I wake up to the sound of the wind buffeting the cloth of my tent. Even though the sun is brightly shining, telling whether it is morning or night is     1     I’m above the Arctic Circle, where in summer the sun never sets. Checking my     2    . I see that it is 7: 30 a.m. I leave my tent and walk over to the mountain     3    . Spreading out before me, branches of the Rapa River flow through the v    4     below. I’m in the remote far north of Sweden in Sarek National Park, a place with no roads or     5    .

Sarek’s mountains used to be covered by vast sheets of i    6    . Around 9,000 years ago, this ice melted, leaving behind about 100 glaciers. Soon after, reindeer began to arrive. Following the reindeer were the Sami     7    , who made this t    8     their home. Getting here is quite difficult, so     9     from the Sami very few people have ever seen Sarek. In 1909, Sarek was made a national park in order to keep the land in its natural     10    .

Today, we have to use switches for our lights, knobs for our     1    , and remote controls for our TVs and air conditioners. In the future, we will be using advanced technology every day for     2     control of just about everything in our home. The future home will use     3     sensors to tell when you leave home each morning, and. then go into an energy-efficient     4     all by itself. You will Do longer have to think about     5     switches on and off yourself. Your home will also learn your     6     routine and preferences, so everything will be ready for you when you get home each evening...

An expedition to the South Pole with the great Sir Ernest Shackleton — this is the adventure that I have been d    1     of. And I was ready for it. At the age of 19, I am fit and full of v    2    . However when I a    3     to join the expedition, Shackleton turned me d    4     because he thought I was too young and wasn’t q    5    . But I was so e    6     about the idea of going along with them that secretly went a    7     his ship, the Endurance, and hid in a small cupboard. U    8    , three days after we set off I was discovered. Shackleton did not want to turn back so he offered me a job, but only after he p    9     me, “If anyone has to be eaten, then you will be the first!” He a    10     me to be a steward, and I now serve meals for twenty-eight men three times a day.

China’s space programme started later than those of Russia and the US, but it has made great     1     in a short time. China became the third country in the world to     2     send humans into space in 2003, when Yang Liwei successfully     3     Earth in the Shenzhou 5 spacecraft. Then Shenzhou 6 and 7 completed     4     second manned orbit and the first Chinese spacewalk,     5     by the vehicle Jade Rabbit being sent to the moon to study its surface. After that, China     6     the Tiangong 2 space lab into space and Tianzhou1 to dock     7     it. This     8     one step further in China’s plan to     9     a space station in the future. More recently, China has sent Chang’e 4 to explore the surface of the far side of the moon to make     10     and observations.

Though Lin Qiaozhi never married, she was known as the “mother of ten thousand babies”,     1     50,000 babies in her lifetime. Dr Lin did not retire until the day she died, 22 April 1983. Since she had no children of her own, she     2     and a fund for new doctor. And     3    , her final thoughts were for others ......

Historically, Chinese immigrants settled in the area during the     4    . What     5     for Chinese immigrants then turned into a centre for Chinese culture ......