Many people travel during the holiday season but do not make sure that their houses and homes {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (protect). Crime goes up {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(rapid) during the winter and summer holiday seasons. Here are some things that you should keep in mind when you go on a holiday.

    Always give {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(strange) the feeling that you are at home. Have the snow {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(clean) off your stairs or out of your driveway during the winter season. You might ask someone to park {#blank#}5{#/blank#} car in your driveway.

Tell your newspaper deliverer that you are not at home. {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(have) a pile of newspapers and other mail on your doorsteps tells people that are not at home, so you could also have a neighbor {#blank#}7{#/blank#} a relative get your mail every day.

    Fix a timer in some of your rooms {#blank#}8{#/blank#} turns lights on and {#blank#}9{#/blank#}during different time of the day. Some TVs also comes with a timer that you could set to be turned on during certain time. Have a sensitive light outside your house that {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(keep) thieves away when you are not at home.

    China is rich in tourist {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (attract). The long Chinese history and splendid culture {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (leave) it with many places of interest over the past centuries. The ancient Chinese laboring people created lots of world wonders, {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (include)the Great Wall. It is {#blank#}4{#/blank#} long that you can't see the end of it. From {#blank#}5{#/blank#} distance, it looks like a dragon on tops of mountain chains. Another {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (history) site in China is the Potala Palace, {#blank#}7{#/blank#} was once served {#blank#}8{#/blank#} the office building of Tibet local government. {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (fortunate), to help preserve the buildings, only a few people {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (admit) each day.

    I'm now a good student in my class. But you don't know that when I {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(start) senior English in the beginning, I found it difficult and quite {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(differ) from what I had learned in junior school. Now I still remember a teacher who taught me at that time. {#blank#}3{#/blank#} teacher is a good teacher because she always tried to be the one {#blank#}4{#/blank#} classes were made active and lively with some stories and examples.{#blank#}5{#/blank#} the help of the teacher, I realized the {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(important) of English, so I decided to learn English well. My teacher suggested that we{#blank#}7{#/blank#}(read) more if we wanted to improve our English, {#blank#}8{#/blank#}every day I would do some reading. She also told us lessons in class could help us deal with exams, but even more valuable were the lessons {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(learn) in extra-curricular activities in school. I like my English teacher very much.

    Now I have made {#blank#}10{#/blank#}great progress in my English study that I am more interested in learning it than before.

    Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

    Is Climate Change Consuming Your Favorite Foods?

    Due to climate change, the world's endangered lists are no longer just for animals. We may not only need to adapt ourselves to living in a warmer world but a {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (tasty) one as well.

    As the increased amount of carbon dioxide in the air linked to global warming {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (continue) to affect weather, we often forget that they are also impacting the quantity, the quality, and the growing locations of our food. Some foods have already felt the impact while {#blank#}3{#/blank#} may even become scarce within the next 30 years.

    Whether or not you try to limit yourself {#blank#}4{#/blank#} one cup of coffee a day, the effects of climate change on the world's coffee-growing regions may leave you little choice.

    Rising temperatures and unpredictable rainfall patterns are reported to have been threatening coffee plantations in South America, Africa, Asia, and Hawaii. The result? Significant cuts in coffee yield.

    According to organizations like Australia's Climate Institute, half of the present coffee-producing areas {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (estimate) not to be suitable by the year 2050, if current climate patterns continue.

    With temperatures continuously rising, oceans are absorbing some of the heat and undergoing warming of their own, {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (cause) a decline in fish population, including in lobsters that are cold-blooded creatures, and in salmons (鲑鱼) {#blank#}7{#/blank#} eggs find it hard to survive in higher water temperatures. Warmer waters also encourage some poisonous marine bacteria to grow and lead to illness in humans whenever {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (take) with raw seafood, like oysters.

    And how about that satisfying “crack” which you get when you are eating crabs and lobsters? It could be silenced {#blank#}9{#/blank#} shellfish have been struggling to build their calcium carbonate (碳酸钙) shells, which is a result of ocean acidification.

    Even worse is the possibility {#blank#}10{#/blank#} we will have no seafood to enjoy at all. In a 2006 Dalhousie University study, scientists predicted that if over-fishing and rising temperature trends continued at their present rate, the world's seafood stocks would run out by the year 2050.

    The best way to get around a city may be driving a car. Indeed, it could be of little {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (convenient) for you to travel from one point to another if you don't own a car. While you can always use public transport, it can be quite unreliable sometimes. But don't worry. There are car rental companies that can help you with your traveling needs at anytime. If you are planning on a vacation during a major holiday like Christmas, {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (consider) hiring a car for you and your family's use. The obvious {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (benefit) of doing so are as follows: Some rental companies even include a driver with every car rented. Imagine yourself with a driver taking you to your destination{#blank#}4{#/blank#}waiting to drive you back home. In this way, even parking{#blank#}5{#/blank#}(become) the least of your concerns.

    Even if you have to drive the car by yourself, you can benefit from hiring a car because you can take the shortest route{#blank#}6{#/blank#}(enjoyable) to your destination. If you have planned your holiday in{#blank#}7{#/blank#}hurry, you might  {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(miss) checking on your car's condition. If this is the case, it is wise to rent a car because it will not break down{#blank#}9{#/blank#} your way at all.

    Traveling in your own car is a lot {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(comfortable), to be frank, than riding the train or bus. You can stop at anytime if you need to grab something.

    If you live in Shanghai, you might have to take a lesson in sorting garbage {#blank#}1{#/blank#}is now required that people should sort garbage into four categories recyclable, {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (harm), dry and wet waste. However, if people fail to sort their garbage properly, they can {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(fine) up to 200 yuan.

    More cities are introducing similar regulations, {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(follow) the practice in Shanghai. However, garbage sorting is still a big problem in China. Only 30% of the {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(participant) think they are adequately sorting their trash. It's partly because many people lack their willingness to sort their own waste. "It's {#blank#}6{#/blank#} must to have a legal guarantee {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(promote) garbage sorting, said Liu Jianguo, a professor from Tsinghua University.

    Apart from China, many other foreign countries also {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(introduce)garbage-sorting regulations in the past years. In Japan, waste sorting has become a basic survival skill. There is a {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(fix) time for the disposal of each kind of garbage and littering can result {#blank#}10{#/blank#} high fines and even jail time. Over 90%o of the public believe that garbage sorting is important for the protection of the environment.