Tom walked away from the school. He was _______ to become a criminal(罪犯), never to return. He was a _______ boy and nobody loved him. He met his best friend, Joe Harper. Joe was looking for Tom for the same _______, Joe’s mother had beaten him. But Joe hadn’t done anything _______. She was tired of him and she wanted him to _______. The two boys began to make their plans for starting a life of crime and becoming pirates(海盗).

Five kilometers south of St Petersburg was a lonely island called Jackson’s Island. They decided to go there. They looked for Huckleberry Finn, _______ he joined them immediately. They met at a place on the river bank three kilometers from the village _______. Each brought whatever they could steal like _______ criminals. And then they _______ on the raft. At about two o’clock in the morning, they landed on Jackson’s Island, and carried their things onto the shore. They decided to eat and sleep ________, because that was what criminals did.

“It’s ________ the life for me,” said Tom. “You don’t have to get up in the mornings and go to school, and wash, and all those foolish things. A pirate doesn’t have to do ________.”

Huck said: “What do pirates do?”

“Oh, they take ________ and burn them. They get money and bury it in places where there are ghosts to watch it. And kill everybody on the ships.” said Tom.

Slowly their talk stopped; they felt ________. Huck slept easily. ________, Tom and Joe had more difficulty getting to sleep. They began to fear that it was wrong to run away and steal.

—taken from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

“How are you?” is a nice question. It’s a friendly way that people in the United States greet each other. But “How are you?” is also a very unusual question. It’s a question that often doesn’t need an answer. The person who asks “How are you?” hopes to hear the answer “Fine.” even if the person’s friend isn’t fine. The reason is that, “How are you?” isn’t really a question and “Fine.” isn’t really an answer. They are simply other ways of saying “Hello” or “Hi”.

Sometimes, people don’t say exactly what they mean. For example, when someone asks, “Do you agree?”, the other person might think, “No, I disagree. I think you’re wrong”. But it isn’t very polite to disagree so strongly, so the other person might say “I’m not sure”. It’s a more polite way to say that you don’t agree with someone.

People also don’t say exactly what they are thinking when they finish talking with other people. For example, many talks over the phone finish when one person says “I have to go now”. Often, the person who wants to hang up gives an excuse like “someone’s at the door” or “something is burning on the stove”. The excuses might be real, or not. Perhaps the person who wants to hang up simply doesn’t want to talk any more, but it isn’t polite to say that. The excuse is more polite, and it doesn’t hurt anyone’s feelings.

Whether they are greeting each other, talking about an idea, or finishing a talk, people don’t say exactly what they are thinking. It’s an important way that people try to be polite to each other, and it is part of the game of language.

When US student Olivia woke up one morning, she thought she had had a dream about making plans with a friend.

But it wasn’t a dream. Her phone showed that during the night, Olivia had read a text message from her friend. She did it while she was fast asleep.

Reading and sending text messages while asleep-called “sleep texting”-is an unusual sleep behavior, similar to sleepwalking. It’s also growing anxiety among doctors: young people can’t live without their cell phones.

One in three teenagers sends more than 100 text messages a day, according to the Pew Internet& American Life Project. And at least four out of five teenagers said they sleep with their phones on or near their bed.

Elizabeth Dowdell, a professor at Villanova University, has studied sleeping texting. She said that having a phone nearby all night is a big part of the problem.

Andrew, a sleep medicine expert, agrees. It’s possible for the part of the brain that controls motor skills (运动技能) to wake up, while the part of the brain that controls memory and judgment may be still asleep. That’s why some people can perform basic movements-such as walking, talking, texting or even driving-while they’re sleeping. Some of Dowdell’s students said that they’re disturbed by their nighttime texting behavior. But because sleep texting is unconscious, it’s a difficult habit to break. Dowdell said she knew some students who wore socks on their hands to keep themselves from texting.

Marjorie Hogan, a doctor at Hennepin County Medical Center suggests keeping all electronic devices (电子设备) outside the bedroom at certain times.

101. 同学们，全市人民共创文明城，让人点赞的行为随处可见，作为中学生的我们也做出了自己的努力，请根据提示，写一篇短文。

All the people in Yangzhou have worked together to create the civilized city. This good behavior can be seen everywhere. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________