2-2 Dog Plays “Mother” to Tiger Cubs
People at a zoo in China have used a dog named Balu to play mother to three _1_Siberian tigers. The newborn tigers at the Shanghai Wild Animal Park, including one male and two females were _2_by their mother. They were very much in need of being breast- fed and the zoo called for Balu.The first time the 7-year-old_3_ acted as a tiger’s mother was five years ago when a Siberian tiger became too sick and weak to feed her four babies and the park had to place an __4_for a_5_. Since then the animal owned by a fanner from Nanhui has been asked to play mother for 12 tiger cubs on for our._6_Officials from the park came calling for her services two months ago shortly after she had given birth to her own two_7_.Park spokesman Su Fei long recalled: “She was very strong at first sight.Though the tiger cubs were much bigger than her, she regarded them as her own children and fed them_8_.”Balu has now taken to breast-feeding both her own and “_9_” babies,according to Shanghai Daily M r. Su told the paper: “She is a loving mother, _10_to those tigers.When those_11_ cubs_12_ against her own puppies, she never got angry with them but tried to make them quiet with a gentle hug.”
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5-2 The Olympic Park
To host the 29th Summer Olympic Games in 2008, Beijing needs 35 _1_in all. Thirty of them will be in Beijing, with 15 of them newly built. The first on the list is the building of the Olympic Park or “Olympic Green.”The Olympic Green will be_2_ at the northern tip of central Beijing, to the north of downtown area and to the east of a _3_famous for science,education and_4_ buildings. Covering a total area of 1,215_5_ the Olympic Green _6_of 760 hectares of woods and grassland, a 50-hectare Chinese Nationalities Museum and a 405-hectare International Exhibition and Sports Center. The Olympic Green will become a state-of-the-art center of cultural,_7_ and sports activities in Beijing.The Olympic Green also has an area of sports venues. In the area, an 80,000-seat main stadium and 15 other sports venues are now under _8_When completed, they will be able to host 12 major sports_9_ at the same time, including track and field events. The International Exhibition and Sports Center will also be built in this area.The design of the Olympic Green has taken serious_10_ about how to meet IOC’s standards of _11_protection. It uses_12_ that are environment-friendly and equipment that needs less energy to run so as to protect the environment. All this will help the Beijing Olympic Games to be remembered as the greenest Olympics.
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6-2 The Maglev Train
On the whole I think our country has an_1_ system of_2_.But I do not think that it does a good job of transporting people between cities that are only a few hundred miles apart. A person _3_between one city and a neighboring one may spend only a_4_ short time in the air while spending several hours getting to and from the airport. This situation makes flying almost as time- consuming as driving. Moreover, airplanes use a lot of their fuel just getting into the air. They simply are not fuel_5_ on short trips.Then, high speed trains may
