Xinjiang is a very interesting place to have a great time. But do you know anything about the four________in Xinjiang? Here is something about________. In________parts of Xinjiang, spring is too short.________usually comes in April and ends in May. Summer is from late May to August. It’s often very________in the day but quite cool at night. Autumn is the best season. It________from September, and goes to October. It’s________and the weather is quite warm. You can eat a lot of good and sweet________here. So there are many people here on holidays. And a lot of them come from Japan, the USA, Canada, Australia and many other________. They come to visit Xinjiang at this time of the year. They are really relaxed. Winter is long here. It lasts from November to March and it is very cold. There is much________everywhere in winter. You need to wear a lot of warm clothes.

Do you often see snow? Many people in the world seldom see snow. Some countries even___have snow. Some have only______on the tops of very high mountains. In the north of England, there is quite a lot of snow every winter,_____in the south of England, there is usually little.

When a student from a warm country goes to England in autumn for the first time, he feels___at first. There are often dark_____grey sky and cold rains in England in this season. Most students from warm countries don't like this. But_____they can wait, they can enjoy the beauty of snow in one or two months._____are uncomfortable and few people like them. Snow is_____though it is cold, it is also beautiful. Perhaps,after several dark mornings, the student___one day, and there is a lot of light in his room. He thinks "Is it so late?" and jumps out of bed. But no, it is not very late. He looks out of the window and there is snow on the ground and on the houses and_______The light of his room comes from clean, beautiful snow.

As we know, at the opening ceremony of Beijing Winter Olympics, the traditional Chinese 24 solar terms (节气) were used as the countdown, starting with “rain” and ending with “the beginning of spring”. It was greatly_______as “Chinese romance”.

More than 2,000 years ago, ancient Chinese people observed (观察) the sun’s motion (移动), and divided the traditional lunar calendar into 24 solar terms. Summer Solstice (至) and Winter Solstice are the two days of the year with the_______and shortest amount of daylight. While Spring Equinox (which is called chunfen) and Autumn Equinox are days with the most balanced amount of daytime and nighttime._______these four points, a year is divided to four parts: Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter.

There is a Chinese saying that_______, “The whole year’s work depends on a good start in spring.” As China has long been an agricultural (农业的) country, for Chinese people, spring means the beginning of a whole year’s farming.

The Spring Equinox in Chinese usually falls_______March 20 or March 21 every year. People practice this tradition to celebrate the_______of spring. It is believed that if someone can make the egg stand, he will have good luck in the future. So making an egg upright is a_______game across the country during the Spring Equinox. Also, it’s a good time to fly kites. In ancient times, people did not have good medical resources._______they wrote their medical problems on a paper kite to ask for good_______. When the kite was in the air, people would________the line to let the paper kite fly away, which means the flying away of diseases.

Nowadays, the 24 solar terms are still useful, which remind people to adapt to (适应) the changes in the seasons through suitable foods and cultural ceremonies.