1. How many _________(图书馆) are there in your city?
2. My mother works with people and money, so she works in a b _________.
3. His uncle can _________(说) two languages, English and French.
4. The elephant from Africa is pretty big, but very f_________ to people.
5. She needs an English-Chinese d_________.
6. She really _________(享受…的乐趣) her trip to the Great Wall.
7. To be d policeman is the most d_________ job.
8. The weather today is pretty _________(雨天的).
9. Jenny, please write and tell me about y_________. Don't talk about others.
10. It's cold in winter and hot in s_________ in Beijing.

1. What's that _____ English?    
2. Please call his uncle _____ 656
    -4869.    
3. We want four English teachers _____ our new school.    
4. Thanks _____your letter.    
5. Here is a photo _____ Nick's family.    
6. Can you take these pens_____ his uncle?    
7. Mary has lots _____ friends in Shanghai.    
8. My grandfather usually has hamburgers_____ breakfast.    
9. The price _____ the hat is two dollars.
10. We sell pants _____ only fifteen dollars.

1. 他叔叔是十八岁那年参的军。
    His uncle joined the army ______ ______ ______ ______ 18.
2. 他们相互之间再也不吵架了。
    They ______ quarrel with each other ______.
3. 他跑得那么快我追不上他。
    He runs so fast that I can't ______ ______ _____ him.
4. 我从来没有看过这么一场令人兴奋的球赛。
    I have never watched ______ ______ _____ football match.
5. 他说他第一次来大连就喜欢上这座城市了。
    He said that ______ _____ ______ he came to Dalian, he liked the city.

     Each year Ben is glad when school is closed on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Ben knows that this day
honors an important man, but Ben does not feel connected to him. However, the small-world theory (理论)
connects Ben to Dr. King. Ben's mom (0) has a close friend, Amy (1). Amy's uncle, Mark (2), once met and
spoke to John Carter (3), the son of President Jimmy Carter (4). Jimmy Carter knew Dr. King (5). In a way,
Ben is only "five people a-way" from Martin Luther King Jr.
     The small-world theory says that everyone in the world is connected through a short chain (链条) of
people they know. Another name of this chain is degrees of separation. Each degree is a step that separates
a person from someone he or she does not know. There are zero degrees of separation between a person
and the people he or she knows directly. This means that there are zero degrees between Ben and his mom.
There is one degree of separation when just one person separates someone from a person he or she does not
know. Ben knows his mom, but he hasn't met her close friend Amy. Therefore, Ben is one degree away from
Amy. As the chain continues. Amy's uncle, Mark, is two degrees. John Carter is three degrees, and his father
is four degrees. Dr. King is five degrees away from Ben. The theory says that there are no more than six
degrees of separation between any two people in the world.
     The small-world theory has a lot to do with math. The theory assumes (假定) that each per-son knows
100 people. Each one of those 100 people knows 50 different people. Each of those 50 people knows another
50 people, and so on. When someone continues the calculation' to six degrees, it is like this: 100 × 50 × 50 ×
50 × 50 × 50 = 31.25 × 109. This number is greater than 31 billion (a billion=a thousand million). There are
over 6 billion people in the world. These numbers show it is possible that six degrees of separation could
include everyone in the world.
     Does the small-world theory work? No one has ever proved it. Maybe the theory just invites people to
think a little more about their places in the world.

1. Ben is two degrees away from ______.

A. Jimmy Carter
B. John Carter
C. Amy
D. Mark

2. What is the meaning of "degrees of separation" in Paragraph 2?

A. The chain to connect people.
B. The relations between people.
C. The steps of knowing strangers.
D.The separation between strangers.

3. What is the small-world theory mainly about?

A. How far Ben is away from Dr. King.
B. How many people one can get to know.
C. How people are connected in the world.
D. How the degrees of separation are set up.

4. We can learn from the article that ______.

A. the small-world theory works
B. more research is needed to prove the theory
C. six degrees are needed to know the strangers
D. the writer's purpose is to help people find out their places