阅读下面短文，根据短文内容回答下列各题。把答案写在每小题后横线上。

    The computer is a useful machine．It can help people a lot in their daily life．For example，it can help people to save much time to do much work，and it can help people to work out complicated (复杂的) problems that people cant do easily．What’s more，it makes more convenient (方便) to send and receive messages．In the new century，it seems that it’s very necessary for everyone to learn how to use computers，even for the old people．The computer is really an important tool in modern life．

    Today more and more families have computers．Parents buy computers for their  children．They hope computers can help their children improve their study at sch001．Yet，many of their children use computers to play games，to watch videos，Of sing karaoke，instead of studying．So，many teachers and parents complain that computers cannot help children to study but instead to make them fall behind，Because of this，computers are locked in boxes by parents．

     In some other countries，even some scientists hate computers．They say computers cause millions of people to lose their jobs or cause them a lot of trouble．

     Who knows what the computers of tomorrow will be like? Will they really make life better，or will they bring trouble to people? The students today will have to decide how to use the computers of tomorrow．

Answer the questions(根据短文内容回答下列问题，每题所填内容不超过五个单词)：

1．Why does the writer say the computer is a useful machine?

Because it__________________________________________________________．

2．Why do the parents buy their children computers?

They think computers can help their children_____________________________________．

3．What do some parents and teachers complain about?

Computers_________________________________________．

4．Do computers only make our life better?

No，they also cause_________________________________________．

5．Can computers really help children to study?

    _______________________________________________________．

阅读下面的短文，用括号内所给动词的适当形式填空，必要时可加助动词。请将答案填写在文后相应的横线上。

The story happened during the Second World War. A 70 – year – old man lived in a small town of Germany. His three sons all worked in the same factory where he   1  (work). After the war had begun, all his sons   2  (make) to join the army and they all died in the fights.

The old man was very sad. In the days that   3   (follow), he didn’t have enough food and was often hungry. And nobody helped him and he didn’t know how to go on   4  (live). It was becoming colder and colder.   5   (find) a way out, he had to beg from door to door. He had been to a lot of places and knew a lot.

Once he came to a village, but the villagers were all poor and couldn’t give him anything. He was too hungry   6   (go) to another village. Suddenly he saw a policeman   7   (stand) in the street and an idea came to his mind. He then shouted out, “Hitler is a pig!”

As he hoped, the old man was now enjoying some bread and a cup of hot tea   8  （give） by the policeman. “Don’t say so in our village, sir!” the policeman said after a while, “I’m sorry, sir,” said the old man, “I   9   (not say) that again. I didn’t know it   10  (be) Hitler’s hometown.” “No, no, sir,” the policeman said in a hurry, “It’s a pig’s hometown.”