In the past there lived a man in a small town called Zheng. One day he {#blank#}1{#/blank#}to buy himself a new pair of shoes. He measured (测量) his feet with a ruler first and wrote down his {#blank#}2{#/blank#} on a piece of paper. Then he went shoe shopping.

    When he arrived at the shoe shop, he reached into his pocket (口袋), but he {#blank#}3{#/blank#}the paper was not there. So he said to the salesman, "I have left the measurement at home and don't {#blank#}4{#/blank#}the size. I'll go back home to take it."{#blank#}5{#/blank#}these words, he ran out of the shop.

    He ran back home, found the paper and then ran to the shop {#blank#}6{#/blank#}. But it took him a few hours and the shop was closed (关闭). He{#blank#}7{#/blank#}the afternoon on the way and did not buy his shoes at last.

    Someone asked {#blank#}8{#/blank#} "Did you want to buy the shoes for yourself?"

    "Of course," he answered.

    "Then {#blank#}9{#/blank#} don't you try the shoes on by yourself?"

    "I trust (相信) the ruler {#blank#}10{#/blank#} than my feet," he said.

Mike: Why were you late for class today, Steve?

Steve: My alarm clock didn't go off! I kept{#blank#}1{#/blank#}, and when I woke up it was already 8:00a.m.!

Mike: Oh, no!

Steve: So I just {#blank#}2{#/blank#}put on some clothes and rushed out the door.

Mike: You didn't have breakfast?

Steve: No, I didn't even brush my{#blank#}3{#/blank#}or wash my face! But before I got to the bus stop, the bus had already left.

Steve: Then how did you get here?

Mike: Luckily, Carl's dad saw me on the street and{#blank#}4{#/blank#}me a lift in his car
Steve: Well, at least{#blank#}5{#/blank#}the time you got to school, you were only five minutes late for class.

    Every morning my father buys a newspaper on his way to work. Every evening my mother reads magazines at home. And every night, I look at the posters with photos of David Beckham and Yao Ming on my bedroom wall before I go to sleep. Can we{#blank#}1{#/blank#}life without paper or print?

    Paper was first created about 2,000 years ago, and has been made from silk, cotton, bamboo, and since the 19th century, from wood. People learned to write words on paper to make a book. But in those days, books could{#blank#}2{#/blank#}be produced one at a time by hand and they were expensive and rare. Because there weren't many books, few people learned to read.

    Then printing was invented in China. When printing was developed greatly at the beginning of the 11th century, books could be produced more quickly and cheaply. Then more people learned to read. After that, knowledge and{#blank#}3{#/blank#}spread quickly.

    Today information can be received online, downloaded from the Internet rather than found in books, and information can be kept on CD-ROMs or machines,{#blank#}4{#/blank#}MP3 players.

    Computers are already used in classrooms, and newspapers and magazines can already be read online. So will books be replaced by computers one day? I am not sure.

Eliza,

I am willing to invite you to my hometown, Zhongshan. When you come here, I1 you around a big and fun plaza（广场）called Lihe Plaza. It's a shopping center in one of2 parts of the city. There 3 some good stores and restaurants. For4 , Li Ning Store is in the plaza. I think it's5 fantastic place to shop. Because all kinds of good things are on sale and many of them sell6 . My favorite restaurant is Lv Cha. I can enjoy the best service7 the most delicious Zhejiang cuisine（菜肴） such as Fried Shrimps with Longjing Tea（龙井虾仁）, Dongpo's Braised Pork（东坡肉）and so on. Besides, another place you must visit is Jinghua movie theater because of8 film studios with different themes（主题）. The tickets are more expensive there than at any other cinema but I think it has the biggest screens and the9 seats.

Please10 and join me for a visit.

Yours,

Li Mo