短文填词
阅读下面短文，根据以下提示：1）汉语提示；2）首字母提示；3）语境提示，在每个空格内填入一个适当的英语单词，并将该词完整地写在右边相对应的横线上。所填单词要求意义准确，拼写正确。
Dear Ms Smith,
This is Li Hua, monitor of Class Two, Senior Three of XinHua
High School. ________ you may have known, our school is planning 76.
to hold an art festival from December 12th to 18th , ________ (持续) a 77.
