【推荐3】Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

The First Space Cat

In a few weeks, space scientists will celebrate a remarkable event — the 60th anniversary of the launch of the first cat into space, an astronautical success that has never been repeated.

In the early 60s, dogs and monkeys were the animals usually used by scientists to find out exactly     1    dangerous the conditions were in outer space. And they were also used to assess if humans     2     survive trips beyond the edge of Earth’s atmosphere.

A total of 14 street cats     3     (gather) at France’s space agency for selection as cat astronauts, but the cats were not given names on purpose in order to prevent scientists from becoming too fond of them. The cat selected to travel to space was simply known     4    C341. C341 flew on a French rocket in October 1963, taking it to a place     5    no cat had gone before.

Then,     6    the news of its flight was announced on 18 October 1963, the French press decided this cat had to have its name. They picked “Felix” after a cartoon cat character, only     7     (discover) that C341 was female, so her name was then adjusted to “Felicette” as a result. In putting Felicette in one of its rockets, France added a new species to the list of animals that scientists     8     (send) into space before. Previously, two garden spiders, Anita and Arebella, had been taken to the Skylab     9    (orbit) around the moon.

“In the 60s,     10    (concern) about the possible danger for a human to be in outer space, scientists and engineers primarily undertook animal space flights to see if they suffered or their lives were threatened by the weightlessness or increased radiation or other effects they might experience up there,” said astronomer Jake Foster at the Royal Observatory Greenwich. “The fact that they did not fail paved the way for humans to begin journeys into space.”

【推荐1】阅读下面短文，根据短文内容填空。在未给提示词的空白处仅填写1个恰当的单词，在给出提示词的空白处用括号内所给词的正确形式填空。

Nina has run marathons in 32 countries. All of her runs have a guiding purpose: to call attention     1     global water issues. Nina recently finished her year-long series of runs in Chicago,     2     thousands were attending a water conference.She called for action     3    (address)the struggles of people around the world     4    (face) “too little water or too dirty water”. Her efforts have encouraged others to take part by running through a global campaign called“Run Blue”.

【推荐3】阅读下面短文, 在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

A new record-high number of black-necked cranes, a species under first-class state     1     (protect) in Southwest China’s Yunnan province     2    (monitor) during the wintering period, since the Yunnan Dashanbao National Nature Reserve was established in 1990. The     3     (high) number of 2, 260 migratory black-necked cranes has been spotted. The rare cranes begin their wintering at the reserve around Oct. 31 every year.     4     total number of overwintering black-necked cranes in the reserve reached 1, 926 in 2021.

The reserve,     5     (locate) in the Zhaoyang district of Zhaotong city, is the most significant wintering habitat     6     transfer station for migratory black-necked cranes on the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau. It also boasts China’s largest quantity distribution per unit area of the species.

Over recent years, the reserve has made a determined effort     7     (implement) conservation measures, such     8     wetland protection and restoration, and the construction of food source bases,     9     will steadily improve its ecological environment for migratory birds.

During the past three years, an average of over 1, 500 black-necked cranes were spotted arriving at the reserve for wintering, while the numbers of     10     migratory birds were also on the rise thanks to these local conservation efforts.