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In most Chinese tea villages, March is the time of year inlocals 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 becauseis 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 _______________.