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Major Cold 大寒
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Major Cold, the 24th solar term, begins this year on Jan 20 and ends on Feb 3. It is the 1. ______(six) solar term in winter, and the last one of the 24 solar terms.
Major Cold is 2. ______(general) considered the coldest period of the year. During this period, people make adjustments to their diet 3. ______ preparing for the Spring Festival, such as eating glutinous rice(糯米) and mutton, to keep their body warm.
During this time, it's also important for people to buy goods 4. ______(welcome) in the New Year, with distinct differences 5. ______ the north and the south. Beef and mutton are the 6. ______(important) food for the New Year in the north. No matter what cooking method 7. ______(use), it is an essential meat dish on the tables in China's northwest during the Spring Festival.
Preserved meat is an important part of the festival in the south every year. Different 8. ______(province) in the south also have their own preferences. Among them, preserved meat and the ways it is produced vary in Guangdong, Sichuan, and Hunan. People 9. ______(live) near the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River mainly prefer preserved fish. However, in Jiangsu and Zhejiang , rice cake is 10. ______ must.
日本小型探测器实现登月但没电了
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Japan on Friday became the fifth country to land a spacecraft on the moon. The mission's aim was to carry out an exact landing and 1. ______(collect) information about the Earth's only natural satellite.
Japan's space agency, 2. ______(know) as JAXA, said its Smart Lander for Investigating the Moon, called SLIM, landed on the moon's surface at 15:20 UTC Friday. It then re-established communication 3. ______ Earth. But its solar panels were not able to create electricity, possibly 4. ______ they are pointed in the wrong direction.
Space officials are attempting to save power by turning off 5. ______(equip) like its heaters. But SLIM's battery only lasts "a few hours."
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