There are more and more foreigners come to China for Chinese language learning in recent years. The top concern of those learners should be how to learn Mandarin quickly and efficiently. Reading is a good way recommended to improve the comprehensive Chinese language ability. Of course, there are also a variety of methods to practice the reading skill. In the following parts, some words are given for you to choose the proper ones fill in the blanks of the sentences according to the contexts.
First of all, the words such as 唤醒、海滨、童年、轻缓、偏爱are provided then there are some sentences with blanks are needed to be filled. In order to understand the sentences better, the first thing that the learners need to do is to know the basic meanings of those given words. The meanings of words above are respectively to wake up, coast or seashore, childhood, gentle and light, prefer to.
After knowing the meanings of those words, it will be much easier when you read the sentences with blanks. Let’s move our attention to the sentence 今年夏天天气很炎热，所以很多人都去（ ）度假 which carries the meaning of spending holiday in somewhere because of the hot weather. That is to say, the words filled should be a noun indicates a certain place, which should be 海滨.
Another sentence should be completed is 在我（）的时候，每天清晨，妈妈都在（）的音乐声中把我（）, which seems complicated. The clause of the first blank means “when I was…” or ” in my time of …”. The second blank should be an adjective to describe the music while the last one should be a verb. Then, learners who study Mandarin Chinese may choose the three words 童年、轻缓and唤醒 in order, completing the meaning of “In my childhood, my mother woke me up in the gentle music”.
For the sentence一般来说，父母总是（ ）最小的孩子, it intends to express a certain act or feeling that the parents do to the child. 偏爱is a proper word to fill the blank. It can function as both noun and verb. but it should be a verb in this sentence.