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Lori：Good morning, Chuck. Are you here{#blank#}1{#/blank#}(wait) for Professor Johnson?

Chuck：Oh, yes. Good morning, Lori. The professor asked me to come here {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(have) an interview. Do you know something about the job as {#blank#}3{#/blank#} teacher's assistant?

Lori：Oh, yes. I know all about it {#blank#}4{#/blank#} Ihave work experience in this field. Last year, I did it for a long time.

Chuck：Really? How did you like {#blank#}5{#/blank#}？

Lori：Well, actually I think it was{#blank#}6{#/blank#}(good) I had ever had at school. I was paid nine dollars an hour, which{#blank#}7{#/blank#}(be) three dollars more than the school post office paid us.

Chuck：Yeah, I bet this is a good salary. But what did you do?

Lori：My responsibility was to help Professor Johnson grade the students' homework. It wasn't hard and the professor was always available {#blank#}8{#/blank#} there were any questions. I {#blank#}9{#/blank#} improve myself through doing this job.

Chuck：I think I would enjoy this kind of work. But I'm a little worried about how much {#blank#}10{#/blank#} it might take.

Lori：Only about five or six hours a weekand you can do that in your room.

Chuck：It sounds good.

Three Japanese tourists taking a holiday in Australia got stuck when their GPS told them they could drive from the mainland to an island, failing to mention the 15 kilometres of water and mud in between.

As they drove their hired car from Moreton Bay to nearby North Stradbroke Island, they started to notice the firm surface they were driving on giving way to the well­known bay mud. However, being confident that their GPS would direct them to a road soon, they decided to drive on, managing to travel around 500 metres before their car was up to its tires in mud. To make matters worse, the tide (潮汐) started to come in and soon forced them to seek help and abandon the vehicle. Just four hours later the car was trapped in two metres of water—to the great amusement of onlookers on the shore and passengers on passing boats and ferries.

Yuzu Noda, 21, said she was listening to the GPS and "it told us we could drive down there. It kept saying it would navigate (导航) US to a road. But we got stuck… there's lots of mud". She and her travel companions Tomonari Saeki, 22, and Keita Osada, 21, instead had to give up their plans for a day trip to the island and headed back to the Gold Coast of a lift from the RACQ tow truck (吊车) driver who was called to the trapped car. No such luck for the hired car, though—after assessing the situation, no attempt was made to recover it. The students from Tokyo, who are due to return home tomorrow, said the experience would not put them off returning to Australia for another visit. Mr Tomonari said, "It has rained every day on our six day holiday. Hopefully next time we come back it will be sunny. "

The car was covered by insurance, but the tourists will have to pay up to about $1,500 in extra charges.

A "blogger" is a person who writes on an Internet website called a "blog". The word "blog" is a 1 way of saying "web log", or "personal website". Anyone can start a2 ， and they can write about anything they like.

There are millions of blogs on the internet today. They3 news, information and ideas for people who read them. They contain 4 to other websites, and they provide a place for people to write their5and react to the ideas of others.

A research company called Perseus has6 more than 3,000 web logs. It says that blogs are most7 with teenage girls. They use them to8 their friends know what is happening in their lives. The study9 says that more than 100,000 bloggers stopped taking part in the activity after a year.

10, some people develop11 blogs to present political and other ideas. 12 ， the Republican and Democratic parties in the southern state of Kentucky recently started their own blogs. And American companies are beginning to use blogs to advertise their13.

At the same time, some long­standing blogs have14. Last week, blogging leader Dave Winer closed his free blog service "weblogs. com". He said the site became too expensive to 15. He started the blog four years ago, and thousands of people had16 on it. They were 17that the site had been closed.

One blog that is still going18 is called Rebecca's Pocket. Rebecca Blood created the website in 1999. She wrote about the history of blogs on the site. That19 led to a book called The Weblog Handbook. It has been20 into four languages so far.