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Do you have any hobbies? If students don’t have any interest e___1.___ school work, they may become boring people. And that can influence their studies.

Studying without relaxing isn’t good for health. We can’t get good g___2.__ if we have bad health. We should do something we like. Some people like singing, taking photos and drawing p__3.__. Other people prefer collecting stamps, reading or shopping. I have a few hobbies, but my f___4.__ is collecting stamps. I like it best because I can learn a lot from stamps.

Some people collect stamps because they can m___5.__ money from the stamps. But I am just i___6.___ in collecting them and enjoy looking at them when I am free.

Stamp collecting is becoming more and more p___7.___ all over the world. I know an Australian boy and a French girl through the Internet. They both like collecting stamps. We show stamps to each other o___8.__. That is cool.

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Why does the Leaning Tower of Pisa in Italy lean? It leans because of a mistake. It has leaned almost since the day the builders b    1  it.
In 1774, the people of Pisa in Italy wanted to build a bell tower. They wanted the tower to be the m    2  beautiful bell tower in Italy. The city needed a bell tower because the church(教堂) did not have o    3    . As soon as the first floor of the building was finished, the tower started to lean. Builders t    4    to make the building straight again as they added more floors, but the leaning tower got w   5    as the tower grew. It took about 180 years to finish the tower. Today, the leaning tower has eight f    6    It is 54.5 meters t    7    . And it leans almost 4 meters to one s    8   . The tower is also sinking(下沉) into the g    9  on which it was built. Every year, the tower leans a    10  1.7 cm.

In Singapore, many middle school students spend lots of their time on their studies．Most people think good education is a ticket to success（成功）in their future. So, many of these students try their best to get a good mark in their exams. They have a lot of homework every day and exams are a big trouble. Sometimes, some of them are even made to go to after-school classes.
Schools run activities outside school hours. The students can join in sports and games, music and dance, swimming and climbing, etc. They are also very interested in community service(社区服务)．
In their spare time, most students like to listen to pop music. Hollywood blockbusters(大片), Hong Kong and Singapore movies are very popular among them. They understand IT very well. Some of them also spend their free time searching the Internet, e-mailing their friends, playing computer and video games.
They sometimes go to cafes, fast-food restaurants, shopping centers and big bookshops.
So, life as a middle school student in Singapore is not easy but it is rich and colorful.
【小题1】Many students want to get good education to be ________ in the future．

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Good morning, ladies and gentlemen !

Today, I am very happy to have a meeting with you.  At the meeting we will talk about the p___1.___ we have these days.  We all know the problems of dogs and the objects falling from windows are getting worse.  We have already r__2.___ lots of letters about such problems.  So it is time for us to look for possible ways to s___3.___ these problems.

Some dog-owners don’t look after their dogs w___4.__ enough, and they let their dogs make mess on roads and in gardens. This makes the environment dirty.  I would like to tell the dog-owners that their b___5.___is too bad, and at the same time they are m___6.___ people feel unhappy.  We should keep the environment pleasant.

It is reported that some people throw rubbish out of windows. It is dangerous b___7.__ falling objects may hurt others.  It is also a___8.___ the law. We should put up a notice (布告、通告) to teach people not to do so.  If it is found, we will record the names and addresses of people who throw objects.  Then, a warning will be given and they will be p___9.___ by law.

A safe and comfortable living environment is important to us. If we t___10.___ our best to care for our community, it will be a good place to live in.

Thank you for your coming.

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The Empire State Building(帝国大厦) has held a special place in the hearts of Americans since it was completed in 1931.It r___1__ more than 443 metres into the sky. For more than forty years , it was the tallest building in the world.

It has one hundred and three levels and six thousand five hundred windows. Visitors can ride in one of seventy-three elevators that take them from the b__2__ to very near the top of the building. Some of these elevators are very fast, reaching the eightieth floor in only forty-five seconds.

The heads of government of almost every n__3__ in the world have visited the Empire State Building. These important people are just a few of million who have ridden to the observation area near the top of the building each year. From there, visitors can see almost all of New York City. They can see the view a __4__ the Hudson River into the state of New Jersey. They can see ships in the East River.

Even if you have never visited New York, there is a good chance for you to see the Empire State Building. It has been photographed c __5__ times. It has even played parts in movies. One is about a huge ape(猿)that escapes and climbs to the top of the building. The movie is “King Kong”(金刚). It was made in 1933. The Empire State Building also appeared in the love story “An Affair to Remember”(金玉盟).Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr play a man and a woman who meet and fall in love on a ship. They are looking at the New York City skyline from the ship when they plan a future meeting.

 More recently, in “Sleepless in Seattle(西雅图未眠夜)”，two people in love agree to meet at the Observation Deck on Valentine’s Day(情人节). B__6__ do arrive, but one is a little later. They almost m __7___each other.

In the early nineteen seventies, the Empire State Building lost its place as the tallest building in New York. People in the city then had the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center to look up to. Tragically that all changed on the morning of September 11,2001. Terrorists hijacked(劫持) passenger airplanes into the Twin Towers and destroyed them. The Empire State Building again has become the city’s tallest building.