All over the world people enjoy sports. Sports help people to keep   (1)  , happy and to live long.

People play   (2)   games in winter and summer.   (3)   is good for swimming. And in winter people often go skating.

Some sports are very   (4)   and people everywhere like them. For example, football is very popular. In China, most people, men,   (5)  , boys and girls, like to watch football games. They often talk about it.

Running and jumping began long, long ago. But basketball and volleyball are very   (6)   People began to play   (7)   not long ago. And people are   (8)   new sports or games all the time. Water skiing is one of the newest.

People   (9)   different countries may not understand each other,   (10)   after a game they often become friends.

It’s so beautiful outside that spending the day in the office would be very boring. So why not take the vacations(假期)off? A new survey(调查)found that 31﹪of U.S workers don’t always take all of their vacation days. Americans have 12 vacation days on average(平均)each year, but they give back an average of 3 vacation days each year.

So why don’t they use up their vacation days? Some say they would rather get money back for their unused days; some busy workers say they just can’t leave their work. Americans have fewer vacation days than workers in any other country surveyed.

The French take their vacations seriously. French workers get an average of 39 vacation days, and 40﹪plan to take at least one there-to-four-week vacation.

Workers in Sweden receive an average of 25 vacation days a year, but they can’t find time to use them all. More workers there return vacation days than any other country surveyed.

British workers have the longest working week in Europe(欧洲),with 23 vacation days --the shortest vacation. So they feel overworked.75﹪say their weekends or vacations are too short and 40﹪would sacrifice a day’s pay(工资)for one more vacation day.

More and more Chinese people go traveling abroad during these years. But not all tourists behave politely in the places of   (1)  . Recently, a story about a 15-year-old Chinese tourist   (2)   a heated discussion online. The 15-year-old teenager carved “Ding Jinhao was here”   (3)   Chinese in the 3,500-year-old Luxor Temple(卢克索神庙). A Chinese traveler took a   (4)   and shared it on Sina Weibo on May 24.

Many people were   (5)   about what Ding had done and decided to search the Internet for the boy. It   (6)   them just one day to find information about him in Nanjing.   (7)  _, Ding’s parents quickly said sorry to the media. “We want to say sorry to the Egyptian people and to people   (8)   have paid attention to this matter across China,” Ding’s mother said. Ding’s parents said they should   (9)   their son’s behavior and he had learned his lesson. According to Xinhua, local Egyptians had worked to try and   (10)   the sculpture(雕像). Although there was some improvement, the words could not be totally wiped off.

To encourage reading, a Chinese company placed over 10,000 books around the underground, in taxis and on planes in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou. The activity earned the support of many Chinese stars. The “book-dropping battle,” however, won little praise. Instead, the movement drew much criticism(批评).

Some books were left untouched. Around the underground, passengers thought the books were left there to save the seats. Some books were taken away by cleaners. People also complained that they couldn’t get to the books—the carriages were too crowded.

The movement led to a hot debate.

Most people thought it could do little to encourage reading. “I think the best result is that people take selfies(自拍)when they pick up the books and write a post in WeChat. After that, they will just bring the books back home and place them on their bookshelves,” wrote one Weibo user.

Some pointed out that while Watson was a great reader, the Chinese stars who supported the movement didn’t seem to be reading much. Isn’t it embarrassing that the movement is supported by stars who don’t read a lot?

Murong Xuecun is a famous Chinese writer. He thought the book-sharing campaign was not at all a bad thing. “In the past years, the Chinese economy(经济) has been developing rapidly. Everybody is busy with work. They don’t have time for reading,” said Murong.“However, just because Chinese people don’t read regularly, it doesn’t mean we should do nothing to encourage reading, ” Murong added.

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Everyone must have experiences of setting off fireworks and firecrackers（爆竹）during the Spring Festival, but this year, stricter  (1)   on fireworks and firecrackers have been made by many cities and provinces. Since air pollution is   (2)  more and more serious all over China, the government has taken action.

Different cities have taken   (3)   measures to prevent that. For example, Beijing has told citizens that if there is someone who   (4)   the rules again, setting off fireworks and firecrackers will be completely banned. Shanghai even asks people to write down their   (5)   names and addresses on their ID cards when they buy fireworks and firecrackers.

The more fireworks and firecrackers, the  (6)   serious the air pollution will be. Although many people are quite sure of it, tradition is still popular in some areas. People believe that fireworks and firecrackers are useful for  (7)  away evil spirits（恶魔）. And people  (8)  live and work in cities follow the tradition when they go back to their rural homes for the Spring Festival. In big cities, however, citizens are ready to give up the pleasure of setting off fireworks and firecrackers to   (9)   some fresh air.

All in all, people should think twice before they  (10)   a choice between practicing customs and enjoying a healthy life.

Life in the twenty-first century will be very different from life today．Between then and now many changes will take place，but what will the changes be?

       The population is growing fast．There will be a large number of people in the world and most of them will live longer than people live now．

       Computers will be much smaller and more useful，and there will be at least one in every home．And computer studies will be one of the important subjects in schools then．

       People will work fewer hours than they do now and they will have more free time for sports，watching TV and traveling．Traveling will be much easier and cheaper．And many more people will go to other countries for holidays．

       There will be changes in our food，too．Maybe no one will eat meat every day．Instead they eat more fruits and vegetables．People will be much healthier.

  Work in the future will be different，too．Dangerous and hard work can be done by robots．Because of this，many people will not have enough work to do．This will be a problem．

In China, most families only have one child, so parents treated their children as a king. They buy everything that their children want to have, don’t   (1)   their children do any housework. As a result, children just open their   (2)   to be fed and stretch out(伸出) their arms to be dressed every day. More and more Chinese teenagers(青少年) find life more difficult   (3)   their parents. This is a big problem. 

Joy is 15 years old. One day her parents   (4)  because of business, so she had to stay at home alone. At first she thought she would be happy   (5)  her parents were not in. She could do    (6)  she liked. But when it was six o’clock in the afternoon, she felt   (7)  . “Oh, it’s time to have supper. Where can I get my food?” she said to herself. Later she found some food in the fridge, but she didn’t know how to   (8)   it. At that moment, she missed her parents very much. At last she could   (9)  go to the supermarket and  bought something to eat.

Many teenagers are  the same as Joy. So I think they should learn some basic life   (10)  , like cooking, tidying up their rooms or dressing themselves properly. They shouldn’t depend too much on their parents.

Nowadays, more and more people in society have known the importance of quality education. However, students in middle schools and high schools are still saying that they have too much  (1)   to do.

    In many teachers’   (2)  , homework offers a good way to strengthen the   (3)   the students have learnt in class. It is   (4)   for students to learn only by hearing. Yet they ignore the disadvantages that homework brings. For one thing, too much homework will   (5)  up all the spare time of students. They are   (6)   to enjoy their lives. Some students can do   (7)   but to take exams when they leave high school. For   (8)  , too much homework will do great   (9)   to students’ health both physically and mentally. They spend too much time having classes and doing homework. Little time is left for them to do   (10)   exercise. More and more students are   (11)  . At the same time, they feel quite   (12)   mentally. Their daily life seems to be filled with homework. They feel that they can  (13)  finish it, because every day they have new homework.

    Schools should try to take   (14)   measures to improve the all-round development of students. Schools should think more about the   (15)  of homework. How much time should students spend on homework? It is a question whose answer will have important effects on students.