阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（不多于3个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

    The giant panda (love) by people throughout the world. Chinese scientists (recent) had a chance to study a wild female panda with a newborn baby. She was a very (care) mother. For 25 days, she never left her baby, not even to find something (eat)! She would not let any other pandas come near. She licked the baby constantly to keep it clean. Any smell might attract dangerous (animal) that would try to eat the little comforting pats. The mother held the baby in her front paws much the way a human does.   it cried, she rocked it back and forth and gave it little comforting pats. The mother continued to care for the young panda more than two years. By that time, the panda no longer needed (it) mother for food. However, it stayed with her and learned about the ways of the forest. Then, after two and a half years, the mother (drive) the young panda away . It was time for her to have a new baby, it was also time for the young panda to be independent.

The museum serves as a (memory) to the millions who lost their lives in the war.

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Ways to Be More Curious

Buried in the same daily routines and familiar surroundings, some people may lead an unhappy life.  It's a desire to know how and why and a combination of intelligence and hunger for new things. Here are some tips on how to improve curiosity.

You should communicate with others. There is a to-do list on Leonardo da Vinci's notebook. Out of the fifteen tasks on the list, at least eight involve consulting with others. Montaigne once wrote of how travel to different countries allows us to "polish our brains".

Why not visit a library? It allows us to meet other unexpected information. You can enter it without purpose.And just follow your curiosity to explore unexpected knowledge. The more you explore, the greater your curiosity will be.

With ideas stored in mind, you can mix and re-mix ideas and themes, making new findings and spotting unusual patterns, until a creative breakthrough is achieved, which strengthens your curiosity. Anyone stopping learning for himself because he can search online later is making himself stupid.

Don't just focus on puzzles but on mysteries. Puzzles have clear answers. Once the missing information is found, it's not a puzzle anymore, with curiosity fading away.Because the answers often depend on a complex set of factors (因素), both known and unknown. The most beautiful thing we can experience is mysteries. In the process of finding the answers, they are the source of curiosity.

A. Start to search for the books you want or need.

B. Unlike puzzles, mysteries don't need answers.

C. Mysteries have questions that can't be answered clearly.

D. And that's how Leonardo polished his brain to remain curious.

E. Allow books or things on the bookshelves freely to attract your eye.

F. Putting ideas in your head rather than searching online plays an important part.

G. But we can achieve happiness and more meaning in life if we increase our curiosity.

Do it right now._________, it will be too late.

Keep it in mind that everyone has(strong) and weaknesses.

假如你是李华，你的外国网友Tom打算暑期来盐城旅游，现在他想对盐城有一个初步的了解。请你结合实际情况给他回信，内容包括:

1）对他表示欢迎；

2）举例介绍盐城的旅游或文化特色。

注意:

1）词数80左右；

2）可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

3）信的开头已为你写好。

Dear Tom,

    ……

我们在生活中常常忽视父母，认为他们为我们所做的一切都理所当然。

We often ignore our parents in life, .

Even though she has many         , I         any less.

—I have been told that our visit to Mount Tai will be cancelled because a very important foreign delegation (代表团) will be there.

—Oh, no! ______.

He stood up and looked forward to _______ what has happened over there and found there was a cinema around ______ he could see a film being shown.

短文改错。

Dear Jim,

    I'd like to tell you something more about our school sports meet. It was holding on Oct. 6th, it was a fine day. There were over 1,000 students and teachers attended it. Wang Lin, a student from my class won the 100-meters race. He finished the race in 12.6 seconds and broke the school record. The sports meet was really success. That was because we were all trying to do my best. Although I was not one of the winner, I was proud of that we had done.

    Looking forward to receive your letter.

Yours,

 Li Ping

You should allow a little time after a meal for the food to (消化).

The population of China is larger than ________ of the United States.

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    Learning Chinese could be one of the most important decisions you ever make. Chinese is becoming the language to learn in the 21^st century. With the world's largest population and a rapidly growing middle class, China stands to become the engine of the world's economy in the coming years. This will make learning Chinese very important for people in many industries, or for those of us who wish to visit China or learn from its culture and history.

    There is an ongoing effort to modernize the writing system and standardize the language. An increasing number of people learning Chinese are learning the Mandarin, so unless you absolutely need to learn another dialect (such as Cantonese), be sure you are studying Mandarin.

For native English speakers Chinese is one of the most difficult and most different languages to learn. The vocabulary is wholly unfamiliar and unlike anything we know. In addition, in the Chinese tone system, words are spoken in rising or falling tones, which help to distinguish between them. Furthermore, there is the Chinese writing system— a collection of thousands of individual ideograms (表意文字), or symbols, which represent a word or an idea. These ideograms have no phonetic value—that is to say, we can't tell how the word is pronounced by how it is written. There is a method to present written Chinese in a phonetic script called pinyin. If you are learning Chinese, you'll be working with this pinyin system, but the beauty of the traditional writing system shouldn't be passed up. All these factors make learning Chinese difficult for us. Yet, for a determined learner, there's always a way to overcome it.

Don't worry! She will (安排) everything before the guests arrive.

阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项(A, B; C 和 D)中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

    Have you ever wondered about changing your life for the better? There are many ways for us to live a healthy lifestyle. So it seems1 that although we know a lot about 2 to live healthily, many people continue to do things which may be 3 for their health.

    There are many parts of our lifestyles which allow us to live healthily. For example, we all know about the importance of 4healthy foods and doing enough exercise and physical activities in our daily life. In rich countries, good-quality fresh foods and sports facilities are 5 to the people, so it should be easy to 6 healthy living habits.7, today there are things which prevent people from having a healthy lifestyle. Industry and traffic have8serious environmental pollution. What's more, we spend a lot of time sitting before 9, and this often means we have10 time for activities which keep us fit. There are many people who spend many hours sitting in front of computers working, studying or playing computer games. 11, many people do not eat the 12 food.

    All in all, although we have plenty of chances to follow a healthy lifestyle, in 13, we often choose a less healthy lifestyle. It's true that 14lifestyles have good and bad aspects, but the lifestyle we choose15 us. So, live healthily and find your best self.