A classmate of 3 (I) whose home is on the edge of Turpan Basin in Xinjiang told me his home has two camels; he said you could imagine a camel’s appetite, for it can slowly swallow dozens of kilograms of hay (干草). I asked him 4 camels eat hay, not green grass. He said the camel is a kind of animal with ___5___ strong sense of suffering, 6 (fear) its master letting it travel through the desert the next day, and the hay in its stomach is more hunger-resistant 7 green grass.
The camel has the best tolerance. Unfortunately, many people can only see a camel’s outstanding performance, but few understand its 8 (prepare) made for it.
Life, 9 a camel traveling through the desert, 10 (need) the adequate accumulation, but not everyone can understand it.
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The truth 1 trees are vital to our life is not a secret. They provide us with food, wood and most ___2___ (important), oxygen. Now there is one more thing we can add to this list—blocking out harmful bacteria from water.
The discovery 3 (make) by a team 4 (consist) of scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and high school students 5 were seeking a natural water filter—one
that would help communities in developing countries that do not have 6 (accessible) to modern water filter systems.
The 7 (research), led by Professor Rohit Karnik, decided to turn to trees for help because they could allow liquid to flow through, while blocking out air bubbles.
They began by cutting sections of tree bark from the branches of a white pine tree. The people related then tested the wood's filtering ability by pouring water containing red dye particles of different sizes through. 8 their amazement, they found that it was effective in trapping all the articles. ___9___ (encourage), the team conducted 10 experiment, this time with water that contained bacteria. Sure enough, the sapwood held back 99% of the bacteria, allowing only 1% to flow through.
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When I was about ten years old, I remember my father coming into the room, looking terribly pleased with himself, to tell us that we were going to have 1 brother or sister. It was really beyond our 2 (expect), so we were both taken aback. I was actually delighted, 3 my brother was quite different. He was younger than me, and I don't think he was too impressed with the idea. He has a tendency to worry 4
things, and I think he was terrified by the fact 5 he might not be the center of attention all the time.
When the big day came, 6 (luck) there were problems, and my mother had to stay in hospital. My brother and I weren't allowed 7 (visit), and we all were worried and had no idea 8 to do. We tried to calm each other down, but basically we were so upset that something awful 9 (happen). It all worked out well in the end though, and when I was finally able to see my little sister, I was happy to see 10 was so tiny, and special. And we all love her to bits.
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The giant panda loves bamboo. An adult panda requires kilograms of bamboo, which it ___1___ (hungry) pulls out with its powerful paws, to satisfy its daily needs. Wild pandas live only in the high bamboo forests of Central China. These mountain forests are cool and wet—just as pandas like it. In the summer, they may climb as high as 4000 meters to help themselves to bamboo 2 (grow) at higher altitudes.
Frequently, pandas 3 (see) eating in a relaxed sitting position, with their back legs stretched out before them. __4__ they may appear inactive, they are in fact skilled tree-climbers and efficient swimmers.
Giant pandas are unsociable. They have a highly developed sense of smell that males use 5 (avoid) each other and to find females for mating in the spring. After a five-month pregnancy, a female gives birth ___6___ a cub. The blind baby pandas weigh only 142 grams and cannot crawl 7 they reach three months of age. 8 are born white, and develop their much loved colouring later.
There are only about 1000 giant pandas left in 9 wild, with perhaps another 100 in zoos. Because they are so rare, much of 10 we know about pandas comes from studying these zoo animals.
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Kenneth Williams is considered one of the greatest British comedy actors of the twentieth century. His voice is his outstanding gift; it virtually defined him as a 1 (perform). Williams would often spend weeks ___2___ (decide) how a character should sound and this “voice” determined his approach to each role. ___3___ even after he had chosen his “voice”, he didn't always stick to it. 4 the middle of a single performance, he would sometimes change 5 tone or speed of his speech, for greater comic effect. While still a beginner, he felt he should be given the freedom to do as he wished on stage and often 6 (ignore) his directors’ instructions. This greatly annoyed some directors, who refused 7 (work) with him. Sometimes, he would
completely ignore the script (台词) and make up his own lines during performance. Although he was proud of his ability to go “off script”, he became extremely angry 8 other actors tried to do the same, arguing that they were simply not good at it. Williams loved to make his audience laugh. When performing a scene 9 there were few laughs, he would often make up 10 own jokes, which always entertained the audience, but sometimes also ruined the scene.
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French and American doctors have done an operation together in which the doctors were outside the operating room. This kind of operation 1 (know) as a robotic operation.
Doctor Marescaux did the operation in 2 office in New York City last month. However, a sixty-year-old woman patient was in a hospital in Strasbourg, France.
Two doctors in Strasbourg got the patient ready. 3 placed medical tools and a small video camera in her stomach. Meanwhile, Doctor Marescaux in New York watched her on a video screen and then sent messages to the robot machine 4 the computer. The robot moved the tools that cut the woman's gall bladder away. 5 (short) after the operation, the woman made a full recovery and left the hospital two days later.
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