It's Saturday morning. Tony's sitting at the kitchen table, staring into space and playing with a piece of bread. He's not even
1. Is he ill? No, but he does have a problem. He has nothing to do because the Internet is down.
When he woke up this morning, Tony was feeling
2. He jumped out of bed full of plans for the weekend ahead. It would be a weekend like any other great weekend. But that was
3he turned on his computer and
4 he was unable to go online. Having no Internet changes everything.
Every weekend, Tony will go online to email friends, read the news to
5what's happening in the world and play a few online chess games with his cousin Helen to kill time. The perfect weekend-online.
Just as Tony is
6how he can possibly have a normal weekend without the Internet, his mum walks into the
7“Cheer up, Tony. Don't think about the Internet any more, OK?” Tony makes no answer but sighs. “Go and play chess with Helen!” Tony's mum
8 .
“Oh, yes! Helen lives just around the corner. We can meet and play chess face to face for a
9. Maybe this weekend won't be so bad.” Tony
10, as he walks to the phone. There is life beyond the Internet after all (毕竟).