1 . Do you know how to play a game called “Musical Chairs” ? It is easy to play and most people enjoys it. All you need are some chairs, some people and some ways of making music. You may use a piano or any other musical instrument, if someone can play it. You may use a tape-recorder, you can use a radio.

Put the chairs in a row. The chairs may be put in two, back to back. A better way is to have the chairs in one row with each chair facing in the opposite direction to the chair next to it.

The game is easy. When the music starts, the player walk around the chairs. Everyone goes in the same direction, of course. They should walk in time to the music. If the music is slow, they should walk slowly.

The person playing music cannot see the people in the game. When the music stops, the players try to sit on the chairs. If a person cannot find a chair to sit on, he drops out. Then, before the music starts again, one chair must be taken away. When the music stops again, one more player will be out.

At last, there will be two players and one chair! The one who sits on the chairs when the music stops is the winner.

1. How many chairs must you begin with if ten people are playing musical chairs?
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2. Are a piano and a radio both suitable for playing musical chairs?
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3. How should the chairs, in a row or with the desks while playing the game “Musical Chairs”?
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4. What kind of person will drop out in the game?
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5. The game “musical Chairs” is difficult to learn, isn’t it?
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2 . The most common disease in the world is the cold. It often s    1     with a score throat. You sneeze and your nose runs. You usually have a headache, too. Often you have a cough afterwards. It’s not a serious disease, but you can feel quite ill.

There isn’t cure for a cold, but you can take medicines to make you feel better. For example, you can take aspirin to get rid of your headache. It is good to rise, and to drink a lot of water too. A doctor once told me “With the r    2     medicine, a cold will last for seven days. With no medicine, it will go on for a whole week!”

Where does our medicine come from? A long time ago, people understood that some plants made them feel better. They ate the l    3    , the roots, the fruit, or the seeds of plants. For example, the j    4     of lemons makes a sore throat feel better.

In modern times, scientists have looked at these plants, and found out which chemicals are in them. Many of our medicines today are made f    5     those chemicals.

There are some disease which we can’t cure y    6    . And nobody has found a cure for old age. But because of modern medicines, the average person now lives longer than their grandparents.

4 . Leonardo da Vinci began painting the Mona Lisa, one of the most famous p    1     of all time, in 1503. He was working on a special painting for a church at the time, but it was not going well. The woman who can be seen in the Mona Lisa is s    2     to be Madonna Lisa del Giocondo. She was the wife of an Italian businessman who asked da Vinci to paint a portrait of her.

After da Vinci finished the painting in 1506 he was invited by the French King, Francois I, to visit F    3    , and he took the painting with him. Today the Mona Lisa is kept in the Louvre, an a    4     museum in Paris, and it is seen by about six million v    5     a year.

The painting measure only 77 centimeters b    6     53 centimeters and is painted with oil on wood. In 1911, it was stolen by a worker at the Louvre, Vincenzo Peruggia, who took it out of the museum by h    7     it under his coat. Two years later the police found the painting under Peruggia’s bed after he tried to sell it.

In 1962, the Mona Lisa was taken to Washington and New York for e    8    . For the journey, it was insured for 100 million dollars, making it the most valuable painting ever!

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Every year, thousands of students travel to foreign countries to study. More than 30 percent of these students go to the United States.     1     15 percent go to France, and 10 percent to both England and Germany. A little less than 10 percent go to Australia, and Around 5 percent go to Canada.

No matter     2     a student chooses to study, there are some things universities around the world require. First, all students must graduate from high school     3     they can apply to a university. Most universities also require some kind of     4     for students to enter the university. Universities in the United States, Australia, and Canada usually require some kind of standardized exam, such as the SAT in the United States. Students who do not come from     5     countries also must take a test such as the TOFEL in the United States and Canada to show they know     6     English to study in English. England and Australia require students to     7     the IELTS.

6 . the, one, most, dolphins, of, are, in, intelligent, world, the, animals. (合并为一句)
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7 . Kitty and Ben didn’t fly the kite any more. They went back home at once. (合并为一句)
Kitty and Ben __________ back home at once _________ the kite.

8 . Fishermen use nets to catch fish and prawns in the deep sea. (保持原句意思)
Fishermen _________ fish and prawns _________ nets in the deep sea.

9 . Jill often has to get up early to school every day. (改为一般疑问句)
________ Jill ________ to get up early to school every day?

10 . We need to eat ________ unhealthy food to stay fit. (little)