A.This electric（电子的） product can make you cool during hot days. It can help you change the temperature and control the huimdity(湿度).

B. This can help you wash your dirty clothes and dry them. You just need to turn it on and later hang the clothes on the line.

C. You can do many things with this product, such as sending e-mails, playing games, getting on line and listening to music.

D. Each family needs it to keep meat, vegetables, fruits and drinks cool and fresh on hot days.

E. It is a very helpful product which tells you the time. It can wake you up at any time you want.

F. When you wash your hair, you need this product to make wet hair dry right away.

Match the information according to what you read.

Lucy is often late for school becauses he always gets up late. She needs to buy something to wake her up in the morning.{#blank#}1{#/blank#} 

Bob likes listening to music when he is free. And he has to send e-mails to his customers(顾客）every day. He wants to buy something that can help him.{#blank#}2{#/blank#} 

Summer has come. Peter is heavy and he can't sleep well on such hot days. He'd like to buy something to make him feel cool.{#blank#}3{#/blank#}

Jenny often washes her hair late at night. It is often wet when she goes to bed. She needs to buy something to dry her hair.{#blank#}4{#/blank#} 

Mrs. Brown is a housewife. She has so many chores to do. She has to wash clothes for her family every day, so she needs a product to do it for her.{#blank#}5{#/blank#} 

C

    A very important world problem is the growth of population on the earth. The population of the world today is more than 6,500,000,000. That is a great number and we know it quite well. ①The important thing is not how large the population of the world is now, but is the rate(速度) of the growth. It is about 1.63% every year after the number of dead people has been taken away.

    To give you some ideas of the birth rate, look at the ②second hand of your watch. Every second, four babies are born in the world. Another baby! Another baby! Another baby! Another baby! ③You can not speak quickly enough to keep up with the rate of the growth of the population. It is growing faster and faster. So it goes on, hour after hour. In one day, people have to find food for about 350,000 mouths more.

    This great growth of population will make a big problem by the year 2050 — there will be as many as 7,500,000,000 people on the earth! So this is one of the biggest problems that you are going to meet in your life.

    Recently, a very simple question became widely spread online: What should China be proud of ?{#blank#}1{#/blank#}

    Lanlan, whose real name is Negar Kordi, is from Canada. She came to China five years ago and is a student at Ningbo University, Now she has 120, 000 fans on the Internet and the number is still growing.

    Lanlan loves China and Chinese.{#blank#}2{#/blank#}And that's why she is so well received among Chinese net friends. The following is China in her eyes.

    “It is the easiest country in which to find a job. If you are not too lazy, it is really very simple to find a job in China. I believe there're more job chances here than that in any other country in the world.”

    “{#blank#}3{#/blank#}About 400 million Chinese are studying English. If they can speak good English in the future, China will have the greatest number of English speakers of any non-English speaking country.”

    “The speed of Chinese trains is fast. From Ningbo to Beijing, the train runs 1,365 kilometers for seven hours and the ticket fare is only 596 yuan.”

    “Its public security is great.{#blank#}4{#/blank#}I have traveled in many countries, and I think China really is very safe.”

    “There are much more things China should be proud of. Many Chinese people often criticize (批评) China. At first, I believed that they didn't like China or that loved Western countries. But later, I realized that they just set a very high standard for China.{#blank#}5{#/blank#}” China must be much better than

other countries.”

A. The foreign language level is surprising.

B. This country of 1.4 billion people makes me feel safe.

C. A foreign girl living in China gave a very touching answer.

D. They believe that it's not enough to be number one in the world.

E. She believes China will be the strongest country in the world in future.

    We did a survey(研究) about student's free time activities yesterday. One of our questions was about exercise. According to(根据) the survey, only 25% of the girls often have activities outside. Many girls do little exercise. They don't like PE. classes and don't play sports .These girls may face a lot of problems. They may get fatter and weaker(更虚弱). And they may get some kinds of illness(疾病). Wang Jing, a 16-year-old girl, said, "I don't like doing exercise. I like watching TV from about 8 p.m. to 11 p.m.on the sofa. My sleeping time is no more than seven hours a day. I often feel tired."

    Some girls said they didn't have enough time to do exercise." We must help our parents with housework because they are very tired after a day's work. We have the dishes to do the house to clean and the homework to finish. There really isn't time for anything else."

    Everyone may have his reason for no doing exercise. However, we must know that if we don't do enough exercise, we will never be healthy. As students, we'd better exercise every day to live a healthy life.

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    Christmas is a Christian holiday that celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ. No one knows the exact date of Christ's birth, but most Christians celebrate it on December 25th. On this day, many people go to church, they can take part in special religious services. In Britain, Christmas dinner is eaten at noon. During the Christmas season, they also exchange gifts and decorate their homes.

    One German couple tried their best to prepare for their Christmas decorations in a different way. Thomas and Susanne decorated the outside of their house with a few simple Christmas decorations. From the outside, their house looks normal. However, the inside of the house is so different from the outside.

    They started decorating in October. It took them 8 weeks to set everything up. They put 100 Christmas trees into their small house! They decorate the trees with small coloured electric lights and 16,000 baubles.

    They did not always have so many trees. In the beginning, they had a small Christmas collection. As time went on, they grew their collection rapidly. They started decorating in early October. It's so special even the bathroom has a Santa Claus toilet seat.

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