Have you ever imagined yourself as a travel writer? Send us 500 words on your 2008 summer holiday，explaining what made it special—with as much detail as possible（place names，names of hotels／restaurants．what you especially enjoyed seeing and doing）．The best five entries，as chosen by our editors，will each win one of our five holiday prizes，and will be published in full in the Travel section of the Guardian（《卫报》）and on guardian.co.uk．

There are five categories（类别）and five different prizes which everyone can get．

Category：Activity，Adventure

Prize：a two-week campervan（野营车）holiday to New Zealand with Discover the world and Air New Zealand．Spend two weeks traveling in the country wherever the road takes you-from the beaches and cities of North Island to the beautiful scenery of the South Island．

Category：Family

Prize：A weekend in a tent for four people，staying on a private nature reserve（自然保护区）near Padstow，with Cornish Tent Holidays in connection with Neal's Yard Holidays．

Category：Beach

Prize：A trip for two to Damascus with Black Tomato，The prize includes return flights from London，a private guided tour of the city and four nights on the way．

Category：Camping

Prize：A pair of return flights for two to New York with STA Travel，including taxes．

Category：UK

Prize：A week of river cruising（乘船巡游）for two on a motorboat in Germany with European Boating Holidays．Visit the great lakes or travel in and around Berlin by river，and the trip includes return flights from London．

To enter the competition，send your entry to our website．Don't forget to tell us which of the five categories you are writing about，and include your name，address and telephone number．The deadline for entries is 11：59p．m．on Friday August 22，2008．

1．The purpose of the passage is to _______．

A．invite readers to travel abroad                    B．introduce holiday places to readers

C．ask readers to write articles on travel           D．help readers become writers

2．The underlined word entries in the first paragraph probably refers to “_______” ．

A．articles entered for a competition

B．words that are written by readers

C．editors，favorite readers

D．the best articles that wilt be popular soon

3．If you want to win a trip to New York，you should write something about _______．

A．family                  B．adventure             C．camping                 D．beach

4．_______ will arrange（安排）your trip if you win the prize for Category “Beach” ．

A．Cornish Tent Holidays                              B．Black Tomato

C．STA Travel                                               D．European Boating Holidays

5．You will go to _______ for a holiday if you win the prize for Category “UK”．

A．New Zealand        B．England               C．USA                      D．Germany

People at home keep asking me, "Is it hard to learn Chinese? Why have you learned it so well?" Well, there's one thing that makes Chinese easy to learn: there are so many people to talk to. You've probably heard that it's the most spoken language. Today it's also one of the most written languages online. And with so many Chinese people interested in learning English, it couldn't be easier to find a friend for language learning. You just have to know where to look for them.
?? The really good place to look for them is QQ. QQ has the same status(地位) in China as AIM (AOL Instant Messenger) does in the US. It is reported that at any moment, up to 9,000,000 people are using QQ. They're at work, or in a web café(网吧), or at home, and the information of the users can be found. If you sign on with your address set to "abroad", you'll soon find that many thousands of them are interested in speaking to you! This is a great way for you to learn Chinese, and for them to learn English. I think that it's a very interesting way of cultural contact(文化交流), too, for ordinary people from around the world to be able to have one-on-one contact.

1.In the first paragraph(段落), the writer tells us ___________.

A. why his family members want to learn Chinese

B. where you can find people to talk to for language learning

C. the easiest thing to do is learning Chinese

D. Chinese isn’t so hard to learn as his friends think

2.From the second paragraph we know that QQ and AIM are __________.

A. addresses for the Internet users????????????? ????????????? ??? B. documents you need to get online

C. tools for people to talk online ????????????? ??????? D. programs of a computer?????????????

3.Offices, web cafes and homes ____________.

A. attract the most people to learn Chinese

B. provide both QQ and AIM in China

C. are the best places for English learners????????????? ?

D. have the most people online

4.The writer wrote this passage mainly to __________.

A. tell a way of learning Chinese?????????????

B. show what the Chinese people are doing

C. tell the important of learning Chinese?????????????

D. show the difference between AIM and QQ

5.The writer of this passage is probably ___________.

A. a Chinese who works abroad????????????? ????????????? ????? B. an expert who works at home

C. an American who works in China????????????? ????? D. a salesman who sells soft wares

People at home keep asking me, "Is it hard to learn Chinese? Why have you learned it so well?" Well, there's one thing that makes Chinese easy to learn: there are so many people to talk to. You've probably heard that it's the most spoken language. Today it's also one of the most written languages online. And with so many Chinese people interested in learning English, it couldn't be easier to find a friend for language learning. You just have to know where to look for them.
The really good place to look for them is QQ. QQ has the same status(地位) in China as AIM (AOL Instant Messenger) does in the US. It is reported that at any moment, up to 9,000,000 people are using QQ. They're at work, or in a web café(网吧), or at home, and the information of the users can be found. If you sign on with your address set to "abroad", you'll soon find that many thousands of them are interested in speaking to you! This is a great way for you to learn Chinese, and for them to learn English. I think that it's a very interesting way of cultural contact(文化交流), too, for ordinary people from around the world to be able to have one-on-one contact.
【小题1】In the first paragraph(段落), the writer tells us ___________.