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      Chengdu has dozens of new millionaires, Asia's biggest building, and fancy new hotels. But for tourists like me, pandas are its top{#blank#}1{#/blank#}(attract).

     So it was a great honour to be invited backstage at the not-for-profit Panda Base, where ticket money helps pay for research, I{#blank#}2{#/blank#}（allow）to get up close to these cute animals at the 600-acre centre. From tomorrow, I will be their UK ambassador. The title will be {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(official) given to me at a ceremony in London. But my connection with pandas goes back {#blank#}4{#/blank#}my days on a TV show in the mid-1980s, {#blank#}5{#/blank#} I was the first Western TV reporter{#blank#}6{#/blank#}(permit) to film a special unit caring for pandas rescued from starvation in the wild. My ambassadorial duties will include {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(introduce) British visitors to the 120-plus pandas at Chengdu and others at a research in the misty mountains of Bifengxia.

     On my recent visit, I help a lively three-month-old twin that had been rejected by

{#blank#}8{#/blank#}(it) mother. The nursery team switches him every few{#blank#}9{#/blank#}( day) with his sister so that while one is being bottle-fed,{#blank#}10{#/blank#} other is with mum—she never suspects.

    Long before Barack Obama became president of the United States, he wrote a book {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(call) Dream from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance, which has since become {#blank#}2{#/blank#} bestseller. It is an {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(appeal) book that includes what he went through during {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(he) childhood. Obama has little contact with his father {#blank#}5{#/blank#}roots were in Kenya because he left home when Obama was very young. His mother got married {#blank#}6{#/blank#}a student from Indonesia shortly after the family moved to Jakarta. A few years later, Obama came back with his grandparents to Hawaii, where he{#blank#}7{#/blank#}(attend) a private high school. {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(study) at Columbia in New York City, he then entered Harvard Law School. This autobiography also touches {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(heavy) on Obama's exposure to racism. Readers will find his reflections of childhood {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(experience) which involved racial discrimination to be especially moving.

    Percy Shelley, an English poet, was born on August 4^th, 1792. He is {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(wide) thought of as one of the most important {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(figure) of the Romantic Movement in English literature. Shelley received early education at home and later, at the age of 12, {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(admit) to Eton College, which has a long history of more than 500 years, {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(date) back to the 15^th century. Then he attended Oxford University shortly after he turned 18.

    As {#blank#}5{#/blank#} romantic poet, some of his poems, like Ode to the West Wind and Ode to A Skylark, are among the most famous in English. {#blank#}6{#/blank#}, in his own time, Shelley was very unpopular for his political and {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(religion) views. Fortunately, he successively(先后) met Byron and Keats and befriended with them during his tour around Europe after he married Mary Godwin, his second wife, {#blank#}8{#/blank#} later became famous as Mary Shelley, the author of the novel Frankenstein.

    About a month before his 30^th birthday, {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(welcome) his friend Leigh Hunt, Shelley sailed to Leghorn. During the stormy return voyage, his small boat sank and he drowned. It was not until days later {#blank#}10{#/blank#} his body was washed ashore.

    The Chinese language is one of the{#blank#}1{#/blank#}（old）written languages in the world. It {#blank#}2{#/blank#}（speak）by the Han majority and many other ethnic groups in China. Nearly 1.3 billion people speak some form of Chinese as their first language.

    The{#blank#}3{#/blank#}（vary）of Chinese are usually described by native speakers as dialects of a single Chinese language，but linguists（语言学家）note that they are as diverse as a language family. There are between 7 and 13 main regional groups of Chinese, of{#blank#}4{#/blank#}the most spoken by far is Mandarin（普通话），{#blank#}5{#/blank#}（follow）by Wu, Min, Yue, etc. Standard Chinese is a standardized form of spoken Chinese based on the Beijing dialect of Mandarin. It is{#blank#}6{#/blank#}official language of China, and also one of the six official languages of the United Nations.

    {#blank#}7{#/blank#}many Chinese dialects exist，the written language is still a very common form of communication. If we go to{#blank#}8{#/blank#}（differ）provinces, we may not be able {#blank#}9{#/blank#}（communicate）with the local people orally. However, we can understand each other in writing. The written language can be further divided{#blank#}10{#/blank#}different forms, like simplified Chinese and traditional Chinese. There is also a form called "pinyin", which is the Chinese language with a Roman spelling.

    Shark attacks can be deadly, but they are not common. Each year, sharks usually kill fewer than 10 people worldwide, and about 100 people {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (injure). You are more likely to be attacked in parts of the sea {#blank#}2{#/blank#} tourists throw in food to bring in sharks. However, people are dangerous to sharks, too. 60 million sharks are killed {#blank#}3{#/blank#} food and medicine every year. As a result, some kinds of sharks may die out completely. {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (protect) these wonderful animals, some countries have made programs to help them survive.

    We could learn vocabulary while we are asleep. Researchers showed it is possible {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (learn) new information while sleeping deeply, and recall this information later. They did tests to see {#blank#}2{#/blank#} a person could remember new words and their translations while sleeping. The answer is yes. The language areas of the brain remember vocabulary during sleep, especially during deep sleep. While sleeping, our brain switches on for about half a second and then switches{#blank#}3{#/blank#} for half a second. The active state {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(call) "up-state". This is how our brain could learn new vocabulary.