2 . Ice-cream is a frozen dessert. It is usually made from dairy products, such as milk and cream. Most kids like eating this kind of dessert. Do you know _________ first ate it?

Chinese people first ate it many years ago. They _________ orange juice on ice. Later, this _________ was spread (传播) to Italy. Nero, the king of Rome between 54 and 68 AD, _________ to eat ice-cream between violin lessons. He told his men to run to the mountains to get _________. The runners ran back to the palace as _________ as they could. The snow was mixed with fruit and nuts.

Around 1660, coffee shops began to sell ice-cream. Then ice-cream was very _________ in Paris. Most of the _________ shops were owned by Italians. The first successful one was opened by a man from Italy with the name Francesco Procopio.

In the early 1700s, _________ started to make ice-cream, George Washington had ice-cream machines in his kitchen. It could make __________ ice-cream in a short time. Today in the US, ice-cream is not only a food, but also a way of life.

3 . Scene 1

The captain of Troy is standing on the high wall of the city. He is looking down at the empty sea.

Captain: The Greeks have gone and we’ve won. They’ve given up and sailed away.

(A soldier enters.)

Soldier: Captain, Captain, look over there. They’ve left a huge wooden horse.

Captain: Ah, yes. They didn’t want to take it with them. Get some help and pull it into the city. That won’t difficult. It’s on wheels.

Soldier: Yes, Sir!

(The soldier leaves.)

Scene 2

All the Trojans celebrate in the main square, by the wooden horse.

Captain: I haven’t laughed like this since my childhood!

Man: The Greeks are so stupid! Ha! Ha!

Scene 3

The party is over. The Trojans lock all the gates of the city and then go to sleep. Greek soldiers talk in the horse.

Greek soldier A: All the Trojans have fallen asleep. Let’s climb out and open the main gates!

Greek soldier B: Come on! Our army is waiting outside the city.

The Greek soldiers climb out of the horse quietly and then open the main gates. The Greek army enter the city.

4 . The Silk Road is the name of different roads that long ago connected Europe, Africa and Asia. People reached these different places along these roads. Scientists believe people began to travel the Silk Road about 3000 years ago. By the time the Chinese silk trade became important in the world, the Silk Road covered almost 6500 kilometers. It spread from Rome to China, which is from the West to the Far East.

Traders travelling along the Silk Road carried silk, of course. They also carried and traded spices（香料）,cloth, valuable stones and gold.

There is a famous old story along the old road. It is said that Roman soldiers（士兵）travelled through central Asia. They started to live somewhere near the ancient Chinese village of Liqian. Some of these Romans married local Chinese women and the story of blue-eyed villages of China was started.

During its busiest period, the Silk Road allowed people from many different cultures and countries to meet each other and mix. The Silk Road allowed the sharing of valuable goods and new ideas. These included people and trading goods from the Mediterranean, Persian, Magyar, Armenian, Bactrian, Indian and Chinese areas. All these peoples travelled the Silk Road, and they shared goods, stories, languages, and cultures.

In modern times, the old Silk Road routes（路线）are still used, but now they are crossed by trains instead of camels and horses. There is even a Silk Route Museum in Jiuquan in China. It has over 35,000 objects from all along the Silk Road. In this way, China protects the history of many countries and peoples.

5 . People have painted pictures for at least 30,000 years.

The earliest pictures were painted by people who hunted animals. They used to paint pictures of the animals they wanted to catch and kill. Pictures of this kind have been found on the walls of caves in France and Spain. No one knows exactly why they were painted there.     1     About 5,000 years ago, the Egyptians and other people in the Near East began to use pictures as a kind of writing.     2     And also they represented the sounds of their language. The signs these people used became a kind of alphabet (字母表).

    3     When an important person died, scenes and stories from his life were painted and carved on the walls of the place where he was buried. Some of these pictures are like modern comic strip stories.     4     But, for the Egyptians, pictures still had magic power. So they did not try to make their way of writing simple. The ordinary people could not understand it.

