What do you think of your Chinese? Is it good or bad? If you think you are good at Chinese,you can 1        the competition named the Chinese Char?acters Dictation Competition (汉字听写大赛>.I'hc competition became popular 2        the teenagers. Let's know something about it.

 More and more computers and smart phones arc used by teenagers. They spend 3        time on the In ternet in playing or chatting. They are used to 4        messages by computers and smart phones. Some of them forget how to write Chinese characters 5        The teachers and parents are very 6        it. What can they do?

 Not long ago,they found an interesting game called the Chinese Characters Dictation. The pro?gram me modeled 7        after the American show "National Spelling Bee", where middle school students stand on the stage to write down Chinese via (通过) dictation. Over two hundred competitors are from forty-six schools. The audience (观众) are interested in this 8        kind of competition,too. They would like to write down the characters 9        the competitors were writing them. But they found it was also difficult for them to write down all the characters.

Is it an interesting competition? Can you be the 10     

(   ) 1. A. take part in   B. work together in

   C. join up with   D. catch up with

(   ) 2. A. between   B. in

   C. among   D. for

(   ) 3. A. too many   B. too much

   C. much too   D. many too P

(   ) 4. A. sending   B. send

   C. sent   D. be sent

(   ) 5. A. at hand   B. by hand

   C. in hand   D. on hand

(   ) 6. A. crazy about   B. worried about

   C. busy with   D. come up with

(   ) 7. A. it   B. this

   C. itself   D. that

(   ) 8. A. usual   B. old

   C. new   D. usually

(   ) 9. A. as for   B. while

   C. as though   D. when

(   ) 10. A. winner   B. worker

   C. teacher   D. loser

 The biggest secret about inventing is that any?body can do it!Perhaps this sounds crazy,but it's true. Maybe you have the wrong idea about inven?ting,so read on to discover the truth.

  Wrong idea No. 1:An invention has to be something completely new.

 Inventing means creating something "new", but the idea could come from something that already ex?ists (存在) . The Wright brothers,for example,got the idea for building a "flying machine" from watching bird.

 Wrong idea No. 2:Inventors are born,not made.

  There are a lot of factors (?素) that make in?vention possible. Take Mozart for example. He was born with a talent for musical composition. But other factors were also important for his creativity. His father was a music teacher,and Mozart practised for hours every day,from the time he was four years old. Thomas Edison said that being an inventor was "99% hard work and 1% inspiration" ! Very successful creators don't give up when they get something wrong. As one inventor said, "A failure is the right answer to the wrong question.” Wrong idea No. 3:Inventors are always old people.

  Don't believe that you can't invent anything when you are young. Here are two examples of young inventors: Louis Braille went blind when he was a child. When he was fifteen,he invented a sys?tem of reading and writing for blind people that is still used in most countries today.

  As a young man,George Nissen was watching some artists performing in a show. He watched how they fell into the safety net and then jumped back up again. This gave him an idea,and he invented the trampoline (蹦床) ,

(   ) 1.       got the idea for building a "flying machine" from watching birds.

   A. Mozart

   B. George Nissen

   C. Louis Braille

   D. The Wright brothers

(   ) 2. The underlined word "talent" probably means         .

   A. 态度   B. 品质   C. 天賦   D. 能量

(   ) 3.Which of the following is the writer's opinion?

   A. Anybody can do inventing.

   B. Inventors are born,not made.

   C. Inventors are always old people.

   D. An invention has to be something completely new.

(  ) 4. The best title for the passage would be    _

   A. How to perform in a show

   B. Be a composer

   C. How to help blind people

   D. Be an inventor

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