Mr. Hamel now picked up a French grammar book and started to teach. It all seemed so (1) _____ during that last lesson. I understood all the participles（分词）which Mr. Hamel explained.
“ (2) _____  didn’t French seem so interesting before?” I asked myself.
    But I knew the answer. It was my last French lesson, and I regretted not stud ying hard before. I (3) _____ to listen very carefully. Mr. Hamel was trying to teach us everything he knew. He had never taught a lesson so well before.
    The grammar lesson finished, and then we started(4) _____ . I had never seen so many hardworking students before. Everyone had their (5) _____ down, and the sound of pens on paper was the only sound to be heard.
    Students were usually distracted(分心) by even the smallest thing. However, when some beetles（甲壳虫）flew into the classroom, not one student looked at them today. It was very (6) _____ .
    I looked at Mr. Hamel. He was sitting still in his chair. The only things he (7) _____   were his eyes. He looked carefully at one thing in the classroom for a while (8) _____ looking at the next thing. For forty years, the only classroom was like his(9) _____ , and now it was being taken from him.
    Mr. Hamel looked at all of the walls, windows, desks, and chairs (10) _____ we were working hard. I was sure he wanted to remember everything like it was now.

    How does a young dog or cat get to know a new home? The animal uses its nose. Right away it smells its new places. Then it makes wider and wider circles, smelling all the time. Before long it can find its way home very well, even in the dark. It simply follows something it knows well.
    Stories happen about animals who found their way across land they had never smelled before. Take the case of Smoky, a small white cat. Smoky had some funny red hair around its right ear. One day Smoky and his owner began a long journey. They were moving from Oklahoma to Tennessee. When they were just eighteen miles from their Oklahoma home, Smoky jumped out of the car. Then he found his way back to the old house. There he wandered around outside for many days. Finally he disappeared.
    A year later Smoky meowed at the door of a house in Tennessee. A man opened the door. “Is that you, Smoky?” he said in surprise. At first he couldn’t believe it. Then he saw the red hair around its right ear. It was Smoky!

    Who is smarter, human being or artificial intelligence(AI, 人工智能)？The question swept the world a few months ago. In March 2016, AlphaGo, an AI program developed by Google, had the Go(围棋) match with Lee Sedol, a South Korean Go player. He is the world top player of this old Chinese game.
    In October 2015, AlphaGo became the first computer program to beat a professional(职业的) human Go play er. And this time, it beat Lee Sedol 4-1.
   In fact, before the match, most people believed that Lee would certainly be the winner, because they didn’t think that AI was good enough to beat the human mind. However, the result was disappointing. As a machine, AlphaGo would never get tired, while Lee Sedol was only a human and humans must have some weaknesses. 
   AlphaGo’s wins over a human champion(冠军) show that computers can do more difficult tasks. Some people may worry whether  computers are now smart enough to beat us at everything. But scientists say that is not the case. Real life problems can be more difficult than the Go game. Thomas Johnson, a scientist of AI said, “It’s not hard to get a computer program to remember and produce facts. What is hard is getting computers to use knowledge in everyday situation. ” We believe we can use the technology of AI to improve the world.

    Joe was an old man. The 75-year-old lived very happily in a village and had a beautiful family. Joe had four grandchildren, and they visited him during their holidays.
    During one vacation, Joe was preparing his home for the kids: cleaning and buying their favorite foods. After he finished working, he realized he lost his favorite watch. The watch was a gift from his wife when their first child was born. Joe loved the watch very much, especially after his wife’s death. He was very upset about losing it.
    Once his grandchildren came, they promised him they would find the watch.
One granddaughter asked: “Grandpa, do you remember when you saw the watch last before it went missing?”
   “I guess when I was cleaning the barn(谷仓)！” Joe replied.
    The children looked for more than two hours with Joe, but they could not find it. The kids were now also sad, but they tried to comfort(安慰) their grandfather.
    One grandson went back to the barn to search aga in. Joe asked why he was going there a second time. But the little boy just asked the others not to follow him and to remain silent.
    He was there for about fifteen minutes and then rushed to his grandfather. He found the watch and happily gave it to Joe.
    Joe was surprised and asked how he was able to find it. The little boy replied: “I sat there without making a noise, and the barn was so silent. After a few minutes, I heard the ‘tick, tick’ sound and found the watch.”
    Joe hugged and thanked the little boy.

    Have you seen the cartoons of two penguins(企鹅) on the Internet? They sit on either side of a small boat. They are friends, but each does something selfish（自私的） which causes their friend “ship” to sink(沉没).
    (1) ______ It shows how much people value friendship and sometimes worry they may lose their friends. (2) ______  A friend is someone to talk to about your deepest feelings. And with a good friend you will never be alone.
    (3) ______  The key to protecting your friend “ship” from sinking comes down to three simple things: sharing, caring and communicating. Good friends like to share everything with each other. They share their snacks, they share their knowledge about schoolwork, sometimes they even share their clothes! (4) ______  They do whatever they can to make their friends happy. But the most important part of friendship is communicating.
    (5) ______ It also means that you keep in touch with your friends even though they may be in different schools or live far away. Without communication it is sure to send your friend “ship” to sink into the sea.

    Thanks to the development of technology in the past few years, people now can read news on the Internet quickly. (1) ______ holding a newspaper to read, some people prefer to get worldwide news on mobile phones, computers and so on. So, does it mean it is the (2) ______ of information technology and newspapers will be replaced(取代)in the future?
    On the one hand, many people believe that newspapers will be replaced. Online
news (3) ______ in a minute but newspapers can’t. So, by taking advantage of technology, people can connect (4) ______ with the world in minutes. What’s more, many people prefer to read electronic news (1) ______ they think it is not only fast but also cost little. Besides, using paper means cutting trees. Reading online news can (5) ______ protect trees and save paper.
    On the other hand, some people believe that newspapers will still exist(存在) in the future. Firstly, not everyone likes to read online news since some of them think it is bad for (7) ______ . Secondly, the development of high technology is not spread (8) ______ the world. The online services will only be (9) ______ in developed countries, but not in some other developing or poor countries. So, people there  may still read newspapers.
    In short, although it is (10) ______ that electronic news has developed quickly in the past years, newspapers still play a certain role in our modern life.

Harry ______ school yesterday.  (be)

昨天哈利上学迟到了。

Mr. Wang is ill in hospital and now his daughter ______ him. (take)

王先生因病住院了，他的女儿正在照顾他。

Many waste things ______ a paper-like material.  (turn)

很多废弃物能变成像纸一样的材料。

I have to tell you the truth, the writer ______ most of his money to charity already.  (give)

我只好告诉你真相，那位作家已经把大部分钱捐给了慈善组织。

The scientist calls on the world ______ weather change as well as the protection of endangered animals.  (pay)

   假设你是李雷,昨天你参与了学校值日。请写一封信向校长汇报你值日时的所见所闻，并提出改进建议。要点如下：

 要求： (1) 可以适当发挥，信中不得出现真实姓名和学校名称；
        (2) 语言通顺，意思连贯，条理清楚，书写规范；
        (3) 词数：80词左右。书信的开头和结尾已经给出，不计入总词数。

Dear Headmaster,
   I was on duty yesterday.

Sincerely,
                                                          Li Lei