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?

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配对阅读，左栏是五个中学生遇到的难题，某报专栏编辑给他们的七个建议。请根据五个中学生遇到的难题为他们选出最合适的建议。

    World Music Day is a music festival. It's on June 21st every year.

    In 1976, an American musician, Joel Cohen, suggested the idea of an all­night music celebration. He wanted the festival to happen on the longest day of the year. The idea was adopted(采用)by French Music and Dance director (舞蹈总监) Maurice Fleuret in 1981 and first took place in 1982 in France. Then the idea quickly spread(展开)to over one hundred cities around the world. The idea behind World Music Day is to promote(推广)music. This happens in two different ways. The first way is that people play their music and perform in the streets. The second way is to hold free concerts.

    Many of us can't live without music. World Music Day is more than just a festival. It's also a meeting place and a good time to put the music from each country together. The festival is popular with people in the world, and more and more people join in it.

⑴～⑵题完成句子；(3)题简略回答问题；(4)题找出文章主题句；(5)题将文中画线句子译成汉语。

Huge Waves Destroying Arctic Ice Faster than Expected

    Ice covers much of the Arctic Ocean (北冰洋). Some pieces of ice are huge, like moving islands. As temperatures have increased, however, some of the ice has begun to disappear. Scientists have discovered huge waves (海浪) in the arctic waters.

    The waves were discovered by accident in May, 2010. Scientist Aleksey Marchenko and his students set out on a trip. They wanted to study the icy waters.

    On May 2, the ship traveled east and stopped next to a large chunk of ice around 50 miles from the small island of Hopen. Marchenko prepared to lead his students out onto the ice.

    "We were ready to go but when I went out, I discovered many cracks (裂缝) around," he remembers.

    He decided to move the ship deeper into the ice to keep safe. The farther in they went, he thought, the harder the ice would become. As they pushed forward, however, the ship experienced small waves, and then bigger ones. Soon, the waves broke up the ice around the ship into thousands of smaller pieces.

    Within an hour, Marchenko and his team saw a wave that was about 13 feet high. The ship's navigation (航行) system finally recorded the largest waves. They were more than 20 feet in height. The waves were so strong that they forced huge pieces of ice to jump up and down, breaking the ice into smaller pieces within just one hour. Scientists had never imagined that the process could happen so fast. The waves in these areas used to be small.

    The speed and force of the huge waves there makes it impossible to know in advance when they are coming. That could be dangerous for navigators and local communities who are unprepared for huge waves or depend on sea ice to protect them. Wildlife like polar bears and walruses that depend on sea ice to live is also in danger.

    Some scientists think people will soon see even bigger waves in these icy waters. As waves break up ice, the seas will become more open, and the waves will get even stronger. There are stormy times ahead.

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    Let me tell you something about sharks (鲨鱼). Sharks are among the oldest animals in the world.{#blank#}1{#/blank#}Most sharks are about two meters long and live in the oceans (海洋).

    A shark can smell (闻) something in the water. For example, the blood (血) of animals.{#blank#}2{#/blank#}Sharks mainly eat fish, other sharks and plants in the ocean.

    Most sharks bite (咬) people by mistake. {#blank#}3{#/blank#}When the sun goes down or comes up, sharks are looking food.{#blank#}4{#/blank#}

    {#blank#}5{#/blank#}The numbers of ( 数量) sharks in the world is dropping (下跌) fast.