1 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式

A male elephant that broke away from the wandering elephant pack     1    (send) back to its forest home on Wednesday in Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture(西双版纳傣族自治州), southwest China’s Yunnan Province, local authorities said.

Yuxi City headquarters in charge of monitoring the pack’s migration(迁徙)took the     2    (decide) early Wednesday morning     3    (prevent) the lone animal from entering heavily populated areas. At 3 p.m., the elephant was caught and returned to the nature reserve. The animal appeared     4    (health) and did not suffer from any injuries.

The pack of 15 wandering wild Asian elephants travelled about 500 kilometers north from their forest home. The male elephant separated from the pack on June 6, and moved around in the     5    (city) of Kunming. Anning and Yuxi, with an activity area of 140 square kilometers and a walking distance of 190 kilometers. It had relied mainly on the food     6     was provided by the locals. The     7     (remain) 14 elephants have been moving southward recently but are still far from the reserve.

Asian elephants are under A-level state protection in China, where they are     8    (most) found in Yunnan. Thanks     9     determined protection efforts in recent decades, the wild elephant population in     10     province has grown to about 300, from 193 in the 1980s.

2 . We would rather our daughter __________(stay) at home with us, but it is her choice, and she is not a child any longer.

5 . The policy has allowed China to accomplish in just four decades________took Western industrialized countries more than 200 years to achieve.（用适当的词填空）

6 . My mission was________ (relieve) Emma, a Canadian specialist in infectious diseases at the end of her posting.(所给词的适当形式填空)

7 . Nowadays, channels of communication, such as mobile phone and the Internet, have made________possible to speak instantly with someone on the other side of the planet.（用适当的词填空）

8 . It wasn't until nearly a month later________I received the manager's reply.（用适当的词填空）

9 . Corporate knowledge________(combine) with creativity has brought his humble bookstores into the 21st century! (所给词的适当形式填空)

10 . 在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

I woke up to the sound of the wind buffeting the cloth of my tent. However, it’s    1     (possible) for me to tell whether it is morning or night, because the sun is    2    (bright) shining for 24 hours. Now, I’m above the Arctic Circle,     3    the sun never sets in summer.

Sarek National Park is located in the remote far north of Sweden. Around 9,000 years ago, the vast sheets of ice melted in Sarek,     4     (leave) behind about 100 glaciers. Soon after, reindeer began to arrive, and then followed the Sami people, who make Sarek their home. Today, all new development    5     (ban) within park boundaries, so only the Sami are allowed to continue their    6     (tradition) way of life in the park.

For hundreds of years,     7     (look) after reindeer was a way of life for the Sami. Since reindeer were always     8    the move, the Sami would accompany them. However, most Sami live    9    modern life in their own house. Only a few still follow their reindeer into the    10     (valley) of Sarek, living in tents or old cottages and enjoying their traditions.

Hiking with all my food and supplies is really tiring, but I feel blessed when I’m in such a beautiful and wild place.