It’s never pleasant to stand in a crowded subway train. To make it worse, there’s often someone next to you eating 【1】. Eating and drinking is not rare(罕見的) among Chinese passengers. They may do this to save time, but the smell and n【2】 annoys others.

To change this, the Beijing g【3】 is thinking about banning people from eating and drinking on the subway. Those who b【4】 the rule could face a fine(罰款) of up to 500 yuan. Many people support the rule b【5】 they care for public manners in the city. Besides, eating and drinking on the subway is not h【6】 for both the eaters and the people around.

But o【7】 say that sometimes eating and drinking should be OK. “If a little child is eating on the subway, how can you fine him 500 yuan?” said Jin Bo, a news commentator. But he suggests that people start to pay attention to the issue. “Eating in public is not only about o【8】. It annoys others. We should keep this in mind from a young a【9】.”

Beijing is not the f【10】 city in China to fine eaters on the subways. People who eat on the subway in Hong Kong face fines of up to 2,000 Hong Kong dollars(1,625 yuan).

【1】點(diǎn)擊頁(yè)面頂端的圖標(biāo)，便開始你新的旅程。

_______ _______ the icon______ the top of the page, and then ________ your new tour.

【2】澳大利亞的季節(jié)與我們的相反。

Australian seasons are _______ _________ _________ _________.

【3】我們校園由操場(chǎng)、教學(xué)樓、宿舍樓組成。

Our school _______ _______ __________ ________ the playground, the class building and the dormitory building.

【1】It is _________(relax) to cook at the weekend.

【2】In summer, people would like to travel to the __________(north) part of China because it is cool.

【3】In the early _________(twenty) century, China fell behind other countries.

【4】I use the computer for ___________(search) for the information every week.

【5】The teacher noticed the boy _____(chat) with his deskmate and asked him to answer the question.

【6】We _________(be) good friends since we met for the first time.

【1】I usually watch________（視頻、錄像）on the Internet at the weekend.

【2】I hope I can work in an _________（國(guó)際的）company some day.

【3】Would you please show me how to start the tour? With___________（樂意）.

【4】With__________ (more than two) lakes and hills, Pukou is a good place to live.

【1】I use the computer to do word processing.（對(duì)劃線部分提問）

______ do you use the computer _______?

【2】He will finish reading the book in two weeks.（對(duì)劃線部分提問）

______ ______ ______he finish reading the book?

【3】The programme began an hour ago.（近義句）

The programme _______ ______ _______ for an hour.

A.first minute, the nextB.one minute, the next

C.sometimes, some timeD.one time, another time

Mystery of mirages

Earlier this month on a Sunday afternoon, a giant “ancient city” appeared on the surface of Hongze Lake in Jiangsu province. But after about half an hour, the “city” was gone.

You might think that some unknown forces were at work, but it’s believed that the “city on the lake” was actually a mirage.

A mirage is a trick that light and air play with bur vision（視覺）. Normally, light travels in a straight line, but it can bend（彎曲）and change direction depending on what it passes through. This bending is called "refraction （折射）”.

If different layers（層）of air are at different temperatures, light will bend at different angles（角度）when passing through them. This can create a false image（影像）of a nearby object.

Take the “city on the lake” as an example. The layer of air near the lake is colder than the higher layers, as the lake absorbs（吸收）most of the heat. The buildings in the mirage were actually on a nearby mountain. But their image showed up above the lake after light refracted in different layers of air.

Mirages happen not only over large bodies of water, but anywhere where the ground can absorb a lot of heat. They are often seen on hot roads and in deserts. The next time you think you see a pool of water on the road on a hot summer day, you will know it's just a mirage—an image of the sky caused by bending light.

What would you do if a friend asked you to help cheat on an exam? Would you refuse them or decide to help? This kind of d【1】has been made easier by using the “four-way test”.

More than 230 eighth graders in a middle school in Colorado tried one such test on Nov 8. They came up with p【2】ways to difficult situations in school. For example, what would you do if a friend took your things w【3】asking you? Then they used the “four-way test” to decide which was the b【4】way.

The test asks four questions: Are you choosing an h【5】way? Is it f【6】to everyone involved（涉及的）? Will it build friendship? Will it be beneficial（有益處的）to everyone involved? If a person can say y【7】to all of these questions, it’s likely that he or she is making a good c【8】.

“It brings real-life experiences directly to the students,” Arnold Jahnke, principal of the school, told the Reporter Herald. “It causes the students to think about issues.”

Destiny Pritchard, 14, found the test to be u【9】. “If I help my friend cheat on exams, it’s not fair or beneficial to everyone involved. So that would be a bad decision,” he said. “S【10】there’s a lot of drama going on in school, the four-way test will help with that.”

Dakota Bowens, 14, plans to start using the four-way test. “It’s a new strategy（策略）,” Bowens said. “If I get in fights and conflicts（沖突）, I’m going to use it to keep strong.”

【1】She has improved her English a lot by watching the________（演講）from TED.

【2】It’s a tradition for a Chinese family to buy a new________（掛歷）when the new year is drawing near.

【3】Can your brother pass these________（氣球）to his teammates?

【4】My friends always try to do everything________（不同）.

【5】He has________（從事）Qigong therapy to help people with their problems for three years.

【6】Can you offer me some________（寶貴的）advice?

【7】Luckily, waste pollution has________(pay) more attention to.

【8】The woman waited for half an hour but the bus didn’t come. Then she became________(patient) and decided to take a taxi.

【9】Linda is so outgoing that you make friends with her________(easy).

【10】He was________(luck) to lose all the books borrowed from the library.

【11】He pushed away the large stone with all his________(strong).

【12】The house will look a little bigger if its walls________(paint) blue or white.

【13】At that moment he realized that his son________(prefer) staying with him to getting a lot of pocket money.

【14】The teacher gave us some________(suggest) on speaking English.

【15】Do you really think the film is worth________(watch) so many times?

—Of course. _________, he is a good friend of my father’s.

A.I meanB.That is to sayC.Above allD.Believe it or not