1 . ● The human population has never been bigger, but in some ways the planet seems to be     1         2         3    . In the past, travelers from     4         5         6     spent months at sea. Now you just have to sit on a plane for a few hours. When you arrived in another country a hundred years ago, you saw     7         8         9     of clothing and buildings and discovered a     10         11         12     culture.（Fill in each blank with the missing words according to the text.）

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A common day	·After a long day, Zhang Tian got back to his room     1         2     Guizhou Province to teach has been quite an experience for him
Before coming	Zhang Tian     3     from university last year. Unlike his friends, he     4     for a volunteer teacher in a village school with an     5    heart
After coming	Not everything lived up to Zhang Tian’s hopes. Living and working in the village is a     6     for him
Zhang Tian’s contributions	·He was     7     for English ·He     8     more subjects to the school ·His students became more     9     in learning ·He brought many other changes, such as rebuilding the playground and     10     a library

3 . 课文默写

The other day I was showing the boys the weekly chemistry experiment when, before I knew it, the mixture was bubbling over everywhere! The boys who had never come across anything like this before started jumping out of the windows. Sometimes I wonder     1    , most of whom will be going back to their villages after Year 8 anyway. To be honest, I doubt     2    .

Xie Lei lives with a host family who give her lots of good advice. Although some foreign students live in student accommodation or apartments,     3    . Living with host families, in which there may be other college students, gives her the chance to learn more about a new culture. “When I hear an idiom that I don’t understand, I can ask my host family for help ,” explains Xie Lei. “Also, when I miss my family,     4     .”

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However,     1     the Internet brings many valuable advantages, being connected has its problems. As with any great invention, we must be     2     of these problems and be careful to use the Internet properly and     3    . Only in this way can the Internet be a place of discovery, wonder and     4     for everyone. It is truly a world without     5    .