How do you feel about your Chinese? Is it good or bad? If you think youare good at Chinese, you can take part in the competition named the “Chinese Characters Dictation Competition (中国汉字听写大会)”. The competition became popular among teenagers. Let's know something about it.

    More and more computers and smart phones are used by teenagers. They spend too much time onthe Internet in playing or chatting. They are used to sending messages by computers and smart phones. As a result, some teenagers forget how to writethe Chinese Characters by hand. The teachers and parents are very worried about it. What can they do?

    Not long ago, they found an interesting game called the Chinese Characters Dictation Competition. The program was similar to the American show “National Spelling Bee”. In this program, middle school students competed among themselves and wrote down the Chinese Characters by dictation. Over two hundred competitors were from forty-six middle schools. The audiences(观众) loved this new kind of competition, too. They tried to write down the Chinese Characters while the competitors were writing them. Butthey found it was also difficult for them to write down all the Chinese Characters.

    Is it an interesting competition? Can you be the winner?

    Mr and Mrs Zipster like to be the first one for everything，but their daughter Maddie is always last．She arrives last for breakfast，because she has to say good moming to her fish．At school，Maddie is the last one to leave the library,because she puts all the books in the reading area onto the bookcases．In maths tests，Maddie is the last one to hand in(提交)the maths paper，because she never forgets to check(检查)her answers．After art class，Maddie is the last one to go out of the art room，because she closes all the paintjars(颜料瓶)so the paints won't dry．

    It is the day for Maddie's parents to meet her teachers．"I'm sure the teachers will ask us why Maddie is always last．"says her mum．They get to the school and talk with Maddie's teachers．Mrs McReady works in the library．She says．"Maddle is a big help．"The maths teacher Mrs Lemer says，"Maddie does really great work．"The art teacher Mr Clay says，"Maddie always thinks about others．"But no one asks why Maddle is always last．

    On their way home，Maddie's parents are happy．"Sometimes it's good to be last，"says Maddle's mum，Maddie's dad smiles and says，"Maybe we should try it sometime．"

根据材料内容简要回答下列问题。

    My name is Tom Brown. I am an English boy. (1) I am twelve. I am a middle school student. From Monday to Friday I am very busy. We have six classes a day. At school, I like doing sports, (2) like playing basketball, tennis and soccer. So my favorite subject is P.E.. Mr. White is my P.E. teacher. He is very cool. After school, our P.E. teacher plays games with us. We students all like him. (3) I don't like math because it is too difficult for me. (4) But my math teacher Ms Smith says it is interesting and useful. So I must work hard on it.

    One night, Mary saw a girl sitting by the road near her house. The girl's coat was very old and thin. It couldn't keep warm at all. Mary thought a cotton coat may be helpful to the girl. So she opened the window and shouted to the girl, “Come to the front door of my house, please!” The girl was surprised, but she did as Mary said. She knocked at the door of Mary's house. Mary opened the door and smiled warmly to the poor girl. She handed a cotton coat to the girl. Just then she saw a smile on the girl's face. That night, Mary was very happy for what she had done.

    The poor girl had never appeared again since that night. Years later, Mary almost forgot the poor girl.

    One day, Mary got a call from a lawyer（律师）called Jack. Jack invited her to his office. After they met, Jack gave Mary a letter. It said, “Forty years ago, a beautiful girl helped me. In that winter, she gave me warmth and hope. Later I got through the hardest time in my life and then started a happy life.”

    After Mary read the letter, she remembered that homeless girl. “Where is she now?” asked Mary.

    “Mrs. Hope died two months ago,” answered Jack. “She left one of her houses to you. Besides, there is one more thing she left to you — a cotton coat.”

根据短文内容，回答下列问题。

    Can you imagine a world without a writing system for your language? It may be hard to picture it now, but a man named Sequoyah lived in such a world. Sequoyah was a member of a native American tribe(部落), the Cherokee. Cherokee people speak their own language, but for hundreds of years they did not have a system of writing. Without a writing system, the Cherokee had no newspapers or books before 1809.

    Sequoyah was probably born around the year 1770 and lived with his mother in a small village in the mountains of Tennessee. When he grew up, he became a blacksmith(铁匠). When he was doing business with those “English-speaking people”, he noticed that they used paper with marks to record their thoughts and ideas. Sequoyah called these pieces of paper with marks “talking leaves”. He began to wonder why people who spoke Cherokee did not have a way to write down their words.

    In 1809, Sequoyah decided to give the Cherokee their own “talking leaves”. At first he tried to make a different symbol for every word in the Cherokee language. But in that case, there would be so many symbols and too hard for people to remember, so he decided to make a picture for each syllable (音节). After much hard work, Sequoyah invented 85 symbols. In order to see whether it would work, he helped his six-year-old daughter Ayoka learn each symbol and found she could learn to read and write very quickly. Sequoyah's invention was a success!

    Before long, Sequoyah's writing system had spread far and wide. Cherokee people living in all different parts of the country learned to read and write. In 1825, Sequoyah's system was made the official written language for Cherokee people. To this day, Cherokee speakers still use Sequoyah's writing system. In some parts of the United States, you can see street signs and billboards written in both English and Cherokee. Sequoyah will always be remembered for his important contribution（贡献）to Cherokee people.

根据短文内容，回答下列问题。

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    {#blank#}1{#/blank#}I usually go to school on foot every week day. And I get to school at 6: 45 am. I have four classes in the morning, I have lunch at school, but I don't like school lunch. In the afternoon, I have three classes. I'm busy but I'm very happy!

    {#blank#}2{#/blank#}We have many rules in our school. We can't talk in the library or eat in the classroom. And we can't be late for school. We must clean our classroom every day. Besides, we need to say hello to our teachers when we meet them.

    {#blank#}3{#/blank#}It is warm and sunny today. Little Sarah is visiting the zoo with her parents. Sarah likes pandas best. She thinks they're cute and lovely. So she goes to the panda house first. She sees a baby panda and says happily, "Hello, little baby!"

    {#blank#}4{#/blank#}Last weekend, my classmates and I went to the Children's Park. We took some photos at the gate. Then we went into the park. Some of us started to fly a kite, some played games on the grass, and others went boating on the lake. We had a lot of fun!

    {#blank#}5{#/blank#}There is a big library near my school. It is our city library. You can find many kinds of books there. I like science, so I like going there on weekends to read science books. There are always lots of children reading books there.