Alice :What do you think of the people in our class ?I think most of them are kind .

Johnson : I think {#blank#}1{#/blank#},too. But I don't like Mark. He is so self-important. I dislike this kind of people.

Alice :Mike is fascinating . I'm fond{#blank#}2{#/blank#} people who have something intelligent to say.

Johnson : Carol is fun to be with . I really look forward to{#blank#}3{#/blank#} (hear ) her jokes. What do you think of Tom ?

Alice : He is all right. But I don't like him. .What do you think of him ?

Johnson : I think he is OK. He is very quiet, so{#blank#}4{#/blank#} is hard to know what kind of person he really is.

Alice :I like John {#blank#}5{#/blank#} she is a very interesting girl and crazy about boy bands.

Johnson : Really ? I'm mad on them too. I should get to know her better. Are you{#blank#}6{#/blank#} (interest ) in music ?

Alice :I think that dance music is excellent. I love going to a disco and dancing to the music. I enjoy{#blank#}7{#/blank#} ( meet ) new people there .

Johnson : My parents hate dance music . If I play it at home , they always complain. Are your parents{#blank#}8{#/blank#} same?

Alice : My mom{#blank#}9{#/blank#} (hate ) it , but my dad thinks it's OK.He doesn't mind as

{#blank#}10{#/blank#} as I don't play the music too loud .

    For Rachael and Leigh Badman, there is only one wish on their Christmas list this year — that their sick daughter Paige should survive until December 25. Fifteen-year-old Paige suffers from {#blank#}1{#/blank#} rare brain condition, {#blank#}2{#/blank#} affects as few as 12 people in the world, and could kill her any day {#blank#}3{#/blank#} warning.

    And her condition has gone even {#blank#}4{#/blank#}(bad) in recent months. Her parents filled the family home with Christmas decorations {#blank#}5{#/blank#} September 1 so she could enjoy the rest of her life. Since then, she has {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(regular) opened Christmas presents and received visitors — but she sleeps for up to 19 hours a day, her parents knowing that each time she closes her eyes, she may never wake up.

    Mrs. Badman {#blank#}7{#/blank#}(describe) dealing with the condition as "like being on death row" as she never knew if {#blank#}8{#/blank#} daughter would wake up the next morning.

    The mother said: "She always loves Christmas and I get my heart broken when I see her {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(suffer) like this. Our best Christmas present would be having Paige with us on Christmas. No matter {#blank#}10{#/blank#} she leaves the world, we make sure that she is always happy."

    Now, I'd like to tell you about the development of computers. Computers began {#blank#}1{#/blank#} a calculating machine in France in 1642, it could {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (simple) difficult sums. In 1936, Alan Turing wrote a book about how a computer could be made to work as a "universal Machine" {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (solve) any difficult mathematical problem. By the 1940s, computers had grown as large as a room. As time went by, they were made {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (small). Since the 1970s computers {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (use) in offices and homes, first as personal computers and then as laptops.

    As computers' memory improved, computers became much smaller and more {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (intelligence). First the memory was stored in tubes, then on transistors and later on very small chips. Over time computer's memory {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (develop) so much that computers remember everything they have been told. In the early 1960s computers could be connected to each other by the network {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (call) the World Wide Web.

    Many new {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (apply) have been found for computers since the1970s. They have been used in communication, finance, trade, robots, mobile phones, space rockets and so the goal of computers is to provide humans {#blank#}10{#/blank#} a life of high quality.