Cape Town is the second largest city in South Africa．And it is home to four{#blank#}1{#/blank#} (百万)people．However，it may also be the first major city in the world to run out of water．The city's water{#blank#}2{#/blank#} (主要地)comes from six reservoirs(水库)．They hold about 870，000 cubic meters of water．But in the last three years，the city has {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (面临)the worst problem in a century．These reservoirs now have just 26％of the water, according to National Geographic．

    A government{#blank#}4{#/blank#}(官员)in Cape Town is telling people to save water．Or, the city will have to cut off water to homes and businesses．Tile day of that cutoff is being called "Day Zero"．The city said "Day Zero" could fall on{#blank#}5{#/blank#}(七月)9^th ， the New York Times reported．But the date may{#blank#}6{#/blank#}(改变)according to the water levels of the city's reservoirs．On "Day Zero"，people will only be{#blank#}7{#/blank#}(有能力的)to get water from 200 water-collection points across the city．Every person will only be allowed about 0.02 cubic meters of water a day．

    The city's government is rushing to{#blank#}8{#/blank#}(解决)the problem．It has set up{#blank#}9{#/blank#}(工厂)to turn seawater into drinkable water．It is also {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(再同收)more used water in the hope that "Day Zero" will come later．Or it will not appear at all．

Lily: Ann, how do you feel about this dish?

Ann: It is very delicious.

Lily: Quite right. It was {#blank#}1{#/blank#} by a special cook.

Ann: He must be a famous and {#blank#}2{#/blank#} cook.

Lily: He is not a human being but a robot.

Ann: A robot cook? I can't {#blank#}3{#/blank#} it.

Lily: It is true. This robot is developed by an old man in Beijing. You just need to put food inside the robot and carry some orders out.

After a few {#blank#}4{#/blank#} a delicious dish is finished.

Ann: It sounds really easy and {#blank#}5{#/blank#}.

Lily: Yeah, the old man plans to popularize this kind of robot cook to more and more restaurants.

Ann: That is so cool.

Frank {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (have) a soccer ball and his brother {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (have) a soccer ball, too. They go to{#blank#}3{#/blank#} (相同的) school. They {#blank#}4{#/blank#} {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (踢足球) at school {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (和) their friends. He {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (think) it's {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (令人放松的) .Gina loves {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (sport), but she doesn't play {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (they). She only{#blank#}11{#/blank#}  (watch) them {#blank#}12{#/blank#} TV. Wang Wei likes ping-pong. It's {#blank#}13{#/blank#} (容易的) for him. After class, he {#blank#}14{#/blank#} (play) it with his {#blank#}15{#/blank#} (classmate).

    Now we meet Fantine. She is young and beautiful, and in love with a man in Paris. But she {#blank#}1{#/blank#} no family, and no money.

    Men are not kind to {#blank#}2{#/blank#}. The man in Paris walks away, and leaves poor Fantine with a little girl {#blank#}3{#/blank#} Cosette. Fantine must find work, but {#blank#}4{#/blank#}?

    Fantine has a child but no husband, and a woman without a husband is nothing. {#blank#}5{#/blank#} than nothing. People are not kind to a woman with a child but no husband.

    They turn their faces away, they close their doors, they say, "There's no work for a woman {#blank#}6{#/blank#} you."

    Fantine likes her daughter {#blank#}7{#/blank#}, but what can she do? So, in 1818 in a village near Paris, she leaves her little daughter with Monsieur and Madame Thenardier. They ask for seven francs a month. Fantine {#blank#}8{#/blank#} the money, holds her daughter in her arms for the {#blank#}9{#/blank#} time, and leaves. She takes the road for her home town, and tears are {#blank#}10{#/blank#} down her face.