【推荐1】If you’ve never heard of an egg-laying mountain, you probably don’t know about Chan Da Ya,    1     fantastic cliff (悬崖) that lays stone eggs every 30 years.

Located in China’s Guizhou Province, Chan Da Ya,    2     means “egg laying cliff”, has been puzzling geologists for decades. The cliff has a rough surface spotted with dozens of round and oval-shaped stones of various sizes. As the elements (自然环境) continue to eat away at the cliff, the harder “eggs” become even more exposed and     3     (eventual) fall out.

The egg-laying phenomenon of Chan Da Ya     4     (consider) unique, so geologists who hope to come up with an     5     (explain) have had to travel to the remote mountainous region     6     (study) it first-hand.

The local people have known about the egg-laying cliff for generations, and many of     7     (they) frequently visit it to touch the “god eggs” for good luck. In recent years, Chan Da Ya     8     (become) so popular as a tourist destination that most of the eggs have been sold     9     profit. There are only about 70 eggs in Gulu today, and any new ones ready to fall off from the cliff are often stolen by treasure hunters.

    10     Chan Da Ya is the largest egg-laying cliff on Mount Gandeng, it is certainly not the only one.

【推荐2】There is a good new for astrophiles. The last full moon of 2017 is going to appear a little bigger and brighter than most.

Dec. 3 will bring a supermoon,     1     (mean) a full moon that happens at perigee—the same time that the moon is closest to the earth.     2     this particular occasion, the moon will appear 7 percent larger and 16 percent brighter than usual. Not only will this be the only full supermoon of 2017,     3     it’s also going to kick off a series of three full supermoons in a row. The full moons on Jan. 2 and Jan. 31 will be super     4     (one) and even they’ll be blue super moons,     5     means the second full moon in a single month.

While some moonwatchers might be getting excited, some people think the hype（炒作）around supermoons isn’t all it     6     (regard) as being. A scientist slammed（抨击）the term last year as something made up     7     (complete) and a waste of everyone’s time. He acknowledged that supermoons would appear bigger and brighter, but that actually an amateur     8     (observe) wouldn’t notice the difference. Another scientist     9     (make) a similar     10     (argue) back in 2012.

If the supermoon makes you want to go out and appreciate the sky’s beauty, we say “Go for it.”

【推荐1】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.

Does City Living Hurt Mental Health?

People often move to cities    1    better jobs and more cultural activities. But are they putting    2    at risk? Maybe.

Experts at the American Psychiatry Association say that “natural environments or green spaces” do much for good our mental health and    3    (experience) nature helps people recover from the mental tiredness that comes from day-to-day work.

On the other hand,    4    they cannot say exactly why, mental health experts say some research suggests that city living might hurt our mental health.

Andrea Mechelli is a doctor with the Institute of Psychiatry at Kings College, London. “There have been studies    5    people weretaken out of an urban environment into a rural environment, and theirsymptomswould improve. And we also see that the greater the city the greater the risk.”

Kings College researchers, along with city planners and land and building designers hoped    6    (learn) more about city living and mental illness. So, they created asmartphone appcalled Urban Mind. They say they wanted to understand    7    different parts of the urban environment affect mental wellbeing.

The Urban Mind app    8    your experience of city living in the moment. Researchers collected real time information from 108 people, who answered just over 3,000 questions during a one-week period.

The researchers found that being outdoors, seeing trees, hearing birdsong, seeing the sky, and feeling in contact with nature    9    (associate)with higher levels of mental well-being.They also found that these seeming effects of nature were especially strong in those individuals at greater risk of mental health problems.

The Urban Mind Project team says it hopes “the results will inform future urban planning and social policy    10    (intend) to improve design and health.”

【推荐2】阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。将答案填写在答题卡的相应位置。

Nobody before Jane fully understood chimp     1     (behave). She spent years     2     (observe) and recording their daily activities. Since her childhood she     3     (want) to work with animals in their own environment.     4    , this was not easy. When she first arrived in Gombe in 1960, it was unusual for a woman to live in the forest. Only after her mother came     5     (help) her for the first few months     6     (be) she allowed to begin her project. Her work changed the way people think about chimps. For example, one important thing she discovered was that chimps hunt and eat meat. Until then everyone had thought chimps     7     (eat) only fruit and nuts. She     8     (actual) observed chimps as a group hunting a monkey and then eating     9    . She also discovered     10     chimps communicate with each other, and her study of their body language helped her work out their social system.

【推荐3】阅读下列短文，根据短文内容填空，在未给提示词的空白处仅填写1个适当的单词，在给出提示词的空白处用括号内所给词的正确形式填空。

Billions of poor people around the world     1     (depend) on the use of wood for cooking. And as they take more and more firewood from wild areas, they are destroying habitats around the world. Wood collection is one reason why many animals have become endangered. This is     2     Dr. Metcalf spends each summer in Africa. He wants to teach women and children in villages how to cook with the sun. He helped create Solar Cookers International. It’s an organization     3     introduces solar cookers to developing countries as well as teaching people how to use them.