American schools 1 in September after the long summer holidays. There are two terms 2 a school year, the first term is from September to January, and 3 is from February to JunE．Most American 4 go to public（公立的）schools.

　　After middle school, many students go to college（大学）.They can choose a small one or a 7 onE．They usually have to pay a lot of money 8 college education（教育）. 9 there are scholarships（奖学金）for good students, and many college students work part-time in order to get the 10 for education.

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　　My hobby is playing chess（下棋）--one of the greatest games in the world. My mum taught me 1 to play it when I was seven years old. She 2 me every time during the first year. But next year on my 3 birthday, I won for the first time. Now I'm always the winner between us.

　　It takes about a day to learn the rules. 4 if you want to be a good player, you have to practice for years. You don't need much to play chess--just a chessboard and someone to play with. Chessboard 5 be very cheap, or quite expensive. Some people collect chessboard as a hobby, but I 6 to play.

　　There is a chess club in our school. We meet every week to play chess. I am the best 7 in the club. This year we 8 All England Schools' Championship（冠军）.I was so small that I had to go up onto a stage（台子）to get the prize.

　　I'm saving up my money to buy a chess game. It's very 9 for practice. That way I'll 10 have someone to play with, and I'm sure I'll make greater progress.

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　　It was a very cold morning. Some children were 1 on the ice. It was snowing 2 but they enjoyed themselves there. Mike, the tallest boy, didn't 3 that there was a 4 in the ice. He 5 into the water. The other children called out loudly for help. 6 at that moment a young worker 7 by and heard them. He put his bike by the side of the river 8 ran to them. When he 9 Mike out of the water, he was all 10 . Then he sent Mike to a hospital. After that the young man hurried to work.

　　Everyone in our school loves sports. Every morning 1 we get up, we do morning exercises. After the second class we do exercises again. We only have 2 classes twice a week, but we do physical training（锻炼）at five every afternoon. The most popular sport is basketball. The 3 enjoy playing it and many of the girls like it, too. 4 popular sport is football and in every class there are 5 football fans. Volleyball is often played when the 6 is fine. We have school teams in basketball, football and volleyball. Our teams often 7 friendship matches with teams from other schools. When there is a match, 8 of us go to watch it and cheer our side.

　　Besides（除……之外）ball games, some of us like track-and-field events（田径项目）, 9 we often practise running, jumping and throwing. Every term we have tests in these events and once a year, we hold a 10 .

　　In most parts of the world, many students help their schools make ___1___ pollution. They join“environment clubs”. In an environment club, people work together to make our environment ___2___. Here are some things students often do.

　　No-garbage（无垃圾）lunches. How much do you ___3___ after lunch ? Environment clubs ask students ___4___ their lunches in bags that can ___5___ again. Every' week they will choose the classes those make ___6___ garbage and report them to the whole school.

　　No-car day. On a no-car day, nobody ___7___ to school in a car ? Not the students and not the teachers ! Cars give pollution to our air, so remember：Walk, jump, bike or run. Use your legs! It's ___8___ fun. ___9___ the water ! Did you know that some toilets can waste twenty to forty cubic（立方）meters of water an hour ? In a year, that would fill a small river ! In environment clubs, students mend those broken toilets. We love our environment. Let's work together___10___ it clean.

　　People ___2___ work and live under noisy conditions usually become deaf. Today, however, ___3___ believe that 10 percent of workers in Britain are being deafened by the noise where they work. Many of the workers who print newspapers and books, and who weave（织）cloth become deaf. Quite a few people ___4___ near airports also become deaf. Recently it was ___5___ that many teenagers in America could hear no ___6___ than 65-year-old people, for these young like to listen to“pop”music and most of“pop”music is a kind of noise.___7___, noise produced by jet planes or machines will make people's life difficult and unpleasant, or even make people iii or even drive them mad.

　　Nowadays the government（政府）in many countries have ___8___ laws（法律）to reduce or control noise and make it less than 85 decibels（分贝）. In China, the people's government is trying to ___9___ not only air and water pollution problems but ___10___ noise pollution problem.

　　Sitting at the dinner table and sleeping in bed are __1__ for you. How is an astronaut's life aboard（在飞船上）Shenzhou VI different __2__ yours? Astronauts in a spaceship face a choice（选择）__3__ no gravity（重力）. They may pick their food __4__ their hands and put it into their mouths. Or they may let the food stay in the air. Then they float（漂）. to the food and get it with their mouths. Astronauts __5__ remember __6__ their mouths tightly when eating. Any crumb（碎屑）__7__ cause big trouble. Bits of food that stay in the air can go into astronauts' noses when they're __8__. Shenzhou Ⅵ astronauts sleep on the wall of the spaceship. People float in a spaceship where there's no gravity. So scientists fix（固定）sleeping bags to the wall __9__ astronauts __10__ a good sleep. Can they move any way they like? No!

　　__1__ July 21,1998, a bad accident __2__ to Sang Lan, a famous Chinese sport girl. After that she could only move her hands and arms a little, and __3__ stay in a wheelchair. However, she __4__ lose heart, she __5__ special exercises every day. It was very hard on her, but people could still see her sweet smiles and cheerful eyes. She became a fine example for people __6__ have had bad accidents or bad luck. When she was in hospital, many famous people visited her. Celine Dion asked her __7__ up the good work. Leonardo encouraged her not to give up and keep on __8__ Reeve told her never to think about the accident again. He believed that she could walk again in a few __9__ time. Sang Lan also kept telling __10__,“I can do it. I can do it. I can do it !”

　　The seasons in Australia are different __1__ ours. When it is winter here, it is summer there. Australia is in the __2__ of the world. June, July and August are the winter months. The summer is in December, __3__ and February. The north of the country is __4__ than the south. Australia's main problem is water. A large part of the country has no __5__ at all. But east coast（海岸）has the rain __6__ the year round. There are no dry months here. In March1982,there was a terrible drought（干旱）in Australia. The summer rain didn't __7__.There were 138 million sheep in Australia this year. This was 14％ of all the sheep in the world. Because of no __8__ rain and the grass didn't grow well, the farmers __9__ to sell many of their sheep and many sheep __10__, too. It was great disaster（灾难）for Australian farmers.

　　Mr White is a millionaire（百万富翁）. He ___1___ delicious food. He had a ___2___ cook, Mr Black. The man could cook all kinds of food. Mrs White asked him to ___3___ her last month. Then she thought she was good at cooking and didn't want Mr Black to ___4___ for them any longer.

　　Now Mrs White begins to cook for her ___5___. But Mr White does not like the food at all. He says he won't ___6___ any food at home if she doesn't stop cooking. The woman says she'll ___7___ another cook.

　　This morning Mr White broke a window in a shop. They took him to the ___8___. The policeman said,“I'm sorry to tell you, Mr White. or I'll fine（罚）you ten dollars, or you'll stay in prison（监狱）. ___9___ do you want?”

　　“I would rather（宁愿）stay in prison.”

　　“___10___”

　　“Because my wife will find a new cook in ten days!”