High in thick bamboo forests in the misty, {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (rain) mountains of southwestern China {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (live) one of the world's rarest mammals: the giant panda, also called the panda, Only about 1,000 of these black-and-white {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (relative) of bears survive in the wild.

    Pandas eat almost nothing {#blank#}4{#/blank#} bamboo shoots and leaves. {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (occasion) they eat other plants, fish, or small animals, but bamboo accounts for 99% of their diets.

    Pandas eat fast; they eat {#blank#}6{#/blank#} lot, and they spend about 12 hours a day {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (do) it. The reason is {#blank#}8{#/blank#} they digest only about a fifth of what they eat. Overall, bamboo is not very nutritious. To stay healthy, they have to eat a lot-up to 15 percent of their body weight in 12 hours-so they eat fast.

    Pandas' molars(臼齿) are very broad and flat. The shape of these teeth helps the animals crush the bamboo shoots, leaves, and stems they eat to get the bamboo to their mouths, {#blank#}9{#/blank#} hold the stems with their front claws, which have enlarged wrist bones that act as thumbs for grasping things. A panda should have at least two bamboo species where it lives, or it will starve. Pandas are shy; they don't go into areas {#blank#}10{#/blank#} people live. This restricts pandas to very limited areas.

    In order to know a foreign language thoroughly, four things are necessary. Firstly, we must understand the language when we hear{#blank#}1{#/blank#}spoken. Secondly, we must be able to speak it correctly with confidence and without hesitation.{#blank#}2{#/blank#} (three), we must be able to read the language, and fourthly, we must be able to write it. We must be able to make sentences that are grammatically correct.

There is no easy way to success {#blank#}3{#/blank#}language learning. {#blank#}4{#/blank#}good memory is of great help, but it is not enough only {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(memorize) rules from a grammar book. It is not much use learning by heart long a list of words and {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(they) meaning, studying the dictionary and so on. We must learn by using the language. If we{#blank#}7{#/blank#}(satisfy) with only a few rules we have memorized, we are not really learning the language. ＂Learn through use＂ is a good piece of {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(advise) for those {#blank#}9{#/blank#}are studying a new language. Practice is important. We must practice speaking and {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(write) the language whenever we can.

    Last summer, as soon as school was over, I thought maybe I could spend the summer {#blank#}1{#/blank#}a way different from previous ones. But how? Perhaps I could take {#blank#}2{#/blank#}part-time job and make some money. I{#blank#}3{#/blank#}(offer) an interview soon after I filed my application to Kentucky Fried Chicken. The interview was three days ahead{#blank#}4{#/blank#}(prepare) for it, I went through Interview Skills, a book{#blank#}5{#/blank#} prepares readers for job interviews. My mom and dad tried to help by {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(give) me simulated (模拟的) interviews one after{#blank#}7{#/blank#}.I was all ready the day before the interview.

    I answered all of the manager's questions {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (perfect). After all, my mom and dad had expected all of them and I just needed to repeat the answers I had prepared. Besides, I had carried myself well through the interview. My facial {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (express), my voice, my...…all were excellent. I felt the job was already mine. That night I calculated how{#blank#}10{#/blank#} money I would make, and I planned the ways I would like to spend it.

    If it weren't for the ninth BRICS Summit(峰会), many people would {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(probable) never have realized how rich the culture in southeast China is. {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(hold) in Xiamen from Sept 3 to 5, the summit has brought this city in Fujian Province into the spotlight.

    The welcoming gala(晚会) {#blank#}3{#/blank#} the evening of Sept 4 showed the traditional local culture and one of the highlights of the gala was the {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(perform) of Nanyin, which translates as “music in the south”. It is {#blank#}5{#/blank#} art form based on southern Fujian culture. Nanyin has been called a “living fossil” of China's music history, and it {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(date) back to the Song Dynasty or earlier. Cai Yayi, a local performer of Nanyin, says that {#blank#}7{#/blank#} makes you feel like a child to play Nanyin, for who can be older than this 1,000-year-old music?

    {#blank#}8{#/blank#} some may say Nanyin is out of date, many still believe that Nanyin can be a {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(society) communication break for modern people {#blank#}10{#/blank#} are fed up with the fast-paced lifestyle.