Ⅲ.短文填空
(2025·德阳模拟)
请阅读下面语篇,在空白处填入适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式(每空一词)。
Night schools are nothing new today. Li Mei is 1. engineer in the day. But in the evening, she becomes a student at a night school in Chengdu. She is trying new 2. (hobby) with her 5-year-old son, such as cooking and singing. She used to spend evenings 3. (watch) her son play in the park. Now she can try new things with him at a night school.
A growing number of Chinese people go to night schools. They can learn 4. (colour) things, from art 5. sports, for free. Young people 6. want to look for new skills and friends go to night schools.
In the 1980s, many people 7. (go) to night schools for further education. However, night schools were gone because more people got higher education. Some new night schools came to Shanghai last autumn. Then more night schools 8. (quick) appeared in other cities. For example, Miss
Wang from Deyang thinks that night schools are good places for her 9. (make) friends. "I used to spend much of my time alone. I have felt more connected with modern society since I became a student of the night school," she said.
Young people wish to make themselves better so that 10. (they) daily lives can be meaningful. That has made night schools develop rapidly.

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