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.
Big Sister’s Wedding
Three days before the wedding, Grand Aunt personally entrusted a special small package for Aunt Baba to hand to Big Sister. On 【小题1】 (open) the elegant leather case in Aunt Baba’s room, Big Sister found a lovely pendant (吊坠) made of ancient green jade hanging on a heavy gold chain. She immediately put it on and breathed with pleasure while she admired 【小题2】 in the mirror. Then she begged Aunt Baba and me not to mention Grand Aunt’s gift to a soul, obviously intending to keep the pendant 【小题3】 telling Niang.
The wedding was a formal and brilliant affair with a ceremonial dinner party for five hundred in the grand ballroom on the ninth floor of the Cathay Hotel, 【小题4】 (situate) at the border of the Bund and fashionable Nanjing Road and overlooking the Huangpu River. The room 【小题5】 (fill) with masses of fresh flowers, and the Chinese character for double happiness was outlined in red blooms against the wall. Big Sister was elegantly dressed in a beautiful pink Qipao and silver shoes 【小题6】 Samuel wore a tuxedo (燕尾服). Two professional radio comedians acted as masters of ceremonies.
I had nothing to wear but an old pink Qipao 【小题7】 had been handed down by Big Sister when she grew out of it. 【小题8】 I didn’t look particularly nice, at least I didn’t stand out and no one noticed me. My three older brothers, however, were having a horrible time. For this special occasion, Father ordered them 【小题9】 (have) fresh hair-cuts. My brothers’ heads were shaved cleanly, so not a trace of hair 【小题10】 (remain). They were wearing dark-blue, traditional, long Chinese clothes with high collars and cloth buttons. I thought the brothers would make a lot of unexpected things on the Big Sister’s wedding.
