A: Anna, you look worried. {#blank#}1{#/blank#} 

B: I can't find my backpack anywhere. Where can it be?

A: {#blank#}2{#/blank#} Let's see where it might be.

B: {#blank#}3{#/blank#}But it isn't there.

A: What color is your backpack? {#blank#}4{#/blank#} 

B: It's black and white.

A: Oh, look! Is this one yours?

B: No. {#blank#}5{#/blank#} Mine is newer than this one.

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    It's important to protect our planet. Everyone should play an important role in it. You can do this by riding a bike to school or taking a bag to the mall. We all know that it' s the small acts that make the world a better place.

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    Many people think that money is the most important thing in the world. But can you buy friendship, health, time or love with it. So pay more attention to the beauty around you. You will be happier.

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    No one can succeed overnight. If you want to be successful, you need to start from the smallest things. Remember small acts make a big difference.

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    It's necessary for you to know some basic information when you want to go abroad for your further study. For example, you need to know the customs, the traffic rule and so on. Of course, you need to know its language first.

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    Keep quiet in the reading room. You couldn't take any food or drinks in it. Also, you need to shut off all the electric devices. Don't forget to take your school ID card with you.

    A hobby can be almost anything that a person likes to do in his spare time. Hobbyists raise pets, watch birds, paint pictures, play the piano and grow flowers. {#blank#}1{#/blank#} They collect everything from books to butterflies and from boxes to stamps.

    People take up hobbies because these activities offer enjoyment, friendship and relaxation. Hobbies help people relax after a long time of hard work, and provide a balance between work and play. Hobbies offer interesting activities for the old. Some hobbies can make a child grow as a person, develop his interest and help him learn new skills. {#blank#}2{#/blank#} Doctors have found that hobbies are useful in helping patients recover from illness. Hobbies give patients who can't move around something to do, and provide interests that keep them from thinking about themselves. Many hospitals treat patients by having them take up interesting hobbies. {#blank#}3{#/blank#}

    In early times, most people were too busy making a living to have many hobbies. But some persons who had spare time did enjoy hobbies. {#blank#}4{#/blank#} People today have more time than ever before for hobbies. Machines have now reduced much time that people must spend on their jobs.

    {#blank#}5{#/blank#} Those who have developed hobbies never need to worry about what to do with their newly-found free time hours.

    Sir William Osler, a famous Canadian doctor expressed the value of hobbies by saying, “No man is really happy or safe without a hobby.”

A. More people retire(退休) at an earlier age than before.

B. Hobbies can also help a patient to keep healthy.

C. The ancient Egyptians played games with balls made of wood.

D. They also go to concerts, climb mountains, go fishing, skate and swim.

E. Anyone, old or young, sick or well, rich or poor, can follow a good hobby, in spite of his age, health or money

F. As some hobbies have become less popular.

    My hobby is playing chess — one of the greatest games in the world. My mum taught me how to play when I was seven years old. {#blank#}1{#/blank#} But then, on my eighth birthday, I won for the first time. I nearly always beat her now.

    To learn the rules doesn't take long. One day is enough. But if you want to be good, you have to practice for years. {#blank#}2{#/blank#} — just a chess set and someone to play with. Chess sets can be very cheap, or quite expensive. Some people collect chess sets as a hobby, but I enjoy playing.

    {#blank#}3{#/blank#} We meet on Wednesday every week to practice. I am the best player in the club, and the captain（队长）of the school chess team. This year we won the All England Schools Championship (冠军赛).

    I'm saving up my money to buy a chess computer. They are very expensive, but also very good for practice. {#blank#}4{#/blank#} I'm sure I will be a world chess champion some day.

    The world itself is becoming much smaller by using modern traffic and modern communication means. Life today is much easier than it was hundreds of years ago, but it has brought new problems. One of the biggest problems is pollution. To pollute means to make things dirty.{#blank#}1{#/blank#}We see it, smell it, drink it and even hear it. Man has been polluting the earth. {#blank#}2{#/blank#}Many years ago, the problem was not so serious because there were not so many people. When the land was used up or the river was dirty in one place, man moved to an-other place. But this is no longer true. Man is now slowly polluting the whole world. Air pollution is still the most serious. {#blank#}3{#/blank#}Water pollution kills our fish and pollutes our drinking water. Noise pollution makes us angry more easily.

    {#blank#}4{#/blank#}They stop people from burning coal in houses and factories in the city, and from putting dirty smoke into the air. Pollution by SO, is now the most dangerous kind of air pollution. It is caused by heavy traffic. We are sure that if there are fewer people driving, there will be less air pollution. The earth is our home. We must take care of it. {#blank#}5{#/blank#}And we must take care of the rise in pollution at the same time.

A: Hi, {#blank#}1{#/blank#}. Is that Steve?

B: Hi, Joe. Steve speaking.

A: Hi, Steve. {#blank#}2{#/blank#} 

B: I am doing my homework. What about you?

A: Nothing much. Can you play soccer with me this Sunday?

B: I'd love to. {#blank#}3{#/blank#} 

A: OK. {#blank#}4{#/blank#} 

B: About 11 o'clock.

A: All right. {#blank#}5{#/blank#} 

B: Great! See you then!