Life in the 2100s will be very different fromlife today. Between then and now (71) m_________changes will take place. What will they be?

   Computers will be smaller and more useful, and there will be at (72) l_________one in each home. And computer studies will be one of the most important (73) s_________in schools then. People will work (74) f_________ hours than they do now, and they will have more (75) f________ time for relaxing, such as sports, watching TV and traveling. More people will go to other countries on holiday.

Food will be changed, too. More land will be used for building new towns and houses for all the people. There will be less living (76) s_________for cows and sheep. So meat will be more (77) e_________. Maybe no one will eat it every day, they will eat (78) f_________and vegetables instead. Maybe people will be healthier.

Work in the (79) f_________will be different, too. (80) B________robots do much dangerous and hard work, there will be less work for people to do. This will be a problem.

In December, Beijing students had 6 days of special “holidays”. Kindergarten, primary and middle school students studied at home on computers because classes were stopped    80    of the smog(雾霾).

       It’s   81   of the decisions the government(政府) made during the days under the red alert(红色警报) for heavy air pollution. During the days under the red alert, the PM2.5 level in Beijing was always around 300. In northeastern China, things were even   82   . The PM 2.5 level reached over 1,000 in Shenyang on Nov. 8^th.

       The government did something to     83   the problem of smog The Beijing government set limits(限制) on car use and cut some factory hours. They also   84    people to stay indoors.

             85    , the indoor environment does not always mean there’s good air. Many parents started to worry about their children’s     86   . They asked schools to use air cleaners in classroom and some parents from Shanghai even raised(筹集) money to buy the cleaners.

       According to the Education Committees(教育委员会) of Shanghai and Beijing, schools will face different problems    87    they use air cleaner systems, such as money and old buildings. But the committees also said they were working on it, hoping to find out plans for every school soon.

There are many colors in our life. Color is one of the most important    56    (礼物) from nature. Now the color also describes the culture of each country. Sometimes we can not    57  .

(理解) some English sentences, because every language has its culture. So we should learn the different cultures    58   (努力地).

   59   (首先) of all, let’s talk about the red in the    60    (西方). A lot of people like the color of red because it is a    61    (象征) of life, fire and love. For example, “to paint the town red” means to celebrate a party in some places, especially in a    62    (公共的) place. “Red ball” is another example of red. It means    63    (最快的) train in the country.

In China, red can bring us happiness and some good chances. At the same time, it becomes a kind of tradition. There are many different kinds of phrases in Chinese about red. It usually      64   (警告) people about some dangerous things. At the same time, red looks    65    (相当) good, so people often use it on some important days.

Each color has its own meaning in different nations.

There was a lovely vegetable patch (菜园). A large tree______61_ (grow) there. Both the patch and the tree gave the place a wonderful look, and they were the____62___ (proud) of the gardener. But no one knew that the vegetables and the tree _63______(can  not) stand (忍受) each other. The vegetables hated the tree’s shadow (阴影), because it left them only just enough light _____64_（live）. The tree, on the other hand, hated the vegetables because they ____65____(drink) nearly all the water, (leave)____66__ him just enough to live.

The situation became so serious that the vegetables decided to use up all the water in the ground so that the tree___67___( die.) .The tree answered back by not (protect)_______68___ the vegetables from the hot sun, so they began to dry up. Soon the vegetables were really weak, and the tree was drying up.

The gardener ______69__(wonder) why and stopped watering them. When he did that, both the tree and the vegetables realized that it was _70_______(good) to help each other. They learned how to live in harmony with those 71________ (介词)them. So they decided________72_(work )together, using both the shade and the water _____73______( grow )well. After______74____( see)how well they were doing, the gardener gave the best care to his vegetable patch,______75_____ (water)and fertilizing (施肥) it better than any other patch for miles around. 

Molly lived in the country, but one day she decided to visit a big city to do some shopping and to go sightseeing. She stayed at a h   81    near the center of the city. She had hardly ever been to the city before, so she was very e   82     about what she would find.

On the first morning in the city, as she walked on the road, she s   83     a blind beggar（乞丐）. Molly f    84    sorry for the beggar and she put a dollar into his bowl. “Thank you,” he said.

On the t   85    day, Molly did not have a dollar coin（硬币）. She only had fifty cents, so she put the m   86    into the beggar’s bowl. The beggar knew that she gave him less money than the first two days. “Why are you so stingy（吝啬的）t   87   ?” he asked.

Molly was very s   88   . “How do you know I haven’t given you a dollar?” she said. “If you’re blind, you can’t know what I have put into your bowl.”

“Well,” the beggar said, “to tell you the t   89   , I’m not blind. I’m just w   90    for my blind friend because he is on vacation.”

Bruno       76      a student. He is twelve years old. He comes from      77       (日本). Now he and      78        parents live in Shanghai. He gets      79       at six thirty every day. He has     80       at seven. Then he g      81        to school. He often f     82    kites in the afternoon. On Sundays, he often does his       83       (家庭作业) and sings some songs      84       (和) his friends. They are very h    85       .