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The Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Moon Festival, is one of the most important 1． (festival) celebrated in China and other East Asian countries. It falls 2． the 15th day of the 8th lunar month on the traditional Chinese calendar. On that night, the moon is 3．(bright) and fuller than any other night. Enjoying the beauty of the full moon on this day 4． (be) a long standing traditional Chinese custom for centuries.

The Mid-Autumn Festival is a big day for Chinese people, 5．will go back home and have dinner with their families. The roundness of the full moon expresses people’s desire for a wholesome happy family. After the dinner, friends and family usually get together 6． (enjoy) the moonlight and moon-cakes.

Eating moon-cakes is 7． important custom during the Mid-Autumn Festival. Due to the different diet habits in different regions, moon-cakes vary in taste. 8． (general), traditional tastes include fillings of five kernel, egg yolk, jujube paste and bean paste. Now there are new tastes like ice cream and durian.

9． the taste of moon-cakes is changing, the symbolic meaning of the full moon remains unchanged and the Chinese custom of eating moon-cake and 10． (long)for reunion during the Mid-Autumn Festival will never fade away.

The Winter Olympics is also called the White Olympics. At this time, many colorful stamps are published to mark the great Games. The first stamps marking the opening came out on January 25, 1932 in the United States for the 3rd White Olympics. From then on, publishing stamps during the White Olympics became a rule. During the 4th Winter Olympic Games a group of stamps were published in Germany in November 1936. The five rings of Olympics were drawn on the front of the sportswear. It was the first time that the rings appeared on the stamps of the White Olympics. In the 1950’s, the stamps of this kind became more colorful.

When the White Olympics came, the host countries (东道国) as well as the non-host countries published stamps to mark those Games. China also published four stamps in February 1980, when the Chinese sports men began to take part in the White Olympics. Japan is the only Asian country that has ever held the White Olympics. Altogether 14,500 million stamps were sold to raise money for this sports meet. Different kinds of sports were drawn on these small stamps. People can enjoy the beauty of the wonderful movements of some sportsmen.

In the back of my closet, there is a small cardboard chest that has followed me to every one of my new addresses. Until now, the only _________ contents in it are three wrapped _________ marked in my mother’s tidy handwriting: “Engagement”, “Wedding” and “First Baby”.

When I was three, my mother learned that she had advanced breast cancer. When I was seven, she had begun _________ a gift box for me. Inside, she packed presents and letters for the _________ of my life she was going to be missing — driver’s license, graduation, and every birthday until the age of 30.

My mother died ten days before our _________ birthday. That morning, when I turned 12 and she would have turned 49, I woke up early and opened the package _________ “12th Birthday”. A white card curling around the present _________: “I always _________ a birthstone ring when I was a little girl. Your Granny finally bought me one and I loved it more than I can say. I hope you like it, too.” I put on the ring and _________ her writing with my fingertip.

On the morning of my high school graduation, a __________ of pearls appeared as I opened the wrapped present. Her note read: “There seemed to be a __________ in my family that when girls graduated from high school, they received pearls.” I wore the pearls that afternoon as I took the stage to accept my diploma.

Year after year, my mother __________ forward in time to meet me. When I was a child, opening the next package felt like a treasure __________. As I grew older, her message met me like guideposts in a dark forest. If her words couldn’t point the way, at least they offered the __________ of knowing that someone had been there before and that I have been __________, wildly loved.