shine) a torch up at me. I looked down and saw a policeman and an old lady, one of Vernon’s neighbors. “What are you doing up there?: said the policeman._
_ _(feel)like a complete fool, I replied,”I was just going to feed Mr Davies’ birds.
Shopping habits in America have changed a lot over the past few decades. Early ____ the 1900s most American towns and cities had a Main Street. Main Street was always in __
__ heart of a town. This street was built with many stores on both sides. Shoppers walked into the stores to look _
__ what they needed. _
__, a change began to take place in the 1950s. Too many cars had crowded into Main Street while too __
parking places were available(可用的) to shoppers. __
_ the streets were crowded, shop owners began ___
__ look with interest at the open space from the city limits. When the first shopping center was built in the United States, an open space became __
___ they first had considered.
People ___（live）in different countries made different kinds of words. Today there are about fifteen hundred __
_ in the world. Each contains many thousands of words. A very large dictionary, for example, contains four ___
_five hundred thousand words. But we do not need___
___ these. To read short stories you need to know only about two thousand words. __
__you leave school, you will learn only one thousand or more.
The words you know are called your vocabulary. You should try to make your vocabulary ____（big）. Read as many books as we can. There are a lot of books ___
___（write）in easy English. You will enjoy them. When you meet __
_ new word, look it __
___ in your dictionary. Your dictionary is your __
_（much）useful book.
两千三百年前中国大哲孟子谓：“充实之谓美，充实而光辉之谓大，大而化之之谓圣，圣而不可知之之谓神。”此可总揽普天下所有大艺术之警世通言也，中、西莫不皆然。八大山人、伦勃朗、莎士比亚、陶潜，于美、大、圣、神皆有之矣，然其趋舍异途，绝无可融合处。比较艺术的目的，所望于后来者，为加大其距离，非缩小而趋同也。
The great Chinese philosopher Mencius, _______ lived two thousand and three hundred years ago, said, “Substantiality is called beauty; when substantiality is brightly displayed, it is called greatness; _
_______ greatness exercises a transforming influence, it is called sacredness; when sacredness is beyond our understanding, it is called divinity.” This extraordinary proposition is applicable to all the great arts of the world, ____
_____(include) both Chinese and Western ones. The great Chinese artist of the seventeenth century Bada Shanren (1626—1705), the great artist of the Netherlands Rembrandt (1606—1669), the great British ____
____ (drama) William Shakespeare (1564—1616), and the great Chinese poet Tao Qian (c.365—427), who lived between the fourth and fifth centuries, all possessed the qualities of __
_______, greatness, sacredness, and divinity. _
_________, the objectives they aimed at, the things they chose to cast _______
___(side) and their approaches varied greatly from one another. There is _____
_______ (absolute) nothing that can be synthesized. Comparing the objectives of art, I hope that future artists will _______
___ the distance between Eastern art and Western art, instead of reducing it or gradually converging one into the ______
_________.
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