Hello，boys and girls.Today is Thursday.I'm very happy   (A)   I have art today.My art teacher is a twenty-year-old girl.She's from Shanghai.Her name is Yang Lei.She's friendly to us.(B)We all call her“Xiao Yang”.“Xiao Yang” likes sports.Every morning she gets up very early. She usually runs   (C)   an hour.Every afternoon she plays basketball with us for two hours.(D)她最喜爱的体育明星是姚明。Oh，my favorite sports player is Kobe.I think he is the best basketball player in the world.Oh，I forget to tell you.My name is Gao Lei.I'm a Chinese boy. I'm in Red Star Middle School.I'm in Class Two， Grade Seven.My English name is Jay.

    (Zhejiang, Dec. 2) The Liight of Internet Expo opens at Wuzhen, Zhejiang Province, as part of the 2017 World Internet Conference, More than 400 Internet companies, big and small, attended the great event. They include not only industry giants（大公司）such as BMW, Kaspersky, Alibaba and Tencent but also startups that are leaders in some areas of information technology.

    Aliaba s self-service supermarket is a real hit, which shows the future of offline shopping. It allows shoppers to take what they like after scanning a OR code（扫描二维码）． Without waiting in line, it feels like you are picking things from your own table at home.

    In a corner at the expo, the E-take driverless car also gets visitors attention. It is orange and similar in style to a European sports car. It was developed by Zhejiang Hozon New Energy Automobile. A spokesperson for the company said the work of bringing the car to market is progressing well.

    Ofo, a leading bike-sharing company based in Beijing, is present and also has been working on new technology to serve customers. Ofo, working with Huawei Technologies Co, has introduced a smart bicycle lock. It can be unlocked with a smartphonusing near-field communication technology, which is "even easier than scanning a QR code". Li Bofei, a business manager for the company said, "We are trying to make things even easier."

    At the expo, We Doctor Group shows a smartphone. It has a button(按钮)on the back to make things simpler and easier for elderly smartphone users. It allows them to connect to the company's Internet hospital platform ( 平台), which was developed in late 2015.

    Technology is changing our lives, isn't it?

    A large numbers of emojis (表情符号) are sent online every day. Emojis are pictures used in texts and web pages. Since emojis were invented in the late 1990s, they have been used as a modern international languages.

    We like emojis for different reasons. A written message is always black and white, but emojis show meanings beautifully. Sometimes emojis also change the way we write. The more emojis we use, the fewer words we use.

    There are many emojis with different meanings. They are easy to understand. For example, a smiling face means "I'm happy". A cake with candles means "Happy birthday". When we want to say "Goodbye", we use a smiling face with a waving hand. When we are in a terrible situation but we have to laugh to cheer ourselves up, we can use a "cry laugh" emoji.

    Now emojis have great influence on us. Sometimes, emojis can be helpful to people from different countries in understanding each other. And when we are feeling exchange. Then the invention of emojis helps change the situation. For example, when we receive a smiling face from our friends online, we try to exchange our feelings by sending the same picture.

    It seems that emojis change as time goes by. However, we should be careful when we use them online.

    I did not grow up in a family with books.{#blank#}1{#/blank#}My process of being a reader seemed amazing. I got lost in one book that opened up my world and changed my life. My primary school teacher always gave her pupils time to read for pleasure in school. She believed it would improve reading greatly. {#blank#}2{#/blank#}It was a biography(传记) of actress Greta Garbo. I picked it up and began to read from cover to cover. The words I read attracted(吸引) me and I was excited. I realized that there were other women like Greta who had made great efforts and changed their lives. I recognized(认识) myself in her. 

    From then on, my teacher had a hard time keeping me supplied(提供) with books. She dug up all the biographies of women that she could find.{#blank#}3{#/blank#}

    It has been a long road. I am now a physics professor in a university. {#blank#}4{#/blank#}Recently, someone gave me Justice Sonia Sotomayor's autobiography. Once again, I am encouraged and am imagining new possibilities for my life. 

    In today's world of mobile phones, MP5 players and minicomputers, most people have at least one time­telling tool with them. Since these small machines are so common, will people stop wearing the 500­year­old watches? According to some people, yes. A teenager says it's unnecessary to wear a watch. Many young people agree and they use their mobile phones to tell time. Louis Galie, a president, says that fewer young people wear watches today than five years ago.

    However, watchmakers say that watches get popular again when people reach their 20s and 30s. By then, they want to spend money on a nice time­telling tool which doesn't just keep good time. For this reason, the watch industry has become an accessory business (配件业)in recent years.

    Today's ________ offer a lot of uses that meet the need of almost any personality (个性). They can be used as compasses (指南针)，calendars, and even USB drives...

    People are always trying their best to create new kinds of watches. A certain watchmaker business makes watches that don't even look like watches. Their popular model uses different color lights to tell the time. Another watchmaker business, makes a "handless" watch, using a ring of circles to keep time. This watch makes people talk a lot about modern watches.

    Whether a watch expresses fashion sense, creative ability or a love of sports, people want their time­telling tools to be beautiful, fashionable and practical. All in all, a watch has become more important than the time it tells.