In these years, computer games have become more and more popular in many cities and towns. A lot of small shops along busy  (46)  have changed into small game houses in order to get more money. These places are always crowded with       (47)  especially young boys.

  In the computer game houses, people  (48)  a lot of money competing（比赛）with the machines. It's  (49)  for one to win a computer, but one can make progress after trying again and again. People have a kind of gambling psychology ( 赌博心理) (50)  they play computer games. The more they  (51) , the more they want to win. For school boys, they have no  (52)  for their lessons. When class is over, they run to the nearby computer game houses. Some of them can get enough  (53)  from their parents. But some of them are not  (54)  enough to get the money. They begin to take away other students' money and  (55)  thieves.

（  ）46. A. rivers        B. streets         C. villages       D. cities

（  ）47. A. person       B. people          C. women       D. girls

（  ）48. A. take          B. win             C. spend                 D. use

（  ）49. A. easy          B. important   C. hard             D. beautiful

（  ）50. A. when        B. before         C. after          D. because

（  ）51. A. hope         B. make           C. do                   D. lose

（  ）52. A. mind    B. secret      C. difference      D. duty

（  ）53. A. food    B. clothes          C. time              D. money

（  ）54. A. lucky         B. angry          C. difficult       D. bad

（  ）55.A. are      B. look like    C. become           D. Like

　　My hobby is playing chess－one of the greatest games in the world. My mum taught me 1 to play when I was seven years old. She 2 me every time for the first year. But then, on my 3 birthday, I won for the first time. Now I am always the winner between us.

　　It takes about a day to learn the rules. 4 if you want to be good, you have to practise for years. You don't need much to play chess－just a chess set and someone to play with. Chess sets 5 be very cheap, or quite expensive. Some people collect chess sets as a hobby, but I 6 to play.

　　There is a chess club in our school. We meet every week to play each other. I am the best 7 in the club, and the captain of the school chess team. This year we 8 the All England Schools' Championship(冠军). I had to go up on stage(台子) in front of the whole school to collect the prize.

　　I'm saving up my money to buy a chess 9 . It's very good for practice. That way I'll 10 have someone to play with, and I'm sure I'll make more progress.

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This was one of the interesting games I liked best when l was a little girl．My sisters and I used to play it for hours at a time．

We had twenty-six small pieces of cardboard．On each of these we had printed a letter of the alphabet（字母表）．Before we started to play，we decided what the game would be about．Let us imagine that we chose to play animals．One of us would then mix up（弄乱）the cards and turn over one of them．If the letter on the card happened to be C，we would try to think，as quickly as possible，of an  animal which began with C，such as cat，cow，camel and so on．The one who first gave the name of the animal received that card．This was done with each of the twenty-six cards．In the end the person who had the most cards won the game．

1．Which of the following drawings is like the cardboard?

2．How many cards do you need to win the game?

A．All．                                B．Half．

C．None．                                    D．More than anyone else has．

3．Why did the writer and her sisters like the game very much?

A．It helped them to know more about animals．

B．It helped them to remember the names of animals．

C．They could learn something while they had a good time．

D．They were working hard at English．