1. What word is missing from the sentence "Three ups and seven downs, nine..."?

  • Precarious
  • Drifting
  • Hardship
  • Vast
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"Three ups and seven downs, nine turbulent journeys" is an idiom used to describe the life and fate of a person who encounters many difficulties, hardships, and ups and downs.

2. Fill in the missing word in the sentence "When you arrive... you follow the local customs, when you enter a house you follow the local customs"?

  • Subject
  • Family
  • Giang
  • Smell
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"When you arrive at a house, you must follow its customs and traditions; when you cross a river, you must know how to choose the right section, whether it's shallow or deep." More broadly, this is a piece of advice about how to live and behave appropriately, flexibly, and in a way that suits new circumstances and environments.

3. What word is missing from the sentence "Eating out of politeness while sitting idle,... also leads to ruin"?

  • Dong Mountain
  • copper jar
  • Copper mine
  • Non Ngang
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"Eating and sitting idly, even a mountain of money will eventually crumble" is a proverb that both criticizes and warns those who are idle and unwilling to work extra hours; even a mountain of money (money used to be minted in copper) will eventually run out.

4. Fill in the missing word in the sentence "Chop two teeth together... the tongue"?

  • Ice
  • Pang
  • Moon
  • John
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In the phrase "Chop two teeth and fasten the moon to the tongue," the word "moon" is an archaic term referring to a yoke. This was a device made from two large, thick rectangular planks, with two semicircular holes carved into them, to be fastened around the neck of a criminal convicted of a serious crime.

This saying can be roughly understood as meaning that when the teeth close, the tongue cannot speak, implying that people should be careful about their words and avoid uttering things that could cause trouble.

5. What word is missing from the sentence "The north wind blows gently,... when it whistles, it's cold"?

  • Bittern
  • Frog
  • Crane
  • Crow
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The idiom "When the north wind blows gently and cranes cry, it's cold" refers to weather forecasting experience, where hearing cranes cry when the north wind blows signals that the weather is about to turn cold.