How do students spend their spare time after finishing their homework? Watch TV, play computer games, or go outside to relax? Here’s a good example.
Tim and Kerry Meek are both teachers. They live in the UK with their two daughters: eleven-year-old Amy and nine-year-old Ella. Recently, the Meek family has become the focus of the whole country after they completed 100 different outdoor activities in one year.
The Meek couple didn’t want their children to spend all their free time in front of the TV and become “couch potatoes”. So about one year ago, the Meeks decided that watching TV and playing computer games were not permitted . Instead, they set 100 tasks for the two girls to do outside. Although Mr. and Mrs. Meek are not outdoor activity fans, they took part in all the activities to encourage their daughters. It turns out that the two sisters really had a good time joining activities.
Every holiday and weekend, whether it’s sunny, rainy or snowy, the Meeks’ would set off to try the activities on their list, including hiking, sailing, climbing , skiing, and so on. The two little girls not only had a wonderful time, but also learned a lot of skills from the activities. They were even able to stand up in front of their school to give a talk for charity. “Our friends spend a lot of their free time doing things which are harmful to their health. Luckily, we’ve had the chance to experience something different.” Amy and Ella also helped their parents to draw up a new list of challenges for the next 12 months.
【小题1】请用中文出现的词语将下列句子补充完整，使句子意思连贯。
As a student, you should do more outdoor exercises in order not to__________________.
【小题2】Why did the Meeks become the focus of the UK?
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【小题3】When did the Meeks go out to do the activities?
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【小题4】请将稳中划线句子翻译成汉语。
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【小题5】Please tell us what you have learned from this passage with two sentences in your own words.
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根据中文意思补全单词。(10分)

Joe and Tony were___1.___（都）twenty years old. They studied in a medical college. In June, after a school year was over, they decided to travel in the country. They went to some_2.___（城镇）and  villages, and visited some places of interest, saw and heard a lot of ____3._____（有趣的）things. They enjoyed  ____4.___ （他们）there.

One afternoon they felt too hot to go ____5._____（任何地方）. How they wished they could find a river and jump in the___6.___（凉爽的）  water. They were driving the car__7._  (慢地)when they were looking around. Suddenly Joe saw a lake not far away. They____8._   （停）the car beside  the lake, looked around, and found a man who was sitting on a stone  fishing there. They took off  their clothes and _9.____(跳)into the water. Just  at that time, the man came up to them and shouted, "Sorry, swimming is not allowed  in the lake!"

   "Why didn’t you tell us about it __10.____(在...之前)we took off our clothes?" Tony said angrily.

   "But it isn’t forbidden(禁止) to take off clothes  beside  the lake," said the man. 

It was reported today that in China, 56% of people who write blogs(博客) do so as a personal diary and 83% use their blogs for sending messages to friends. It was also found that there is a strong East- West difference. In places like the US, blogs that offer information on news attract more readers but in China, blogs are more likely to be about sharing personal feelings.
It seems that bloggers can be divided into three types: IT bloggers, bloggers who record their ordinary feelings and media（媒体） bloggers.
When blogging first started, the IT people had the technological advantage and they took the chance to put their thoughts on the web. Some of these IT people now have had over a million people read their blogs.
The next wave of bloggers did not have any training as writers or in IT and wrote about normal daily life. Media bloggers, however, are trained writers, such as journalists and editors. When the many media bloggers showed up, the everyday bloggers lost most of their readers. Media bloggers have the advantage of knowing how to communicate well through the written words.
However, the normal bloggers are still out there and increasing in number. It seems that blogging is the new way to express your feelings. People feel like the world is listening to, or rather reading, their problems, even if they are not.
【小题1】 From the passage we know that________.

1.In News 1, we know Huang Heshan has helped Yang Kangshao for _____.

    A. eighteen years       B. eighty years C. eight months 　　D. eight years

2.We should _____ if we want to have a nice field trip in Ren Min Park.

A. throw the rubbish                　　B. find some waste bags

C. plant more trees             　　　　D. help keep the environment clean

3.To lead a healthy life, over four thousand people _____ on March 25.

A. cleaned the park             　　　　B. signed their names on the wall

C. ran about 4.7 kilometers     　　　　D. started to help disabled people

4.According to the news, we can know something happened in _____.

     A. Beijing     　B. Taizhou        　　C. Guangzhou        D. Shanghai

5.We may know the news above from _____.

     A. a newspaper 　B. a book     　　C. a magazine   　　D. a poster

When a light passenger plane flew off course[跑道] some time ago, something was wrong with it and it crashed[坠毁] in the mountains and its pilot was killed. The only passengers, a young woman and her two baby daughters, were unhurt. It was the middle of winter. Snow lay thick on the ground. The woman knew that the nearest village was kilometers away. She couldn’t find anything in the snow but a suit-case[行李箱]. When it grew dark, she turned the suit-case into a bed and put the children inside it, covering[盖] them with all the clothes she could find. During the night, it got terribly cold. The woman kept as near as she could to the children and even tried to get into the case herself, but it was too small. Early next morning, she heard planes flying above and wanted to know how she could send a signal[信号Then she had an idea. She wrote the letters ‘SOS’ in the snow. Luckily, a pilot saw the signal and sent a message by radio to the nearest town. It was not long before a group of people arrived and they took the woman and her daughters to hospital at once.
【小题1】Where was something wrong with the plane?
【小题2】How many people were in the light passenger plane before it crashed?
【小题3】What did the woman make the suit-case into a bed for?
【小题4】What did the woman do to ask for help?
【小题5】Were the woman and her children saved?