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1. New Zealand is __________ by the Pacific Ocean to the north and east, and Tasman Sea to the south and west.

2. More than 120 years later, Captain James Cook took ____________ of the islands in 1769 and from that time British people started to settle in New Zealand.

3. By 1840 about 2,000 Europeans, mainly British, had come to settle in New Zealand and the Maori signed an ___________ with these settlers.

4.Over time, many farming techniques have been modernized: ___________ fertilizers are now used and electric pumps are used in ____________.

5.It was _________ the early 1990s that scientists started to develop new techniques to increase agricultural production without harming the _____________.

6. Today, many vegetables are not grown in gardens but in _________ where they are ________ from the wind ,rain and insects.

7. A _________ of GM watermelons will be seedless and there is GM rice ,sometimes called “golden rice”, __________ will have more vitamins and can grow in poor soil.

8.Funny plays often have characters that are stereotypes of _________ or people doing certain job.

9. _________ back to the Qin Dynasty, the traditional crosstalk shows, or xiangsheng shows have made people all over China roar with ___________ for centuries.

10.Just like spoken language, body language __________ from culture to culture.