Some people love to read books. They can’t get enough of the【小题1】 (print) word. Others have a big appetite for making and eating food. Well, if you are both an【小题2】 (enthusiasm)   reader and eater, you may want to take part in an edible book festival, 【小题3】 you can have your book and eat it, too!

In such festivals, people create projects and present【小题4】 to judges. There are two rules: the project must be made of food, and it must be based【小题5】 a book. For example, someone might make the chocolate factory from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory with chocolate bars.

Sometimes, judges award prizes for the best projects like “Best Pun.” A pun is a funny play on words that sound similar but have different【小题6】 (meaning), like tale and tail. A possible【小题7】 (win) for “Best Pun” might show Peter Rabbit, the character from The Tale of Peter Rabbit, with a tail made of marshmallow fluff (棉花糖). 【小题8】 (make) a pun, the project could be called “The Tail of Peter Rabbit”,【小题9】 title punny enough to make the judges laugh!

Given the fun and often silly nature, it’s not surprising that many of these festivals【小题10】 (hold) on April Fool’s Day!

What is a classic? It can 【小题1】(put) in the following way: When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before: you see more in you than you did before.

A classic is a book that gives you wonderful feelings, and enables you to uncover part of the 【小题2】 (mean) of life. A classic is a book that has stood the test of time, 【小题3】 book that men and women all over the world want to keep all their lives. Not many books can stand such a test 【小题4】 (consider) all the books that have been produced, classics account for only a very small share of the total-less than 0. 001 percent. That is just a few thousand books. Under 100 【小题5】those make up the solid core (核心).

You may ask 【小题6】 we should read the classics? I suggest three reasons: a classic opens your mind, helps you grow and helps you understand your life, your world, yourself. A classic can give you insights into yourself. 【小题7】 (certain), you can get pleasure out of almost any book. But a classic, once you go deep into it, 【小题8】 (lift) you up high! When you read classics, you'll find yourself 【小题9】 (inspire) by the thoughts and observations of the most gifted 【小题10】 (writer) in history.

One important feature of classic literature is that it often 【小题1】 (reflect) an author’s own experiences and can therefore help us understand the important issues of his or her time. This is one reason 【小题2】 the best works of literature still appeal to readers long after they 【小题3】 (write). Cao Xueqin’s A Dream of Red Mansions, one of the most 【小题4】 (significance) novels in Chinese literature, is a good example of this. Its storyline follows the fall of a large wealthy family much like the author’s own. No doubt 【小题5】 (draw) on his own experiences, Cao Xueqin gives a detailed description of 【小题6】 life was like at that time. The novel contains a great number of 【小题7】 (detail) such as what the upper class wore and ate. It also describes the social relation in 18th-century China. As a result, readers are capable 【小题8】 better understanding the gap between the rich and poor, men and women, the 【小题9】 (learn) and the uneducated in the historical context. Cultural and historical elements like these make A Dream of Red Mansions a timeless classic.【小题10】(general) speaking, we can learn much about a specific period in history from classic literature.