Reading newspapers has become an important part of everyday life. Some {#blank#}1{#/blank#} read newspapers as the first thing to do in the morning; others read newspapers when they have {#blank#}2{#/blank#} time. They can learn what is {#blank#}3{#/blank#} in the world.

    Sometimes, we do not have enough time to read all the news carefully, so we just take a {#blank#}4{#/blank#} look at the front page or the names of the passages.

    Newspapers are {#blank#}5{#/blank#} in the world. We can get many different kinds of newspapers in big cities,  {#blank#}6{#/blank#} in some mountain villages we can see fewer (更少的) newspapers.

    Some newspapers are published(出版) once a {#blank#}7{#/blank#}^, but most of the papers are published once a day with many pages, some even twice a day! You know different people enjoy reading different newspapers. Some like world news, and {#blank#}8{#/blank#} enjoy short stories. They just choose what they are interested {#blank#}9{#/blank#}.

Today newspapers in English have the most (最多的) {#blank#}10{#/blank#} in the world. Many Chinese students are reading English newspapers such as China Daily and 21st Century. They bring us more messages together with the Internet.

    Jess really felt very happy. When he arrived at his seat in the classroom that morning, he found an invitation on his desk. It was from several of his classmates asking him to{#blank#}1{#/blank#}them on a camping trip. This was the first time he was asked to take part in an out-of-school activity. Why were they asking him now? Jess thought{#blank#}2{#/blank#}seemed to like him. In fact, he had been so lonely that he drowned his feeling with food. As a result, he had put on a lot of weight, and this gave the kids something more to make fun of him.

    Cindy, who was standing near Jess when he read the invitation, went out quickly to tell the others that the trick had worked. Everyone was pleased that Jess thought that was{#blank#}3{#/blank#}a，But there was no camping trip. The whole thing was made up.

At first Cindy thought it was fun, but later, when Jess told her that he was going to buy a sleeping bag with his savings, Cindy had a second idea. She knew that Jess's family had little money, and she hated to see him{#blank#}4{#/blank#}his savings on something he would never use, but her close friends also hated her to tell Jess the truth. They would be angry with her. What could she do now?