Cultural TV programs have experienced a come-back at the start of the Chinese New Year Two weeks after the popular show Chinese Poetry Competition, a new program,Readers,has become much{#blank#}1{#/blank#}(popular) than it.

    The weekly talk show,hosted{#blank#}2{#/blank#}the famous hostess Dong Qing,invites people from all walks of life{#blank#}3{#/blank#}(read) aloud poems,essays and book excerpts（节选）they like or wrote.The guests{#blank#}4{#/blank#}join in it also share their own life stories explaining the reason why particular pieces touched their hearts.

    Three days after its first broadcast on CCTV-1,Readers has been{#blank#}5{#/blank#}(great) successful and interested thousands of people.Through the poetic words,Readers has made{#blank#}6{#/blank#}public pay attention to the{#blank#}7{#/blank#}(lose) habit of reading aloud.

    Readers is one of the cultural TV{#blank#}8{#/blank#}(program) to restore the country's passion for literature in recent years.Its{#blank#}9{#/blank#}(succeed) is very encouraging in today's television world where reality shows{#blank#}10{#/blank#}(play) a leading part so far.

    Debbie, who lives in Hong Kong, was on holiday in Beijing with her best friend Lily. Lily is a beautiful girl who is studying science at university. She also models{#blank#}1{#/blank#}her spare time. Debbie is studying history and wants to be writer. Lily and Debbie were very{#blank#}2{#/blank#} (excite)to be in Beijing because there was so much to see. Lily suggested {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(visit)the Great Wall first, so they went on a tour to see it the first day. Their tour guide was a young man with {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(glass)who was very {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (knowledge). He told them many interesting stories. The next day, they took a bus from their hotel and then, using a map, they walked around some old hutongs. Both of the girls thought that it gave them a good idea of  {#blank#}6{#/blank#}life was like in the 13^th century. Debbie was{#blank#}7{#/blank#}(especial) excited as she{#blank#}8{#/blank#}(study)hutongs earlier in the year{#blank#}9{#/blank#}was the Forbidden City that was next on{#blank#}10{#/blank#}(they) agenda and the girls loved every minute of the tour around the beautiful grounds. Because they were leaving the next day, when they finished the tour, they went shopping and splashed out on an expensive meal.

    The British Museum, {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (locate) in the Bloomsbury area of London, is the first national public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture. Its permanent collection numbers some 8 million works, making {#blank#}2{#/blank#} one of the largest in existence. It has been {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (wide) sourced, and documenting the story of human culture {#blank#}4{#/blank#} its beginnings to the present. As with all other national museums in {#blank#}5{#/blank#} United Kingdom, it charges no admission fee. Its ownership of some of its most famous objects {#blank#}6{#/blank#} originally came from other countries is controversial, particularly in the case of the Parthenon Marbles. Today the museum no longer houses {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (collection) of natural history, and the books and manuscripts (手稿) once it {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (hold) now form part of the independent British Library, {#blank#}9{#/blank#} it still keeps its universality in collections of artificial works {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (represent) the cultures of the world, ancient and modern.

    Now, I'd like to tell you about the development of computers. Computers began {#blank#}1{#/blank#} a calculating machine in France in 1642, it could {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (simple) difficult sums. In 1936, Alan Turing wrote a book about how a computer could be made to work as a "universal Machine" {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (solve) any difficult mathematical problem. By the 1940s, computers had grown as large as a room. As time went by, they were made {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (small). Since the 1970s computers {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (use) in offices and homes, first as personal computers and then as laptops.

    As computers' memory improved, computers became much smaller and more {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (intelligence). First the memory was stored in tubes, then on transistors and later on very small chips. Over time computer's memory {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (develop) so much that computers remember everything they have been told. In the early 1960s computers could be connected to each other by the network {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (call) the World Wide Web.

    Many new {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (apply) have been found for computers since the1970s. They have been used in communication, finance, trade, robots, mobile phones, space rockets and so the goal of computers is to provide humans {#blank#}10{#/blank#} a life of high quality.

Gary: Are you busy tomorrow night? I'm going over to the Workers Club for volleyball, would you like {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (come) along?

Maisie: Isn't that far away?

Gary: Not really. If you take {#blank#}2{#/blank#} No. 3 bus, you can get there in fifteen minutes. And if volleyball doesn't interest you, they've got a huge indoor swimming pool, a weights room, {#blank#}3{#/blank#} indoor tracks. It's a great place to meet people.

Maisie: Now that you mention it, {#blank#}4{#/blank#} would be nice to get away from the computer center for a change, and I really should get some more exercise. {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (work) up a sweat in a ball game or the weights room would be nice. I've got much {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (fat).

Gary: Look at me {#blank#}7{#/blank#} then you know you're not the only one. In high school I had a lot more time to do sports. Now whatever little spare time you have must {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (use) in doing exercise. At least the club is open {#blank#}9{#/blank#} 12 p. m.

Maisie：I guess it's worth a visit. Did you say you're going tomorrow night?

Gary：Yeah.

Maisie: OK, I will come, too. How about meeting me in {#blank#}10{#/blank#} of the cinema at eight, and we'll catch the bus there.

Gary: Sure, see you then.