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    As Cambridge approached {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(it) eight hundredth anniversary in 2009, it was looking to the future. The modern university is an international center of teaching and research in {#blank#}8{#/blank#} vast range of subjects. It continues to change in response to the challenges it faces. The 1990s {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(see) a major expansion of the university accommodation for teaching and research. There are many major new buildings either underway {#blank#}10{#/blank#} already completed, including the Law Faculty Building and the Judge Institute of Management Studies.

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    The Secret Garden is a children's novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, first published as a book in 1911. {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (set) in England, it is one of Burnett's most popular novels and is considered a classic of English children's literature. Several stage and film {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (adapt) have been made. At the turn of the 20th century, Mary Lennox is sickly and unloved 10-tear-old girl, born in India to {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(wealth) British parents who never want her. She is cared {#blank#}4{#/blank#}by servants, who allow her {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (become) a spoiled, aggressive and selfish child. {#blank#}6{#/blank#} through the discovery of her aunt's secret garden, her brother, and a cousin, Mary becomes a child we would all like to have as part of our household.

    The Secret Garden has become{#blank#}7{#/blank#} important part of children's literature, in 2003, it ranked number 51 in “The Big Read,” {#blank#}8{#/blank#}was a survey of the British public by the BBC to identify the “Nation's Best-loved” among all kinds. Based on a 2007 online survey, it {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (name) one of “Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children” by the U.S. National Education Association. In 2012 it ranked number 15 among all-time children's {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(novel) in a survey published by School Library Journal.