Today，the {#blank#}1{#/blank#}（popular） of basketball has risen around the world，with many young people dreaming {#blank#}2{#/blank#}becming famous player．In China，you {#blank#}3{#/blank#}（see）people playing basketball now and then in parks，schools and even {#blank#}4{#/blank#}（factory）．Basketball has not onlu become a pilular sport to play，but it has {#blank#}5{#/blank#}become a popular sport to watch．Although America's NBA games are {#blank#}6{#/blank#}（famous） in the world，the CBA games are becoming more popular in China．{#blank#}7{#/blank#}number of foreign players，including Chinese players，in the NBA has increased．There {#blank#}8{#/blank#}also more and more foreign players in the CBA．Many young people look up to these basketball heroes and want to become like {#blank#}9{#/blank#}（they ）These  stars encourage  young people{#blank#}10{#/blank#}（work ） hard  to achieve their dreams．

    One day Mrs. Green took her child Tom to go shopping. They {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(go) to the supermarket in the shopping mall.

    "{#blank#}2{#/blank#}do you buy things here, Mom?" Tom asked. "Because the things here are {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (cheap) than those in other stores," Mrs. Green said, "Help me check the prices."

    The Greens  {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(be) not rich, so Mrs. Green was always careful to spend the money. She looked {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(careful) at the prices of the things. She bought many {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(kind) of things there.

    When they got home, Tom said, "I don't think you saved money by {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(go) to the supermarket there." "Of course I did," said Mrs. Green. "Everything was cheaper there."

    "Yes," said the child, "{#blank#}8{#/blank#}we must take the taxi home because we had too many things {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(carry). The cost of the taxi was more  {#blank#}10{#/blank#}the money you saved!"

    Then Mrs. Green added everything up and found her child was right.

"Well done," she said. "Next time we will do shopping near our home.

    The panda is one of the {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (animal) most in danger. There are about 1,000 pandas {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (live) in nature reserves today. Zoos and research centers look after about 160 pandas. Scientists are studying {#blank#}3{#/blank#} they live and more baby pandas are born in the zoos.

    Pandas live in the forests and mountains of Southwest China. They {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (main) live on bamboo, and each panda {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (need) to eat a lot of bamboo every day. The area of bamboo is becoming {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (small) for many different reasons, {#blank#}7{#/blank#} pandas have less and less land to live on. Pandas don't have many babies, and baby pandas often die. The situation is becoming very serious.

    Our government is working hard {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (save) pandas. There are more than 30 nature reserves to protect pandas but these are not enough. The government has made a new plan to help pandas. The nature reserves will be bigger and the bamboo {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (grow) better. Then the pandas will have enough food to eat and enough places to live in. Pandas born {#blank#}10{#/blank#} the zoos may go back to live in the nature reserves.