Have you ever picked up a pen to write some characters, but you can't {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(记得) what they look like?

    You're not alone. CCTV-10 started a show {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(叫做) Chinese Character Dictation Com-petition (《中国汉字听写大会》) last year. On the show, only three out of 10 adults{#blank#}3{#/blank#}（正确地）wrote bingjiling (ice cream 冰激凌), and no one could   write out penti (sneeze喷嚏). According to a survey, 94.1% of people said they had memory lapses (差错) when {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(写) some characters.

    It seems that Chinese characters are in danger. Since the digital(数码) age began, fewer and {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(少) people use pens and paper. Most people now write Chinese on keyboards using pinyin. As a{#blank#}6{#/blank#}(结果), many people would forget the features（特征）of a Chinese character, such as its structure and {#blank#}7{#/blank#}（意思）easily.

    Chinese characters are one of the world's{#blank#}8{#/blank#}（古老的）written languages, dating back (追溯到) to 1100 BC. It's not only a way for us to record things,{#blank#}9{#/blank#}（而且）it's important to pass on Chinese culture. For example, the character nan (male男) is made up of two{#blank#}10{#/blank#}(部分), tian (farmland田) and li (strength力). We can tell from it that in the old times Chinese men were in charge of (负责) working on the farmland.

    Shlander (外星人) is a man from space. He {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (think) the people and things on {#blank#}2{#/blank#} Earth are very strange. He is now {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (write) a letter to his friend at home. Here is part of his letter, Read it and answer the questions.

    Now I am in a strange world. It is very {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (well). There are many new things here, There are many earth monsters (怪物) here, too. The earth monsters look very funny. They have just one head, {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (second) arms and two legs. They have thin black strings on {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (they) heads. Some earth monsters have brown or yellow strings. The earth monsters have {#blank#}7{#/blank#} hole in their face. Every day, they put nice things and balls from the trees {#blank#}8{#/blank#} the hole. They put water into the hole, too. The earth monsters {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (not walk) very fast. They move from place to pace in tin boxes.

    At night, the earth {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (monster) like to look at a square window box. This box has very small earth monsters in it.