Dear sir,
I read your story (of the 4th February) about the cost of living in the country rather than in the town, and I agree with most of the points that you made. My husband and I lived in the middle of Horlton until two years ago — a seaside town of nearly five hundred thousand people. When my husband stopped working, we moved to our present house in a small village at the foot of Roland Hill, and there is no doubt that our costs are higher now.
I have to do my shopping in small shops, where the food is more expensive than in city supermarkets; it costs more to travel by bus; and because the men who come to mend the television or the washing machine, have to come farther, we have to pay them more.
But it does not cost us much to enjoy what is beautiful in the country; and peace and quiet are cheap. Many people spend a great deal of time and money driving into the country to enjoy the simple things of life; yet we can enjoy them just by going out of the front door. It costs more to live here than it did in Horlton but now life really is worth living.
Yours faithfully.
Edith Randall
【小题1】What do you know about Horlton?

A．The letter is written by an unknown person.

B．This letter is a reply to the questions of 4th February.

C．Living in the country is better than living in the city.

D．The cost of living in the city is lower than that of the country.

Traditional fairytales(童话) are being given up by parents because they are too scary for their young children, a study found．

Research uncovered that one in five parents has got rid of old literature such as Snow White and the Seven Dwarves and Rapunzel in favor of more modern books．

One third of parents said their children have been left in tears after hearing the gruesome details of Little Red Riding Hood．

And nearly half of mothers and fathers refuse to read Rumplesliltshin to their kids as the themes of the story are kidnapping and killing．

Similarly, Goldilocks and the Three Bears was also a tale likely to be left on the book shelf as parents felt it forgives stealing．

The survey of 2,000 adults was completed to mark the launch of the hit US drama GRIMM （ 格林童话剧） , which starts tonight at 9pm on Watch, and sees six drama series based on traditional fairytales．

The survey found a quarter of parents questioned wouldn’t consider reading fairytales to their kids．

And 52 percent of the parents said Cinderella didn’t send a good message to their children as it describes a young woman doing housework all day．

Steve Hornsey, General Manager of Watch, said: "Bedtime stories are supposed to calm children down and send them off to sleep soundly．But as we see in GMMM, fairytales can be dark and dramatic so it’s understandable that parents worry about reading them to young children．As adults we can see the innocence in fairytales, but a five - year - old child could take them too literally．Despite the dark nature of classic fairytales as we see in GRIMM, good will defeat evil and there is always a moral to the story．"

The study also found two thirds of mums and dads try to avoid stories which might give their children nightmares．The most popular book read at bedtime is now 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar' by Eric Carle.

However half of parents said traditional tales are "more likely to have a strong moral message than a lot of modern kids' books, such as The Gruffato, The Hungary Caterpillar and the Mr. Men books．

1.Classical works for children are being avoided by parents they think           .

2.What does the underlined word "gruesome" mean?

3.Which stories are the popular bedtime stories that parents like to tell their children now?

4.According to Steve Hornsey , adults can see innocence in a fairy tale but a 5-year-old child might ______．

In South Korea, children get used to the Internet at an early age. A survey last year by the Ministry of information and Communication showed that nearly half of children between the age of 3 and 5 use the internet.

“In south Korea, the Internet has become a babysitter, said Lee Kyong Ko, a professor at Duksing, Women’s University in Seoul.   

Online role-playing games, where participants make friends and band together, have a strong appeal to Koreans,“One problem with those games is that you build your online person through countless hours of battles, and you develop a huge emotional attachment to your game character,”said Chang Woo Min, a one-time online gamer.

Parents report that their children steal money and do not come home for days and even weeks, practically living in Internet Cafes, and sometimes they refuse to look for jobs and play games all night and sleep during the day.

The authorities require Internet cafes to keep their distance from schools, and they open camps for teenage addicts and distribute booklets(小册子) on the dangers of game addiction. In addition, they are training hundreds of counselors, who visit schools and Internet Cafes.

