34、In the West，there can be some abbreviations（缩略词）in some advertisements（广告）of the newspaper．Here's an advertisement for an apartment（公寓套房）．Most of the words in it are abbreviations，for example，Lrg．apt，i．e．（即）Large apartment；Lrg．lvrm，i．e．Large living-room．Now，please read the advertisement carefully，and then fill in each blank with ONE word．

Complete the following sentences according to the passage above．

1．The apartment is on the _________ floor of the building．

2．If you rent（租用）the apartment，do（千万）remember not to bring（带来）any _________ ，like dogs，cats，birds and so on．

3．There is a large living-room and two _________ in the apartment．

4．The location（位置）of the building is very _________ ．

5．If you rent the apartment，you must pay（付）_________ dollars（美元）every month．

33、Experts（专家） say that students usually need eight to ten hours’ sleep at night, but most Chinese parents are usually glad to see their children study late. They will think their children work very hard. But not all parents are happy about this. Once a mother told us that every morning her 10-year-old boy put up one finger with his eyes still closed, begging for one more minute to sleep. Like thousands of students “early birds” in China, he has to get up before six every morning.

A report shows that without a good night’s sleep, students seem to be weaker than they should be. Many students have fallen asleep during class at one time or another. Too much home-work is not the only reason why students stay up late. Some watch TV or play the computer games late into the night.

Experts have said that students should develop good study habits. So some students never study late, they are able to work well in class.

1．How many hours do the students need to sleep at night?

2．Why do many students fall asleep in class?

3．What’s the meaning of “early birds” in the first paragraph?

4．What do the students seem to be if they have not a good night’s sleep?

5．Should the students get up early according to the experts?

32、O. Henry, a famous American writer of short stories, （a）出生于in North Carolina in 1862. O. Henry was a pen name. His real name was William Sydney Porter. When he was a young boy, he did not go to school for （b）______________ he was born in a poor family, but he tried to teach himself everything（c）他需要知道。

   When he was about 20 years old, O. Henry went to Texas. There he tried different jobs. He first worked on a newspaper, and then had a job in a bank. But he got himself into some trouble. Some money went missing from the bank. O. Henry was believed to have stolen it, so he was sent to prison（监狱）. During the three years in prison, （d）he learned to write short stories. After he got out of prison, he went to New York and went on writing.

   He wrote mostly about New York and the life of the poor there. People liked his stories, because almost all of them finished with sudden change. （e）This made the readers surprised.

1．将划线部分（a）译成英语:_______________________________________

2．在（b）的空白处填入适当的词组:_________________________________

3．将划线部分（c）译成英语: ______________________________________

4．将划线部分（d）译成汉语: ______________________________________

5．将划线部分（e）译成汉语: ______________________________________

29、根据图意和所给的提示词写句子，每图一句。

sister not like                                           I play every

1．_______________________            2．________________________

alarm on                                     Tony have

3．______________________           4．________________________

27、My grandparents can be good fun．They are retired，so they don’t work anymore．My grandfather is 68 and my grandmother is 67，but they are not too old to be active．They exercise by playing golf and they go out for meals and to the theater．Sometimes they take me out too．We have a good time．They also go on great holidays．Last year, they went to China and walked along the Great Wall!

Sometimes, my grandparents like to criticize（批评）me．They think that children today have an easy life．Life was very different when they were young and there are many things about my life that they do not understand．They tell me，over and over, how they had to start work at 16．They know that I will go on to university and won’t be getting a job until I am about 22! They also think that I have too many possessions（财产），such as mobile phones and computers．When they were young, they did not have anything like that．What they do not realize is that they cannot compare them with children today．They had the same kinds of things as the rest of people of their age-so do I．It would be very strange if I only had the possessions that they had when they were my age

1．Why do the writer’s grandparents not work anymore?

2．Why do the grandparents think the writer has an easy life?

3．What does the sentence“so do I”in the second paragraph mean?

4．The grandparents are still very active though they are very old，aren’t they’?

5．Do you agree with the grandparents’ idea that children today have an easy life? And Why?

26、Imagine this：A television screen has the size and thickness of a piece of paper．You carry it around in your pocket and take it out when you want to watch a show．Imagine a guitar so tiny that you can’t see it with the human eye，but you can hear sound when its strings（弦）are pulled．

Nanotechnology is the science that deals with doing things in a very small way, and it is being studied and developed all over the world．Many scientists say nanotechnology will produce the next industrial revolution（工业革命）．

Perhaps nanotechnology will have the biggest influence on medical science．Imagine nanobots（纳米机器人）in medicine．Thousands or even millions of tiny machines can he sent into the human body with different tasks．For example，they can be designed（设计）to find and kill cancer cells or viruses（病毒）．Other machines may stay in the human body for ever to help organs（器官）that are not working properly．

When could all of these happen? Scientists believe that most of these are possible in the next 30 years. Thousands of scientists around the world are working on these micro-machines．Nanotechnology is just around the corner．

1．How did the writer introduce the topic（引出话题）of the passage?

2．What is nanotechnology?

3．What does the underlined word they refer to in the third paragraph?

4．What do many scientists think of nanotechnology?

5．Will all the micro-machines be possible in the next 30 years according to scientists?