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.

    A wealthy old man lived alone in a big house. He was growing {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (weak) day by day. Since he was unable to look after {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (him), he decided to hire (雇佣) a nurse to take care {#blank#}3{#/blank#} him.

    One day, the old man interviewed two {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (nurse)—Anthony and Peter. Anthony was a handsome young man while Peter looked quite ordinary. The old man asked Anthony to make tea for him. After Anthony left, the old man turned to Peter and said, "Anthony has {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (give) me a very bad account of you. He said you are rude and untrustworthy. Is this correct?"

    Peter thought for a minute and said, "{#blank#}6{#/blank#} Anthony has a bad opinion of me, there must be something wrong with me. I should take some time to change these things."

    The old man was very impressed by Peter's words. At the same time, Anthony came back with {#blank#}7{#/blank#} cup of tea for the old man.

    The old man sent Peter to make breakfast for him. He then returned to Anthony and told him. "Peter spoke very poorly of you while you were gone. {#blank#}8{#/blank#} do you think about this?" After hearing this, Anthony shouted {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (angry).

    In the end, Peter {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (choose). Peter looked quite common, but he had impressive inner beauty.

    Marie Kondo is good at organizing(整理). Although she is not a popular star or a young actress, she. {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (become) very famous in the world. She has written some{#blank#}2{#/blank#} on organizing. In her books, Marie says that if you hope to spend{#blank#}3{#/blank#} (little) time on housework, you should make things right {#blank#}4{#/blank#} first. She tells people not to keep things by season. She also thinks we can do housework {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (cheap) without spending a lot of money. For example, she asks people not to {#blank#}6{#/blank#} money on expensive organizing boxes.

    She was {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (interest) in organizing when she was young. As a little girl, {#blank#}8{#/blank#} of her hobbies was to read books about organizing. In school, she cleaned up bookshelves while her classmates were having a, {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(wonder) time in P. E. classes.

    Some people don't think her ideas {#blank#}10{#/blank#} right. However, she has a large number of fans. She has made many speeches on TV. And someone made a movie about her life stories. And she is very famous now.