It's five o'clock in the afternoon. The last class is over. Some students are going home and some students are going to the dining room.

The football players are doing some exercise on the playground. Some students are swimming in the swimming pool. Others are warming up (做准备动作) near the pool. Many students love music. The members of the school band are practicing (练习) in the garden. In the computer room, there are some students playing computer games. In the library, some students are reading English newspapers.

      After-school activities (课外活动) are interesting.

A. When you need help for your homework, go to the library. You may find newspapers, and big dictionaries there. They can always help you.

B. For families with children, an important problem is stopping the children from watching TV to do their homework.

C. Even if you could buy the world, you couldn't buy a happy family, good friends, or knowledge.

D. The Lost World is an exciting American film. People, especially school students, may like it.

E. People might grow plants and vegetables in the sea in about 50 years.

①{#blank#}1{#/blank#} "Parents Headache"

②{#blank#}2{#/blank#} "Farms of the Future "

③{#blank#}3{#/blank#} "Study Tools(工具)"

④{#blank#}4{#/blank#} Activities(活动) for Free Time

⑤{#blank#}5{#/blank#} "Money Isn't Everything"

    When Norman left high school, he went to a college to learn cooking for two years. He enjoyed cooking and was good at creating (创造) his own dishes. Then he got a job in the kitchen of a big hotel as an apprentice (学徒) for four years.

    ①Norman soon found that cooking in a hotel was nothing like cooking for his family at home. He needed to work in a hot kitchen for a long time every day. A lot of people couldn't stand it, but Norman enjoyed it. He always made new and unusual cakes on Friday. More and more people visited the hotel on Friday just ②________ his cakes. The hotel owner soon found out why.

    When Norman decided to leave the hotel, ③the hotel owner offered(提供) him more money and the position (职位) of the head cook. Norman took the position and saved most of the money he made. Finally, he bought his own hotel last year. Then he found he needed a lot more skills than just cooking skills. So he went to an evening school to learn business every Tuesday and Friday.

    Norman enjoys having his own hotel. But he also enjoys working in the kitchen and ④thinking up new creations when the hotel is not too busy.

    On Noah's Ark(诺亚方舟), Noah and his animals were playing games happily and noisily, but suddenly a woodpecker(啄木鸟) made a hole in the bottom of the ark. As water began entering the boat, the hole got bigger, so more water came in and things got a bit worse.

    One by one, different animals tried to fix the hole and they even tried to show that they were better than others and everyone wanted to be the animals that could save the ship. Each animal tried its best but still couldn't help. Everyone was frightened and worried that the boat would sink. That was, until the bee started talking. The bee explained to everyone how bees always worked together as a team, each one doing the job they were best at. On hearing this, all the animals set about working together, each one playing their part by using their won special talent. The birds lift the ship up with their mouths, and moved their wings greatly to make the boat up above the water a little. The elephants drank the water in their trunks（树干） and shot it back into the sea. The fastest animals ran here and there to collect things.

    And so, by working together for two and half an hour, the animals stopped the water form coming into the ship completely and they were safe in the end.

    With their long tusks (象牙), elephants look strong. However, it is this feature that makes the animal endangered. Many of them are killed for their tusks. People make elephant tusks into crafts (工艺品) and jewelry and sell them to rich people.
    But can these priceless body parts grow back? The answer is no, Live Science said. The elephants' tusks are actually part of their teeth. Nearly all African elephants and most male Asian elephants have these long teeth. About one-third of the tusk is in the animal's skull (头骨). The tusk has a nerve (神经) running down its center. This makes it similar to your teeth. Once you lose a tooth, you will never grow a new one.
    Elephants use their tusks to protect themselves, lift things, dig water and gather food. But losing the tusk will not kill them. The way in which they lose the tusk is what matters. Usually, people get tusks by culling (限量捕杀), which means killing old and weak elephants. They also take tusks from the elephants that have died naturally.

    However, these sources aren't enough to keep up with the demand for ivory. Therefore, some poachers (偷猎者) kill healthy elephants and cut their faces open to remove the tusks. About 27,000 elephants are killed by poachers each year, according to National Geographic.
    As a result of poaching, some African elephants gradually evolved (进化) without tusks, which has allowed them to survive. In Mozambique, about 90 percent of African elephants were killed for their tusks and meat from 1975 to 1992, National Geographic reported.
    Scientists found that about a third of younger females—the generation born after 1992—never developed tusks.

{#blank#}1{#/blank#} Alex does well at school. He is always ready to help teachers and his classmates.

{#blank#}2{#/blank#} Ben plays most ball games well. He is also the leader of the school football team.

{#blank#}3{#/blank#} Ellen often does housework at home. She wants to make the classroom clean and tidy.

{#blank#}4{#/blank#} Sarah likes talking with foreigners in English. She can get good scores in the English test.

{#blank#}5{#/blank#} Edward is good at playing the violin. Last year, he played it in the school Art Festival.

A. The cleaning monitor              B. The music monitor

C. The class monitor                  D. The PE monitor

E. The English monitor                F. The math monitor