The joyous Mid-Autumn Festival is celebrated on the fifteenth

day of the eighth moon, around the time of the autumn equinox（秋分）.

Many refer it simply as the "Fifteenth of the Eighth Moon". This day ___1____

is also considered a harvest festival because that fruits, vegetables and ___2____

grain have been harvested by this time and food is unabundant. With ___3____

delinquent accounts settled prior to the festival , it is a time for relax ___4___

and celebration. Together with the celebration there appears some ___5___

special customs in different parts. However, the custom of playing under

the moon is not so popular as it used to be nowadays, and it is not less ___6___

popular to enjoy the bright silver moon. Whenever the festival sets in,

people will look up at the full silver moon, drinking wine to celebrate

their happy life or thinking of their relative and friends far from home. ____7___

The round moon cakes, measuring about three inches in diameter and

one and a half inches in thickness, resembles Western fruitcakes in taste ____8____

and consistency. But nowadays, there are hundreds varieties of moon cakes __9___

on sale a month before the arrival of Moon Festival. For generations, moon

cakes have been made with sweet fillings of nuts, mashed red beans,

lotus-seed paste or Chinese dates（棗子）, wrapped in a pastry.

Sometimes a cooked egg yolk can be found in the middle of the rich tasting

dessert. People compare moon cakes to the plum pudding and fruit cakes ___10___

are served in the English holiday seasons.

參考答案及解析:

1. refer后加to

固定搭配refer to…as…，意為“把……稱作……”。

2. that - /

Because表示原因后接從句時不需加that。

3. unabundant -abundant

根據上文已經說了中秋節也被認為是豐收節，所以食物應該是很豐富的，故將unabundant改為abundant。

4. relax -relaxation

relax是動詞，此處需要名詞作for的賓語，所以將relax改成相應的名詞relaxation。

5. appears -appear

這句話是倒裝句，真正的主語是后面的some special customs，所以謂語動詞要用復數形式。

6. and - but

7. relative - relatives

8. resembles - resemble

這句話的主語是the round moon cakes，所以將謂語動詞resembles改為resemble。

9. hundreds后加of

固定搭配hundreds of“成百上千的”。

10. cakes后加which或that

這句話出現了compare和are served兩個謂語，根據句子的意思compare才是真正的謂語，而are served….則應該是修飾cakes的定語從句，又因為從句缺少主語，所以加上that或which。