[填空题]Although China has one of the most ancient lexicographical
traditions, we know much about the etymology of the more recent (1)
Chinese words. My goal in undertaking this study was therefore
to establish the entity and characteristic of lexical events (2)
between 1840 and 1898, and show that Modern Chinese lexicon is
not simple the fruit of the linguistic experiments that took place (3)
in context of the literary movements of the early 20th century (4)
but in fact developed thanks both to its traditional base and to the
contribution of lexical inventions of the 19th century. With
the starting assumption that languages react external stimuli, I (5)
drew particular attention to the impact on Chinese lexicon of (6)
those works written by Chinese either by foreigne

[填空题]Although China has one of the most ancient lexicographical
traditions, we know much about the etymology of the more recent (1)
Chinese words. My goal in undertaking this study was therefore
to establish the entity and characteristic of lexical events (2)
between 1840 and 1898, and show that Modern Chinese lexicon is
not simple the fruit of the linguistic experiments that took place (3)
in context of the literary movements of the early 20th century (4)
but in fact developed thanks both to its traditional base and to the
contribution of lexical inventions of the 19th century. With
the starting assumption that languages react external stimuli, I (5)
drew particular attention to the impact on Chinese lexicon of (6)
those works written by Chinese either by foreigne

[填空题]What festival is the most important one in China
（）is the most important festival in China.

[填空题]The most important one of Jazz’s characteristics is the two "blue" notes.

[简答题]Lakey is the most beautiful one of the group of girls. She is also the most intelligent and the most resourceful one of them. (sentence with parallel structure)

[填空题]The Chicago Cultural Center has one of the largest Tiffany designs in the world, whose height is about ______.

[填空题]Water Warnings
Urgent Tasks for China
Water has long been considered an inexhaustible resource. But China is facing an unmistakable water crisis, and recently, because of increasingly hard-to-miss symptoms of the shortage, people in all parts of society are beginning to realize just how precious commodity water really is.
At first glance, it seems like there should be enough: China’s total supply of freshwater resources ranks sixth in the world, after Brazil, Russia, Canada, the United States and Indonesia. But despite this apparent advantage, China’s per capita water resources fall far below the world average of 7,600 cubic meters per-capita due to the country’s enormous population size. China’s per-capita amount of 2,200 cubic meters is expected to decrease further as the country continues its rapid economic growth and population expansion.
"Without excessively exploiting underground water, China has a water gap of nearly 40 bill

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