{#blank#}1{#/blank#} All of us hope you _____________ your best to learn English well this term.
{#blank#}2{#/blank#} How long ___________ you ____________ solving this problem yesterday afternoon.
{#blank#}3{#/blank#} If it _____________ next Sunday，we will have a football match in our school.
{#blank#}4{#/blank#} — ________ you __________ reading the story book?—Not yet. It's too hard to understand.
{#blank#}5{#/blank#} The family ______________ where to go this weekend when the telephone rang.

   Hangzhouhua (杭州话)：use it or lose it
   There are about 6.000 languages in the world and some experts say that as many as half of these languages will disappear(消失) in the next one hundred years. Will Hangzhouhua be one of {#blank#}1{#/blank#} ? It's a {#blank#}2{#/blank#}  that more people are asking.
   In China, Putonghua is the official language. That {#blank#}3{#/blank#}  it's the language of government, business and the media (媒体). And it's also the language that is{#blank#}4{#/blank#}  in schools.
   Hangzhou is a special city. It used to be the capital of Wu and Yue States in the 10th century during the Five Dynasties period. Now it is modern, fashionable and also beautiful. And Hangzhouhua shows that by being modern, fashionable and beautiful.
   Young people still speak Hangzhouhua but not as {#blank#}5{#/blank#}  as their parents and grandparents. They are under more and more pressure to speak Putonghua. So the language is being used{#blank#}6{#/blank#}  often in everyday life. Some people want to keep the language from disappearing completely {#blank#}7{#/blank#}  building museums and having cultural festivals to save it. But a language isn't a painting {#blank#}8{#/blank#} a book. It's a living thing and you {#blank#}9{#/blank#}  use it or lose it.
   If people {#blank#}10{#/blank#}  using it in their daily lives, a museum or a festival will not help. It will be lost forever, like the Yangtze River dolphin.

    China has built the world's fastest computer, the Sunway TaihuLight. It is the first time that China has come at the top{#blank#}1{#/blank#}using US technology. The Sunway TaihuLight{#blank#}2{#/blank#}Chinese—developed Shen Wei processors (中央处理器). The new system was{#blank#}3{#/blank#}at the National Supercomputing Centre in Wuxi. Jiangsu Province.

    China has the{#blank#}4{#/blank#} supercomputers on the TOP500 list with 167 systems. The US is second with 165 and Japan is{#blank#}5{#/blank#}with 129. Germany is fourth with 26 systems, and France is next with 18，followed by Britain with 12.

    China has made great {#blank#}6{#/blank#}in super computing. It had no {#blank#}7{#/blank#}on the TOP500 list in 2001. In 2003，China's fastest supercomputer was only 51st in the world. Now China has two supercomputers in the{#blank#}8{#/blank#}10 of the TOP500 list.

    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.