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Polar bears live in such environment that is too cold for most animals. For much of the year, they live and hunt on the     1     (freeze) Arctic sea ice. Nature has prepared them for the cold conditions but nothing has prepared them for the danger     2     threatens their only home.

Polar bears’ world is melting. Polar bears     3     (suffer) in a warmer world are in danger. Studies show that the polar ice     4     (reduce) by 9.8% every ten years since 1978. At present, about 20,000 to 25,000 polar bears live in the Arctic. Polar bears depend on the sea ice for their     5     (survive). “The sea ice is more than just the platform that the bears walk     6    .” says Andrew Derocker, who studies North American polar bear population. “Without it, they can’t exist.”

Some melting and refreezing of the polar ice is nature. But in     7     warmer world, these cycles speed up, and bears have     8     (little) to hunt.     9     (normal), they have three months in the spring when they gain more weight and the extra fat     10     (use)   later, when the bears are not actively hunting. Therefore, it’s urgent to protect the environment and maintain the ecological balance.

【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。

From pocket parks to forest parks, China is bringing nature closer to urban life. From 2021 to 2022, Shanghai has transformed 62 woodlands into leisure spaces,     1     open up forests for visitors to walk through nature and get closer to wildlife. A growing number of companies and universities have chosen to “open their gates” and share their greenery, thus     2     (provide) more space for visitors to relax. In Nanning, Guangxi, parks are not only for relaxation.     3     (play) of traditional Yong Opera, a very popular local opera, are     4     (regular) staged in the People’s Park.

Parks can do good for the environment too. Take Beijing’s Central Green Forest Park as an example. The park     5     (reach) carbon-neutral (碳中和) since it was opened in 2020. This means that     6     the park’s facilities produce carbon dioxide, the plants there can absorb more to make up. It also fully reuses rainwater and creates green energy, such as solar energy,     7     (supply) the park.

As cities in China become     8     (green), “park cities” are becoming a reality. The concept of a park city     9     (introduce) by President Xi Jinping in 2018. It suits people’s need for a better living experience and is a people-centered concept that takes the form of     10     improved natural environment in all aspects.

【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.

IT WAS 1:00 a.m. in Tokyo. We’d got lost trying to find our Airbnb, and were now at an address that looked 90% right. There were keys in the letterbox,     1     our host said they’d be. So when the security code didn’t work, I just grabbed them out through the narrow hole with my hands.

But when I was turning the keys in the lock, the door opened. A lady and her daughter looked out at us,     2     (puzzle). Definitely not our Airbnb then. Amazingly though, they didn’t scream at us, call the police, or both. For the next 20 minutes, they tried to help us find the right ad dress. And when we turned up nothing, they formally apologized to us — the foreigners who     3     (try) to break into their home.

In Japan, there are many ways to apologize. The lady used “gomen-nasai,”     4     most people use the more casual “sumimasen.” Often translated as an apologetic “excuse me,” it     5     be heard in doorways, taxis, shops and restaurants in Japan.

“Only 10% of ‘sumimasen’ is an apology,”     6     Laurie Inokuma, who holds a degree in Japanese from Cornell University. “Ninety percent is used to show respect, politeness and honesty,” she said. “It’s an everyday word. When someone does something for you, getting out of your way in the grocery store, or holding a door, ‘sumimasen’ is the common response.”

Just as easily as a “thank you” or a “sorry”, “sumimasen” is regularly used to acknowledge the trouble someone has gone to for you. “There’s a modesty in it;     7     (depend) on the situation, it’s either apologetic or grateful,” Inokuma said.

Erin Niimi Longhurst, a British-Japanese author, agrees. “There’s a culture of apology but also a culture of thankfulness in Japan,” she said. This year’s World Cup is an example of this level of courtesy: When Japan lost its final match, the team made headlines when they stayed behind     8     (clean) the entire changing room. They even left a thank-you note.

If apologies are just one cog (齿轮) in the larger moving wheel of Japanese politeness, where does this cultural concept come from? “There is a need for politeness in Japan to get along with your neighbors living above you — it’s a respect for others,” Inokuma said. Japan has some of     9     (densely) packed cities in the world.     10     there’s a limit on space, it suddenly seems natural to become as considerate as possible.

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In the workshop of a brush-pen store in Huzhou, the 29-year-old.Shi Wangli makes traditional Chinese brush-pens.Her hands are immersed (浸泡）in water for at    1    (little) eight hours a day，in    2    summer and winter. The choice of the hairs in steps of making a quality brush-pen is of great    3    (important) and the work does cannot be performed     4    a machine.it is a difficult but meaningful job. She is the youngest brush-pen technician in Huzhou. The manager of the store says he is worried the thousand-year-old technique for making the Huzhou brush-pen used in calligraphy (书法) will be lost with few young people    5    （will) to learn it. In Chinese history, brush-pen is.an essential （基本的）tool for cultural inheritance (遗产). However, with the rapid progress of modern technology, brush- Pens     6     (replace) firstly by pens, then ballpoint pens and now keyboards.

The Ministry- of Education required elementary and middle schools to start calligraphy classes     7    (save) the Chinese traditional culture.There is a general    8     (believe) that brush-pen making should be regarded as a technique     9    represents Chinese culture. People should get to know the meanings and thoughts behind these traditional    10    ( technique).