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—Yes. It begins with ______ "n".

—OK, mom.

—Well, we need to think about it. It's a big __________.

—No, you _________. You can finish your homework first.

—_____________!

    A thousand years ago, Hong Kong was covered by a thick forest. As more and more people came to 1 in Hong Kong, these trees were cut down and burnt. Now there is 2 forest left, though there are still some small areas covered with trees. We call these woods, not forests.

    Elephants,tigers and many 3 animals were living in the thick forest. When people came to live in Hong Kong, the 4 began to die out. Early farmers grew rice and kept pigs and chickens in the valleys (山谷). They cut down the trees and burnt them. They needed fire to keep themselves 5 in winter, to cook their food and to keep away the dangerous animals. Elephants 6 disappeared because there was not enough food for them. So did most of the wolves and tigers. Monkeys and many other animals soon died 7 the same way.

    You might think that there are no longer any animals in Hong Kong except in the zoos. There  8 still about 36 different animals living there. One of the most interesting of Hong Kong's animals is the barking deer (麂). These are beautiful little animals with a rich brown coat and a white patch(补丁) under the tail. They look like deer but they are much smaller. They are less than two feet  9 . They make a noise rather like a dog barking. In Hong Kong the barking deer has only one real enemy – 10 . People hunt these little animals though it is illegal (违法的). There are now not many barking deer left. So it is important for people to protect wild animals.

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    On a very sunny afternoon this summer, Laura was driving home. When she was near a crossing, Laura found one of the traffic lights didn't work. And a policeman was standing in the middle of the crossing. There were too many cars. And the weather was too hot. The fact was that he was doing a hard job. He was busying directing(指挥) traffic.

    Laura saw a store on the corner. She wanted to buy some water for the policeman. But it was a little shy of her to do it for a stranger. At last Laura decided to go to the store to buy some water. After buying water, she found it was not easy to give the water to the policeman in the busy crossing.

    But Laura still wanted to have a try. She drove into the crossing and gave him the water. Though he was too busy to take the water, he broke into a smile and said, "Thank you."

    Laura went home by car and felt better. It felt good to spread the positive energy(正能量), and it was the least she could do.

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School Programs

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    This year's winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine is from Japan. According to his research, cells (细胞) sometimes "eat" themselves to keep healthy. In other words, cells can break down old ones and use the useful parts to make new cells, or to fight off viruses (病毒). This new finding could help scientists fight many diseases.

Small machines

    Three scientists from France, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands (荷兰) won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work on small machines. How small? Well, they are a thousand times thinner than a strand (缕) of hair. We can't see them with only our eyes! This technology will open a whole new world for us. For example, we could make very small robots in the future. A doctor could put them into our body. Like policemen, the robots look for the ill parts in our body, and send the medicine right there.

Super-state

As teachers said in your physics class, most things in the world are in three states: solids (固体), liquids (液体) and gases . But at very low or high temperatures, things can turn into a strange state. For example, break down things to their smallest pieces and we get "atoms" (原子). Like Lego building blocks, atoms usually add up to become a 3-D thing, like a box. But atoms in the strange state don't. They stay together and become a flat thing, like a piece of paper.

    This is a new finding of three British-born scientists. And they won the Nobel Prize in Physics this year. They hope to use things in this strange state to make new materials.

About the Prize

    The Nobel Prize was started by Swedish inventor, Alfred Nobel in 1895. It gives prizes to great science research and the people behind it. Every year in October, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences decides who wins. It includes six prizes: chemistry, physics, physiology (生理学) or medicine, peace, literature (文学) and economic. This year each winner gets a medal and prize money of more than 6 million yuan.

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    Two years ago, a 9-year-old girl from Massachusetts, US, wrote a letter to American President Barack Obama. "Why aren't there any women on the dollars or coins of the United States?" Sofia asked. "There are many women that could be on the dollars or coins because of the important things they've done." To her surprise on April 20, also her 11th birthday, Sofia got a call from the White House telling her that her wish will come true.

    Harriet Tubman, an African-American woman, will be on the face of the $20 bill, and the final design will be released(发布) by 2020, said US Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew. This means that Tubman will become the first woman in more than a century and the first black person to appear on the country's currency (货币).

    Tubman was born a slave (奴隶) in 1822. When she was 27, she made her escape. But Tubman wanted to help other slaves become free, so she later returned to the South 19 times and saved more than 300 people. She fought against slavery all her life.

    However, while Tubman is going on the new currency, women still bring home far fewer $20 bills than their men colleagues (同事). According to the Institute for Women's Policy Research, women are paid only 79 percent of what men are paid in the US.

    "Women have long been undervalued (低估)," said Susan Ades Stone from the US. "To put a great woman on the currency can remind us every day of women's value, abilities and contributions. At least it's a step in the right direction.

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A: Good morning, Bill.

B: Hi, Nick.

A:       

B: Yes, I like playing basketball. How often do you exercise?

A:       

B: Do you get up early in the morning?

A: Yes, I get up at 6:30 every morning. And then I play basketball for half an hour.

B:       

A: I go to bed at 10:00.       

B: I see. You look strong. Let's play basketball together tomorrow morning, OK?

A: All right.        See you.

B: See you tomorrow.

    Reading newspapers has become an important part of everyday life. Some        read newspapers as the first thing to do in the morning, others read newspapers as soon as they have free time during the day so that they can learn what is        in the world.

    Sometimes, we do not have enough time to read all the news       , so we just take a quick look at the front page. At other times, we may be so busy        we only have a few minutes to look at the names of the passages.

    Newspapers can be        everywhere in the world. We can get many different kinds of newspapers in big cities, but in some mountain villages we can see        newspapers.

    Some newspapers are published once a week,        most of the papers are published once a day with many pages, some even published twice a day! You know different people enjoy reading different newspapers. Some like world news, and others prefer short stories. They just choose what they are        in.

    Today newspapers in English have the largest number of        in the world. The English language is popular, and        Chinese students are reading English newspapers such as China Daily and 21^st Century. They bring us more and more messages together with the Internet.

参考词汇：

忙于某事(be busy with...)     帮忙做家务(help sb. do the housework)    做饭(cook dinner)

洗碗(wash the dishes)        打扫房间(clean the room)           洗衣服(wash the clothes) 

职责(duty)                 分担(share)

要求：1）.短文要包含所有的信息提示，可适当发挥。

      2）.短文开头部分已给出，不计入总词数。

      3）.文中不得出现真实的人名与校名。

    There are three people in my family.