“At three or four in the morning and I surf the net.”
“I often check my e-mail forty times a day.”
“I often spend more than three hours during one time on the net.”
“I spend more time in chat rooms than with my ‘real-1ife’ friends.”
Do you know any people like these? They are part of a new addiction（瘾）called Internet addiction. Internet addicts spend at least thirty to forty hours online every week. The use of the Internet can be an addiction like drug(毒品) use. People lose control of the time they spend on the Internet. For example, one college student was missing for several days. His friends were worried, and they called the police. The police found the student in the computer lab: he was surfing the net for several days straight.
Studies show that about 6 to 10% of Internet users become addicted. And people worry about the teens because the Internet is changing the playing field for some of them. They spend more time in cyberspace than in the real world of friends and family.
Is “surfing the net” a hobby or an addiction for you? You may have a problem if you have these symptoms（症状）：
●You do not go to important family activities or you do not do school work because you like to spend hours on the Internet.
●You can’t wait for your next online time.
●You plan to spend a short time online, but then you spend several hours.
●You go out with your friends less and less.
【小题1】What does the beginning of the passage tell us？

根据下列句子及所给单词的首字母写出各单词的正确形式（每空限填一词）。

1．--What c        is your T-shirt?

--It's red．

2．It's very hot in s             in Hangzhou，so you'd better come in spring．

3．I'm planning to leave on the t         （=20th day of the month）．

4．Stephen Hawking is a great s        ，who has worked out a lot of physical problems．

5．Tom is a little bit h       ．He should eat less and exert else more．

6．Would you like to see the movie with me? I've got two t        ．

7．You'll hurt y         if you're not careful．

8．The shoes are too big，so I'd like to try a        pair．

9．She likes reading very much．She often borrows books from the school l       ．

10．I'm much taller than Nancy，so I have to sit b        her．

Studying too much?

Most people work or study from Monday to Friday. The weekend is usually a time of rest. But today’s Chinese teenagers can hardly rest during the weekends.

According to a survey, 24% of the Grade 8 students in Beijing have classes at the weekend．Over 40% of the middle school students have less than eight hours’ sleep each night because of study.

And this doesn’t happen only in Beijing. Ji Chunying is a Grade 9 student in Guangzhou. The 14-year-old girl has to get up at 6:45am on Saturday. Then she has classes all the day. On Sunday, she goes to extra（额外）classes for math and physics. But Ji doesn’t complain. She says her classmates all work very hard．

Finding time to have fun

Zhao Ming, 13, is from Zhanjiang, Guangdong. Zhao’s weekend is less busy. But he still spends Saturday in school. On Sunday, after finishing homework, he plays basketball. “I feel happy because I still have time to do the things I like,” he said．Some students are much luckier. Ding Yi, a Grade 8 student from Laiwu, Shandong, is one of them. During the weekend, Ding usually gets up at 8:00am. Then she spends some time doing homework. After that she is free to go shopping or watch TV. “My teacher said I don't need to push myself too much. Learning well at school is enough,” Ding said．“I feel pretty lucky.”

1．Over 40% of the middle school students have less than eight hours’ sleep each night because of ___________.

  A．playing computer games              B．playing with friends

C．watching TV                       D．busy study

2．How many students are mentioned（提及） in this passage?

  A．2.               B．3.              C．4.              D．5.

3．Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

   A．Some middle school students can enjoy their weekend．

   B．All the students in China are busy studying at the weekend．

   C．Every student in China has to go to extra classes at the weekend．

   D．No student complains about his busy weekend．

4．The passage mainly tells us that _____________.

   A．Students should do more homework at the weekend

   B．All the students in China must have classes at the weekend

   C．Students should have more time to take a rest at the weekend

   D．No student can play with his friends out of classes

5．The above passage may be a _______.

A．story of science   B．school notice     C．short play        D．news report

　　Small cars may take the place of（代替）big cars in the future（将来）. There is ___(1)___ for only two people in such a car. If everyone ___(2)___ such a car, there will be less pollution（污染）___(3)___ the air. There will also be more space for ___(4)___ cars in cities, and the streets will be less crowded. The little cars will cost ___(5)___ less. Driving will be ___(6)___, too, as these little cars can go only 65 kilometres per hour. If big cars are still used along with the small ___(7)___, two sets of road will be ___(8)___ in the future. Some roads will be used ___(9)___ the big, fast cars, and ___(10)___ roads will be needed for the slower small ones.

　　You are learning large numbers of new 3 from reading. This can help you to have a bigger and richer vocabulary（词汇量）. 4 you read a lot, you will meet with many new words that you would not often use in daily life. Reading often also helps 5 your writing because new words 6 in your compositions.