We are all busy talking about using the Internet, but how many of us know the history of the Internet?

Many people are ___36___ when they find that the Internet was set up in the 1960s. At that time, computers ___37___ large and expensive. Computer networks didn’t work well. If one computer in the network ___38___ down, the whole network stopped. ___39___ a new network system（系統(tǒng)）had to be set up. It should be ___40___ to be used by many different computers. If part of the network was not working, ___41___ could be sent through another part. In this way computer network system would keep on ___42___ all the time.

At first the Internet was only used by the government, but in the early 1970s, universities, hospitals and banks were allowed to use it too. However, computers were still very expensive and the Internet was difficult to use. By the start of the 1990s, computers became cheaper and ___43___ to use. Scientists had also developed software that made “surfing”（瀏覽）the Internet more convenient.

Today it is easy to get on-line and it is said that millions of people use the Internet every day. ___44___ e-mail is more and more popular among students. The Internet has now become one of ___45___ parts of people’s life.

To learn a foreign language well, you need to spend a lot of time on it. The ___46___ time you spend on the language, the faster you will learn. This does not ___47___ sitting in class looking out of the window, nor listening to other students who do not speak well. This means spending time enjoyably on the ___48___ you are learning.

Listen to the language you are learning on your MP3 player. Read ___49___ you are listening to. Listen to and read things that you like, things that you can mostly ___50___, or even partly understand. One hour of listening or reading is more effective（有效率）than many hours of class time. If you ___51___ listening and reading, you will improve yourself.

Build up your vocabulary lists, which you’ll need lots of. Start to notice words and how they come ___52___ as phrases. Learn these words and phrases ___53___ listening and reading. Read online, using online dictionaries, and make your own vocabulary lists. Do not ___54___ for someone else to show you the language, nor to tell you what to do, and you should discover the language by yourself, like a child growing up. Talk when you feel like it. ___55___ when you feel like. You are learning and improving. The language will become clearer in your mind. Just make sure you spend enough time on the language.

Once there was a king. He had two old ministers. One was kind and the other was bad. The bad minister often said bad words about the kind minister before the king. The king was very angry.

One day the king said to the bad minister, “Write two words on two pieces of paper. Write ‘live’ on one piece and ‘die’ on the other. Then put them in a jar and tell him to choose. If he takes out the paper with ‘live’ on it, I’ll let him go. If he takes out the paper with ‘die’ on it, I’ll kill him at once. ”

The bad minister was quite happy. He got two pieces of paper ready. He wrote ‘die’ on each piece of paper.

The kind old man came. He knew the bad minister wanted to kill him. He also knew the words on the two pieces were both “die”. But he knew what to do. Later the king had to keep his word and let the old minister go. Do you know what the kind man did about this at that time?

He chose a piece of paper and ate it, When they saw the word “die” on the other piece, the king and other ministers thought the word on the piece that the kind man had eaten must be “l(fā)ive”, so he saved his own life by his cleverness .

1.The king was angry with ________.

2. Who was told to write “l(fā)ive” and “die”?

3. The kind minister would ________ if he chose the paper with “l(fā)ive” on it.

4. There is no “l(fā)ive” on both pieces of paper because ________.

5. ________ must be disappointed in the end.

Sales of laptop computers passed desktops in the U.S. for the first time ever this fall, according to market-research firm IDC. That's bad news for backs, necks and shoulders.

Laptops are bad for our body. When you work at a computer, the keyboard should be at elbow height and the monitor should be roughly at eye level, so you can sit well in a chair. But most users simply set their laptops on a desk or table. The keyboard is too high, which makes your arms reach up, your shoulders feel tired and your wrists bend down. The monitor is too low, which pulls your head and neck forward and down and your back may feel hurt.

That's OK if you use your laptop for a short time. But if you use one for hours without stopping – as do millions of college students, business travelers, telecommuters, video-gamers and growing numbers of office workers – your body may feel hurt. Ergonomics experts have warned about laptop problems for years. But people still like laptops better than the desktops. And they use laptops anywhere – in bed, on the floor – in all kinds of positions.

“How can a mouse or a keyboard hurt you?” says Thomas Caffrey, the founder of Myofactors LLC, “Wrong positions can be bad for your body. As time goes by, a wrong position can lead to pain in the neck, shoulders, back and arms, as well as headaches.”

1.When you work at a computer, the keyboard should be ________.

2.The writer asks us not to use the laptop ________.

3.From the passage, we know that laptop computers ________.

4.Using a laptop in a wrong position may make ________.

5.According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true?

London is a good place for kids! The museums listed here will welcome children and make their visit fun.

1.The museums are mostly for ________.    

2.If you want to visit Bethnal Green Museum of Childhood, you can _______.    

3.If you want to know about operas, you should go to ________.

