短文填空（10分）

阅读下面短文，根据短文内容及首字母提示补全文中所缺的单词，答案写在题后的横线上。

Travel can teach kids more than a textbook. Travelling with kids is good f     1.      them. They can find new interests. Travel makes information alive for kids, and makes it much more exciting than studying textbooks or d  2.    experiments in the lab. While travelling, they learn h      3.       to deal with new situations, and communicate with other people. They learn patience, because sometimes i       4.         takes a long time to get to some exciting or interesting places.

     I’ve been travelling since I was seven years old. For me, to stop travelling would be like taking something a    5.___      from my soul (灵魂). I can’t live without travelling and I wouldn’t be who I am if I don’t travel. Some people think it’s h    6.       to travel after having kids. But in my opinion, when people become parents, it doesn’t m     7.         they couldn’t travel any more. My children have been travelling since they were three weeks old.

     Bringing a new life into the world comes with many responsibilities (责任) and I’d love to be a good mother. One of my duties is to e    8.        my children. I’m so thankful that my parents took me on family trips when I was y  9.            . I’ve learned that the outside world is more colorful than the little one I was living in. Of course, I want to pass these travel e   10.       on to my children.

     I value the memories I have travelling with my children. I’m sure they will always remember them in their lives.

缺词填空：

Most American families are smaller than the families in other c___1___. Children in the US will l ___2___ in their parents’ homes. When they grow up, they usually live f___3___ from their parents because they want to f___4___ good jobs. They often w___5___ to their parents or telephone them. And they often go to v___6___  their parents on holiday. Parents usually let their children c___7____ their own jobs. Americans think it i___8___ for young people to decide(决定) their lives alone（独自地）. Parents often ask their children to do some work a___9___ their houses. And in many families, Their parents pay them for doing some housework so that they can learn h___10___ to make money for their own use.

根据短文内容和首字母提示完成单词，并将单词完整的写在后面的横线上。

We live in the “c  1   age”. Just 41 years ago，computers couldn't do much. They were very big and e  2  . They used a lot of energy（能量）.Only a few people were interested in them. Today computers are smaller and c  3  . They can do much difficult w  4   .

    Computers become important for many reasons（原因）.They work f  5   than man and make few mistakes. They can “remember” much information. A computer can do millions (百万) of problems in a few seconds. A person might need years to work o  6   so many problems.

People now use computers in every k  7   of work.. Computers are very useful and the use of computers is growing. More computers mean more jobs for people, because people need to run (操作)and mend (修理) them. Would you like to learn h  8   to run a computer?