Venice(威尼斯)is a famous city in the world. Every year thousands of people from all over the world   (1)   to Italy to visit the city. Do you know why they like to go there for a   (2)  ?

   Venice is a very beautiful city. It is quite different   (3)   other cities in the world. There aren't any roads   (4)   streets in the city. so there aren't any cars or buses. There are many canals(运河) in the city. There is one big canal and one hundred and seventy-seven   (5)   canals. People move up and down the canals in   (6)   to go to work, go shopping or visit their friends.

   But Venice is going down and the   (7)   is going up. In 2040 Venice will be under water. The Venetians(威尼斯人)love their city and want to   (8)   there. So they want to save Venice from the sea. How can they save Venice? They can _  (9)   some strong huge walls and gates in the sea. The gates will close to keep too much water   (10)  _. In this way Venice will not sink.

As we know, rainforests are the lung of the earth. They   (1)   about 6% of the earth’s surface. Half of the animals on Earth live in rainforests. The sloth(树懒) is one of them.

The sloth is the most interesting animal I know. It looks like a panda or a monkey. It always moves very slowly,   (2)   when it is in danger. But you can’t imagine(想像) it is good at swimming. When it is in the   (3)  , it can swim like a big fish.

Many people think it is a kind of   (4)   animal. Why? The sloth needs to   (5)   15 to 20 hours sleeping in the tree in the daytime. Yes, it does nothing   (6)   sleeping during the daytime. Maybe that’s the   (7)   why people think it’s lazy. When does it eat meals? Of course at night. It  (8)   leaves of the trees. It eats nothing else. So it can’t live without forests.

The sloth is a kind of rare(珍稀) animal. If we can’t protect it well, it will die out one day.

As we know, rainforests are the lung of the earth. They _(1)_ about 6% of the earth's surface. Half of the animals on Earth live in rainforests. The sloth (树懒) is one of them.

   The sloth lives in the tree _  (1)  _ 30 meters of the ground. It is the most interesting animal I know. It looks like a panda or a monkey. It always moves very slowly, _  (2)  _ when it is in danger. But you can't imagine (想象) it is good at swimming. When it is in the _  (3)  _, it can swim like a big fish.

   Many people think it is a kind of   (4)  _ animal. Why? The sloth needs to _  (5)   15 to 20 hours sleeping in the tree in the daytime. Yes, it does nothing _  (6)   sleeping during the daytime. Maybe that's the _  (7)   why people think it's lazy. When does it eat meals? Of course at night. It   (8)  _ leaves of the trees. It eats nothing else. So it _  (9)  _ live without forests.

   The sloth is a kind of rare (珍惜) animal. If we can't protect it well, it will die out one day.

 If you like to break things when you are unhappy, then Nanjing Zhonghua Middle School is the school for you.This term, Nanjing Zhonghua Middle place will build a“stress wall（发泄墙）”to help students who feel unhappy because of schoolwork or other reasons.

“Students can  (1)    (2)    (3)  hit the wall or write on thewall   (4)    (5)    (6)   makes them sad,”said Tao Dehua, a leader of the school.She said the wall will be built somewhere in a corner, far from the main building.Tao also said the   (  3  )   of a“stress wall”started when footprints were found on some newly painted walls and some school windows were broken.“These things  (7)    (8)    (9)   because some students feel lots of pressure from their studies or because they don’t get along very well with other students,”Tao said.

 According to a report ,15 % of juniors in China are stressed out .Shen Cuihua, the school’s doctor, thinks visiting the wall can help stressed students to feel  (10)    (11)    (12)  .

     When under stress, the body gets ready to either run or fight and becomes very nervous. Hitting the wall can help  (13)    (14)    (15)   the body and take away stress.The stress wall won’t be ready until September, many students are already hoping it can make their lives easier.

“Tests and homework make me sad,”said Liu Yuan, a Junior 3 girl.“I can’t  (16)    (17)    (18)   to hit the wall. It will help me a lot with my   (19)    (20)    (21)   .

