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（枣子）, 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.

参考答案及解析:

1. refer后加to

固定搭配refer to…as…，意为把……称作……。

2. that - /

Because表示原因后接从句时不需加that。

3. unabundant -abundant

根据上文已经说了中秋节也被认为是丰收节，所以食物应该是很丰富的，故将unabundant改为abundant。

4. relax -relaxation

relax是动词，此处需要名词作for的宾语，所以将relax改成相应的名词relaxation。

5. appears -appear

这句话是倒装句，真正的主语是后面的some special customs，所以谓语动词要用复数形式。

6. and - but

7. relative - relatives

8. resembles - resemble

这句话的主语是the round moon cakes，所以将谓语动词resembles改为resemble。

9. hundreds后加of

固定搭配hundreds of成百上千的。

10. cakes后加which或that

这句话出现了compare和are served两个谓语，根据句子的意思compare才是真正的谓语，而are served….则应该是修饰cakes的定语从句，又因为从句缺少主语，所以加上that或which。