Have you ever asked your relatives or friends if there is Wi-Fi in their houses? Have you ever searched for Wi-Fi when you are at restaurants or hotels? The answers will probably be "Yes". Most of us want Wi-Fi everywhere as if we can't live without it. But we can only use free Wi-Fi in some public places. We still have to spend some money accessing(连接)the Internet at most time. Here comes a piece of good news.

A rich, powerful organization in the USA called the Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF) has decided to change the age of online computing (计算) completely by giving free Wi-Fi to every person on Earth. They will send up hundreds of satellites into low Earth orbit(轨道)in 2015.

This is because they have made a survey and found that only 60% of the world's population have been able to get information on the Internet. And this is also because many countries are unable to offer people the necessary infrastructure(基础设施)to access the web.

We can expect to use free Wi-Fi everywhere in the near future.

阅读以上信息,用恰当的词完成下面的表格,每空一词。

Present situation

●Many of us want Wi-Fi everywhere as if we can't live without it

●Accessing the Internet 1. us some money.

What the organization will do

MDIF has made a decision to send up hundreds of satellites into low Earth orbit in 2015 so that for every person on Earth, there will be free Wi-Fi available.

2.

●Only three 3. of the world's population have been able to get information on the Internet.

●Many countries can't 4. people with the necessary infrastructure to access the web.

What we can expect

●Free Wi-Fi will 5. the world in the near future.

I have a neighbor we call “Happy”. I have never seen her angry at anything and never heard her say anything bad to anyone.

Happy and her husband Ben, 70, have a huge garden. They spent many happy hours together working on it. Most of the neighbors watched interestingly as Ben doubled the size of their garden. As the cost of food climbed faster than Ben’s beans, we all wished we also had such a large garden. As the rest of us spent our dollars at the market, Happy could be seen picking beans in her back yard.

Last month, Happy and Ben invited most of the neighborhood over for an “all-day food festival”. We were told to bring gloves and arrive very early in the morning. We didn’t know what was about to take place.

By 9:00 am, there were nine of us in the garden picking tomatoes, beans, okra, and squash. By 10:00 am, there was lots of laughter. We shared a lot of stories. By five o’clock, everyone was a little drunk from the wine and beer. After dinner, we played games. As we were leaving, Happy and Ben handed each of us a shopping bag filled with the bounty of the day, already packaged and frozen. What a delightful gift!

Well, the point wasn’t so much about the food. The true gift was a day of friends enjoying one another’s company. None of it would have happened if it had been for Happy and Ben’s garden. Now they have a blog about gardening in case we decided to plant a garden. And I am so proud of my tomato plants!

1.According to paragraph 2, people wished they also had a garden so that .

A. they could spend happy times together with their family in it

B. they could grow vegetables and sell at the market

C. they could invite their neighbors and hold parties in it

D. they didn’t have to spend so much money on food

2.Which of the following is the same as the underlined word “bounty”?

A. presents B. kindness

C. laughter D. happiness

3. Happy and Ben invite the neighbors to their garden .

A. to attend a birthday party

B. to help them get to know each other.

C. to let them enjoy what they grew in the garden.

D. to ask them to share some interesting stories.

4. What did the writer most probably think of the time he spent in the garden?

A. He thought it was too short but enjoyable.

B. He thought it was wonderful.

C. He thought it was not as good as he thought.

D. He thought it was too terrible.

5.We can infer that .

A. Happy and her husband Ben don’t like spending time with others

B. Happy and her husband Ben sometimes quarrel with each other

C. Happy and her husband Ben are a generous and warm-hearted couple

D. Happy and her husband Ben live on the food they grow.

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