Written Chinese has also    1     which China’s present is connected with its past. People in modern times can read the classic works which were written by Chinese in ancient Times.    2     the Chinese writing system can be seen in the development of Chinese characters as an art form,    3    , which has become an important part of Chinese culture. Today, the Chinese writing system is still an important part of Chinese culture. As China plays a greater role    4    , an increasing number of international students are beginning, to appreciate China’s culture and history    5    .

The air is thin and we have to rest several times on the short hike from camp. To our left, snow-covered mountains    6    that seem almost close enough to touch. On the plain in front of us, we can just    7    a herd of graceful animals. This is why we’re here-- to observe Tibetan antelopes.

In the evening, I drink a cup of tea and watch the stars. I think about the antelopes and what Zhaxi told me.    8     to protect wildlife, but if we really want to save the planet, we must change our way of life. Only when we learn to exist    9    with nature can we    10    to wildlife and to our planet.

Hard hills of rock became rivers or     1     . In less than one minute, a large city lay in     2     . Two    3    of the people who lived there were dead or injured.

To begin with, it is important to take a Chinese course, as you’ll be able to learn from the teacher and practice with your    1    students. What’s more, it is also    2    to watch TV and read books, newspapers and magazines in Chinese.

I    1     to be upstairs at dusk when the window was open. I didn’t go downstairs    2     the window had to be shut. The dark, rainy evening, the wind, the thundering clouds held me    3    in their power.

George told me,     1     towards the hunt. And just at that moment, the most     2     thing happened. The killers started racing between our boat and the whale just like a pack of excited dogs.

Being badly     3    , the whale soon died. Within a moment or two, its body was dragged     4     by the killers down into the depths of the sea. The men started turning the boat around to go home.

Li Daiyu and her cousin Liu Qian went to Canada to visit their c    1     in Halifax on the Atlantic coast. Rather than travel b    2     commercial airline all the way, they decided to f    3     to Vancouver and then take the train. For both of them, the thought of crossing the whole c    4     by rail was exciting.

B    5     starting out, they spent a couple of days in Vancouver, seeing the sights. During their first day, as is typical of Vancouver, it r    6    . Despite the weather they were able to take a boat ride out into the bay, and later v    7     an Island that had wonderful shops selling crafts and antiques. The next day was clear and mild, and they were p    8     to see the beautiful mountains looking out over the city. Later they took a pleasant h    9     in a forest just a short d    10     away.

Yuan Longping, known as the “father of hybridrice”, is one of China’s most famous scientists, Yet, he considers himself a farmer because he continually works the land in his research. Indeed, his slim but strong body is just like that of miliions of Chinese farmers, to whom he has     1     his life.

Yuan Longping was born in 1930 in Beijing. His parents wanted him to pursue a career in science or medicine. However, what concerned him most was that farmers often had poor harvests and somnetimes even had a serious    2     of food to eat. To tackle this     3     , he chose to study agriculture and received aneducationat Seuthwest Agricultural College in Chomgqing.

After     4    in 1953, he worked as a researcher. Yuan Longping realised that larger fields were not the solution. Instead, farmers needed to     5     yields in the fields they had. How this could be done was a challenging question at the time.Yuan was     6    that the answer could be found in the creation of hybrid rice. A hybrid is a cross between two or more varieties of a species One characteristic of hybrids is that they usually attain a higher yield than    7    crops.

However, whether it was possible to develop a hybrid of self-pollinating plants such as rice was a matter of great debate.The common     8    then was that it could not be done. Through intense effort, Yuan    9    enormous technical difficulties to develop the first hybrid rice that codld be used for farming in 1974. This hybrid enabled farmers to expand their    10    greatly

What impresses people most about Yuan Longping is his ongoing ability to     1    . Long ago, he envisioned rice plants as tall as sorghum, with each ear of rice as big as a broom, and each grain of rice as huge as a peanut.He     2     producing a kind of rice that could     3     at home and abroad. His     4     for "seawater rice" has also     5    , and potentially opened up nearly one million square kilometres of salty land in China for rice production.     6    , Yuan Longping is still young at heart and full of vision, and everyone is waiting to see what he will dream up next.

Qian read a lot and was    7     especially in the area of frontier science research. However, what might have made him such an outstanding and creative scientist was probably his strong interest in other things,     8     music and drawing.His    9     art often gave him inspiration in his    10    .

Peru is a country on the Pacific coast of South America with three main areas ：    1    , dry, flat land     2     along the coast, the Andes Mountains, and the Amazon rainforest.

In the 1400s and 1500s, Peru was the centre of the     3         4     Inca Empire .The Inca     5    lived in the now-famous     6    of Machu Picchu. Spain     7         8    of Peru in the 16th century and     9    until 1821. It is for this reason that Spanish is the main     10    language of Peru.

A short     11     from Cusco takes you from the Andes into the Amazon rainforest. From there, you will spend one day     12    by boat to your     13     in the middle of the forest . You can then spend three days     14     the rainforest with a local guide and enjoying the plants and animals     15     to the rainforest.

One of the d    1    (明显的) advantage of our school is that there are many e    2     (优秀的)and i    3     (有影响力的) teachers in our school. To build it into a highly qualified and characteristic school, all the teachers work hard and p    4    (坚持不懈) in their attempts to cultivate i    5    (具有创新精神的) students with profound academic knowledge and a health    6     (态度). I am sincerely a    7     (感激的) of our teachers' industry, their close c    8    (合作) and their selfless contributions, which are e    9     (非常重要的) to our steady development and healthy growth. So fortunate and so determined am I that I will do what I can to make our teachers' efforts d    10    (值得的)