I read an article about London in a m  1.    yesterday.

London is one of the c  2.    with a long history in Britain. It is also the b  3.city in Europe. You can find some of the best theatres and m  4.  of the world there, such as the National Theatre, the National Gallery(画廊) and so on. You may visit many places of i  5.   there. Most of the old and f  6.   buildings are o 7.     the north bank of the River Thames. On the south bank, there are some fine m  8.   buildings.

If you want to k    9.   the people there better, you should learn more about the l  10.   and the culture（文化） as well.

Today we can use the Internet for many things: shopping, business, writing letters, talking to people, getting information and so on. In recent years, a new kind of English has grown on the Internet. There's no real word for it yet, so we call it e-talk.
People don't like typing too much. To save time, they turn phrases into a few letters， acronyms(首字母缩略词). Acronyms are often used in chat rooms. Some are as follows:
BRB (be right back), BTW (by the way), LOL (laughing out loud), IMO (in my opinion)
People also use many abbreviations. They are shortened forms of words. Some common abbreviations include info (information), pic (picture), puter (computer), sec (second), etc.
We usually don't see people when we communicate on the Net, so people have new ways to show feelings. Most people use their keyboards to draw "feelings", such as:
:-)  (happy)     ;-)  (joking)       :-(  (sad)        :-O  (surprised)
These days, many public discussions have picture feelings, for example:
    
(happy)           (sad)            (angry)           ( (cool)
There are even whole new words, like "newbies"(someone who is new on a chat board or forum). When you write something bad about someone else, it's called "burning" the person.
It takes time for people to get used to e-talk. Also, different groups on the Net have their own special ways of communicating. Newbies sometimes have to ask other people what they mean. As the Internet grows, e-talk will continue to grow and change.
【小题1】Why do people type acronyms?

When you cut your skin, you bleed(流血). If a person loses a lot of blood, he will become ill and may die. Blood is very important. People have always known that. At one time, some people even drank blood to make them strong!

When doctors understand how blood goes around inside the body, they try ways of giving blood to people who need it. They take blood from the healthy people and give it to people who need it. This is called " blood transfusion（输血）". The blood goes from the arm of the healthy person into the arm of the sick person.

But there are two problems. First, it does not always work. Sometimes people die when they have blood transfusion. Later, doctors find that we do not all have the same kind of blood. There are four groups—O, A, B and AB. We all have blood of one of these groups. They also find that they can give any kind of blood to people of group AB. But they find that they must give A-group blood to A-group people and B-group blood to B-group people. I have O-group blood and the doctor told me that I could give blood to anyone else safely.

There is another problem. To give blood of the right kind, doctors have to find a person of the right blood group. Often they can not find a person in time. If they have a way to keep the blood until someone needs it, they can always have the right kind of blood. At first they find they can keep it in bottles for fifteen to twenty days. They do this by making it very cold. Then they find how to keep it longer. In the end they find a way of keeping blood for a very long time.

We call a place where we keep money a "bank". We call a place where we keep blood a "blood bank". One day, when you grow up, you may decide to give blood to a "blood bank". In this way you may stop someone from dying. Or perhaps one day you may become ill. You may need blood. The "blood bank" will give it to you.

1.From the passage, we learn that sometimes people die when they have blood transfusions because they __________ .

A. are given the cold blood???????????? B. lose too much blood

C. are given the wrong kind of blood????? D. are O-group people

2.Which of the following is true? ________

A. We can drink blood to make us strong.

B. Blood transfusion is always safe.

C. The writer has O-group blood and can give blood to anyone.

D. The blood can only be kept for 15to 20 days.

3.People set up the "blood bank" so that they can _____________ .

A. give the right kind of blood to the people who need it in time

B. keep different groups of blood as much as possible

C. make it easier to sell or buy blood

D. keep blood for more than twenty hundred years

4.From the last paragraph (段落) of the passage, we learn that _____________ .

A. the writer thinks it's good to give blood to a "blood bank"

B. we may become ill if we give blood to a "blood bank"

C. there are many blood banks in the world today.

D. blood is more important than money

5.The writer doesn't talk about ____________ in the passage.

A. how important blood is to us ????????????? ????????????? ????????????? B. the four groups of blood

C. where the blood bank is ????????????? ????????????? ????????????? ????????????? D. what "blood transfusion" is

先通读下面的短文，然后根据短文内容和所给首字母，在空格内填入一个合适的词，使短文意思完整。所填单词必须在答题卡标有题号的横线上完整写出。
Do you know March 14^th is International Police Day. The traffic police is just one group. No matter if it is in summer  o____1___ in winter, a holiday or a w___2____, we can see policemen w___3___ the traffic at the crossroads on the main roads.
There are over1.9 million policemen in our country. It is a day for us to s___4___ our respect for police, the people who keep m___5___ of families safe. Other police have different duties. Some are firefighters. Some watch out for bad guys and s___6___ crimes. Others keep the p___7___. Special police d___8___ with unexpected events. A good special policeman n___9___ a strong body as w___10___ as rich knowledge and many skills. He has to learn laws, science, shooting, driving and climbing.
To keep people safe, Chinese police put their lives at risk. Since 1990 more than 15,000 policemen have lost their lives. Another 20,000 were hurt in doing jobs.

San Francisco has many museums. You can visit one and learn s   1.    new. We have arts, science, history and other special museums. Some museums are o  2.    every day. Some are only open o  3.    certain days. Many museums are expensive, and others are f  4.  . But some of the expensive o 5.    have free days. Many museums have websites. The websites usually have information about the things you can see in the museums.

         On a museum’s website you can get i  6.   about ticket prices and free days. You can also know w   7.    the museum is and when it is open. Sometimes the information is on the first page, and it’s very e  8.   for you to find. But sometimes you have to click on (点击) the w  9.    like Visit Information, or About to find the information. That will be hard w  10.     for you.