A Bite of China

    No trip would be complete without experiencing the local food culture. Actually, China has various kinds of delicious food,____ (include) a wide variety of local snacks (小吃).

    Without a doubt, for the majority of the foreigners I contacted, and myself included, Peking Duck, Dim Sum, Mongolian Hot Pot were the favorite Chinese ____ (dish). China is a place____ the food is not only delicious, but the ____ (cheap) I've ever found.

    ____my last night in Beijing before returning to the States, I went to a Peking Duck restaurant that had been suggested for me to try. What a beautiful place! Splendid woodblock prints on the walls, fresh flowers in the vases on the table,____ (attract) silverware (镀银餐具) and beautiful chopsticks. I was handed ____ menu and found most of the prices____(be) especially low for the high quality of the food. The duck came in whole or half, along with all the little decorations that you know if you've ever eaten Peking duck---a little tortilla (玉米饼) to put the sliced duck and vegetables in chopped onion, sauce.

    Anyway, I ended up ordering a whole duck and thought I'd just take the rest back to my hotel____(eat) later if I couldn't finish it. Unbelievably, in the end there was none of the whole duck____(leave) on the plate. Umm, yummy!

    Rise After Falling

    A father was worried about his son,____was sixteen years old but had no courage at all. So the father decided to call on a Buddhist monk (僧侣)____ (train) his boy.

    The Buddhist monk said to the boy's father, “I insist that your son should be left alone here. I'll make him into a real man within three months.____ you can't come to see him during this period.”

    Three months later, the boy's father ____ (return). The Buddhist monk arranged a boxing match between the boy and an ____(experience) boxer. Each time the fighter struck the boy, he ____(fall) down, but at once the boy stood up; and each time a heavy blow knocked him down, the boy stood up again. Several times later, the Buddhist monk asked, “____do you think of your child?”

    “What a shame!” the boy's father said, “I never thought he would be so ____(easy) knocked down. I needn't have him stay here any ____ (long)!

     “I'm sorry that that's all you see. Don't you see that each time he falls down, he stands up again instead of ____ (cry)? That's the kind of courage you wanted him to have.

19世纪60年代,俄、日两国改革的不同之处是（  ）