These days, most Americans still   (1)   this idea of giving thanks by having a big   (2)   with their friends and family. But do you know Canada has Thanksgiving Day? In Canada, people have Thanksgiving on the second Monday in October. Why is Thanksgiving Day   (3)   in Canada than in America? This is   (4)   Canada is north of the United States, and is colder. The harvest (收获) comes earlier in the year. On that day, many Canadians put flowers, vegetables and fruit around their homes. Like in America, the main dish of this meal is   (5)   always turkey, at a Thanksgiving Day dinner. They are saying "Thank you" for the life and food every year.

What’s wrong with you?

To many people, the word Hollywood has two meanings.   (1)   Second, Hollywood also stands for the US movie industry.

Hollywood was just a farmland at the beginning of this century. Early American movies were made in other places; for example, in New York and Chicago.

In 1917 a director was making a movie in Chicago. Because of cold weather, he couldn’t finish the movie.   (2)    And there he found just the weather and scenery he needed to finish his movie. The director realized that southern California was the perfect place for making movies. The next year his company built a movie studio in Hollywood.   (3)   Before long nearly all important American movie studios were in Hollywood, Los Angeles.

The next thirty years were Hollywood’s greatest years. Thousands of movies were made, most by a few large and powerful studios.   (4)   

Hollywood also reached its high point in these years. Many famous movie stars, like Bette Davis and Clark Gable, lived in Hollywood.

  (5)   More movies are made outside of Hollywood. Many studios have moved. The movie stars have also moved to areas like Beverly Hills and Malibu.

But visitors to Hollywood today can go to the famous Chinese Theatre and see the footprints and autographs (亲笔签名) of movie stars. They can go down the Walk of Fame, on Hollywood Boulevard, and see the golden stars in the sidewalk.

A problem is only a problem until there is a solution. We find solutions by thinking creatively.  (1)   In other words, we think outside the box. Sometimes thinking outside the box solves not just one, but two problems.

Amsterdam is one of the most crowded cities in Europe. As a result, housing is very expensive, especially for students.   (2)   However, finding this type of apartments was almost impossible until recently.

While the colleges in Amsterdam were trying to solve the housing problem, thousands of shipping containers (集装箱) were lying quietly in ports around the world. These huge steel containers carry products from one counry to another. The life of each container is about 10 years.   (3)   Yet they can’t recycle all of them because there are so many.

Back in Amsterdam, a company came up with an amazing idea. Why not reuse these shipping containers as student apartments?   (4)   They are all the same size and fit together perfectly. The steel is strong. Moreover, these containers are so widely available that they are quite cheap to buy. For all these reasons, they can be used to build apartments quickly andvcheaply. Building began in 2005, and after only a few weeks, hundreds of Amsterdam students had new homes.

When students hears about this idea, they thought the container apartment would be small, noisy and cold.   (5)   Each container apartment has a kitchen, a bedroom with a study area, and a bathroom. The apartments are warm and quiet. They even have a high-speed Internet connection. Living in a shipping container has become popular. Today, over 3000 Amsterdam students live in the container village.

How do you turn your interests into a business? Mohammed Ali, 15, a ten gamer from Dewsbury in West Yorkshire, UK, is a good example.

 At the age of 12, he learned how to code by using You Tube and even made his own video game. He put his video game on the Internet.   (1)   He has already made $30000. He also makes websites and is working on an app, which will be open to the public in August.

  (2)   “When I fist started making money, I thought I’d just spend it all.   (3)   I save most of it in the bank, because I want to do more in the future,” he told the Daily Mail.

He became interested in computer when his parents bought him one at the age of 6.   (4)  

But after playing so many games, he decided to make his own.

Then, Ali learned how to code using You Tube video and by reading books in the subject. In 2012, he made his own game called Project 2006 after working on it for seven months. It was a role—playing game and more than 300 people are members.   (5)   

In the future, he wants to go to university and study the computer science, “I’m looking forward to studying computer science, not business because I’ve got a lot of experience in business already.” He told the Daily Star.

Teenage life — better now，or in the past?

Does this situation sound familiar (熟悉)？

You are complaining (抱怨)to your parents about something. Maybe your computer isn't powerful enough to play the latest games.   (1)  Then you hear...

When I was your age, there weren’t any computers or video games. And I didn’t get a bike until I was sixteen. And it was second-hand.   (2)   ”

So, is it really true that life is better for teenagers now? It is certainly true that many teenagers have got more things nowadays.  (2)   So parents have got more money to spend on each child. And many things are cheaper than they were when our parents were children.

  (3)  Forty years ago, no one could imagine a world with tiny computers and amazing smartphones. And now these things are necessary — we can’t imagine living without them!

However, technology often means we spend more time at home. And often it，s just us, with our computer or television. Teenagers don’t do enough exercise.   (4)  And, although young people still get on well with their friends，some people think teenagers today don’t have so many social activities as they did in the past.

What do you think? How is teenage life better these days?

There is a proverb that “     ,” which means that it’s not good if there are too many people working together.

Thanksgiving Day is always on a Thursday. _____(1)__________. It is the start of the holiday shopping season, and it has been the busiest shopping day of the year in the US since 2005.

    Most stores offer big sales on Black Friday. They open their doors very early in the morning and try to attract shoppers with low prices. Some things like TVs and clothes are much cheaper than usual.__(2)___________. They hope that shoppers will buy more gifts while they are in the store.

    Black Friday is a great time for shopping. However, there are problems.__(3)______. Each store has only a few, so the goods are in great need and people stand in long lines to get them. They may wait three or four hours before a store opens, but not everyone can get one. Some people leave, disappointed.

    This situation makes people worried. Some Black Friday events have been crazy. There have been fights over toys among shoppers. Some workers have been hurt by large crowd.__(4)___. Still, if you want to go, you will expect large crowds and a bit of pushing.

    So where does the name “Black Friday” come from? It was first used in Philadelphia in the 1950s. The police called this day Black Friday because of the heavy traffic it caused. In the 1960s, stores tried to change the name into “Big Friday”. It didn’t stick. The name “ Black Friday” continued to spread across the country. It seems that it is here to stay.__(5)________. It is even spreading to other parts of the world. Stores have held Black Friday events in the UK, Australia, and Brazil since 2012. In Mexico, stores offer a weekend of low price every year. They call it “ El Buen Fin”, which means “the good weekend” in Spanish. I guess people everywhere like to buy things on sale.

Teenage life — better now, or in the past?

 Does this situation sound familiar (熟悉)？                                                                                        

You are complaining (抱怨)to your parents about something. Maybe your computer isn't powerful enough to play the latest games.     (1)    Then you hear...                                                                                                                                                                                           When I was your age, there weren’t any computers or video games. And I didn’t get a bike until I was sixteen.And it was second-hand.   (2)   ” So, is it really true that life is better for teenagers now? It is certainly true that many teenagers have got more things nowadays.   (3)   So parents have got more money to spend on each child. And many things are cheaper than they were when our parents were children.  

  (4)  Forty years ago, no one could imagine a world with tiny computers and amazing smartphones. And now these things are necessary — we can’t imagine living without them!  However, technology ofen means we spend more time at home. And often it’s just us, with our computer or television. Teenagers don’t do enough exercise.   (5)   And, although young people still get on well with their friends,some people think teenagers today don’t have so many social activities as they did in the past. What do you think? How is teenage life better these days?                                                                                                                   

 根据材料内容，从下面五个选项中选出能填入文中空缺处的最佳答案，使短文意思通顺、内容完整。

Not long ago, a team of tourists was shocked and disappointed to see the dry riverbed(河床)of Lijiang River in Guilin.