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    Wikipedia is an online free encyclopedia. There are more than 38 million articles about society, history, culture, music, science, technology, geography and so on. On this website, people can find articles about almost everything in the world. Wikipedia has also developed 292 language versions for people to read in their own languages.

    Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger started this encyclopedia project on 9th March, 2000. It was called Nupedia at first. And all the articles were written and checked by experts. Wales thought that the website should be a place where its users could not only find information but also share what they knew. So they tried to use a wiki system（wiki is a Hawaiian word "wee kee wee kee" which firstly meant "quick"）. On 10th January, 2001, they began a new project to improve Nupedia. On 15th January, 2001, the new online encyclopedia named Wikipedia was set up. Wikipedia achieved a great success.

According to the Alexa Traffic Rank report on 22nd May, 2016, Wikipedia is the seventh most popular website in the world. Every single user helps to make this popular free encyclopedia.

    All week long, it seems you sit inside at school when it is fine outside. But when the weekend comes, it is very cloudy. There is rain according to(根据) the weather report.

    Scientists studied more than 40 years of weather data(数据) from around the world. It shows weekend weather is different from weekday weather in some places.

    Part of the study involved(包括) 660 weather stations in the US. At more than 230 of these places, the weather on Saturday, Sunday and Monday was different from the weather on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. The difference was small, but the pattern was striking enough to make the scientists take notice.

    "This kind of weekly rise and fall doesn't line up with any natural cycles, "the scientists say. Instead, they think that air pollution from human activities makes the weather become different.

Hi! I'm Amanda. I want to introduce some {#blank#}1{#/blank#} places in the world to you. 

Verkhoyansk is in the northeast of Russia. There are about 1430 people there. In January the average (平均的) temperature there is -13℃ and it {#blank#}2{#/blank#} like that from October to April. {#blank#}3{#/blank#} lowest temperature was -32℃ in 1892. So people there usually wear warm hats and coats. They seldom stay {#blank#}4{#/blank#} when it gets really cold. 

The lowest temperature in OymyakonRussia was -32℃ on February 6, 1933. This village has a {#blank#}5{#/blank#} of 500 to 800. It is named after a hot spring. People can get {#blank#}6{#/blank#} water from it after they break the thick ice. People there think it is a great place for people {#blank#}7{#/blank#} the cold weather. 

Because of its low temperature, Hell in Norway has {#blank#}8{#/blank#} 1400 people. But more and more {#blank#}9{#/blank#} have traveled to Hell recently. They took photos of themselves {#blank#}10{#/blank#} the town's train station. Usually people there can {#blank#}11{#/blank#} ice anywhere during one third of a year from December to March.

Every living thing needs to reproduce（繁殖）. Reproducing means creating more members of your group. In order for plants to reproduce, they have to spread their seeds（种子）to other areas. Plants have developed all kinds of ways to do this.

The simplest way is gravity（重力）. Many seeds are inside of fruit. When fruit gets too heavy, it falls from a tree to the ground. Sometimes animals will pick up the fruit and drop it in another area. That helps move the seed even farther away. Apples spread this way.

Other plants use wind to spread their seeds. Dandelions（蒲公英）are a good example of this. Dandelion seeds are so light that when wind blows, it carries dandelion seeds to new places. Maple（枫树）seeds also use wind. Their seeds are connected with long, thin leaves that look like wings. When the seed falls from the tree, its "wings" help it fly farther from the tree.

Some animals help plants spread their seeds. The animals eat the seeds. While the seed is in the animal's body, it stays whole. When the seed leaves the animal, it's in a new place.

Ants also help spread seeds. Some seeds have a special smell that appeals to ants. The ants bring the seeds back to their home, which of course is underground. They only eat part of the seed. They leave the rest of the seed underground. After that, the seed can start growing.

①Do you like potatoes? These days, in the city Harbin, Heilongjiang, "little potatoes" are not a vegetable, but a cute name for visitors from the south(南方). This winter, the city has many interesting new things for them to have fun! 

②The 25th Harbin Ice and Snow World  In the park of 810 km², visitors can not only see about 1,000 beautiful ice artworks but also have fun in the ice maze(迷宫) or on the ice slide(滑梯)! 

③The Frozen Pears  In the south, we see yellow or green pears everywhere. But the frozen pears in the north are black! What do black pears taste like? Come and take a bite! 

④The Oroqen(鄂伦春族) Parade(巡游)  The Orogen people live in the mountains with reindeer(驯鹿) for many years. This winter, for the "little potatoes", they are coming to the city and have a parade with their reindeer! 

⑤The Free Pick-up(免费搭载)  To welcome the visitors, many local (当地的) people will drive their cars and pick up the visitors for free! The city won't let any "little potato" get lost. 

⑥So, do you want to start the trip now? The winter in the north is cold. But you will feel very warm there. This new year, you will see people from the north and south have fun together like a big family!

要点： 
1.外貌、性格： 圆脸、强壮、幽默、乐于助人；
2.喜好： 最喜欢的季节是……因为……； 喜欢DIY，空余时间会制作⋯⋯；喜欢野生动植物； 
3.申请理由(列举至少两点) 。

注意： 
1.内容必须包含提示中的所有信息； 
2.可适当增加细节， 以使行文连贯；
3.文中不得透露个人信息； 
4.词数 80 左右(短文首句已给出， 不计入总词数)

Dear Chairperson,

I would like to join the Birdwatching Society. 

 Yours sincerely,

 Li Ming