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　　In the Tang Dynasty scholars had to be poets. Their readers were not only people of high ❶social position but also common people. Poets ❷recited poems, women singers sang poems and other ranks of people, including old women and children, read Tang poems. This atmosphere ❸affected foreigners who visited the country at that time. As a result, Tang poetry ❹was introduced to some adjacent countries, like Japan and Vietnam.

　　Tang poetry is a most brilliant page ❺in_the_history_of ancient Chinese literature. It's a miracle in the cultural history of mankind. The Tang Dynasty was a ❻powerful empire with a vast territory. It inherited Chinese ❼civilization that went back to ancient times, was combined with the best of other cultures and ❽adopted the benefits of other nations in the world. Tang poetry wasn't the only ❾spiritual wealth created by the Tang Dynasty people. Philosophy and religion, handwriting and painting, and music and dance all gained new peaks of development. Tang poetry, however, was the jewel in the crown and its greatest ❿achievement.

课下作业（二） 高考语篇提能练

　　Ⅰ.完形填空

　　(2019·长春高三检测)I learned this lesson a couple of years ago. That day, I took a __1__ to Grand Central Station. We were driving in the __2__ lane when, all of a sudden, a black car jumped out of a parking space right __3__ us. My taxi driver slammed (猛踩) on his brakes and almost __4__ the car's back end by just ten __5__！

　　The driver of the other car, who almost caused a big accident, __6__ his car and started yelling bad __7__ at us. The taxi driver just smiled and __8__ at the guy. And I mean he was __9__. So, I said，"Why did you just do that? This guy almost __10__ your car and sent us to __11__！" And this is when my taxi driver told me what I now call "the law of the garbage truck"．

　　Many people are like garbage trucks. They __12__ around full of garbage, full of frustration, full of __13__， and full of disappointment. As their garbage __14__ up, they need a place to dump it, and if you agree, they'll dump it on you. When someone wants to dump their __15__ on you, don't take it __16__. You just smile, wave, wish them well, and __17__. You'll be happy at what you do.

　　I started thinking, how often do I let garbage trucks run right over me? And how often do I take their garbage and __18__ it to other people? That day I said，"I'm not going to do that anymore."

What about you? What will happen in your life if you let more garbage __19__ pass you by? Life is too short to wake up in the morning with __20__.