4.You don't need to pay to visit any of the museums except for ________.    

5.You may find these ads at ________.    

1.My father works as a _______ (衛(wèi)兵) to keep our city safe.

2.What _______(其它的) do you like to do besides playing basketball?

3.The students held a party and _______ (慶祝) the birthday for her.

4.I need to eat less meat because my w_______ is over 80 kilograms.

5.The actress m_______ to a rich man last year.

6.The a_______ age of the students in our class is 13.

7.We agree with you, but our parents maybe d_______.

8.The teacher gave us an _______ (instruct) to us about how to use the machine.

9.As the _______ (city) of Guangzhou, we’re responsible for keeping the city clean.

10.Please hand in your homework on time, or you will _______ (punish).

1.希臘人通過一個計謀占領(lǐng)了特洛伊。

The Greeks captured the city of Troy ______ ______ ______.

2.別急促沖下樓梯，那是很危險的！

Don’t ______ ______ the stairs. It is very dangerous!

3.因為這個重箱子下面裝著輪子，所以我很容易把它移進了辦公室。

Because the heavy box is ______ ______, I moved it to the office easily.

4.他正在把一些牛奶倒進咖啡里。

He is ______ some milk ______ the coffee.

5.她暫時住在她姑媽那里。

She’s staying with her aunt ______ ______ ______ ______.

6.在和老師交流后，學(xué)生對這個問題有了很深的了解。

The students ______ ______ ______ ______ the problem after they communicated with their teacher.

7.不要開殘疾人的玩笑。相反，我們應(yīng)該尊重他們。

Don’t ______ ______ ______ the disabled. Instead, we ought to ______ ______ ______ them.

8.只有當(dāng)我們意識到學(xué)習(xí)的重要性時才會更努力地學(xué)習(xí)。

We will _____ _____ only when we ______ ______ ______ the importance of study.

1.你的朋友越多，你將越快樂。

____________________________________________________________________

2.每個人一生中都會犯錯。

____________________________________________________________________

3.這個箱子是皮革做成的。

____________________________________________________________________

4.老師不允許我們在課室踢足球。

____________________________________________________________________

The rapid growth of Smartphones and electronic tablets（平板電腦）is making the Internet favourite for Americans reading news, a report said.

News consumption online increased 17% last year from the year before. Television news, newspapers, radio and magazines all lost audience last year. For the first time, the number of people who get news online at least three times a week is larger than the number of people who get news from the newspapers. TV news has been the most popular since the 1960s. It has replaced the afternoon newspapers. But now the online news seems to be more popular than the TV news.

People are used to having the Internet available on phones or small tablets. In December, 2010, 41% of Americans said they got most of their news on the Internet, more than double the 17% who said that a year earlier, the report said. In January, 2011, 7% of Americans owned electronic tablets, nearly double what it was three months earlier. It was the fastest-growing new digital technology, ahead of mobile phones when they were introduced. The online ad income was expected to surpass（超過）print newspaper ad income for the first time in 2010.

The news business used to be the intermediary（中介）. You needed newspapers and TV stations to reach your customers. In this age of the computer, it’s the software developers that you need.

1.Americans like getting news from ________ best today.

2.About ________ % of Americans got most of their news on the Internet in 2009.

3.Which of the following media has more readers?

① TV news        ② the Internet        ③ the afternoon newspapers

4.About 3.5% of Americans had electronic tablets in ________.

5.The news business depends on ________ today.

Do you like drinking Coke? As a symbol of American culture, Coca-Cola is liked by many people, especially young people all around the world. But from now on, perhaps it will be hard for students in the US to get it on campus. A new agreement will end almost all sales of high-sugar fizzy drinks in US schools. The agreement allows only unsweetened juice, low-fat milk and water in primary and middle school vending machines（自動售貨機）and cafeterias. Former American president Bill Clinton helped the American Heart Association and the beverage industry（飲料業(yè)） to come up with the agreement. He suffered from a weight problem and has had a heart operation since leaving the White House. He takes the agreement as “a bold step forward in the struggle to help 35 million young people lead healthier lives”.

Rising childhood obesity（肥胖）has become a big problem in America. A federal report noted that obesity has tripled among teenagers in the past 25 years. It called for new limits on the marketing of junk food to children. Soda is a particular target because of its caloric content and popularity among children.

Britain has already taken similar steps to fight obesity. A recent study shows that people in the UK are much healthier than the people in the US. However, it’s better late than never. Now American schools are trying to make new rules to guide the students to choose healthy drinks. American schools say goodbye to Coca-Cola.

1.What kind of beverage is NOT allowed to sell on campus?

2.What does the underlined word “tripled” in the second paragraph mean?

3.What is the writer’s attitude（態(tài)度）towards limits on junk food?

4.Which of the following statements is WRONG?

5.Which is the best title of the passage?