用方框中所给单词的适当形式填空，使短文通顺正确、连贯（每个单词限用一次）。

This week we asked students at New High School about the best ways to learn more English. Many said they learnt by using English. Some students had more   1.  suggestions. Lillian Li, for example, said the best way to learn new words was by reading English magazines. She said that  2.   the words of pop songs also helped a little. When we asked about studying grammar, she said,” I never study grammar. It’s too boring.”

  Wei Ming feels  3.  . He’s been learning English for six years and really love it. He thinks studying grammar is a great way to learn a   4. .He also thinks that watching English movies isn’t a bad way, because he can watch the actors say the words. Sometimes, however, he  5.    watching movies frustrating because the people speak too quickly.

For hundreds of years, the people of a Scottish town believed that a dinosaur-like strange creature(生物) lived in a nearby lake called Loch Ness. Many said they saw the creature, but no one could prove it was real.

In 1934, a London doctor, Robert Kenneth Wilson, gave a newspaper a photo of the strange creature. He took the picture, he said, when he suddenly saw the animal in the lake one morning. The news traveled around the world. People came from everywhere to see this creature, now called the “Loch Ness Monster.” Then, in 1993, a man named Christian Spurning surprised everyone. He said the photo of the “Loch Ness Monster” was a lie. He and some friends created the famous picture themselves, and then Wilson gave it to the newspaper as a practical joke.

Today, tricks and jokes like this are common, and many are spread using e-mails. Some can be funny, but others can cause trouble. In August 2000, an e-mail was sent from a large British supermarket chain(连锁店)---Safeway---to thousands of its shoppers. It said, “Store prices are going to increase 25 percent. If you don’t like this, go to another store.” It was signed(签名), “the Safeway Team.” The e-mail worried many of Safeway’s shoppers and caused big problems for the supermarket. Later, Safeway discovered what happened. Someone broke into the company’s website and sent the cheating e-mail.

Not all tricks are as bad as this one. Some make us laugh, and others surprise us. In the end, they all show us that seeing is not always believing.

1  Who took the photo of the “Loch Ness Monster?”

         A. A Scottish.                     B. Robert Kenneth Wilson.               

       C. Christian Spurning.         D. Nobody.

2   How did the supermarket Safeway get its trouble?

       A. It received an e-mail from a dangerous person.                           

B. Its price would have to increase by 25 percent. 

C. Its website got broken into.

D. It lost a lot of shoppers. 

3  Which of the following is TRUE?

       A. Wilson gave the picture to the newspaper as a joke.

B. A dinosaur-like creature lives in the lake Loch Ness.

C. Most people use e-mails as tricks and jokes to trouble the world.

D. Because of the cheating e-mail the store prices are going to increase.