Is the art of conversation dying? The other day, my wife   16  two teenage children did something we haven’t    17  for ages. It didn’t require the Internet, a TV screen, batteries… or anything else for that matter. But we all   18  it so much we’re thinking of doing it again sometime.

We had a conversation. The kind of real, live conversation that was   19  when I was growing up, but which seems all too rare these days. Today we have chat rooms, text messages, e-mails but we seem to be losing the   20  of communicating face-to-face. We all know   21  young people are out on a date(约会）these days, they spend most of that time   22  their mobile phones. And teenagers nowadays seem to   23  communicating with their friends by sending text messages rather than actually   24  to them.

If we carry on like this，in the future, we’ll lose the use of our   25 . What do you think? E-mail me, and who knows? Maybe we could even have a real conversation about it!

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阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
Do you think of your parents? “Yes, of course.” You may answer.  Maybe you buy a present for your mother on Mother’s Day, and you give your father _ 【小题1】_ 0n Father’s Day, too. Then 【小题2】__the other days of a year?  Always remember to think of your parents, not just  【小题3】 some important days.
I have a friend who lives _ 【小题4】_.because her parents live in another city.  One day I went to visit her. We had a nice chat. Then she wanted to 【小题5】    a telephone call. She dialed the number, but then she put the phone down. After about ten 【小题6】 .she dialed the number again. “Hi, Mum...”
Later I asked, “why did you dial the number  【小题7】_?”She smiled.“ because my parents are old. They can't get close to the telephone    【小题8】_.I always do so when I call them, I just give them enough 【小题9】___to answer the call.”
My friend is a good girl . She is always thinking about her parents.  What do you think of this? I think: we should do some small things for our parents and make them 【小题10】__every day.

完形填空（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）

阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

Do you think of your parents? “Yes, of course.” You may answer.  Maybe you buy a present for your mother on Mother’s Day, and you give your father _ 1._ 0n Father’s Day, too. Then 2.__the other days of a year?  Always remember to think of your parents, not just  3. some important days.

I have a friend who lives _ 4._.because her parents live in another city.  One day I went to visit her. We had a nice chat. Then she wanted to 5.    a telephone call. She dialed the number, but then she put the phone down. After about ten 6. .she dialed the number again. “Hi, Mum...”

Later I asked, “why did you dial the number  7._?”She smiled.“ because my parents are old. They can't get close to the telephone    8._.I always do so when I call them, I just give them enough 9.___to answer the call.”

My friend is a good girl . She is always thinking about her parents.  What do you think of this? I think: we should do some small things for our parents and make them 10.__every day.

11.               A．it             B．one           C．this   D．chat

12.               A．how about      B．how often       C．how much D．how long

13.               A．by            B．with           C．on   D．of

14.               A．lonely          B．happily         C．sadly D．alone

15.               A．take           B．make          C．play  D．buy

16.A, hours      B. months            C. seconds         D. days

17.               A．once          B．Twice          C．three times D．four times

18.               A．quickly         B．slowly          C．quietly    D．hardly

19.               A．money         B．fond           C．room D．time

20.               A．please         B．pleasure        C．pleasant   D．pleased