Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank. 【小题1】 cities were people, Chengdu would be a “happy drifter (流浪汉) without ambition”. That’s according to popular Chinese online writer Murong Xuecun.
It’s the leisurely and slow-paced lifestyle 【小题2】 put the capital city of Sichuan on the list of the 21 must-go tourist destinations of 2017 【小题3】 US travel magazine National Geographic.
One of 【小题4】 (great) pleasures in Chengdu is its food. Famous for the use of the tongue-numbing (让舌头发麻的) Sichuanese pepper corn and hot chillies, Chengdu dishes are an obsession (痴迷) for locals. “Nothing is more important to Chengdu people than food,” Du Li, a professor at the Sichuan Higher Institute of Cuisine, told the Guardian. “They love 【小题5】 (search) out small restaurants in out-of-the-way places 【小题6】 may just specialize in a couple of dishes.”
In fact, according to Wang Xudong, editor-in-chief of Sichuan Cuisine magazine, Chengdu has the highest density (密度) of restaurants of any city in the world – there are around 40,000. No wonder it became the first Asian city that 【小题7】(name) as a city of Gastronomy (美食) by UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) in 2010.
【小题8】 important part of local daily life is the city’s teahouses. 【小题9】(find) all over Chengdu, the teahouses are much more than just a place to drink tea. They are a place to do business, meet with friends, show off pet birds, listen to Chuanju or Sichuan opera, and most importantly, play mahjong. As a local saying goes, “If you can’t find someone, he or she is 【小题10】playing mahjong, or on the way to play mahjong.”
“Feet stretched out in a rattan chair with a glass of tea at the mahjong table, their lives are a fleeting dusk.” The Telegraph noted.
