Recently I have found many of us students spend too much time sending text messages or {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (play) games on cell phones, which has negative effects on our students and also does them to our eyes. Worse still, it is {#blank#}2{#/blank#} waste of time. We have little time to communicate {#blank#}3{#/blank#} our parents and friends. {#blank#}4{#/blank#} do we have time for physical exercise.

    What shall we do {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (improve) the situation? All of us should be {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (full) aware of the harmful effects of frequent use of cell phones. To begin with, let's limit our time {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (spend) on cell phones and start other hobbies. And we should spend more time playing sports, which is {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (benefit) to us. besides, talking with friends is also a good choice to help us relax and get rid of the {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (addict). I hope that my suggestions will be of help to you.

    Let's put down our cell phones and focus on {#blank#}10{#/blank#} is happening around us!

    “{#blank#}1{#/blank#} (congratulate), Mr. Cooper . It's a girl.”

    Fatherhood is going to have {#blank#}2{#/blank#} different meaning and brings forth different responses from every man who hears these words. Some feel proud, while others worry, {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (wonder) whether they will be a good father.

    Although there are some men {#blank#}4{#/blank#} like children and may have had much experience with them, {#blank#}5{#/blank#} do not particularly look after children and spend little time with them. Many fathers and mothers have been planning and{#blank#}6{#/blank#} (look) forward to children for some time.

    Whatever the reaction to the birth of a child, it is obvious that the shift from the role of husband to {#blank#}7{#/blank#} of a father is a difficult task. Yet, {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (fortunate), few attempts have been made to educate fathers in this. Although numerous books have been written about mothers, only recently has literature focused on the role of a father.

    It is argued that the transition to the father's role, is not nearly as great as the transition the wife must make {#blank#}9{#/blank#} the mother's role. The mother's role seems {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (require) a complete transformation in daily routine. However, the father's role is less demanding and immediate.

    Alexander Graham Bell was an influential scientist, engineer and {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(invent). He was born on March 3, 1847 in Edinburgh, Scotland. He is widely credited with the invention of the first telephone. Bell's mother and wife{#blank#}2{#/blank#}(be)both deaf, which had an effect{#blank#}3{#/blank#}his work.

    When he was 23, Bell and his parents moved to Canada. Bell studied the human voice and worked with different schools for{#blank#}4{#/blank#}deaf. He experimented with sound, working with sound, working with equipment used to send different{#blank#}5{#/blank#}(message)and record sound. He worked on acoustic telegraphy(声报机)with an electrical designer {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(name)Thomas Watson.

    On February 14, 1876, Bell and Elisha Gray, an American electrical engineer, both filed patents(申请专利)covering the transmission (传送)of sounds telegraphically. Finally, Bel{#blank#}7{#/blank#}(give)the patent. A few days{#blank#}8{#/blank#}(late), he succeeded in{#blank#}9{#/blank#}(get)his telephone to work.

    Bell improved the design and by 1886 more than 150,000 people owned telephones in the United States. He once said, “The day will come when the man at the telephone will be able to see the distant person to {#blank#}10{#/blank#}he is speaking.”

    Contrary to {#blank#}1{#/blank#}some people might assume, evidence {#blank#}2{#/blank#}(show) that sharks seldom attack humans. There are three types of shark attacks. In the main type, the shark attacks you because it mistakes you {#blank#}3{#/blank#} a fish, {#blank#}4{#/blank#}when it tastes human flesh it decides  {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (give) up and swims away. In the second type, the shark {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(push) you with{#blank#}7{#/blank#}nose to find out if you are fit to be eaten, and then bites you{#blank#}8{#/blank#}it thinks you are. In the third type, the shark waits for you to swim by, and then attacks you all of{#blank#}9{#/blank#}sudden. The last two types of attack more often result in the {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(die) of humans.

    Stories from History

    Around the end of the first century AD，a Roman writer {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (call) Pliny wrote about a terrible volcanic eruption that he {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (witness)as a young man. The eruption had occurred on August 24th, 79 AD. The tragedy left {#blank#}3{#/blank#} deep impression on Pliny {#blank#}4{#/blank#} had lost an uncle in the eruption. However，more than 1,600 years later，some scientists found the lost towns that {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (bury) under the ashes of Mount Vesuvius. Pompeii is like a "time capsule" preserving a frozen moment in history. {#blank#}6{#/blank#}  the eruption occurred, {#blank#}7{#/blank#}  had been a booming Roman city with temples，markets，restaurants and theatres. Today you can visit these buildings by walking along the {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (origin) streets of the city. And {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (many) than 250 years since excavations started，thousands of tourists and hundreds of scientists visit Pompeii every year {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (learn) more about the ancient world.