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A. to keep

B. to offer

C. to write

D. easy to reach

E. a way of thinking

F. happening once a year

G. an action or a service that helps

A. a little

B. completely

C. being afraid

D. having ability

E. to agree that something is true

F. to make sure something is definite

G. to wish something would take place

For Chinese swimmer Qian Hongyan, competing at the 4th Asian Para Games（亚残运会）is more about testing her limits. More （important）, the 26-year-old will keep encouraging others to face life's challenges. "It's great to participate in the Games the first time. I want to inspire more people with disability," said Qian in an interview.

（know）as the "basketball girl", Qian has been an inspiration for years. She lost both her legs due to car accident in 2000. Then, she became familiar to people because of a picture of her as a kid sitting inside half of a basketball, acted as protective equipment to help her move around on the ground.

In 2007, she began training in swimming. It （be）hard in the beginning. Without both legs, keeping （her）above water felt like an impossible task. However, with years of hard work, Qian improved, （become）a national team swimmer at the Rio Paralympics in 2016. She finished （nine）in the women's 100m breaststroke.

Coach Zhang Honghu has seen Qian's growth from a shy girl into an excellent athlete. "I hope she will keep pushing her limits and have a great life in the years （come）," said Zhang.

It's most people's terrible dream: surviving（幸存）a plane crash only to be left in a rainforest with no way of contacting the outside world. But this was 1 for four Colombian children, and in an unbelievable 2 of knowledge and willpower, they survived.

The children, aged 13, nine and four, as well as an 11-month-old baby, were 3 with their mother. They were going to visit their father in the capital city. Their plane experienced engine problems and 4 on May 1,2023. For two weeks, bad weather prevented the army from 5 the crash site. They found three adults there later, including the children's mother, who were already 6 .

How did these children survive conditions that would be 7  for most adults? They are members of the Huitoto Indigenous（土著）group and were 8  in the rainforest. As such, they have a complete 9  of the rainforest. They know which fruits are safe to eat and which plants should be 10 . They survived on a fruit called juan soco and seeds, and fed the baby water mixed with flour that they found on the plane.

While the 11  got on with the business of surviving, the Colombian army worked with Indigenous volunteers to find them. And after 40 days of 12  , the army found the children and took them to recover at a military hospital in the city of Bogota.

Many around the world have taken this survival story to be a 13 , while others point out that it is the result of an ancient and thorough knowledge of the 14  that has been passed down through Indigenous communities over the generations.

Indigenous groups have a deep respect for the forest and, 15 , their close connect ion to the rainforest helped the children to survive.

How would you feel if moving to a new town meant losing track of your friends? What if the only way of getting news from far away friends was writing letters that took ages to be delivered?  Thanks to progress in technology, how we make friends and communicate with them has changed significantly.

Nowadays, we can move around the world and still stay in touch with the people that we want to remain friends with.  All you need is a wi-fi connection. The digital age also helps us find people who share our interests, such as playing an unusual instrument. Whatever our hobbies, the Internet can connect people who share the same hobbies, ever if they live on the other side of the world.

It depends. If people always exchange true personal information online, these friendships can be real and meaningful. Yet we need to keep in mind that what we see on social media is often not the whole truth. On social media sites, people tend to post only positive updates that make them appear happy and friendly. Remember the saying: on the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog. A young person could be old; a woman could be a man; we could even be sharing our information with bad guys.

This doesn't mean that we should throw the baby out with the bath water, though. Technology has changed the way we make friends, but the meaning of friendship and our longing for friends remain the same.

A. The Internet helps us make more friends.

B. But smiling photos can hide real problems.

C. This was how things worked not very long ago.

D. However, does the Internet really bring people closer?

E. However, are the "friends" you make online really your friends?

F. No one would choose to live without friends, even if he had all other good things.

G. Social media lets us see what our friends are busy with and maintains our friendships.

A It is a prepackaged frozen or fresh meal that requires none or very little preparation besides heating up.

B At least two handfuls of vegetables or salad are recommended. If they are not easy to get, you can just include a piece of fresh fruit as a starter or dessert.

C It's no surprise that frozen ready-made meals are popular. They're fast, convenient, inexpensive, and easy. All you need to do is find healthy ready-made meals that taste good and satisfy your hunger.

D We all love a warm and heart y home-cooked dinner, but let's face it: fighting through rush hour traffic after a long day's work seldom leaves us with the time to prepare such a meal. Instead, we turn to a ready-made meal.

E The primary concern with ready-made meals is that they don't include vegetables or salads. When you're eating a ready-made meal you're usually in a hurry, so if you're going to add some vegetables, it needs to be just as quick and easy.

Gently holding a baby hummingbird, Catia Lattou f says, "Hello, cute little guy. Are you hungry?" It's the newest patient at her apartment in Mexico City, where she has nursed hundreds of the tiny birds back to health over the past ten years. Under Catia's gentle touch, the bird relaxes little by little, allowing her to examine it. This is often how Catia's days have gone since she turned her apartment into a home for sick, injured or baby hummingbirds.

Catia began caring for hummingbirds a year after surviving colon cancer in 2011. It started with one hummingbird that had an eye injured by another bird. A friend encouraged her to try to help it. She named it Warrior after the brand（品牌）of the glasses case she kept it in. The bird became her inseparable companion, resting on her computer screen while she worked. "It wrote me a new life," she said of the nine months the bird stayed with her. It helped pull Catia out of the sadness and loneliness she had experienced after her husband's death followed by her cancer.

Later, friends began bringing her more hummingbirds, and the need for her services has jumped since last year. She began studying how to better care for the tiny birds that are native to the Americans. Someone put a video about her work on the social platform TikTok, which has been viewed more than 1.5 million times.

Catia says she never turns away a bird. She cares for the birds from 5 a. m. into the night. Most of the hummingbirds stay in Catia's bedroom until they are strong enough to fly and feed themselves before they are finally freed.

The city is filled with menace to hummingbirds. There are other birds that attack them and destroy（毁掉）their home as well as modern building projects that replace flower gardens. But Catia remains positive and is certain that other bird lovers will plant more flowers to feed the birds. "Nothing is ensured," she said. "But we do everything possible."

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