The captain stood on the high wall of the city of Troy. “The Greeks have gone ______ we’ve won,” he said. “They’ve tried to capture our city for ten years. Now they’ve ______ and sailed away!”

“But look over there,” a soldier said. “They’ve left a huge ______ horse.”

“Ah, yes,” the captain said, “it’s too big. The Greeks didn’t want to take it with them. Get some ______ and pull it into the city.”

That night, in the main square of the city, all the Trojans celebrated. They sang and danced ______ the horse, and made jokes about the stupid Greeks. “I haven’t laughed ______ this since my childhood,” the captain said. ______ the party, they locked all the gates of the city and then all went to sleep.

By midnight, the main square was ______ , except for the huge horse. ______ a secret door opened on the side of the horse. The horse was ______ Greek soldiers! They quietly climbed out of the horse one ______ one.

The soldiers opened the main ______ . The Greek army entered the city.

______ ten years, the Greeks could not capture the city by ______ .

In one night, however, they ______ in capturing it through a clever trick.

In Australia there is a famous island called Fraser Island. A great many visitors come here for holidays every year. Why? The reason is that it is special.     1     . In fact, it is the largest sand island in the world. It's about 200 kilometers long and 240 kilometers wide.

Though the island is a popular place of interest, there is no airport on the island. The long beach along the east coast works as the airport.     2     .

On the island there are sand hills without any plants, but there are forests with old trees, beautiful flowers and over a hundred lakes, too.     3     .

Every year, visitors come to enjoy the island's natural beauty. People like camping and hiking there.     4     . Animals were killed for food and this made them in danger of extinction (灭绝). They threw rubbish everywhere, and the lakes were seriously polluted.

    5     . Rules have been set up. For example, visitors are not allowed to use motorboats (摩托艇) or go fishing in the lakes, and they mustn't leave any rubbish.

What foods are successful? Hamburgers and pizzas are popular. But instant noodles(方便面) have also become a world success. Now instant noodles are celebrating their 61^st birthday!

Instant noodles were invented by a Japanese named Momofuku Ando. To find a way to make noodles last longer, Ando began experimenting(实验) in 1955 and three years later, he made the first bag of instant noodles. Now, 61 years on, they’re eaten all over the world. In fact, they’re so popular that Japanese consider instant noodles as their best invention!

Each year, 95 billion packets of instant noodles are eaten around the world. In the UK, people call instant noodles “pot noodles”. University students like them a lot. During the first term at college, you may be given a gift bag that includes instant noodles. Instant noodles are cheap and easy to eat. But watch out! People may think you are lazy if you are an instant noodle lover.

The UN often sends instant noodles as part of its food aid. This is because of their long life and high fat, which makes people feel full for longer time.

However, instant noodles aren’t totally innocent(无辜的). They are high in fat and salt. Health experts say they are bad for us and we shouldn’t eat them too often.

The captain stood on the high wall of the city of Troy. “The Greeks have gone ________ we’ve won,” he said. “They’ve tried to capture our city for ten years. Now they’ve ________ and sailed away!”

“But look over there,” a soldier said. “They’ve left a huge ________ horse.”

“Ah, yes,” the captain said, “it’s too big. The Greeks didn’t want to take it with them. Get some help and pull it into the city.”

That night, in the main square of the city, all the Trojans celebrated. They sang and danced ________ the horse, and made jokes about the stupid Greeks. “I haven’t laughed like this since my childhood,” the captain said. ________ the party, they locked all the gates of the city and then all went to sleep.

By midnight, the main square was ________, except for the huge horse. ________ a secret door opened on the side of the horse. The horse was full of Greek soldiers! They quietly climbed out of the horse one by one.

The soldiers opened the main gates. The Greek army entered the city.

________ ten years, the Greeks could not capture the city by ________.

In one night, however, they ________ in capturing it through a clever trick.