It's Saturday morning and Tony's sitting at the kitchen table, staring（凝视）into space and playing with a piece of bread. He's not even hungry. Is he ill? No, but he does have a problem. He has nothing to do and there's just one reason: the Internet is down and Tony has nothing to do.

When he woke up this morning, Tony was feeling great. He jumped out of bed full of plans for the weekend ahead. It would be a weekend like any other—a great weekend. But that was before he turned on his computer and wasn’t able to go online. No Internet changed everything.

Just as Tony is wondering how he can possibly have a normal(平常的)weekend without the Internet, his mum walks into the kitchen. "Is everything OK?" she asks. "No, mum, everything is definitely(的确)not OK," her sad son replies. "I can't go online  and  I  have homework to finish." His mum laughs, "The word program is still working, so what's the problem?"

What's the problem? Tony can't believe his own mother isn’t able to see how serious the problem really is. To start with, he still needs to do research for his homework. He knows his mum will tell him to go to the library but he hates the library. It's so dark and uncomfortable. And forget homework—what about the rest of his weekend! Every weekend, he goes online to email friends. Then he reads the news to catch up on what's happening in the world. He plays a few online games and finishes the weekend off with an online chess game with his cousin Helen. The wonderful weekend-online! Now it's Saturday morning and he's not going to have access to（进入）the Internet for two whole days.

1.Tony stared into space and played with a piece of bread __________.

A. because he was hungry

B. because he was hungry

C. because he was alone at home

D. because the Internet was down

2.When he found he couldn’t surf the Internet, Tony felt __________.

A. great B. excited

C. sad D. relaxed

3.Tony’s mother may ask him to__________.

A.go to the library for work B. get the Internet fixed

C.play his friends outside D. play chess with his cousin

4.The writer just wants to show us __________ with the story.

A. how to surf the Internet

B. what to do on the Internet

C. how the Internet influences teenagers’ life

D. why teenagers should go online

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Marsha is the English teacher of Class 1. She is kind and likes to tell stories in her class, so all the 1. ＿＿＿＿like to be with her. Last week, two students didn't finish their homework. That 2._______ Marsha a little angry. She 3._______the two students to stay in the classroom after school. When school was over, all the students went 4.________except (除…以外) the two students. Marsha asked them to 5.______ the homework first. The two students 6.________ as she asked. After they finished their homework, Marsha told them a 7. _______about her classmate, Tony. Tony was lazy when he was a student. He didn't do his8. _______ every day. When he graduated (毕业) from high school, he wanted to find a job. But he couldn' t find a good 9. ________. At that moment, he regretted (后悔) what he had done. After 10._________ to the story, the two students felt sorry. They told Marsha they would finish homework on time and they would study hard.

It’s Saturday morning. Tony’s sitting at the kitchen table, staring into space and playing with a piece of bread. He’s not even  16 . Is he ill? No, but he does have a problem. He has nothing to do because the Internet is down.
When he woke up this morning, Tony was feeling   17 . He jumped out of bed full of plans for the weekend ahead. It would be a weekend like any other great weekend. But that was  18  he turned on his computer and  19  he was unable to go online. Having no Internet changes everything.
Every weekend, Tony will go online to email friends, read the news to
20 what’s happening in the world and play a few online chess games with his cousin Helen to kill time. The perfect weekend-online.
Just as Tony is  21  how he can possibly have a normal weekend without the Internet, his mum walks into the  22 “Cheer up, Tony. Don’t think about the Internet any more, OK?” Tony makes no answer but sighs. “Go and play chess with Helen!” Tony’s mum  23   .
“Oh, yes! Helen lives just around the corner. We can meet and play chess face to face for a  24  . Maybe this weekend won’t be so bad.” Tony  25 , as he walks to the phone. There is life beyond the Internet after all (毕竟).

Tony was seriously ill, ____ he did't go to hospital.