C(2023·苏州市吴中区、吴江区、相城区期末）
Chinese people have been celebrating the Mid - Autumn Festival and enjoying mooncakes for centuries. Moon cakes are in the shape of a full moon 1. ________ the Mid - Autumn night. They carry people's wishes to the families they love and miss.
There 2. ________（be）many traditional folk stories about this festival. However，most people think that the story of Chang'e is the most 3. ________（excite）. Chang'e was Hou Yi's beautiful wife. After Hou Yi 4. ________（shoot）down the nine suns，a goddess gave him magic medicine to thank him. Whoever took this could live forever，and Hou Yi planned to take it with Chang'e. However，a bad man，Pang Meng，tried to steal the medicine 5. ________ Hou Yi was not at home. Chang'e refused to give it to him and took it all. She became very light and 6. ________（fly）up to the moon. Hou Yi was so sad 7. ________ he called out her name to the moon every night. One night，he found that the moon was so bright and round that he could see his wife there. He 8. ________（quick）laid out her favourite fruits and desserts in the garden. How he 9. ________（wish）that Chang'e could come back!
After this，people started the tradition of admiring the moon and 10. ________（share）mooncakes with their families.

1. on 2. are 3. exciting 4. shot 5. when 6. flew 7. that 8. quickly 9. wished 10. sharing

D(传统文化）
Did you eat a “painting”? Sugar painting is a kind of food that is made of sugar. It is a 1. ________（tradition）Chinese art that is popular with children in China. In the parks or around the schools，we can often find people drawing sugar paintings 2. ________ a spoon.
. Sugar painting，using the syrup（糖浆）as the material，is very different from normal painting. Before painting，people need to cook the sugar in a pot. Wait until the syrup begins to cool down，and then they 3. ________（quick）draw different kinds of shapes，such as flowers，animals，and many other 4. ________（thing）. Moving the spoon full of syrup up and down，left and right，people can make sugar paintings in one go without watching pictures 5. ________ they practice over and over again.
Sugar painting has 6. ________ long history. It started from the Ming dynasty and 7. ________（become）popular in the Qing dynasty. At that time，many people made a living through sugar painting. Today，although the number of sugar painters is getting 8. ________（small）than before，some of them still hope to pass down the art. “It plays an important 9. ________（role）in my life. ”Cai Shu，the inheritor（传承人）of sugar painting，shows this art at home or even go abroad，such as Japan，Germany and so on. “I love it and keep on 10. ________（improve）my skills. I want more people to know about Chinese culture through sugar painting，”he added.

1. traditional 2. with 3. quickly 4. things 5. because 6. a 7. became 8. smaller 9. role 10. improving