完成句子，阅读短文，根据汉语及首字母提示在文中的空格处填入适当单词，使短文完整、通顺。

　　February 21 is International Mother Language Day．The United Nations(联合国)n　　1　　(命名)it in 1999．The day aims to protect all languages around the world．In China, most people speak Chinese as their mother language．

　　More people speak Chinese than any other language in the world．About one fifth of the world's population(人口)speaks a form of Chinese, the BBC r　　2　　．?

　　The e　　3　　 known written record of Chinese is the oracle bone script(甲骨文)of the Shang Dynasty(17th century BC-11th century BC)．These are animal bones, especially tortoise shells(龟壳)with writing on them．Most Chinese characters are ideograms(表意文字)w　　4　　 combine(组合)two or more words together to make a new one, for example, jia(家)means “a pig under the roof”．This shows that people in ancient(古代的)times t　　5　　(认为)of home as a place to hold treasures(财富)．

　　As time went on, hundreds of thousands of words developed．However, people only use a few thousand of them in everyday life．Today, new words are still being a　　6　　(补充)to the Chinese dictionary, such as dishi(的士)for taxis, xiu(秀)for TV shows and fangnu(房奴)meaning “slave to one's home”．

　　With the fast d　　7　　(发展)of China's economy(经济), more people from other countries are taking i　　8　　(感兴趣)in Chinese．In a survey in the US last December, 2, 007 people were asked：“Which new foreign language would you learn? ” Chinese placed second, a　　9　　 Spanish, with 15 percent of the vote．

　　Confucius Institutes(孔子学院)around the world are more p　　10　　 than ever．More than 300 colleges in over 90 countries have Confucius Institutes, USA Today reported．

阅读与回答问题

　　During the summer holidays there will be a new schedule(时间表)．

　　Changes for meal and library service hours and for bus schedules will be shown on the wall outside the dining room．Weekly film and concert schedules, which are being made, will be shown each Wednesday outside the library．

　　Buses to the town center will leave the North Beijing every hour on the half during the day．The dining room will serve three meals a day from 7∶00 a.m. to 7∶00 p.m. during the weekdays and two meals from noon to 7∶00 p.m. on weekends．the library will continue its usual hours during the week-days, but have shorter hours on Saturdays and Sundays．The weekend hours are from noon to 5∶00 p.m．

　　All students who want to use the library borrowing service must have a new summer card．This announcement(通知)will also be shown in the next week's student newspaper．

1．What's the main idea of this announcement?

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2．When will the bus leave the North Beijing during the summer holiday?

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3．Which schedule is not ready?

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4．Is there going to be breakfast on weekends during the holiday?

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5．What do the students need if they want to borrow books during the holiday?

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缺词填空

先通读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后根据短文内容和所给首字母，在空格内填入一个适当的词。所填单词在题后横线上必须完整写出。

　　We are always interested in the moon．It is said 2,000 years ago people already knew that it m　　1　　around the earth．At that time, everything about the moon was learned by w　　2　　it carefully in the sky．

　　When scientists could study the moon more closely t　　3　　telescopes(望远镜), their ideas began to change．They could see the moon was m　　4　　of rocks．Most scientists thought moon rocks would be different from t　　5　　on Earth．However, in 1969 moon rocks were finally b　　6　　back to the earth and studied．Scientists were very s　　7　　to find that, except for water, the moon and the earth were made of the same things．Once again new ideas were n　　8　　for the new information．

　　After years of study, most scientists now think that the moon was once p　　9　　of Earth．About 4 million years ago, something about the size of Mars hit Earth．This sent billions of (数十亿的)rocks into space around our planet．These rocks s　　10　　joined together and after a long time became the moon．