Two giant pandas “Sihai” and “Jingjing”     1     (leave) the Ya’an Bi Feng Xia Base of China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda (CCRCGP) in Sichuan Province on Oct. 18, 2022, starting     2     (they) journey to Qatar.

To ensure that the two pandas start their new lives smoothly, both sides have made full preparations. The two pandas have been in good condition     3     the CCRCGP put them into quarantine (隔离) a month ago.

The Chinese team has also sent several expert     4     (group) to Qatar for on-site guidance and assessment of the venues,     5     will assist the country in setting up a professional giant panda breeding     6     management team, and ensure supplies of bamboo.

To help the giant pandas adapt to their new environment     7     (easy), the research center has also sent experienced breeders and experts to Qatar.

    8     May 2020, China and Qatar signed a cooperation agreement concerning giant panda protection and research to further promote     9     (internation) cooperation in the field and to boost the protection of endangered species and biodiversity in the two countries. It is     10     first time that China has cooperated with a Middle Eastern country in this capacity.

English language is closely related to the Frisian German and Dutch. England is the first country     1     (speak) English and now English is the main language of the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, and many island nations in the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean. It is also an     2     (office) language of India, the Philippines, Singapore, and many countries in sub-Saharan Africa     3     include South Africa. English is the first choice of foreign     4     (language) in most countries around the world.     5     third of the world’s population now use English, which is     6     (amaze) to us.   

English belongs     7     the Indo-European family of languages and is therefore related to most other languages spoken in Europe and Western Asia from Iceland to India. During the course of hundreds of years, English words have been     8     (slow) changed from the forms     9     (find) in Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, Russian and German to forms, as in Chinese and Vietnamese. The German and Chinese words for the word “man”     10     (be) a typical example. German has five forms: Mann Mannes, Manne, Männer, Männern. Chinese has one form: ren. English stands in between, with four forms: man, man’s, men, men’s.

Bridges made out of living roots (根) of trees have been put forward for UNESCO’s World Heritage List.

The root bridges are in the Meghalaya region of northeast India. The region gets a lot of rainfall and is one of the wettest     1     (area) on Earth. That creates     2     number of lakes, rivers and waterfalls,     3     (make) it difficult to build roads. However, for hundreds of years the local Khasi people have been trying     4     (they) best to grow root bridges across rivers and streams to make it much     5     (easy) for them to move around the area.

The bridges     6     (build) by stretching (延伸) the roots of living trees over the river and winding them around bamboo structures to guide them in the right     7     (direct). The roots can take up to 20 years     8     (grow) into a complete bridge.

The India government has suggested Meghalaya’s root bridges should be added     9     the UNESCO World Heritage List.     10     means they will be recognized officially. They will attract more tourists and money to the area, just like Egypt’s pyramids (金字塔) or the Great Barrier Reef in Australia.

Morningstar Khongthaw from Meghalaya said, “We want to spread this knowledge so that future generations will benefit.”

I was pushed into writing the “top ten problems the young face” after I attended a school programme, where I had the opportunity to interact with many     1     (teenage). Each conversation was only adding one more item to the list of problems.

About two     2     (three) of girls in year nine to year twelve “worry about their appearance” . While there were no gender differences in worries about school, girls are     3     (anxiety) about getting along with parents and what to do when they are older. Girls are     4     (prove) to worry more about personal problems and romantic relationship, and are more     5     (concern) about their own images in peer group. In fact, the only thing     6     boys worry about more than girls is succeeding in their physical activities.

    7     parents need to do is to look at ways to help teens and take     8     (responsible) for what we are exposing our teens to right now. We cannot afford     9     (ignore) the parental duties of bringing them up well from the time they are young. Televisions, computers and other gadgets that they spend most of the time     10     cannot give them a bright future.

Earlier this June, the Olympic Council of Asia announced that the 2022 Asian Games,     1     were originally scheduled for September in Hangzhou, would be postponed due to the pandemic situation. According to the Games’ organizing committee, all 56 competition venues and 31 training venues will be     2     (gradual) opened to the public from July 1.

Sports centers with relatively low operation costs will provide free admission to their gymnasiums, squares, and track and field venues. Those     3     (design) to host competitions—such as rowing, shooting and cycling — will hire professional teams to run the venues and maintain facilities. It     4     (expect) that these venues will offer sports-related experience activities to the public. Venues located in universities will stage     5    (variety) of sports events, improving their utilization (使用) beyond their daily use in students’ education.

The committee has promised to open venues     6     a controlled and orderly manner as it tries to protect and maintain the quality of the facilities. Each venue will establish an operation and maintenance team     7     (ensure) that the venue will meet the requirements of the Asian Games.

    8     opening of the venues and facilities emphasizes the important roles that the 2022 Asian Games play in enhancing sports culture, meeting the    9     (grow ) needs of citizens,     10     gaining experience for holding high-level competitions.