Boys and girls love watch television. some　　　　　　 (1)______ children spend six hours a day in school and four to six hours a day in the front of a television    (2)_______

set. Some children even watch television at eight hours or more on Saturday. Television　　　　  (3)_______

shows are like books but films. A child can　　　　　　 (4)_______ learn bad things from some of them and good things from other. Some shows help children　　　　　　 (5)_______ to understand the news from the other part of　　　　   (6)_______ the world. Some programs show people and place　　　　  (7)_______ from other countries or other times in history. With television a child does not have to go the　　　　 (8)________ zoo to see animals or to the sea see a ship.　　　　    (9)________ Boys and girls can see a play, a concert or a basketball match in home. Some programs even　　　　   (10)________ teach children how cook or how to use tools.　　　　   (11)________ 　　Television bring many places and events　　　　    (12)________ into the living-rooms of our homes. Some programs are bad for children, so parents sometimes　　　　　　 (13)________ help them to find another interesting　　　　　　　　  (14)________ things. It is fun to watch television, but it is also fun play the violin, to read a book or　　     (15)_______ 

to visit with friends.

Several years ago, a farmer owned some land along the sea. He advertised for workers, but no one wanted to work for him. Most people didn’t want to work there   31  they didn’t like the bad storms. Finally, a   32  man, who looked weak and more than fifty years old, came to see the farmer. “Are you a good farmhand?” the farmer asked him.
“Well, I   33  sleep well when the wind blows.” answered the little man.
Although the answer was strange, the farmer let the man stay to work. The little man worked   34  around the farm, busy from morning till evening. The farmer felt very pleased with his work.
Then one night the wind began to blow strongly. Jumping out of the bed, the farmer   35  into the little man’s room. He shook the little man and cried, “Get up! A   36  is coming!”
The little man said slowly, “No sir, I told you----I can   37  well when the wind blows.”
The farmer was very angry, but he had to hurry outside to get ready for the storm. To his   38  , everything was ready outside.   39  could be blown away.
The farmer   40  what the man meant, so he returned to his bed to sleep while the wind was still blowing.

Global warming is the process of earth’s atmosphere heating up. Over the last 100 years, the average temperature of earth’s atmosphere has gone up 1 Fahrenheit. The weather has not changed exactly the same way in every area of the planet. But scientists think that the rise in average temperature is already affecting the earth’s climate.
Many scientists now believe that global warming is caused by cutting down trees, producing more trash, and polluting the environment which are some of the reasons why the temperature has gone up. Many scientists believe that the biggest causes of global warming are new human technologies that release greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
The greenhouse effect is not new. Certain gases in the atmosphere, like carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide and methane, making it hard for heat energy to go into space. In the past, the climate didn’t change much because nature produced just the right amount of greenhouse gases to deal with it.
Today, most scientists are pretty sure that the rising temperature can’t be blamed on nature. Ever since the industrial revolution in the 1700s, humans have relied on machines for daily life. And many of those machines give off a lot of greenhouse gases. An increase in the release of greenhouse gases from human activities is throwing nature off balance.
The climate is a very complicated thing, but many scientists agree that the rising atmospheric temperature has already damaged the environment. Sheets of ice, called glaciers, are melting in Antarctica and other parts of the globe. As glaciers break off and melt into the oceans, they are adding warm water to the oceans and causing the sea level to rise.
Over the past 100 years, the sea level has risen 6-8 inches around the world. That means land along the coasts is beginning to disappear under water. Bigger and warmer oceans are also adding to other weather problems caused by pollution in the atmosphere. Some places have received more rain, others have had bigger storms and a few areas in the world have experienced unusual droughts.
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Millions of people all over the world spend their holidays travelling. They travel to visit other countries, modern cities and ancient towns. They travel to enjoy these special places, or just to relax. It is always interesting to discover new things and different ways of life, such as by meeting different people, trying different food, and listening to different music.
People who live in the country like to go to big cities. They like to spend their time visiting museums and art galleries, looking at shop windows and dining at restaurants. People who live in the city usually like a quiet holiday by the sea or in the mountains, with nothing to do but walk and bathe in the sun.
Most travellers take a camera with them and take pictures of everything that interests them. Then, perhaps years later, they can look at the photos and be reminded of the happy time they once had.
People often travel by train, by boat or by car. All means of travelling have their advantages and disadvantages and people choose one according to their plans and the places they are going.
If we travel a lot, we will see and discover a lot of things that we could never see or experience at home, though we may read about them in books and newspapers. The best way to study geography is to travel, and the best way to get to know and understand people is to meet them in their own homes.
【小题1】What is interesting to do when people travel?

For photographers lacking training, experience and even the ability to click a shutter button, they produce remarkable pictures．Under the sea, deep in the woods and high in the sky, furry, feathery and leathery-skinned creatures are opening up vistas（远景）by taking cameras where no human can go．
This is the world of animal-borne imagine celebrated last month at a conference sponsored(supported) by the National Geographic Society for the 20th anniversary of its Crittercam, the device that started it all．
Since its debut（首次公开露面）in 1987 on the back of a turtle, the Crittercam and similar devices developed by others have grown smaller and more powerful．
“It’s more than just a camera now,” said Greg Marshall, the marine biologist and now filmmaker who invented the Crittercam．“We are now including more instruments to gather more data while at the same time reducing everything in size．”
The idea of attaching video cameras to animals came to Mr．Marshall in 1986 on a dive off Belize when a shark apporached him．When the animal quickly turned away, he noticed a shark with a sucker fish on its belly．He came up with the idea that putting a camera in place of the sucker fish would allow people to witness the shark’s behavior without disturbing it．
Crittercams have been attached to sharks, sea lions and other marine animals, and, more recently, to land animals．
Birds are a new addition, Mr．Marshall said．Dr．Christian Rutz of Oxford recently reported on tiny cameras called feathercams that monitor the crows in the South Pacific．It has discovered that crows are smarter than anyone knew they not only use twigs（嫩枝）and grass stems as tools to root out food, but they also save their favorite tools to use again．
Tracey L．Rogers, director of the Australian Marine Mammal Research Center in Sydney, said crittercam was a powerful tool in her work with leopard seals（豹斑海豹）in Antarctica．“In studying animals,” Dr．Rogers said at the meeting, “you want to see how our animal models align（与……一致）with reality．With a camera, you actually see what they do．You don’t have to guess．”
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