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I am Sue Smith. I w____1____ in a hotel in London. It is n __2_______Central Station. I go to work b    3      car every day.

My hotel is v   4  big. There is a beautiful(美丽的) g   5      in front of the building. There are seventy r    6      in the hotel building, and three restaurants(餐馆) and five bars(酒吧). B     7       the building there is a swimming pool. It is o      8    every day. In s___9____ there are always a lot of people swimming in the pool.

I love my work. And I love my h    10     , too.

Kite surfing as a water sport began in the 1980s, but didn’t get popular until the end of last century. It is also known as kite boarding, and in some European countries as fly surfing. Kite surfing works through wind power (动力) by using a large kite to pull a rider on the water at high speed.
At first, kite surfing was a difficult and dangerous sport. Now it is becoming easier and safer because of the safer kite design. For an able and strong person, kite surfing can be a very fun, extremely exciting sport, just like skating on the water with a feeling of flying. It has become more and more popular.
Compared with other water sports, kite surfing is easier to learn. A beginner can understand how to operate the kite with 5--10 hours of training. And anybody aged from 13 to 65 can learn. It is not expensive to get the equipment for kite surfing, which costs $1,000 to 82,500. Training lessons range from $200 to $500 for two or three hours. With the development of its equipment progress, kite surfing is becoming even safer. After some training, you can enjoy its excitement and challenging feeling.
With the rising popularity of kite surfing, most major seaside cities have kite surfing clubs. In China, Xiamen is the only place that has the kite surfing club, which provides professional kite surfing training and equipments.
【小题1】Kite surfing has a history of about ___________ years.

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The weekend is usually a time of rest. B  1  today’s Chinese students cannot rest during the weekends. According to a survey(据调查), 24% of the junior students in Beijing have classes at the weekend. Over 40% of the Junior 3 have less t  2  eight hours’ sleep each night because o  3  too much study. Ji Ping, a junior student in Guangzhou, h  4  to get up at 6:30 am on Saturday. Then she has a whole day of classes. On Sunday she goes to extra classes for math and English. But she doesn’t complain(抱怨). She says that a 5 her classmates work hard on Sunday. Liu Yang is from Dalian. As a Junior 2 student, his weekends are less busy. But he also spends Saturday in school. On Sunday, after d 6    homework, he plays basketball. He feels happy b  7  he still has time to do the things he likes. A few students are a little luckier. Yang Qing, a Junior 3 student from Zibo, Shandong, is o  8  of them. And she is a top student. During the weekends, she usually gets up at 8:00. Then she s 9  some time doing homework. After that she is free to go shopping or watch TV. “Don’t push yourself too much. Learning well at school is e 10  ,” she said.

—How do you spell trousers?

—It’s t-r-u-s-e-r-s.

—No, it isn’t right. There is ______ o after r. It’s t-r-o-u-s-e-r-s.

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