In the 28,000 Internet Cafes in South Korea, persons under 18 are banded from entry after 10 p.m.. The authorities have even discussed reducing the points of gamers who play for more than three consecutive (连续的) hours, But such talks have produced no agreement, amid concerns that such restrictions would put a high-growth industry in danger and worse the problem of teenagers stealing adult online identification numbers,“Sooner or later we will be able to announce our measures,”the minister of Information and Communication, Rho Jun Hyoung, said at a news conference in May.“Since South Korea is one of the most active and developed countries in the Internet, the world is paying great attention to What policy we will adopt on this problem.”

1.According to the passage, in order to solve the Internet problem, the authorities of South Korea took the following measures EXCEPT              

A．demanding the Internet Cafes to be far away from schools

B．telling the students about the dangers of game addiction

C．training counselors to visit schools and cafes

D．banning all the people from entering the Internet after 10 p.m.

2.We can learn that                 from the passage.

A．most children under 6 in the South Korea use the Internet

B．some parents hope their children use the Internet only at home

C．all kinds of measures are not supported by all the people

D．the authorities in the South Korea believe that it is most active and developed country in the Inter

3.In paragraph 2,the underlined sentence “the Internet has becomes a babysitter”means     .

A．children are well looked after on the Internet

B．children likes sitting in the Internet Cafes

C．children can earn money working as a babysitter in Internet Cafes

D．Internet has become a place where children are looked after while their parents are not there

4.The passage is written to tell us_________________.

A．the Internet problems in South Korea        B．the bad effects of the Internet

C．the measures of the authorities             D．teenagers like going surfing in South Korea

Nearly half a million people are believed _________ their homes in the past months as a result of the disaster.

 A. to leave        B. to have left      C. to be leaving    D. to be left

I decided not to bring in home any other things with the words Made in China on a dark Monday, two days after last Christmas, though I still keep some in my house.

  At work my boss, Mr. White, points out that I am ___36__ myself if I think I have been __37_____ Chinese products, in spite of the obvious facts in daily life.

  “Chinese ___38___ are everywhere,” he says, “You can’t avoid those, no matter how hard you try, it is impossible.”

   That is the __39____, which I have been considering for months, since I have kept the American car with the Chinese ___40__ in it. This week I was __41___ again of the difficulty of avoiding China when I bought earrings from a local artist. I was feeling pleased with myself ___42_____ I got home and noticed the gift box made in China.

  My boss continues, “You know what you are doing? You are ___43__ your dependence on China, not __44___ it,” he says, “You are just cheating yourself.”

   The boss, a frequent complainer, doesn’t slow down when I ___45___ to stop him to ___46___ that I am writing a __47____ of stories on the boycott for the business magazine.

   “Maybe you can ___48____ it a year without Chinese products, ___49_____ sooner or later you will even ___50___ Chinese dishes,” the nice boss says, “There is no getting around it.”

   I ____51____ at him as he turns to leave, quite ___52____.

   “Thanks for your support,” I say to his ___53____.

   The year is nearly half over. I can ___54_____without them. ___55___, it is a little inconvenient to live without a DVD player, a DV camera or a printer made in China. But a better question might be: How hard could it be to live without Made in China with the whole family?

A. fooling        B. persuading      C. beating         D. enjoying

A. keeping        B. accepting      C. avoiding         D. admitting

A. advertising     B. items          C. materials        D. business

A. story          B. plan           C. suggestion       D. point

A. parts          B. engines         C. wheels          D. goods

A. asked         B. reminded        C. troubled         D. puzzled

A. as            B. when           C. since            D. until

A. delaying       B. losing          C. catching          D. lacking

A. escaping       B. obeying         C. objecting         D. hating

A. mean          B. manage         C. try               D. intend

A. describe        B. suggest         C. declare            D. state

A. copy          B. book            C. set               D. series

A. do            B. get             C. make             D. have

A. but           B. or              C. and               D. for

A. wash          B. break           C. serve             D. enjoy

A. laugh          B. glance          C. nod              D. stare

A. annoyed        B. surprised        C. delighted          D. satisfied

A. honor          B. back            C. kindness          D. face

A. work           B. rescue          C. survive            D. stay

A. Finally         B. Honestly         C. Generally          D. Directly