Full Moon, Full Feelings

Chinese people ______ celebrated the Mid?Autumn Festival and enjoyed mooncakes for centuries. Mooncakes are in the shape of _______ full moon on the Mid?Autumn night. They carry people's ______to the families who they love and miss.

There are many ______ folk stories about this festival. ______, most people think that the story of Chang'e is the most touching. Chang'e ______ Hou Yi's beautiful wife. After Hou Yi shot down the nine suns, a goddess gave ______ some magic medicine to thank him. Whoever drank this could live forever, and Hou Yi planned _____ it with Chang'e, but a bad man called Pang Meng, tried to steal the medicine _______ Hou Yi was not at home. Chang'e refused to give ______ and drank it all. ______ a result, she became very light and _______ to the moon. Hou Yi was _______sad that he called out her name to the moon every night. One night, he found that the moon was very ________ and round, so he could see his wife there. He quickly laid ________ her favourite fruits and desserts in the garden. How he wished that Chang'e could come back!

After this, people started the tradition of admiring the moon and sharing mooncakes with their families.

1.A. have B. has C. had D. did

2.A. a B. an C. the D. /

3.A. hope B. ideas C. wishes D. thoughts

4.A. tradition B. traditional C. modern D. new

5.A. Whenever B. However C. Whatever D. Wherever

6.A. is B. was C. are D. were

7.A. he B. his C. him D. her

8.A. drink B. drinks C. to drink D. drinking

9.A. when B. before C. until D. till

10.A. him to it B. it him C. it to him D. he it

11.A. As B. With C. In D. Of

12.A. fly up B. jump up C. flew up D. jumped up

13.A. very B. so C. too D. such

14.A. brightly B. bright C. brighter D. brightest

15.A. out B. away C. about D. into

Vicky Zhao is from the mainland working in Hong Kong. For her, one thing she can't stand is people standing on the wrong side of the escalator(自动扶梯) in subway stations.

“Escalators help us move faster and save time. It isn't a place to rest,” the 24?year?old says, “I often see tourists blocking(挡住) the way with their heavy suitcases or chatting on the escalators during rush hour. It makes me very angry.”

Agreeing that she is not the patient type, Zhao says things are much better in Hong Kong than in cities on the mainland where people often pay no attention to “stand right, walk left” signs.

The reason behind the rule “stand right, walk left” seems clear. Even though you may want to have a rest and just wait while you're transported up or down, you should still consider others and leave enough space for people in a hurry, so that they can run and take the train.

But the people who stand on escalators will tell the walkers not to be so impatient. In a recent story about the escalator rule, one stander says, “If the person is in such a rush, why not just take the stairs?”

Many cities' escalators, including London's and Beijing's, use the “stand right, walk left” rule to speed up the movement of people. (In Australian cities like Sydney you should stand on the left side instead.) But some cities discourage people from moving on escalators out of safety reasons. In Hong Kong's subway stations people are asked to “stand still” on escalators. Even so, most people keep the “stand right, walk left” rule.

Whatever the escalator rule is in the place you live in or visit, do what most people are doing and always be mindful of others; leave enough space between each other; don't stay at the end of the escalator, and if someone is blocking your way, a simple “excuse me” is enough.

1.According to the passage, Vicky Zhao ________.

A. comes from Hong Kong

B. is a 24?year?old girl

C. wants to be a patient person

D. works in a subway station

2.The passage mentions that people are advised not to move on the escalator in ________.

A. London B. Beijing

C. Sydney D. Hong Kong

3.It can be learnt from the passage that the writer ________.

A. is crazy about taking escalators

B. agrees to the “stay right, walk left” rule

C. tells us to consider other people

D. has been to Hong Kong many times

4.What's the best title of the passage?

A. Get it right B. Help others

C. Take stairs D. Move fast

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