Hi! My name's Kathy Harris. I'm sixteen years old, and I'm a high school student in Brighton in the year 2058!

　　I think you will find that very hard to believe. I wrote a diary last month for a special competition. My diary was the best of all. I got the first place, which meant that my diary would become one of the first things used in the Time Travel. It would be put in a time capsule to be sent back almost fifty years into the past. So, if everything went all right, you should be reading my diary in about the year 2008.

　　Do you know what a time capsule is? It is usually a strong box made of some very strong material, so strong that it should last for hundreds or thousands of years. Inside it you put things such as a letter, a CD, a photo, a newspaper of some date or a diary. The idea is that when people in the future open up the time capsule, they'll be able to see what Life was Like in the past.

　　Until now, all the time capsules have been left for people in the future to find. But this one is the first that has been sent from now to the past! I don't understand how it's going to be done, but I think it's a really good idea. If it works, my own grandparents will be able to read my diary when they were at high school! Very interesting, isn't it?

1．When Kathy wrote her diary, ________.

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A．her grandparents were in their sixties

B．her grandparents were high school students

C．she knew her grandparents would be able to read it

D．she wanted her diary to be read by people in the future

2．Which is true?

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A．The time capsules can take you back to 500 years ago.

B．Kathy knows how the Time Travel works.

C．There were some other diaries being sent for the special competition.

D．Only Kathy's diary was put inside the time capsule.

3．The word “material” in the third paragraph means “________”in Chinese.

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Every morning my father buys a newspaper on his way to work. Every evening my mother looks through magazines at home. And every night, I look at the posters with photos of David Beckham and Yao Ming on my bedroom wall before I go to sleep. Can we imagine life without paper or print?
Paper was first created about 2,000 years ago, and has been made from silk, cotton, bamboo, and, since the 19th century, from wood. People learned to write words on paper to make a book. But in those days, books could only be produced one at a time by hand. As a result, they were expensive and rare. And because there weren’t many hooks, few people learned to read.
Then printing was invented in China. When printing was developed greatly at the beginning of the 11th century, books could be produced more quickly and cheaply. As a result, more people learned to read. After that, knowledge and ideas spread quickly.
Today information can be received online, downloaded from the Internet rather than found in books, and information can be kept on CD-ROMs or machines such as MP3 players.
Computers are already used in classrooms, and newspapers and magazines can already be read online. So will books be replaced by computers one day? No, I don’t think the Yao Ming poster on my bedroom wall will ever be replaced by a computer two metres high!
【小题1】What does the writer do before he goes to sleep’?

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1. How are you?　　　　　　　　　　 　　　　　　　　　　 　　　　　　 

2. Here you are. 　　　　　　　　　　 　　　　　　　　　　 　　　　　　 

3. Shall we go to the park this afternoon?　　  　　　　　　 

4. We have been talking for two hours,　　　　    　　　　　　 

haven’t we?　　　　　　　　　　 　　　　　　　　　　 　　　　　　　　　　

5. What’s the date today?　　 　　　　　　　　　　 　　　　　　 

6. Lovely day, isn’t it?　　　　   　　　　　　　　　　 　　　　　　 

7. I can’t find my map.　　　　 　　　　　　　　　　 　　　　　　 

8 .Sorry to trouble you.    　　　　　　　　　　 　　　　　　　　　　

9. What should I get my brother?　　　　　　　　　　 　　　　　　 

10．How long have you been like this?

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A.　　  Yes, it is.

B.　　  Thanks.

C.　　  Maybe it’s in your bag.

D.　　 Fine, thank you.

E.　　  Good idea.

F.　　  It doesn’t matter.

G.　　 No, we haven’t.

H.　　  Since yesterday afternoon.

I.　　    What about a CD?

J. It’s November 1st.