1 . 阅读短文，根据语篇要求填空，使短文通顺、意思完整。每空限填一词。

During the break, Ken was     1     games on his mobile phone. Some classmates were standing around him and talking. “It seems that people now can’t live     2     mobile phones. What will the mobile phone be     3     in the future?” One of them suddenly asked. “I think it will be as thin as paper. And we can charge it by putting it in the sun,” Andy said first. Kelly     4     with Andy. She said, “Yes, it is really possible. In the future, people may leave the Earth and live on other planets. It will be very far, but we can still talk on the mobile phone.     5     do you think? Millie?” “Well, I don’t know. Maybe it will be able to do everything.” Millie answered. “No matter what it will be like, I believe it will become better and better.”

2 . 阅读短文，然后用短文括号中所给词的适当形式填空。

When my grandparents were young, they     1     (write) letters to keep in touch with others. They     2     (use) pens and paper. Their letters were sent by post and it took several days     3     (reach) people. While they were waiting for the reply, they might feel     4     (worry).

Today we write emails     5     (keep) in touch with our     6     (friend). Our emails can reach others in a second and     7     (our) can get a reply in a short     8     (time). We do not use paper     9     (write) emails, so we can save many     10     (tree) and protect the environment.

3 . Do you w    1    your own blog(博客)? Do you often r    2    others’ blogs on the Internet?

All     3    the world, not only famous people but also many students use b    4    to share their e    5    and ask for advice or help. “It’s a good way to     6    my life to the world,” a student says. She has had her blog f    7     eight months. Students like     8    (write)blogs. O    9    you start to write your blog, you will find that you o    10    up a new world. But what you write down may trouble you sometimes. So, use the blog carefully so that you can keep yourself away from some trouble. The blog makes everybody’s life colorful.

6 . 根据短文内容及所给提示，在文中的空白处写出单词的正确形式。

It was reported about ten years ago that mobile phones would be the cigarettes of the     1     (twenty-one) century. That is TRUE! It     2     (seem) that the use of mobile phones for some people is almost as addictive(上瘾的)     3     cigarettes. Many users keep them     4     (work) for hours a day. Many. people use them not only     5     (talk) with people, send and receive messages, but also to play games, take photos or even get on the Internet to read news. They say they can’t live     6     them. But this is not a small thing. In fact too much use of mobile phones may cause     7     (ill), and many people have got headache by u    8     mobile phones too much. Now in other     9     (country), mobile phones carry a health warning on the back just like w    10     cigarettes packets do.

7 . The Internet makes our lives     1     (much) interesting. We can get all kinds of information on the     2     [ˈɪntənet] and share it     3     others. We can make friends and share our ideas and     4     (feel) with each other by sending emails or     5     (chat) online. We can     6     do shopping, study, listen to music and watch movies. This helps make life     7     (easy).

However, the Internet is not perfect, we should use it     8     (safe). Everyone can post information, and not all of it is true. Some people use the Internet     9     hurt others and try to get money by cheating. Some young people usually spend too     10     time playing games and so on.

8 . 根据短文内容及所给提示,   在文中的空白处填写一个正确的单词。

Years ago, if a teenager had some problems in their life, they would write t    1     in a diary. Now a teenager might go online and write their daily life and     2     (feel) in a blog. In many ways, a diary and a blog are almost the s    3    . They both tell what happened to the writer that day. So what makes a blog different     4     a diary?

The     5     (big) difference is that a blog is much more popular than a diary. People like to write in blogs     6     they know their friends will read what they write. If my sister writes in her blog “Nobody     7    (care) about me”, her best friends     8    (read) quickly and tell her how     9    (much) they like her. Blogs help people stay in touch with their friends and know what people     10     (round) them are doing.

9 . What will happen if a family without the Internet for a month? One American family decides to find out. They have sent invitation to a leading US television station, expecting that it will send a film group to record their day-to -day life     1     technology for a month.

When the film group meet     2     Smiths, they find that Mr. Smith, Mrs. Smith and their two sons are so crazy about technology that     3     hardly do things together. At mealtimes, no one     4     at the dining table for their food. ＂Everyone just runs into the kitchen, takes their food and then goes back to their screen,＂ Mrs. Smith explains. ＂     5     we don’t make a change, our family will become strangers to each other!＂

Getting back to the normal life without the Internet is not     6    , especially when the Smiths lose themselves in it. They have to make many     7    . For example, the two brothers have to go to the school     8     to borrow books for their scientific projects, and Mr. and Mrs. Smith need to go out shopping because they cannot buy things     9    . As the family has picked up the new lifestyle, they find that they can spend more time taking over meals, playing sports and doing all     10     of activities together.

Would they be able to go for long without using the Internet after the challenge?

10 . 综合填空
Reading newspapers has becoming an important p______1 of our everyday life. Many people read newspapers a______2 the first thing to do in the morning, others read newspapers as soon as they are free during the day so that they can learn what is h______3 in the world.
Sometimes, however, we do not have e______4 time to read all the news carefully, so we just take a quick look at the front page, at other times, we may be in such a h______5 that we only have a few minutes to look at the names of the passages.
Newspapers can be found everywhere in the world. We can get many different kinds of newspapers in the big cities, of course, but in some of the mountain v______6 we can see few newspapers.
Some newspapers are published o______7 a week, but most of the newspapers are published once a day with many pages, some even published twice a day! As you know different people e______8 reading different newspapers, some like sports news, some like economic news and others prefer short stories. They just choose what they are i______ 9 in.
Today newspapers in English have the l______ 10 number of readers in the world.