1 . When I was a college student, I did a lot of travelling abroad. That was because a professor_______me to do so. She said, “Now it is the time for you to travel around the world,_______your knowledge through actual experiences and have fun.” I_______her. Since I started to work for a_______company, however, I have done most of my travelling through the Internet. By using the Internet, I have seen the_______of many cities on my computer screen. And I have really made business_______too. With the help of the Internet, I have also got_______ about food in different countries.

Therefore, I was beginning to feel that actual trips were_______necessary when I happened to read a famous chef’s comment on the Internet. He said, “It is very difficult to have real Italian food in a foreign country, because we enjoy food and the_______around us at the same time. So why don’t you fly over to Italy and enjoy real Italian________?” Those words reminded me of my________advice. As information technology________, you might be able to do without making some real trips. But this also means that you will miss the various________you can get from travelling. Today there are people who________direct communication with others and spend much of their time on the Internet. It is not surprising to see a group of people________not with each other but into their microphones. It seems as if such people are________by an invisible wall. They seem to be losing out on a good chance to________and talk with other people. I do not think that they are taking good advantage of information technology. We should use information technology as a tool to make our daily ________more fruitful.

However, we should never let it________our time for face-to-face communication. Let’s make use of information technology more________, and have great fun in experiencing the actual world.

3 . It was just after sunrise on a June morning. “Nicolo,” whose real name cannot be _______ to the public because of Italy’s privacy laws, _______ working the whole night at a factory in Turin. As he often did, he stopped by the “after work auction(拍卖)” _______ by the Italian police where things _______ on the trains were sold to the highest bidder. There, among many other things, Nicolo spotted two paintings he thought would look _______above his dining room table. Nicolo and another bidder _______ until Nicolo finally won the paintings for $32.

When Nicolo retired and went to live in Sicily, he _______ the paintings with him. He hung them above the same table he had _______ from Turin. His son, age 15, who had _______ an art appreciation class, thought that there was something ________ about the one with a young girl sitting on a garden chair. It was signed(签名) “Bonnato” or so he thought, but when he ________ it, he only found “Bonnard,” a French ________ he had never heard of. He bought a book and was ________ to find a picture of the artist Pierre Bonnard sitting on the same chair in the same ________ as his father’s painting.

“That’s the garden in our picture,”Nicolo’s son told his father. They ________ learned that the painting they ________was called “The Girl with Two Chairs.” They ________ the other painting and learned that it was ________ Paul Gauguin’s “Still Life of Fruit on a Table with a Small Dog.” The ________ called the Italian Culture Ministry; the official confirmed that the paintings were ________ and worth as much as $50 million.

4 . We have all heard how time is more valuable than money, but is it possible to have too much time?

I __ back in high school I spent most of my day at school since I also _____ a team sport. By the time I got home, I only had a few hours to do my homework, and I had to do it __________.

When I got into college, things _______.I suddenly found myself out of class before noon time. Because of all this ____ time, there was no sense of ____ to do my school work immediately. I was performing this action of waiting until it later became a _______. Once that happened, I just kept ______ my studying further and further back in my day. Then I got to the point where I was ______ really late at night to get my work done.

One day I ____ a former classmate of mine who was _____ a lot of money running a sideline(副业).Since his regular job was _____ , I asked him why he just didn't do his sideline full-time. He said _____ the job, he would _____ have too much time and would just do what I did back in ______. He said that if he _____ the job, he

would lose his _____ to work and succeed.

So, try _____ your time with other work. This is why there is a _____ that if you want something done, ask a (n)_______ person to do it.

5 . A couple of weeks ago, my friend offered to sell some of our things for us. I thought it was a good opportunity to ______       my 7­-year-­old son's room and   ______ some toys that were no longer   suitable for him to play with. We   ______ that all the money we got from selling the toys would be his money.

The night before the ______， we loaded up the truck with toys and a little bike that was too ______ for him.In the yard he ______the bike for the last time and then happily put it onto the truck. This little bike had at least two previous owners as far as we ______. It wasn't in the best ______and was certainly not new，but the tires(轮胎)were ______ good.

We put a price of $10 on it, but it didn't sell.So，after the sale was ______，my friend put it on the sidewalk，with a sign that ______ “FREE BIKE”．Within five minutes her doorbell rang.A little boy was ______ there.In poor English he asked whether the bike was ______ free.We said yes and that he could have it for ______．He smiled，got on the bike and rode away.

Later that evening when I told my son how   much money he had made at the sale, he was very______，shouting happily. He asked about a few of his things, wondering ______   they had been sold.   When he asked about the bike, I told him about   the little boy and that made him   ______．He was much happier than when I told him how much he had ______．He was so happy to ______ that someone else would make good ______ of that little bike!