The title   A     {#blank#}1{#/blank#}  American architect
Be born  In   {#blank#}2{#/blank#}  in Seattle, Washington
In college  Studied  architecture  in college
Worked in a fish factory to {#blank#}3{#/blank#}  for college
  {#blank#}4{#/blank#}  a room with 100 other men
His design of buildings Made people feel  {#blank#}5{#/blank#}  and happy
Had  {#blank#}6{#/blank#}  opinions about his buildings
The World Trade Center didn't fall down after a bomb explosion
Successful  career  Was not the  {#blank#}7{#/blank#}   as other architects
Didn't begin his successful career    {#blank#}8{#/blank#}  he started his own company
Won   {#blank#}9{#/blank#}  Awards for his famous design before 1962 and designed over 300 buildings in his life
Date of  {#blank#}10{#/blank#}    Died on Jun,2  1986

① {#blank#}1{#/blank#}  When a teacher assigns(布置) a lot of homework, Domenica Roman draws up a timetable, dividing the assignment into small parts. "It's like eating a steak(牛排)," she says. "You chew it one bite at a time."

② {#blank#}2{#/blank#}  One student put a vocabulary list in the bathroom. He learned a new word every day while brushing his teeth. Another student used the time to remember biology terms while practicing running.

③{#blank#}3{#/blank#}   In high school, McCray ran track, played football and was in the band and orchestra. "I was so busy that I couldn't waste time looking for a pencil or missing paper. I kept everything right where I could put my hands on it," he says.

④ {#blank#}4{#/blank#}  In an international class, Asian-Americans, on average, scored higher than other students. The teacher found that the Asian-Americans discussed homework problems together, tried different ways to work out the problems and explained their solutions to one another.

⑤ {#blank#}5{#/blank#}  Christi is an excellent student at the University of California. If her math teacher assigns five problems, she does ten. If the history teacher assigns eight pages of reading, she reads twelve. "Part of learning is practicing," she says. "And the more you practice, the more you learn."

    This week, our topic is pollution. What are the answers to all of our pollution problems? We asked two experts to give their views.

    ◇Forest Smith is a member of Green First, an environmental group.

    Our future on the Earth looks very bad. We are dumping waste on our land. We can't breathe the fresh air. The sea is polluted too.

    I visited some relatives recently in a small village. They grow their own food and cycle everywhere. They are not wealthy, but they are happy and healthy.

    We must close the factories producing useless products. That will reduce rubbish and air pollution. We must recycle more, give up all cars, and improve public transport.

    A big problem is overpopulation in big cities. We must give up big cities and factories, and go back to a simple way of life.

    ◇John Green is a scientist at a university.

    Things are not as bad as Forest says. We'll have a bright future. We don't need to give up cars but we need to invent better, cleaner engines.

    This won't stop the problem of traffic jams. So we need better public transport. We should also recycle more.

    But some things are getting better. My sister returned last month after living abroad for five years. She said, “Our old neighbourhood doesn't look the same as before－it is cleaner and greener now.”

    In a word, science has brought many improvements to our life.

    I went hiking to a mountain with my friends last summer． It was a good trip at the beginning but something unexpected happened on the half way．

    One of my friends, Mike, suddenly felt a terrible pain in his stomach and he couldn't move any further． Nobody knew what to do． One girl tried to call her mum with her mobile phone but there was no signal in the mountain area． Luckily I brought medicine with me． After Mike took some, he felt much better． We walked on, and then we all enjoyed ourselves on the top of the mountain.

    While the rest of the city is crowded and noisy, several old men are sitting in their ancient hutong, drinking tea and playing chess. {#blank#}1{#/blank#}.

    Beijing hutongs have a very special place in the rich history of Beijing. {#blank#}2{#/blank#}.

    According to experts, the word hutong comes from the Mongolian language, meaning "well( 井 )". In ancient times, people preferred to gather and live around wells. {#blank#}3{#/blank#} There are other explanations, too. No matter what hutong exactly means, it is commonly agreed that hutongs first appeared in Beijing during the Yuan Dynasty.

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    Robots were something in science novels and movies. Now there are many robots working in factories. In fact, most working robots are not like humans at all, some are more like strange machines. They do most of dirty or dangerous jobs over and over again. Robots never get bored or tired but humans will if they do the same jobs. Scientists believe there will be more new robots everywhere, but it may take hundreds of years. They will have different shapes. They will look like humans or animals. In India, scientists made robots that look like snakes. They can help find people inside fallen buildings.