(一)(2025·南通市海门区模拟)
Do you wear glasses? If yes, would you like to have surgery(手术) so you don't need to wear them any more? Many believe that surgery can solve the problem 1. c，but that's not always the case.
Most people wear glasses 2. b they are nearsighted. When we see things, light comes into our eyes and focuses on the retina(视网膜). But for people with nearsightedness, light focuses in front of the retina. As a result, their eyes can't work 3. p. Things far away seem blurry but close things seem clear.
Surgery can 4. t this. Xu Jiayi, a 19 - year - old student from Beijing, had the surgery three months ago, during the winter vacation. "After the surgery, I can see very 5. c. Life is more convenient and comfortable 6. w having to wear glasses."
However, the process is not as easy as you might think. Xu said that her eyes hurt badly right after the surgery. She needed to use medicine for at least three months. "At first, there were four types of medicines. Then the 7. n increased to six," she said. These medicines help the eyes get better and prevent eye problems.
Moreover, if you don't look after your eyes well, nearsightedness may 8. r even after surgery. "As I use my eyes too much both at work and at home, things have started to look unclear to me 9. a," said Du Anni, 32, who had the surgery nine years ago.
Instead of fixing nearsightedness, the surgery just 10. a you to take off your glasses. Wei Wenbin, an expert from the Beijing Tongren Hospital, said in a speech that the surgery couldn't fix the changes in the eyes' structure.

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(二)(2024·南通市海门区模拟；传统文化)
Lixia, or the Start of Summer, is the seventh of the 24 Chinese Solar Terms, which fell on May 5 this year. It symbolizes the passing from 1. s to summer.
With the heat of summer, plants and crops will begin to grow much 2. f ______ . So farmers are always happy to 3. w ______ the arrival of Lixia. This is the best time of the year to plant early rice in the southern part of China. There are plenty of old sayings which are used to warn people not to be lazy during this 4. p ______ of time.
In China, people 5. c the day of Lixia in different ways. For example, in some places people cook "Five - Coloured Rice". Usually, people use five kinds of beans—the mung bean, red bean, yellow bean, black bean and green bean to make it. It 6. s for people's good wishes or a colourful life. People also have the custom of eating some different kinds of fresh fruits and vegetables. On the day of Lixia, children will wear a bag with an egg 7. a their necks in some areas. This is believed to help keep them 8. s and healthy. Other traditions of Lixia 9. i the singing of beautiful folk songs. And people also weigh themselves on Lixia. 10. W the summer passes, they'll weigh themselves again to see how many pounds they have lost during the hot season.

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