You might have seen this in US TV dramas. A group of girls knock on people's doors, trying to sell cookies. What are they doing? They are Amercican Scouts（女童子军）,and {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (sell) cookies is a tradition of {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (they).

    Selling cookies is just one activity among all the fun things that Girl Scouts do. The Girl Scouts of the USA is a group {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (found) in 1912.It offers all kinds of activities to girls and lets them learn skills.

    Boys can be scouts too. {#blank#}4{#/blank#} they join a different group called the Boy Scouts of America (RSA), {#blank#}5{#/blank#} was founded in 1910.

    Now there are 1.9 million Girl Scouts in the US, according to the group, Usually, they go {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (camp) and learn how to build fires and use a compass. Sometimes they also stay {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (indoor) doing crafts or learning arts. Every time they do an activity or pass a test, they get a badge.

    The Boy Scouts love to win the badges too. They have a ranking system. And winning enough badges is {#blank#}8{#/blank#} must to get into a {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (high) rank. The highest rank is "Eagle", which {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (require) at least 21 badges. Neil Armstrong the first man on the moon, and Bill Gates, the father of Microft, were both Eagle Scouts when they were young.

    How do learning habits influence learning results?It's useful and necessary to discuss learning habits.There is a famous saying "Good habits lead to good endings",{#blank#}1{#/blank#} shows the importance of habits.

    "An apple a day keeps the doctor away." also{#blank#}2{#/blank#} (show) a healthy habit everyday helps to build up our body. Thus,good learning habits can help us gain great learning results,high scores and abundant knowledge{#blank#}3{#/blank#} (include).At first,learning habits form our ways of thinking and{#blank#}4{#/blank#} (attitude) to the content of our learning. {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (obvious),a good habit can help us to speed up to reach our destinations.As we can see,developing a good habit is so important that In would like to introduce one kind of good learning habits—keeping{#blank#}6{#/blank#} learning diary every day. We can start the habit by{#blank#}7{#/blank#} (write) a learning summary and remember to record something impressive and meaningful. Keep it in mind{#blank#}8{#/blank#} gradually we can gain this good learning habit and benefit from it.

    What's{#blank#}9{#/blank#} (much),I find out that I still have some bad learning habits{#blank#}10{#/blank#} well. I can only concentrate on reading for a short time,and I will conquer this problem by spending more efforts on concentration practice.

    I believe that through my efforts,I can gain good learning results by having good habits.

    Traditional Chinese culture is{#blank#}1{#/blank#}(begin) to capture the attention of the world,this is also true even if popular culture{#blank#}2{#/blank#}has traditionally been considered Western begins to spread throughout China.

    China Kung Fu,especially,has had a great impact{#blank#}3{#/blank#}millions of people in the world{#blank#}4{#/blank#}it has been so fascinating in the eyes of westerners.Apart from that,they may come to China and learn about other aspects of this culture,such as traditional operas like the Beijing and Sichuan ones.Asian nations have long known about the{#blank#}5{#/blank#} (great) of ancient Chinese culture.Their own cultures are a mix of native ones and those Chinese characteristics.

    Actually,Korea and Japan long ago{#blank#}6{#/blank#}(adopt) ideas such as Confucianism as something that continues today even as it is challenged by Pop Culture.This strength comes from the ideas{#blank#}7{#/blank#}(give) in the Four Books（四书）of Confucianism (The Great Learning,The Doctrine of the Mean,The Analects of Confucius,and The Book of Mencius). These books built upon the ideas of{#blank#}8{#/blank#}even more ancient period codified in the Five Classics（五经）.From them, the West learns such things as Fengshui and other concepts that are{#blank#}9{#/blank#}(unique) Chinese.

    In recent years,China has taken steps to further this spread of culture by{#blank#}10{#/blank#}(establish) Chinese Cultural Centers in foreign counties,the United States and Europe,in particular.

    I always sit down comfortably in the barber's shop and listen patiently {#blank#}1{#/blank#} my barber(理发师). He either explains the current political situation and women's fashions or tells me jokes which I {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(hear) at least five times already. In twenty {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(minute), I get a great deal of information as well as a hair-cut.

    But last week our conversation was very short indeed. We heard loud cries of “fire!”{#blank#}4{#/blank#}(come) from upstairs. All of the customers and barbers made up their minds {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (escape) from the shop immediately.

    We were {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(certain) a funny sight to passers-by! I had a white sheet round my neck and my hair {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(be) half cut. My barber was close behind me with a comb and a pair of scissors in his hands. One of the customers {#blank#}8{#/blank#} had sat next to me was not so {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(luck). There were still soap bubbles on one side of his face and his barber ran after him holding a shaving-brush in one hand and a razor in the {#blank#}10{#/blank#}!

    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.

    Stress used to be an almost unknown word, but now that we are used to {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (talk) about it, I have found that people are beginning to get stressed about being stressed.

    In recent years, stress {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (regard) as a cause of a whole range of medical problems, {#blank#}3{#/blank#} high blood pressure to mental illness. But like so many other things, it is only too much stress {#blank#}4{#/blank#} does you harm. It is time you considered that if there were no stress in your life, you would achieve a little. If you are stuck at home with no stress, then your level of performance will be low. Up to a certain point, the more stress you are under, the {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (good) your performance will be. Beyond a certain point, though, further stress will only lead to exhaustion, illness and finally a breakdown. You can tell when you are over the top and on the downward slope, by asking yourself {#blank#}6{#/blank#} number of questions. Do you, for instance, feel that too much is being expected of {#blank#}7{#/blank#}, and yet find it impossible to say no? Do you find yourself getting impatient or {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (annoy) with people over unimportant things?... If the answer to all those questions is yes, you had better {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (control) your stress, as you probably are under more stress than is good for you.

    To some extent you can control the amount of stress in your life. Doctors have worked out a chart showing how much stress is involved in various events. Getting married is 50, pregnancy 40, moving house 20, Christmas 12, etc. If the total stress in your life is over 150, you are twice as likely {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (get) ill.