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Lantern Festival 2022, Olympic mascots

dialogue 1

Jingjing: Mark, are you doing _______ for_______?

Mark: Staying home and _______, watching a few more_______.　What about you?

Jingjing: The same.　I miss the way ________ in southern China, though.

Mark: What's _______ about it?

Jingjing: Lanterns, _______.　I mean, in _______ a lot of lanterns________ as _______, while farther south people more often_________.

Mark: I've seen that!　I even________ as it was coming ______.

Jingjing: Did you ________?

Mark: Almost.　It ________.

Jingjing: I guess it ______ in places where there are lots of_________.

Mark: Yeah.　To be frank, I don't_________, like we had ______.

Jingjing: Those were sure _________.

Mark: I remember all the smoke________, and bits of______everywhere.

Jingjing: This year was really _______.　In Beijing, we had__________, blue sunny days, and________.

Mark: My wife and I went out yesterday and really _________, then________ to watch an Olympic event.

Jingjing: What _______?

Mark: _________.

Jingjing: I don't________.

Mark: There were lots of things to ________.　But the ____ are so long that I _______ the sport.

Jingjing: I heard that _______ is________in that event.

Mark: It is, because there are a lot of ________, each with a________.　You might say that about any event.　But with _______, it's surprising _________ almost everyone is.

Jingjing: Did you_______ the snowboarding events?

Mark: _________!　There's another sport which is turning out to be so_________ that too many ________ are _________.

dialogue 2

Jingjing: Mark, what's your_______ of these 2022 Winter Olympic Games?

Mark: I think they're amazing.　I've_________.　The________—for skiing and _______.

Jingjing: All those________ add to the ________.

Mark: For one of the _______, there was even a classical Chinese house, for ________.

Jingjing: What do you think about_______?

Mark: I like that _______.　That gives the winter Olympic events and the Paralympic Games ________.

Jingjing: Do you think_______?

Mark: Definitely—that's _______ I noticed.　What are they called—besides_______?

Jingjing: The lantern _______ Shuey Rong Rong.　The panda ____ Bing Dwen Dwen.

Mark: Those are ______.　What's that _______ Dwen Dwen's body?

Jingjing: That's _______, Mark.　Can't you tell?

Mark: I didn't _______, because I knew I could ask you.

Jingjing: Designers ________ the idea of bingtang hulu, but wanted something with more_________.

Mark: Pandas are_______ China; but, more people know them.

Jingjing: They _________ more than 6000 designs.

Mark: Whoa, that's _______.　Who_______?

Jingjing: Cao Xue and_________ from the School of Visual Arts and Design at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts.

Mark: I'm glad_______.　Those are really______.

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