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在今年的"地球一小时(Earth Hour) "活动中,中国很多城市的人们都自觉熄灯一小时,体现了低碳生活的新理念.假定你是CCTV9 的记者,请你根据以下信息用英语写一篇 90个词左右的新闻稿.文章开头已给出，不计入总词数。

	2007年	3月31日，悉尼率先行动 超过220万户家庭与商户在晚上7:30--8:30同时熄灯
	2008年	3月29日，成为全球性的活动（global activity） 得到35个国家五千万人的支持
	2009年	3月28日，88个国家2100多个城市参加 “地球一小时”来到中国
	2012年	中国很多城市的人们自觉熄灯一小时
活动目的	节约能源, 改善气候
有意义地度过一小时	与家人共进烛光晚餐 与朋友一起分享故事 你的建议（1-2条）

 
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请认真阅读下面短文，在短文后表格中的空白处填入适当的单词(注意：每空1个单词)。
Future and Today
It is well known that everyone has his own dream as well as his own future. But do you know what future really is ? I have to say that future is now. That is to say we must treasure every minute now. If we want to have a bright future, we should know how important time is and use it well.
There is an old English saying: “Gain time, gain life.” Then what’s time? Time is something that we can’t see or touch, but we can feel it passing by. Time is always with us. When we are at table, time passes; when we play, time goes by unnoticeable. We always say “Time is money”, but time is even more precious(珍贵的)than money, because when money is spent , we can earn it back. But if time is gone away, it will never return. So, some of us even say time is priceless(无价的).
We should always remember: future is now. For us students, we should try our best to work hard in order to create a great future of our own. We should make the best use of every hour and be the master of today.We should do everything before us as well as possible. And never put off what can be done today till tomorrow.
As we all know , “Time and tide wait for no man.” If you waste today, you will regret tomorrow. So from now on, work hard. Tomorrow will be better, and your future will be brighter .Remember: “No pains, no gains.” Today’s hard work is the cause of tomorrow’s harvest.
Title: Future and Today

Opinions	Supporting details
Future is now.	Everyone has his own dream as well as his own future. If we want to have a bright future, we should know the 【小题1】          of time and make every minute【小题2】          .
【小题3】      is priceless.	Time is money, but time is even more valuable than money, because when money is spent , we can earn it back. But 【小题4】        time will return no more.
Be masters of today	Today’s hard work【小题5】       to tomorrow’s harvest. As students, we should never put off what can be done today till tomorrow and we should try our【小题6】      to do everything well.

Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the nine o’clock Mystery Hour. Today we’ll show you two British stories. We hope you’ll enjoy them.
About 900 years ago two green children arrived in a small village in south England. Their eyes and skin were green and they spoke a strange language. They were very tired and weak, so the people of the village looked after them. The boy died a year later, but the girl grew strong and lived the rest of her life there. And her skin colour turned back to normal day by day. Scientists say that sometimes of people don’t have enough food to eat for a long time, their skin goes very pale and can even turn green.
Loch Ness is the largest lake in Scotland. It’s a very deep and cold lake. For hundreds of years, people have talked about a monster(怪物) called Nessie which lives in the lake. About seventy years ago, two people saw something moving in the lake. They said that the animal was playing and rolling around in the water. Since then many people say they have seen the monster. Their descriptions are always the same. It looks like a dinosaur, with a very long neck and a small head. It has a big bump(包，肿块)on its back. People have tried to photograph the animal, but the pictures have not been very clear. Scientists don’t know whether there is a monster or not. Some say it may be a whale or a very large fish. Some think it’s a snake. Others say there’s nothing at all— nothing but people’s imagination. Maybe we’ll never know what’s in Loch Ness.
【小题1】What kind of story is talked about in this programme?

A．Romantic stories.

B．Mysteries.

C．Horror stories.

D．Comedies.

【小题2】Which sentence is TRUE about the two green children?

A．They both enjoyed a long and happy life.

B．The girl’s eyes and skin were green all her life.

C．At first they spoke the same language as people in the small village did.

D．Maybe they hadn’t eaten enough for long before they reached the village.

【小题3】What does Nessie look like according to some witnesses? 

【小题4】What can we learn from the second story?

A．Scientists are still not sure whether there is a monster or not in Loch Ness.

B．Loch Ness is very deep and warm lake in Scotland.

C．People have taken very clear pictures of Nessie.

D．In fact Nessie is a whale or a snake.

Louis Braille was born in Coupvray, France. He was a very small child. Unluckily, at the age of four, he became blind by accident. Louis began attending school in his town when he was seven years old.
Three years later, Louis and his father traveled to Paris. There, he went to a school for blind children. One day a French soldier, Charles Barbier, visited the school. Barbier invented a system of night-reading. This system used small dots for the letters. Soldiers used this system in time of war. Barbier thought this system could help the blind to read.
Soon Braille discovered that there were some shortcoming (缺点) in Barbier’s system, but it gave Louis a brilliant idea. He improved Barbier’s system. By the age of fifteen, his new system was completed! Now he wanted blind schools to try his system. Luck went against him again. The school refused to use his system. Louis died in 1852 in Paris at the age of forty-three.
Two years after he died, the blind schools began to use his system. Today we call this system Braille in honour of Louis Braille. His system is used for all languages, and for maths, science, writing, music, and computers for the blind.

Louis Braille
Time	Place	Events
in 【小题1】	in Coupvray	was born
at the age of four	/	became 【小题2】
at the age of seven	in 【小题3】	started school
at the age of【小题4】	in Paris	studied in a school for blind children
by the age of 15	/	completed his new system
in 1852	in Paris	【小题5】

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A．celebrate    B．presents    C．hospital    D．birthday   E．holiday F．Christmas   G．tell        H．love       I．give       J．was born

Why do people 1．________ Christmas? In western countries, it is the biggest 2．________ of the year. People enjoy parties, decorations, music and fun. When many people think of Christmas, they think of Santa Claus, Christmas trees, and 3．_shen_______. But Christmas is much more than that. It celebrates a very special person’s 4．________.
A long time ago, a baby boy 5．________. His name was Jesus. He wasn’t born in a nice 6．________. He was born in a stable（马槽）! Jesus was a special baby. He came to the world to bring 7．________, peace and joy. He came to 8．________ people about God. At his birth, angels sang. Later, wise men brought him gifts. Today we 9．________ gifts to each other at 10．________ because of the wise men.