Jack is an 8-year-old boy. His childhood is anything but happy. His only happiness comes from his favourite _______, Dur Pig. It has always been there for him like a friend, through good and bad. _______ it is lost on Christmas Eve.

Jack gets another one instead. This is the Christmas Pig. _______, Jack doesn’t like it at all. But the Christmas Pig wants to help Jack _______ Dur Pig. It leads Jack to the Land of the Lost. There, the two meet many _______ things which can think and talk, including a spoon, a glove and an umbrella.

They have no time to be surprised. They need to find Dur Pig and get it back. As the journey goes on, Jack and the Christmas Pig get _______. It seems that the toy is not just a replacement (替代品) anymore.

What will happen to _______? Can they get Dur Pig back? You can find the answers in British writer J.K.Rowling’s latest _______ book, The Christmas Pig. It was published (出版) in October.

It’s said that Rowling got the _______ of the book from her son’s toys. When her son was very young, Rowling bought him a toy. In case (以防) the toy would go __________, Rowling bought another one with the same look.

A man with other visitors was walking through an elephant camp. He found that the elephants weren’t kept in cages or held by chains (铁链) . Trainers (驯兽师) only used a small piece of rope to stop them from _______ . It was just tied (绑) to one of their legs.

As the man looked at the elephants, he couldn’t understand _______ the elephants didn’t break the rope and escape (逃跑) . They could _______ do so, but instead, they didn’t try at all.

To know the answer, the man went up to a trainer nearby.

“When they were very young, we used the same size of rope to tie them, and at that age, it was enough to hold them. As they _______ , they still believed that they couldn’t break away. They believed _______ could still hold them, so they never tried to break free,” the trainer answered.

The man was _______ . These animals could break free whenever they wanted, but it was just because over time, they _______ that it just wasn’t possible.

How many of us go through life like _______ believing that we cannot do something simply because we _______ once or sometimes before?

Failure is part of learning. If we failed once or a few times, it doesn’t mean we can __________ succeed (成功) . We should keep trying when we experience failures in life.

Going back to school every September can make most students feel stressed. However, some schools in China try to make an easy and relaxing beginning.

Teachers from a high school in Hebei held a treasure hunt challenge to change the feeling of getting back to school for students. Teachers hid coupons in surprising places around the school, such as the top of bookshelves or the bottom of basketball hoops. Students must try to collect the coupons, and then they can use them to exchange some gifts.

Is carrying your suitcases up and down in your dorm building a headache? Zhejiang University City College has come up with some interesting ways to solve this problem. They use a scaling ladder to lift luggage (行李) from the first floor. Students can sit in their dorms and wait for their suitcases. Meanwhile, in the Department of Sports Science of Zhejiang University (体育生) must do the three-metre jump to get help for carrying luggage.

Getting along with roommates can be difficult when everyone has different habits and personalities. Chengdu University offers a “roommate selection system” based on big data, which means that after students fill out the questionnaire, including questions about their hobbies, sleeping habits. Their roommates will be automatically assigned (自动匹配) by the system based on their habits and personalities. This way, students have more control over who they share their room with.

With considerate teachers and a personalized atmosphere, students will be more ready for the coming term.

What’s the wild world like?

Last night, I had a dream.I dreamed that I     46     (live) in the 1850s. At that time, we South China tigers were common in the wild. Every day, as I went around in the forest     47     (meet) a few friends. The situation was not that serious.Life was quite peaceful.

“ Bang!”A     48     (突然的) gunshot woke me up.I looked at the walls of my cage and realized it was just another dream. It was the 1950s. People thought that we were a big     49     (危险) to their farm animals. Those days, many of them     50     (hunt) us. They also killed us for our beautiful fur. And as they built     51     (many) cities, more forests were destroyed. We had no ways to protect     52     (us). Every day, I lived in fear of     53     (失去) my land or being killed.

With helpless tears in my eyes, I fell     54     (sleep) again.

“ Xiao Su!Xiao Su!” the zookeeper calls me. I look around my cage and feel     55     (安全). Good or bad,     56     (没有一个) of these things ever happened to me. But I feel sad whenever my kids ask me what the wild world is like. Nobody     57     (know) the answer for sure now.

    58     (luck), China is paying more attention to biodiversity (生物多样性). Researchers are planning     59     (take) us back into the wilD. Perhaps my great- grandchildren     60     (enjoy) the free wind in the wild soon.

Lily flopped (沉重地躺下) onto the floor. “I’ll never be as g    66     as you, Grandma.”

Lily’s grandma did yoga (瑜伽) for more than 50 years. Now at the age of 70, she could still do the pose (姿势) b    67    .

“You need to be p    68    ,” said Grandma.

Like many schools in India, Lily’s school was holding a yoga competition. The f    69     of each student would be there. Lily wanted to make them proud, especially her grandma, so she continued p    70    . Thirty minutes later, her arms got so tired that she flopped again.

“It’s too h    71    ,” Lily said. “How did you get to be so strong?”

Grandma smiled, “Patience.”

Lily practiced every day. She kept her grandma’s w    72     in mind.

The day of the yoga competition arrived. On the bus, Lily felt nervous. “What if I can’t hold any poses?” When the bus stopped at school, her heart beat more q    73    .

Soon the competition began. Lily completed the poses one by one, keeping grandma’s voice in her head.

“Your last pose is the ball,” said their teacher. Lily lay on her back. She took a deep breath and pulled her body as hard as she could. “A few more s    74    ,” Lily told herself.

“Well done, Lily,” their teacher came up. The audience (观众) cheered wildly.

Lily looked for her grandma and found she was walking over to her with a big s    75    .

Patience is such a magic (魔法).

76. 请用英语简要介绍一下制作三明治的步骤，不少于4句话，字数30﹣50词。

77. 现在，人们的环保意识有了很大程度的提高，但仍然存在一些不好的行为，我们有义务参与环保的宣传以及实际行动中去。假如你是David，请根据表格内所给信息给环保俱乐部（Environment Club）李主席写一封申请信，希望能成为该俱乐部的志愿者（volunteer），为环境保护尽一份责任。

I’m writing to you for applying to be a volunteer of Environment Club. It’s our duty to protect the environment and I would like to do something to help. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

I hope I can get the chance to help protect the environment.

Yours faithfully,

David