1 . ________________ (date) from the 18th century, Peking Opera has more than two hundred years of history. (所给词的适当形式填空)

2 . Thanks to Tu Youyou’s discovery of qinghaosu, malaria patients all over the world now have had a greatly increased chance of ________ (survive). (所给词的适当形式填空)

3 . On Sunday afternoons I used to spend in the warmth of my grandma’s flat, listening to her wonderful stories and ________ (greed) eating bowl after bowl of her delicious rice pudding. (所给词的适当形式填空)

4 . A typhoon is a ________ (destroy) storm that occurs in the North-west Pacific Ocean. Typhoons are quite common in South-East Asian countries. (所给词的适当形式填空)

5 . We practise earthquake safety ________ (程序，步骤) twice a year, so the kids were calm enough to protect themselves during the earthquake. (根据汉语提示单词拼写)

6 . As the impact of human activities continues to grow and the list of species in danger of ________ (灭绝，绝种) becomes longer, we are left with a question: can we afford to damage the “lungs of the planet”? (根据汉语提示单词拼写)

7 . Borrowed words are an o________ of language development that could hardly be avoided, but some language communities oppose adopting words from other cultures. There are countries that make ________ (干预，干涉) to keep their native language pure in order to defend their identity.

8 . No matter how bad my mood is, that perfect ________ (combine) is always enough to lift my spirts. (所给词的适当形式填空)

9 . 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。

The Amber Room, the gift from Frederick William I to Peter the Great with    1    amazing history, was given this name because several tons of amber were used to make it. It was also a treasure    2    (decorate) with gold and jewels,     3    took the country’s best artists about ten years to make.    4    return, the Czar sent him a troop of his best soldiers. Later, Catherine II had the Amber Room     5    (move) to a palace outside St. Petersburg where she spent her summers. She told her artists to add more details to    6    . Sadly,     7    the Amber Room was considered one of the wonders of the world, it is now missing. In September 1941, Germany and Russia were at war. There was not enough time for     8    (Russia) to remove the Amber Room. However, some of the Nazis secretly stole the room itself. In less than two days 100,000 pieces were put inside twenty-seven     9    (wood) boxes. There is    10    doubt that the boxes were then put on a train for a German city.