Mr. Green works at the airport. Here is some information on the departures board（出发航班告示板）:

We all know the computer is very important（重要的）to people. But what can people use it to do?

Students can study on the computer. With the computer, they can search for information（搜索信息）about their lessons. And they may find the answers to their questions. Even they may do their homework on it or send e-mails to their teacher for help.

People in the office use the computer to work. They may have a meeting（会议）on the computer. Their boss can give them work on the computer, too. Now many people have to work on the computer every day.

The computer is used for shopping. More and more people like shopping online. They buy books, clothes, food and many other things on the Internet. Shopping online is easy. It can help people save（节省）, too.

People can use the computer for fun. Many of them love playing computer games. And they may listen to music and watch movies, TV shows to relax. Also, people may talk to their friends on the Internet.

The computer really helps people a lot, but it has some problems（问题）, too.

Sam is the only child in his family. His parents like him very much and they always buy fun things for him.

On his fifth birthday, he gets a drum from his mother.     16     In the day, when his parents go to work, he plays the drum at home. In the evening, he plays for them.     17    

Mr. Black is their neighbor (邻居).     18     When he comes home, he really wants to sleep in the day. But he can’t sleep well because Sam always plays his drum.

One morning, he goes to Sam’s home and says, “    19     Do you want to get it?”

“Yes, I do.” Sam is happy.

“OK.     20    ” Mr. Black gives him a knife (刀).

Hello, I’m Peter. I’m thirteen. I’m a _______ in a middle school. I have a _______ family. Five people are in my family. They are my _______, my sister, my brother and I.

You can _______ an interesting thing in my family. What is it? It’s our birthdays. My sister, my brother and I all have our birthdays in _______—my sister’s birthday is on April 24th, my birthday is on April 4th, and my brother’s birthday is on April 16th. It is _______, isn’t it? April is our favorite _______ because we have three birthday parties in this month. And we can _______ some birthday gifts, too.

We all like sports, and our favorite sport is _______. On weekends, we often play it _______ our friends. We are really happy.

My name is Li lin. I’m a student from a small village in Sichuan province,     31    （Chinese）. Students in our school begin to have classes at ten in the morning, because most of     32    （we）live very far from our school. Every day my sister and I leave home for school at half     33     six. There is a long way from our home to school, about ten     34    （kilometer）. It usually takes us about three hours     35    （walk）to school. At nine thirty, we get to school. After school, we also need     36    （go）home on foot. We talk and sing, so it is     37    （interest）on the way home.

We do our homework first     38     we get home. In the evening, we play games and talk with our parents. There is no TV set or computer in our house, so we     39     （not watch）TV or play computer games. At 9:30, we go to bed.

Many people say we don’t have     40     good life, but we are happy. We love our life in the village.