Your mother makes your meals. She helps you with your homework. If you get sick, she stays with you all day and {#blank#}1{#/blank#}. Your Mother is always there for you. That's why there is a special day for the {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (world) mothers. This year it was {#blank#}3{#/blank#} 10th.

    Mother's Day became a modern holiday about 100 years{#blank#}4{#/blank#} in the US. A woman called Anna Jarvis and her mother, Anna Reese Jarvis, were{#blank#}5{#/blank#}(live) in a poor town. They worked hard to make the town{#blank#}6{#/blank#} (well). Jarvis' mother died on Wednesday，May 14, 1905. Their church hold a Mother's Day to thank {#blank#}7{#/blank#} for the help she gave the town three years later.

    Today, people in more than forty{#blank#}8{#/blank#}(country) celebrate the day. They give their mothers carnations (康乃馨)and other presents.. In the language {#blank#}9{#/blank#} flowers, carnations mean happiness,{#blank#}10{#/blank#} (sweet) and love.

    Mr. Brown got up late this morning. He was going to be late for work. It was raining hard and the streets were{#blank#}1{#/blank#} He drove {#blank#}2{#/blank#} fast that he couldn't see the red lights. He couldn't stop his car {#blank#}3{#/blank#} it hit another one. An old man got out of the car and called out {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (angry), “What are you doing? How can you drive so fast?” “I'm sorry, sir,” said Mr. Brown, “I {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (not see) the lights turn red.” Then he brought out a bottle of wine and gave it {#blank#}6{#/blank#} the old man. “It's cold today, sir,” said Mr. Brown. “Please drink a little, and then you'll get {#blank#}7{#/blank#}.”The old man drank some wine and became happy. He asked, “I'm feeling much {#blank#}8{#/blank#}now. Why don't you drink some?” “I can't drink {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (something) now, sir.” Answered Mr. Brown, “I {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (wait) for the policeman. Only drunkards cause accidents, you know!”

    It's a good day to be a panda. Starting from September 11, the {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (panda) are not the world's "endangered (濒危的) animals".

    There are about 1, 850 pandas in the wild in {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (Chinese) now. In 2003, the number {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (be) 1, 600.

    China sets up reserves (保护区) and plants a lot of bamboo {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (forest). Now, about two thirds of pandas are living in the 67 panda reserves.

    Baby pandas are only 15cm long—it's as small as {#blank#}5{#/blank#} pencil! They are also born blind (盲的) and only open {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (they) eyes six to eight weeks after birth. So researchers need to take {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (real) good care of them in labs (实验室). {#blank#}8{#/blank#} there is still bad news.

    "Our planet is {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (get) warmer. It's going to get too hot for the bamboo to grow. More than a third of bamboo forests could go away within 80 years," scientists say. It's still dangerous {#blank#}10{#/blank#} pandas.