A: Mary, tomorrow is your Mum's 50th birthday, do you know?

B: Of course I do. Do you have any idea about how {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (celebrate) it, Dad?

A: Of course, first of all, a birthday present. What about {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (buy) her a beautiful skirt?

B: That's a good idea. It'll make her look {#blank#}3{#/blank#}（young）. and a big birthday cake, too, with fifties {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (candle).

A: That's right. {#blank#}5{#/blank#}we have a special dinner?

B: How about a Chinese dinner?

A: Fine, where will we have it?

B: Dad, we can have it at home . I {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (learn) to cook a few Chinese dishes from a Chinese friend, {#blank#}7{#/blank#} I am sure Mum would like {#blank#}8{#/blank#}.

A: All right. Will you do {#blank#}9{#/blank#}shopping too?

B: {#blank#}10{#/blank#} don't we go together, Dad?

A: OK.

    Not all memories are sweet. Some people spend all their lives trying to forget bad experiences.

    Now American researchers think they are close to developing a pill, {#blank#}1{#/blank#} will help people forget bad memories. The pill is designed {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (take) immediately after a frightening experience. They hope it might reduce, or {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (possible) erase (抹去) the effect of painful memories.

    In November, experts tested a drug on people in the U.S. and France. The drug stops the body from {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (release) chemicals that fix memories in the brain. So far, the research {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (suggest) that only the emotional effects of memories may be reduced, not that memories are wiped out. They are not sure to the degree people's memories are affected.

    The research has caused a great deal of {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (argue). Some think it is {#blank#}7{#/blank#} bad idea, while others support it. Supporters say it could lead to pills which prevent or treat soldiers' troubling memories after war. They say that there are many people who suffer from terrible memories. {#blank#}8{#/blank#}, those who are{#blank#}9{#/blank#} the research say that maybe the pills can change people's memories and changing memories is very {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (danger) because memories give us our identity.

    Currently， both women and men {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(surround) by magazines and websites full of tips about dieting， exercise and fashion. Gone are the days {#blank#}2{#/blank#} all men had to think about wearing a nice suit to be smart and handsome. Things have changed.

    Now， a survey has suggested that 80% of men admit {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (be) unhappy about their body. The biggest body issues for {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (they) were beer bellies and lack of muscles. Some think it is because {#blank#}5{#/blank#} the pressure of influence of role models we see on TV and in magazines. People end up with a perception of {#blank#}6{#/blank#} the perfect body should look like. But not everybody wants to put in the effort to have perfect muscles like Arnold Schwarzenegger. An opportunistic designer has even invented a muscle­enhancing shirt {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(make) the buyer look more of a strong man．

    But Joe Warner，the former editor of Men's Fitness magazine， thinks the muscle­enhancing shirt is just {#blank#}8{#/blank#} trick. He thinks many people in the country are overweight and should accept they need to do more exercise {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(regular)．Exercise is always good. But we mustn't forget beauty is only skin deep. Character is {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (important) than appearance.

    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.

    Apart from working hard in sports, Kobe Bryant also challenges himself in other areas. Now he hopes to become famous for a completely d{#blank#}1{#/blank#} thing: writing. His book The Wizenard Series: Training Camp came out in March.

    The story is a {#blank#}2{#/blank#} the West Bottom Badgers, a youth basketball team. It's made up of five books, with each focused on the story of one character: Rain, Twig, Cash, Peno and Lab. All of the kids on this team come from a poor neighborhood. No one {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (have) faith (信心) in the kids to succeed, but things {#blank#}4{#/blank#} after a new coach joins the team.

    After r {#blank#}5{#/blank#} the book, we got to interview Bryant. He said he didn't think he was going to be an author, {#blank#}6{#/blank#} that he often tells stories to his daughters. This is one of the reasons {#blank#}7{#/blank#} he wrote his own book. The book is based on parts of Bryant's real-life experience, {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (especial) when he played for the Los Angeles Lakers.

    Bryant had two different jersey (秋衣) numbers — 8 and 24 — during his career. The number 24 m{#blank#}9{#/blank#} you need to work hard 24 hours a day to succeed.

    People Magazine noted that "Bryant is always breaking his limits both {#blank#}10{#/blank#} and off the basket court."

    When HarmonyOS, the Chinese self-developed operating system for Huawei mobile devices,  {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(release) on Aug 9, it quickly became a hot topic on social media. Many believe it not only represents the rise of the country {#blank#}2{#/blank#}a tech power, but also shows respect for classical Chinese culture by {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(name) the system "Hongmeng" in Chinese.

    Besides "Hongmeng; Huawei has also registered many of its  {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(product) under the names of legendary creatures from Chinese mythology. For example, the company's server chip is called "Kunpeng", a mythical creature  {#blank#}5{#/blank#}changed from a fish into a giant bird.

    In fact, Huawei is not alone in using  {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(tradition) culture for modem enterprises. {#blank#}7{#/blank#}.(base) on the well-known work of classical Chinese mythology The Investiture of the Gods, Ne Zha is shown as a rebellious underdog, who has to overcome hardship and his dark fate to become a hero,  {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(like) his attractive heroic character in previous cinematic works.

    As Global Times put {#blank#}9{#/blank#}, "ancient mythology has the power to stimulate contemporary imagination in young people". After all, imagination is  {#blank#}10{#/blank#}beginning of creation.