I 【小题1】 two months with an American family last year when I studied in America.

It is said, “The best house is in America, the best wife is in Japan, and the best food is in China.” So I took pride and 【小题2】 in cooking “the best food” for my American family. Each day, regardless of my poor skill of cooking, I would do something in a new way: change the dishes’ colour, the meat’s type or the soup’s taste. Thus, my American friends could discover the joy of 【小题3】 Chinese food. Because of my “good” job, I was often rewarded by their expressions of appreciation (感激) such as “very 【小题4】”, “excellent” and so on.

But the joke was here: yesterday, I cooked Sichuan style 【小题5】 for dinner. I was pleased with my achievement (成就).

When all the family members 【小题6】 at the table, they first looked surprisedly at the fish, and then looked at me. “Why does the fish have its head?” they asked. “It’s terrible!”

Beautiful or 【小题7】? I don’t know. But I do know that the fish head is delicious. The head is the best part of fish. In China, only the respectable (值得尊敬的) guest can have the special honour of 【小题8】 it.

Another interesting thing is: the American friends often told me to “help yourself” as they brought some fruit or other things. According to Chinese tradition, I would simply smile without actually helping myself to any of the food. On the contrary (相反), I said “help yourself” to them whenever I brought some fruit. Guess what? No matter how 【小题9】 food I bought or how often I made the offer to them, as long as it was nice to their taste, they never hesitated (犹豫) to use their 【小题10】 to “help themselves” until all was finished.

Jenny is my good friend. She is a doctor. She 【小题1】 in a big hospital. She is very busy（忙碌的）every day. 【小题2】 she gets home today, she finds there is not 【小题3】 to eat at home. She wants to do some 【小题4】. She goes to a shop near her home. She 【小题5】 some bread and milk. She also buys five 【小题6】 of eggs and some bottles of juice. Jenny likes 【小题7】 food very much. She buys some jiaozi. Then she comes 【小题8】 home. She begins to boil（煮）jiaozi at once. She has dinner at half 【小题9】 seven. She is very 【小题10】 to eat jiaozi. It is very nice. She plans（打算）to eat jiaozi often after work.

Tea is one of the three most popular drinks in the world. It has a history of about 5,000 years. It’s reported that tea is 【小题1】 in more than 90 countries and regions (地区) and enjoyed by 2 million people. On November 27, 2019, the United Nations (UN) designated (指定) May 21 as International Tea Day. The UN’s 【小题2】 showed the importance of tea in people’s daily life.

As the birthplace of tea and the 【小题3】 tea-producing country in the world, China has always paid a lot of attention to the development of the tea industry. This is the 【小题4】 year that China has celebrated International Tea Day. To celebrate the day, many 【小题5】 will take place in different places in China.