Another girl student who wouldn’t give her name said the wall won’t  (22)    (23)    (24)   for her.“Mainly because it can’t talk,”she said.“I need to talk to someone when I’m sad.”

Wu Yinming, a Nanjing University professor（教授），said building the wall could be  (25)    (26)    (27)  .“Kids who hit the wall could start fighting more with each other.”He said.

A few years ago，when people had problems，what did they usually do？Well，they usually asked their parents or friends for   (1)  ．Today it is  (2)   for people to get advice from telephone hotlines(热线)．A telephone hotline gives people a good   (3)   of talking with advisers(提供建议者)．Most hotlines donˈt need your name or other information.That is to say，callers do not   (4)   to tell their names or other information.Some hotlines are  (5)  ，so callers donˈt have to pay for the advice or the phone calls.Some hotlines   (6)   volunteers(志愿者) as advisers.  (7)   hotlines pay the advisers for their work.The advisers are usually the people with years of education and  (8)  ．They have to take classes before starting to   (9)  ．Their work is to listen to callers and help them   (10)   their problems.

   In many western countries, people eat four meals a day: breakfast, lunch, tea    (1)   dinner. People have breakfast at any time  (2)   seven to nine in the morning. They eat porridge, eggs or bread. English people    (3)   tea or coffee at breakfast.

   Lunch   (4)    at twelve o'clock. Tea time is from four to five in the afternoon, and dinner is about half past seven. For dinner,   (5)    , they have soup, and then they have meat or fish with vegetables. After that, they often eat some   (6)    like bananas, apples or oranges. But not all English people   (7)   that. Some of them have their dinner in   (8)    middle (中间) of the day. They have only three meals a day.        (9)    meals are breakfast, dinner and tea, and all these meals   (10)  very simple (简单的).

Future and today

   It is well known that everyone has his own dream and his own future. But do you know what future really is? I have to say future is now. That is to say we must treasure every minute now. If we want to have a bright future, we should know how important time is and use it well.

There is an old English saying, “Gain time, gain life.” Then what’s time? Time is something that we can’t see or touch, but we can feel it passing by. Time is always with us. When we are at table, time passes. When we play, time goes by unnoticeably. We always say “Time is money”, but time is even more precious(珍贵的) than money, because when money is spent, we can earn it back. But if time is gone away, it will never come back. So some of us even say time is priceless.

We should always remember: future is now. For us students, we should try our best to work hard in order to create a great future of our own. We should make the best use of every hour and be the masters of today. We should do everything before us as well as possible. And never put off what can be done today till tomorrow.

As we all know, “Time and tide wait for no man.” If you waste today, you will regret tomorrow. So from now on, work hard. Tomorrow will be better, and your future will be brighter. Remember, “No pains, no gains.” Today’s hard work is the cause of tomorrow’s harvest.

Even in early times, people could realize the importance of dreams and knew that dreams gave meaning to life. Every great achievement has been the result of years of dreaming.(1)If a person has a dream and holds fast to it, he or she will find a way to bring it into reality(现实).

Children do not have much experience or knowledge. However, they are natural dreamers. We should not laugh at them for being naive. With their rich imagination, they will come up with fantastic dreams. History is full of examples. Many great men were dreamers when they were children. One such dreamer was Thomas Edison. He used ostracized (排斥) when he was in primary school, but his achievements were greater than everyone else's in his time.

(2)青少年和年青人也应该鼓励有梦想.The world is full of successful teenagers and young people. They dreamt big and their dreams changed their lives and even the world. Steve Jobs and Bill Gates are the good examples. They have developed technology and brought great progress to human besides making money for themselves.

Older people should believe that human mind is never too old to make dreams turn into reality. (3) Colonel Saunders realized his dreams at the age of 67 and set up the biggest fried chicken company (KFC) in the world.

(4) To dream is a wonderful ability which can lead to wonderful results.Olympic records were broken by players who were brave enough to dream. No one is too young or too old to dream and to make dreams come true.