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　　Mrs Beckman is ill. She's in hospital and can't go to work. So Miss Morison takes her place(接替). The girl comes in the classroom and all the students look at her carefully. But soon she finds a boy in Row Four begin to look out of the window.

　　“Listen to me carefully, class,” says Miss Morison.

　　The boy doesn't hear her and goes on looking outside. She up to the window and sees some children flying a kite by the river. She turns to the boy and asks, “What's your name?”

　　The boy stands up and says, “Allan Smith, Madam.”

　　“How much is eight divided by(除以) two?”

　　“I don't know, Madam.”

　　Miss Morison thinks for a while and writes “How much is half of 8?” on the blackboard. Then she asks, “Can you answer the question, Allan?”

　　“Up and down(上下) or across(横切)?”

　　“Oh? What?”

　　“Up and down it's 3, and across it's 0.”

1．What's Mrs Beckman?

2．Why does Miss Morison take the place of Mrs Beckman?

3．Whet row is Allan in?

4．What does Allan watch in the classroom?

Mr Wu is going to make a record card for each of his students.

Look at the card below and help him put the Chinese into English.

Reading newspaper has become an important part of everyday life. Some people read newspaper as the first thing to do in the morning;  66_ read newspapers as soon as they have free time during the day so that they can learn what is _ 67 _in the world.

Sometimes, we do not have enough time to read all the news _ 68_, so we just take a quick look at the front page. At other _ 69_we may be in such a hurry that we only have a few _ 70_to look at the headlines of the passage.

Newspaper can be found everywhere in the world. We can get many different _ 71_of newspapers in big cities, but in some mountains _ 72_we can see few newspaper.

Some kinds of newspaper are published once a week, but most of them are published once a day with many pages, some even published _ 73_a day! You know different people enjoy reading different kinds of newspaper. Some like world news, and others prefer short stories. They just choose what they are _ 74_in.

Today newspaper in English has the largest numbers of readers in the world. The English language is so popular that many Chinese students are _ 75_English newspaper such as China Daily or 21^st Century. Also they bring us more and more imformation with Internet.