Twenty-First Century Books

      Probably you have seen someone reading a book on an electronic reading device. Over the past few years, these small computers have become more popular. For that reason, more companies that make  {#blank#}1{#/blank#}   paper books are now making electronic books (ebooks). Most ebooks are the same as paper books,   {#blank#}2{#/blank#}  people download a file into a reading device rather than   {#blank#}3{#/blank#}  the paper book. This way they can  {#blank#}4{#/blank#}   many books.
      Books companies are adding special features   {#blank#}5{#/blank#}   some ebooks. These extra features might include sound files, picture files, or video files. When the readers click on these files they learn more about the book, the story, or the writer.
    The latest electronic readers are smaller and   {#blank#}6{#/blank#} , but they are also much more powerful. They can store much more information, so writers and book companies can do more with   {#blank#}7{#/blank#}   ebooks. They do not want to just add files to   {#blank#}8{#/blank#}   completed book. They are making the sound, picture, and video files part of the story. Readers need these files to understand the whole story. Readers can {#blank#}9{#/blank#} change the story.
    Readers already have a lot of books to choose from. If they can change the way stories end, they will have more {#blank#}10{#/blank#}  !

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    In November 1979, pupils in England were able to watch a new TV program called Monkey. Most of them were hearing this story for the {#blank#}1{#/blank#} time. However, this story is not new to Chinese children. The Monkey King or Sun Wukong is the {#blank#}2{#/blank#} character in the traditional Chinese book Journey to the West.

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    The Monkey King has excited the children of China for many years. And as soon as the TV program came out more than 30 years ago, Western children became {#blank#}9{#/blank#} in reading this story because the clever Monkey King {#blank#}10{#/blank#} fighting to help the weak and never gives up.

     English breakfast is a very big meal—eggs,{#blank#}1{#/blank#}, tea and coffee. For many people, lunch is a quick meal. In cities there are a lot of sandwich bars, where office workers can buy the kind of bread they want—brown,{#blank#}2{#/blank#}, or a roll—and then all kinds of salad and meat or fish to go in the sandwich. School children can have a{#blank#}3{#/blank#}meal at school. But many just take a sandwich, a drink and some fruit from home. "Tea" means two things. It is a{#blank#}4{#/blank#}and a meal! Some people have afternoon tea, with sandwiches, cakes with{#blank#}5{#/blank#}and a cup of tea. They usually have the evening meal quite{#blank#}6{#/blank#}, between 6:00 and 8:00, and a cup often all the family together.

     On Sundays, many families have traditional lunch. They have chicken，pork and{#blank#}7{#/blank#}with potatoes. The English like food from other countries, especially France, China, Italy and India. People often get take-away food. They buy the food{#blank#}8{#/blank#}and then bring it home to eat.