Many English language learners believe that the {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (great) difficulty with listening comprehension (理解) is that the listener cannot control how quickly a speaker speaks. They feel that what the speaker says disappears {#blank#}2{#/blank#} they can follow. This frequently means that students {#blank#}3{#/blank#} are learning to listen cannot keep up. They are so busy working out the meaning{#blank#}4{#/blank#} one part of what they hear that they miss the next part. Or they {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(simple) ignore a whole section because they fail to catch it quickly enough. Another difficulty is that the listener is not always in a position to get the speaker to repeat what has been said. And, of course, repeats cannot{#blank#}6{#/blank#} (ask) for when listening to the radio or watching TV.

    Besides,{#blank#}7{#/blank#} (choose) of vocabulary is in the hands of the speaker, not the listener. Very often, for people listening to a foreign language, an unknown word can be like a suddenly {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (drop) stone making them stop and think about the meaning of the word,{#blank#}9{#/blank#} (cause) them to miss the next part of the speech. In listening, it really is a case of “He who{#blank#}10{#/blank#} (stop) to work out the meaning is lost.”

    The Great Wall was listed as a World Heritage by UNESCO in 1987. Just like a dragon, it winds up and down across deserts, grasslands and mountains, {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(run) approximately21,196 kilometers from east to west.

    The {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (construct) of the Great Wall was not that easy, {#blank#}3{#/blank#} drew heavily on the local resources for building materials. The walls were {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (original) built in the Spring ＆Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. Emperor Qin Shi Huang succeeded in his effort to have them joined together. Since then, the Great Wall {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(serve) as a monument of the Chinese nation throughout history.

    With {#blank#}6{#/blank#} history of about 2,700 years, some parts of the Great Wall are now {#blank#}7{#/blank#}ruins or have disappeared. However, the Great Wall of China is still one of the most appealing{#blank#}8{#/blank#} (attraction) all around the world owing to its historical significance. The best-known part of the Great Wall of China, Badaling, {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(locate) 43 miles northwest of Beijing, attracts thousands of national and foreign tourists every day.

    Today, the Great Wall {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (recognize) as one of the most impressive architectural achievements in history.

    Starbucks, an international coffee chain, is to offer its customers a discount if {#blank#}1{#/blank#} bring their own cups to have drinks at the café. This will start from April in the UK as a two-month trial and could go on if it is a {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(succeed). Customers {#blank#}3{#/blank#} bring their own cups will get a discount on almost all drinks. Starbucks states on its website, “Our plan focuses on three main areas: reducing the waste paper cups, increasing recycling rates {#blank#}4{#/blank#} promoting the use of reusable cups.

    This {#blank#}5{#/blank#}(decide) comes as a major victory for the campaign {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(reduce) paper cups waste. It was revealed （透露）earlier that 7 million paper cups are used in Britain every day, which means 2.5 billion cups {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(throw) into dustbins each year. The coffee shops make false claims of the number of paper cups they actually recycle. That makes customers {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(wrong) believe that a coffee shop is environmentally friendly. But, according to a recycling service in the UK, only one in 400 cups actually gets {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(recycle). One of the coffee {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(drinker) said, “I am disappointed that cafes recycle so little. I thought they were more responsible. Now I will bring my own cup.”

The Best Way of Losing Weight

    Forget what the skinny movie stars and the TV adverts say - losing weight is hard work. {#blank#}1{#/blank#} you do it through exercise, diet, or a bit of both, it's extremely challenging to lose those pounds and then to keep them off. Sometimes it can involve {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (change) huge parts of your day-to-day life and it can mean breaking decades-old habits.

    But it turns out there's one little thing you {#blank#}3{#/blank#} do to help you achieve your goal and it's got nothing to do with food or exercise. The experts at Weight Watchers did research which shows many of their members were more successful and {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (discouraged) when they shared regular updates on their new healthy lifestyle online. They found people who shared a diary of their daily lives with friends and followers were stimulated and inspired by positive feedback {#blank#}5{#/blank#} they lost some pounds and kept them off.

    More than 50 per cent of people said the support of a weight loss community was crucial when it came {#blank#}6{#/blank#} changing their eating habits and 53 per cent shared photos of their meals on social media. With this knowledge under their belts, Weight Watchers {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (launch) a series of short films lately which show people recording their daily weight loss journey.

    One of the members who shared her journey was Danielle Duggins, and her video shows her enjoying a range of healthy meals and a few treats, while {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (play) with her children.

    The company's marketing director Claudia Nicholls said: "The support of a community has always proved to be an effective way of forming and sustaining healthy habits, but there has never been an easier or more affordable way {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (tap) into the power of the crowd for support and inspiration with the explosion of online communities. Weight Watchers owns a social community for members, Connect, {#blank#}10{#/blank#} sees over 14,000 daily posts in the UK alone, and provides our members with instant access to a community of people who are on similar journeys to them.