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Located on the island of Pemba, Vanta Resort is a remote and luxurious hotel, famed for its unique underwater room that allows guests to enjoy the       1     (beauty) marine life of the Indian Ocean from the comfort of their bed!

The unusual room floats almost 250 meters away from the coast and     2     (hold) in place by several anchoring lines (锚索) leading to the ocean floor. The top two floors of the underwater room are above the surface of the water. At sea level, the landing deck (甲板) in     3     middle contains an area for resting and dining as well as the bathroom facilities.    4     (guest) can also climb a ladder onto the top deck to lay out     5     the sun or gaze up at the stars during the night.

Of course the real attraction is the bedroom on the bottom level,     6     sits four meters beneath the surface of the water. Besides a double bed     7     ( lie) on, the room also has two large windows on each wall,     8     (give) almost total 360-degree view of the water around it. Each window even has underwater spotlights on the outside that attract and illuminate (照明) nearby sea creatures at night, so guests can watch them as they drift off to sleep.

As you can     9    (probable) guess, the cost to enjoy such a hotel room isn’t cheap. Spending one night in the underwater room costs US$1, 500 for two people on top of the regular cost of the resort, which     10     (vary) depending on the time of year and duration of your stay.

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In many countries, it is not unusual for families of different backgrounds to live together in the     1    (share) space. However, in the United States, this idea may still be considered strange.

But this type of housing, called co-housing, is gaining     2    (popular) in the United States, too. Co-housing complexes,    3    (pop) up across the country. For many people, this way of life is     4     means to relieve the stress of busy life. A co-housing community has     5    (private) owned houses end shared land. There is often a “common house” with a kitchen and dining room, meeting room, and maybe a workshop of library or music room. About 25 co-housing communities     6    (build) in recent years, and 150 more are planned.

A co-housing complex is a place     7     residents (居住者) shop, cook, and eat together. Children have other kids to play     8    , which makes many families     9    (live) in this way happy and safe. Residents also say that they can live in co-housing for    10     (little) money than they would pay for nearby apartments.

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Your house may have an effect on your figure. Experts say the way you design your home could play a role in     1     you pack on the pounds or keep them off. You can make your environment work for you instead of     2     you. Here are some ways to turn your home into part of diet plan.

Open the curtains and turn up the lights. Dark environments are more likely to encourage     3     (overeat), for people are often less self-conscious（难为情）when they’re in 5    4     (poor) lit places and so more likely to eat lots of food. If your home doesn’t have enough window light, get more lamps and flood the place with     5     (bright).

Mind the colors. Research suggests warm colors fuel our appetites. In one study, people who ate meals in a blue room     6     (consume) 33 percent less than those in a yellow or red room. Warm colors like yellow make food appear more appetizing,     7     cold colors make us feel less hungry.     8     when it’s time to repaint, go blue.

Don’t forget the clock or the radio. People who eat slowly tend to consume about 70 fewer calories per meal than those     9     rush through their meals. Begin keeping track of the time, and try to make dinner last at least 30 minutes. And while you’re at it, actually sit down to eat. If you need some help slowing down, turn on relaxing music. It makes you less likely to rush through a meal.

Downsize the dishes. Big serving bowls and plates can easily make us fat. We eat about 22 percent more when using a 12-inch plate instead of a 10-inch plate. When we choose a large spoon over a smaller one, total intake jumps by 14 percent. And we’ll pour about 30 percent     10     liquid into a short, wide glass than a tall, skinny glass.

【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 or phrase that best fits each blank.
A new study says electronic toys are not helping babies learn.

“    1     companies are marketing them as educational, they're not teaching the babies anything at this time,” said Anna Sosa, the study's author.

Researchers listened to audio recordings of parents    2    (play)with their babies aged 10 months to 16 months. The researchers compared the experiences when the children played with electronic toys traditional toys such as blocks, or when the children looked at books.    3     they found is that parents talked less with their babies when the babies played with electronic toys.

Why is this important? Research shows that how quickly children develop language    4    (often base)on what they hear from parents. When the infants played with electronic toys, parents said little to their children. But with traditional toys,    5     blocks, parents shared the names and descriptions of the animals, colors and shapes as their children played. There was even more information    6    (give)by parents as their babies looked at the pictures in books.

Of course,    7     is no need for parents to throw out electronic toys, but they should look at their infants' play with such toys as entertainment, not a learning experience.

Toy Industry Association spokeswoman Adrienne Appell responded    8     the study. She said it is important that parents make time    9    (play)with their children. “Playing is a way that kids can learn so much, not only cognitive(认知的)skills, but social and developmental skills,” she said. She added that play    10     be balanced, including time for just “make believe” activities, as well as traditional and electronic toys.

【推荐2】        Researchers from the University of Michigan have found that astronauts’ brains change shape during spaceflight. It is the first study    1    (look) into how the brain changes in space. Researchers looked at high-tech MRI (磁共振成像) pictures of the brains of 26 astronauts who spent time in space. Twelve of the    2    (astronaut) spent two weeks on the Space Shuttle, and 14 spent six months on the International Space Station. All of them    3    (experience) increases and decreases in the size of     4    (differ) parts of the brain. The longer an astronaut spent in space, the     5    (big) the size differences were.
        The research produced some    6    (interest) findings. One was that on gravity means fluids do not drop in the body,     7    there is a shift in the brain’s position inside the skull. The brain becomes either smaller or bigger. The findings could help doctors to treat problems that affect the brain’s function. They could treat people with problems       8    (cause) by long-term bed rest. They could also help those who have a build-up of fluid in the brain, which can lead    9    brain damage. We will understand more about     10    neurons (神经元) in the brain connect. The findings will also help future trips to Mars.

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We’ve all heard the advice to “get out of your comfort zone” by taking on a new challenge. A recent study goes a step further: Make discomfort a direct goal. That’s more likely to motivate you     1     if you only focus on what you hope to learn.

In the first of five experiments, the researchers assigned several hundred students training at Second City Chicago     2    (participate) in a small-group improvisation(即兴) exercise, and then instructed half of the group that their goal during the session was “to feel awkward and uncomfortable.” The rest,     3    (that) in the control group,     4    (tell) to “feel yourself developing new skills.” Members of the first group kept at the exercise longer than the others did and took     5    (great) risks.

Experiments     6    (involve) other dimensions of personal growth—engaging in expressive writing, learning about gun violence, and hearing about opposing political     7    (belief)—produced similar results.

Reframing anxiety as excitement has been proven a way to improve singing in front of strangers, and thinking of stress as     8     means to boost achievement demonstrated a stress-management technique.

“When people reinterpret negative experiences as     9    (function), they are more willing to engage in tasks that call forth those experiences,” the researchers explain. “Instead of seeing discomfort as unrelated to the goal     10     a signal to stop, they will start perceiving it as a sign of progress toward their goal.”