Every morning my father buys a newspaper on his way to work. Every day I open my books in class and start lessons. Every evening my mother looks through magazines at home. And every night, I look at the posters with photos of David Beckham and Yao Ming on my bedroom wall before I go to sleep. Can we imagine life without paper or print?

    Paper was first created about 2,000 years ago, and has been made from silk, cotton, bamboo, and, since the 19th century, from wood. People learned to write words on paper to make a book. But in those days, books could only be produced one at a time by hand. As a result, they were expensive and rare. And because there weren't many books, few people learned to read.

    Then printing was invented in China. The first printed books were made by putting ink on a wooden block and holding the paper against it. When printing was developed greatly at the beginning of the 11th century, books could be produced more quickly and cheaply. As a result, more people learned to read. After that, knowledge and ideas spread(传播) quickly, in a way that can be compared with the introduction of the Internet in the 20th century.

    But will books be needed in the future? Today information can be received online, downloaded from the Internet rather than found in books, and information can be kept on CD-ROMs or machines such as MP4 players. These machines are smaller and lighter than books so that they can be carried very easily.

    Computers are already used in classrooms, and newspapers and magazines can already be read online. So will books be replaced by computers one day? No, I don't think the Yao Ming poster on my bedroom wall will ever be replaced by a computer two metres high!

    A great festival for the Chinese takes place on the 15^th day of the 8^th Chinese lunar month. {#blank#}1{#/blank#} The Mid-Autumn Festival has its typical food—the mooncake, which is round and delicious. {#blank#}2{#/blank#} Long ago there was a king in China who was very cruel(残暴的) to the people and the country didn't go well. {#blank#}3{#/blank#}So they wrote notes telling about the meeting place and time and put them into cakes. On the 15^th of August every person was told to buy the cakes. When they ate them, they discovered the notes. So they got together to make a sudden attack(进攻) on the king. From then on, the Chinese people celebrated on August 15^th. {#blank#}4{#/blank#}When the Mid-Autumn Festival is near, shop owners decorate(装饰) their shop windows beautifully with pictures of ancient Chinese ladies. People go to buy many kinds of mooncakes. {#blank#}5{#/blank#} On the evening of the day, people and their family have a big meal. After it, they watch the fullest and brightest moon.

Irwin Corey was a 1 American film actor. Ho 2 a beggar(乞丐) once and often walked in the streets of Manhattan. He wore old and 3 clothes. He was very thin and seemed to be weak, looking like a poor homeless old man.

He begged for 4 in a special way. He only asked for some change(零钱) from passing drivers, and then he gave the driver a free copy of the newspaper he bought. Each time he asked for money, he was always smiling and also told 5 to the drivers. The drivers thought him kind and humorous, so they never let him go empty- handed.

6 all the money he begged was coins, he still made lots of money at the end of the day. Irwin Corey had been begging for money for many years. However, he didn't spend 7 of the money he had asked for. Every time the money was up to a certain 8 , he donated(捐赠) it to a charity. For 17 years, he donated all his hard- earned money to the charity.

He was not short of money. He lived in a S 3.5 million big house. He was not a beggar,  9 ." On the one hand, I just want to help people in need. On the other hand, begging can make me feel not 10 , as my wife had passed away," he said.