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    Americans spend their weekends in different ways. But usually they choose the same aim(目的)—to rest, to enjoy beautiful places and to enjoy the time with their family and friends．

    Some Americans hold parties on Saturday night. {#blank#}1{#/blank#}Then they won't get up until 9,10 or even 11:o'clock next morning．As soon as they get up they will go to the nearest corner shop to buy the daily newspaper(日报). {#blank#}2{#/blank#}It will help them to decide what to do on Sunday afternoon.

    Before going out on Sunday, they will have a meal, which is called "brunch"—"br" from "breakfast" and "unch" from "lunch". {#blank#}3{#/blank#}After brunch some Americans may have a picnic with their family or friends.They will take many things with them, such as fresh vegetables, sea food,drinks,table cloth(桌布)and so on. Usually they drive to a beautiful park, a lake or the seaside.

    {#blank#}4{#/blank#}It is the biggest meal of the week and all family members try to present(出席).

    Weekends are to be welcome everywhere. {#blank#}5{#/blank#}.

    In North America, people are always in a hurry. Children have special lessons or sports activities after school. Parents often work late and don't get home until 7 or 8 o'clock at night. More than 50% of women work at full—time jobs, and many people do part—time work.

    When a family wants to eat a meal together, often(A) there isn't enough time to prepare the food.  That is why fast food is so popular in North America.(B) People spend about 40% of their money buying fast food.

    Fast food is the food ____(C)___ pizza, sandwiches or fried chicken. People can buy the food from a restaurant chain(连锁) like Pizza Hut, McDonald's or KFC. (D) Fast food saves work and time, but it is usually junk food.

    Fast food is popular in many countries. American fast food companies(公司) now have restaurants all over the world. But not everyone is happy about the spread(扩张)of North American fast food. Some people in Italy want to fight against(抵制) it . (E)They don't want any more fast food chains to open in their country. They also want to fight against the spread of fast food everywhere in the world.

    Read the passage carefully and complete the table with only one word for each blank.

    Back in the twentieth century, robots seemed to have a big future, at least in the movies. Like the robots servants in the Star War movies. It looked as if one day robots would do all the boring or dangerous jobs while the humans sat around doing something more interesting. But people were also frightened that robots might become the bosses, not the servants.

    Has it happened? You're still unlikely to see a robot walking around your town but that doesn't mean they don't exist. Robots are used in car making, and in areas which are dangerous for humans, in bomb producing and deep-sea discovering, for example. We employ robots instead of doing the job ourselves. According to the report, there are 750,000 working robots in the world today.

    These working robots definitely look like machines but many scientists are now trying to make robots look more similar to humans. So what will robots be able to do by the year 2030? There are already plans to use robots in hospitals and old people's homes. Robot nurses will remind patients to take their medicine or tell a doctor if the patient needs attention. But many people are worried about the idea of robots looking after the old, the sick and the very young, separating them from important human contact. It may also create unemployment. It is really possible that robots will be used for many jobs in areas.

    But can we be sure that the next generation robots will always follow human orders? Or even destroy them? Or will we be able to create robots with emotions? Only the future will tell.

{#blank#}1{#/blank#} Yasmine Bleeth acts as Jackie Ivers, a Los Angeles nurse who moves back to her hometown, San Vicente, California. She soon notices that her friends and family are acting strangely. She realizes that everyone who goes into the town's lake comes out acting differently.

{#blank#}2{#/blank#} Jackie figures out what's going on. Aliens live on another planet. It's like Earth, but it's polluted, so the aliens can't live there much longer. They are planning to replace people on Earth, and they enter Earth through the lake. When someone goes into the lake, an alien takes over that person's body.

{#blank#}3{#/blank#} The Lake is an entertaining science fiction movie. It's a movie that was made for TV, and it's surprisingly good for a TV movie. There is plenty of action to keep viewers on their seats.

{#blank#}4{#/blank#} Yasmine Bleeth's performance is OK as the nurse and main character of the story. The other actors are also all right. But the best performance of the movie is from Haley Joel Osment. He was only 10 years old at that time. He later became when started in the movie The Sixth Sense with Bruce Wills

{#blank#}5{#/blank#} My only idea is that some of the characters are slow to figure out what's going on. It's disappointing because it makes the characters not very believable. The viewer figures out th truth long before the characters do.

    Once upon a time, in the forest there lived a baby elephant, who had no friends. ________________ of the animals wanted to be his friend because he was too large.

    One day, a wild fire happened in the forest. The animals ran to safer places. The dry trees caught fire and the fire was sure to go all around the forest. The baby elephant ran to the nearest river, collected much water in his trunk (象鼻) and rushed to the burning trees. He sprayed (喷) the water on the fire. Finally, he put out the fire.

    Later, while he was resting after the hard job, all the animals and birds came to him and expressed their thanks for his kind help in time. They were now ready to have him as their good friend and their hero. They said, "A friend in need is a friend indeed."

    The baby elephant was happy to get so many friends and played games with them. He walked through the forest, carrying several small animals and birds on his back.