Bollywood: the Hollywood of India
     You might be surprised to learn that India produces about 800 movies a year, and that number continues
to grow. Just as the movie Capital of the United States is Hollywood, the movie capital of India is Bombay
(孟買), but it is usually called "Bollywood", a combination (結合) of the words Bombay and Hollywood.
     No Bollywood movie is thought complete without a few songs and dances. In fact, music is an important
part of Bollywood movies. Even a bad movie can still do well if the music is good. Music directors are
sometimes more popular than the film stars. A Bollywood movie has five to six songs with at least three songs
to show what the dances mean.
     Bollywood may be different from Hollywood in music, but it is very like Hollywood in several ways. If
Tom Cruise can hold a gun, so can the Bollywood hero Sharukh Khan. Hollywood stars are followed by news
reporters just as often as Hollywood stars. The persona! lives of actors and actresses catch the headlines (頭
版頭條), just as they do in the United States.
     The Oscars are a very exciting time of the year for actors and actresses in America, Bollywood has its
own form of the Oscars, and they are also very exciting.

1. The name Bollywood comes from the words __________.
2. Bollywood is a place where many __________ are made each year,
3. In India, the film stars are sometimes __________ popular than musk directors.
4. Every complete Bollywood movie has a few __________ in them.
5. The Oscars in India are as __________ as those in America though they are different.

     Once there was no zero (零). To write the number sixty-three, people wrote 63. To write six hundred
and three, people wrote 6 3. The space was there to mean "not any" tens. Sometimes people did not
remember the space. It was hard to see and to read.
     Later people used a dot (點) to hold the space. Six hundred and three looked like this 6·3. But the dot
was hard to see.So people put a circle around it like this 6⊙3. Then people could see the dot. They
remembered the space.
    At last,only the circle around the dot was used.It was like a zero. This is one story of how the zero
came to be used.
    Now zero has many important uses. Zero tells how many. Can you tell some other ways zero is
used?
根據(jù)以上短文內(nèi)容，判斷下列各句是否符合短文內(nèi)容。符合短文內(nèi)容的寫“對”, 不符合的寫“錯”。
1. At first, zero was not used by people.                            (      )
    The space between 6 and 3 was easy to see and to read. (      )
2. When people wrote eight hundred and nine, they would    
    put a cirle with a dot in it between 8 and 9.                    (      )
3. Zero came from the circle around the dot.                     (      )
4. Zero isn't useful in our life.                                          (      )

Can the Time Go Slower?
                           by Joanna Pitt
Can the time go slower?
I'm still thinking of
The answers.

Can the time go slower?
My head is not
Yet clear.

Can the time go slower?
For me the rules of math are
Too hard to remember.
 
Can the time go slower?
My grade is what my father
Really cares about.

So can the time go slower?
My dear teacher,
I don't want to run behind others.

Oh NO!
There are still lots of questions
To be answered!

1. What is the reading about?

A.  Taking a test.
B.  Teaching math.
C.  Learning driving.
D.  Running at the school.

2. Why does the writer keep asking"Can the time go slower?"

A. She is missing her good old times.
B.  She does not want to get old with time.
C.  She is worried that there's not enough time.
D. She is afraid that her father will be home soon.