The Mid-Autumn festival is a (01) harvest festival celebrated by Chinese, dating back over 3,000

years to moon worship in China’s Shang Dynasty. In Malaysia and Singapore, it is also sometimes referred to as the
Lantern Festival or Mooncake Festival. The Mid-Autumn Festival is (02) on the 15th day of the
eighth month in the Chinese calendar. It is a (03) when the moon is supposedly as its fullest and
roundest. The traditional food of this festival is the mooncake, of which there are many different (04)

The Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the few most important holidays in the Chinese calendar, the others being Chinese
New Year and Winter Solstice, and is a legislated (05) in several countries. Farmers celebrate the
end of the summer harvesting season on this date. Also, traditional on this day, Chinese family members and friends will

gather to (06) the bright mid-autumn harvest moon and eat moon cakes and pomelos under the

moon together.
According to a widespread folk (07) , the Mid-Autumn Festival commemorated an uprising in China

against the Mongol rulers of the Yuan Dynasty in the 14 century. As group gatherings were banned, it was

(08) to make plans for a rebellion. Noted that the Mongols did not eat mooncakes, Liu Bowen, the

advisor to the Chinese rebel leader Zhu Yuanzhang, came up with the idea of timing the rebellion to coincide with the

Mid-Autumn Festival. He sought permission to distribute thousands of (09) to the Chinese

residents in the city to bless the longevity of the mongol emperor. Inside each cake, however, (10)

inserted a piece of paper with message “Kill the Mongols on the 15th day of the 8th month” On the night of the Moon

Festival, the rebels successfully attacked and overthrew the government.

1. drag the central argument paine presents and its two claims to complete the chart. argument claims america may have flourished more had it not been under the power of any european country. america may have flourished under britain in the past, but there is no guarantee that it will continue to flourish in the future. america will continue to flourish as long as the essential food products it sells are bought and eaten in europe. the american colonies will no longer flourish when britain makes war against them. britain's king has shown himself to be prejudiced against the colonies, rather than wanting them to flourish.

2.select the sentence in this passage that can be classified as a false statement.

although few humans per year are attacked by polar bears, any individual attack can be terrifying and even fatal. the warming of arctic regions has allowed the intrusion of humans into the polar bears’ habitat, increasing the danger of harmful contacts. remaining alert and using precautions can humans avoid a negative encounter with a polar bear. traveling together and staying close to the group can humans avoid bear attacks. certain weapons, including nonlethal ones such as pepper spray, are effective against polar bears. once a bear has decided to attack, however, nothing can be done.

3.select the sentence in this passage that demonstrates the fallacy of making an extreme either-or claim.

the civil war was the bloodiest conflict in the history of the united states. more than 600,000 soldiers lost their lives. the fighting took place in many different cities and throughout the countryside. the wounded often suffered acute pain while in the field hospitals. they all should have asked for better care. william hammond, the surgeon general of the union army, created a new system of sanitary field care. if people do not accept hammond as the most important person from the civil war, they have no understanding of the war.

gandhi had lead a successful campaign of nonviolent civil resistance to british rule, which led to india's independence. good luck

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