The Reading Club meets in the library after school. We read and talk a___86____ English story books. It is a lot of fun. I tell the o____87___ students about good books. Then, they tell me about their f____88___ books. We also learn about new books and choose what we want to r____89__ next. We can read books alone, or we can listen to recordings of storybooks on CDs. I like l____90____ to stories on CD. I can hear many d___91____ voices and sounds. This h___92____ me speak and understand English.
S____93_____ we read books in pairs. Students in Grade 9 help me read difficult books. They tell me what the words mean and help me understand. This is very h___94____. I like to learn f____95___ the older students.

—How do you  practice  spoken English?

    —By        conversations in pairs with our classmates.

A. making up        B. giving up       C. ending up      D. staying up

What are people wearing in the 21 st century? Scientists believe that in the near future, high—tech（高科技）clothing will make our lives more interesting. Take a look here and see some great inventions.

    Some say Speedo swimsuits helped world champion Michael Phelps move faster in water   1.  This gives clothes many new functions（功能）.

    Now many clothes makers begin to use new fabrics（纺织品）like nanofiber（纳米纤维）. The clothes made from these fabrics can keep away stains（污渍）and creases（皱褶）  2. 

    Clothes makers also use eco—friendly materials in clothing. Most of them come from old clothes. newspapers or even plastic bottles.   3.   Many clothes makers like Li-Ning make clothes from this low-carbon material.

    As the Internet has become part of our life, everyday objects are becoming part of a network.

Clothing is, too. For example, a US company has developed a pair of pants.  4.

    Scientists put sensors（传感器）inside the pants and then connect them to a computer. When people put the pants on, the sensors collect information about the body and send it to the computer.  5.  .

A. People don't have to wash them or iron them frequently.

B. Reusing materials will help us to cut down on carbon emissions（碳排放）.

C. High-tech clothing is made from old clothes, newspapers or even plastic bottles.

D. It can see your movement and “let a computer know your every move”.

E. Today there's more and more technology in clothing.

F. Scientists believer this technology will help us learn more about our bodies.

G. Clothes makers can make more and more money in the future.

The Reading Club meets in the library after school. We read and talk a___86____ English story books. It is a lot of fun. I tell the o____87___ students about good books. Then, they tell me about their f____88___ books. We also learn about new books and choose what we want to r____89__ next. We can read books alone, or we can listen to recordings of storybooks on CDs. I like l____90____ to stories on CD. I can hear many d___91____ voices and sounds. This h___92____ me speak and understand English.

S____93_____ we read books in pairs. Students in Grade 9 help me read difficult books. They tell me what the words mean and help me understand. This is very h___94____. I like to learn f____95___ the older students.

Robots in class

    Over 600,000 children in the United States spend their long time in hospital each year．Many of them say that they have difficult in returning to school after hospital stays．Thanks to technology，kids who are sick in the hospital no longer have to miss time in the classroom．

    A program called PEBBLES makes it possible for kids in hospital to take part in classroom discussions by using robot．PEBBLES(Providing Education by Bringing Environments to Students)supplies robots to help kids who are staying in hospital keep up with their classmates．

    For Achim Nurse，a 13-yers-old patient at Blythedale Children’s Hospital in Valhalla，New York，PEBBLES helped him so much．When he first learned about the program，he wasn’t so sure it would work．    

   “When I first saw it，it looked difficult，”said Achim．

    However，after 30 minutes of working with the robot，Achim discovered that he had gotten good at operating it．

    The robots work in pairs—一one in the hospital with the student，the other in the classroom．

    The robot in the classroom gives the student in the hospital a feel of“tele-presence．”A live picture of the students is shown on a video screen in the classroom．Meanwhile，in the hospital room，the student knows clear about what is going on in the classroom．

    The robot at the school has four wheels．so it can move around from class to class．Its“face” is an auto-focus(可以自动调焦的)camera．By using a control box，the student call turn the robot’s head，raise its hand，and adjust the volume(音量)．It is even equipped with a scanner(扫描器)and printer，so if the teacher want to have an exercise or testing class，the student can participate from the hospital．

   “The robot is greeted by students in the classroom．It is also greeted by the sick student。”said Andrew Summa，national director of the robot project．

根据短文内容完成下面各题。

1．Try to use the phrase underlined in the first paragraph to make a sentence．

2．Guess the Chinese meaning of“keep up with”．

3．The robot is greeted by students in the classroom．It is also greeted by the student in the hospital．(改写为同义句)

4．According to the passage，we can know that____

  A．We can operate this kind of robot easily．   

  B．the student in hospital cannot adjust the volume by using control box．

  C．The teacher wants to have a test in the class now. Although the student in the hospital has this kind of robot，he also cannot participate it．

5．What do you think of the robot project in the United States? Do you think it can help sick students? What do you think are its limitations?