Dear Mingming,
Hi, I’m writing to you in Rizhao. I’m on vacation    36  my parents here.
Rinzhao is very beautiful and   37  lots of beaches. It’s   38   today.People are having a good   39  on the beaches. Some are playing beach volleyball, some are enjoying the sunlight, and   40   are playing games.   41   are my parents? Oh, my  42    is lying on the beach, and my mother is   43   in the sea(大海).
I’m   44   I have to stop here. My mother wants me to  45   photos for her.
I hope you and Lingling are having fun, too.

   Last year, we spent Christmas and New Year in Queensland, Australia. The beaches there were beautiful, and we spent a lot of time playing by the sea, swimming and surfing. One day, we were on a beach just south of a city called Cairns. My little sister was looking for shells in the sand down near the waves when she shouted to me, “Hey, Lan! Look what I’ve found!” I ran down to have a look, and saw her pointing at a strange black object that was half buried (掩埋) in the sand, “What is it?” she asked. I said I didn’t know.

   Just then, my father came over, “Are you enjoying yourselves, you two?” he asked. Then he saw the strange black thing. “What’s that?” he said, bending down to take a closer look. Suddenly, he said, “Quick kids, get away from here. Go and play somewhere else.”

   We went and played further down the beach, while Dad ran up to the shop near the beach to make a phone call. About 20 minutes later, we heard the noise of cars and trucks arriving, and a lot of soldiers ran onto the beach. They told everyone to leave the beach and stay away from it.

About half an hour later, we were sitting with Dad in a café a few hundred meters from the beach, when we heard an enormous explosion (爆炸). “What was that?” we asked Dad. “That was the thing you found,” he said. “One of the soldiers down there told me it was a Japanese bomb（炸弹）from World WarⅡ. Sometimes they get washed up on the beaches here.”

1. The object they found was _______.

   A. in the sand near the water                    B. in the sea

   C. lying on the beach                                  D. floating (漂) on the sea

2. When Dad saw the object, he _______.

   A. told the kids to play with it somewhere else      B. knew it was something dangerous

   C. decided to move it quickly                           D. picked it up to take a closer look

3. Dad went to a shop near the beach_______.

   A. to meet the soldiers                             B. to buy some drinks for the kids

   C. to call for help                                 D. in order to get away from the beach

4. The bomb on the beach_______.

   A. was washed up by accident                      B. killed many people

   C. was put there by the Japanese             D. was carried away by the Australian soldiers