One night,     1     winter, a bear came into the city in Vancouver Canada. It walked through the city streets past houses, shops and offices. Then it     2    (find) some food in bins outside a restaurant and started eating. In the morning, someone saw the bear and called the police. The police came with a vet from the city zoo. They put the bear in a lorry and took it to the mountains outside the city.     3    (fortune), the bear was safe. But     4     happens in other countries when big animals come into cities? In Vancouver it is unusual       5    (see) a bear, but in some cities you can see big animals on the city streets every day.

Big animals usually come into cities to find food. In Cape Town in South Africa baboons(狒狒) come into the city when they are driven by     6    (starve). Human food is very bad for the baboons’     7    (tooth) because it has a lot of sugar. Now, there are Baboon Monitors working in Cape Town.     8    (they) job is to find baboons in the city and return them to the countryside.

In Berlin in Germany, pigs sometimes come into the city for food. They eat flowers and plants in parks and gardens. Sometimes they eat vegetables from gardens    9     they walk in the street, causing accidents. Some people like the pigs and they give them food and water to drink. Other people do not like the pigs and they want the government and the police to stop them       10    (enter) the city.

Don't Be Fooled by Fake News

The media indeed provides us with the    1    (late)news, but we should also be aware of how it can influence our mind and    2    (behave), sometimes in the wrong direction.

One example is the language being used    3    (describe)the outbreak. Some media organizations use    4    ( deliberate) sensationalized(耸人听闻的)vocabulary to stir(煽动)panic about the disease. Headlines like "Find the Hidden Virus Carriers" and "Yellow Alert" have already led    5    discriminatory(歧视的)behavior and prejudice towards China and Asia. Shockingly, an example of such prejudice    6    (occur)in London, when    7    Asian student was beaten up by a gang(团伙), who told him, "I don't want your coronavirus in my country."

These incidents don't just happen in the UK. In France, a movement has been circulating(传播)on social media    8    (call)Je Ne Suis Pas Un Virus,    9    is translated as I Am Not A Virus in English. It    10    (reflect) the hostility(敌意)being shown towards Chinese people as the disease continued to spread.

The media feeds us with information, but maybe we should think twice before taking it all in.

Young people     1     (bear) in 1995 or later have another name in English-Generation Z. Now entering adulthood and soon to join the workforce, Generation Z grew up in a special period of time when new     2     (technology) were accepted and the Internet became universal.

It     3     (believe) that Generation Z is the generation that is going to shape our future,     4     is why policy makers are trying     5     best to understand these young people. This is a group of people who have been familiar     6     social media as soon as they came to the world. It may be true that Generation Z-ers have a shorter attention span than a goldfish     7     (do), but since they became adults among social changes, they are     8     (much) active in politics than their parents.

Generation Z-ers are also culture creators.    9     (grow) up with the Internet has freed this generation from traditional cultural thoughts. These young people never    10    (willing)let their creativity be limited by their parents or traditional rules.

Few people I know seem to have much desire or time to cook. Making Chinese     1    (dish) is seen as especially troublesome. Many westerners     2     come to China cook much less than in their own countries once they realize how cheap     3     can be to eat out. I still remember     4     (visit) a friend who’d lived here for five years and I     5    (shock) when I learnt she hadn’t cooked once in all that time.

While regularly eating out seems to     6    (become) common for many young people in recent years, it’s not without a cost. The obvious one is money; eating out once or twice a week may be     7    (afford) but doing this most days adds up. There could be an even     8     (high) cost on your health. Researchers have found that there is a direct link between the increase in food eaten outside the home and the rise in     9    (weigh) problems.

If you are not going to suffer this problem, then I suggest that the next time you go to your mum’s home     10     dinner, get a few cooking tips from her. Cooking food can be fun. You might also begin to notice the effects not only on your health but in your pocket.