Why was Bill unhappy about the game?

Where do the speakers plan to go?

Sometime in the next century, the familiar early-newspaper on the front gate will disappear. And instead of reading your newspaper, it will read to you. You'll get up and turn on the computer newspaper just like switching on the TV. An electronic voice will distribute stories about the latest events, guided by a program that selects the type of news you want. You'll even get to choose the kind of voice you want to hear. Want more information on the brief story? A simple touch makes the entire text appear. Save it in your own personal computer if you like. These are among the predictions from communication experts working on the newspapers of the future. Pictured as part of broader home-based media and entertainment systems, computer newspapers would unite print and broadcast reporting, offering news and analysis with video images of news events. Most of the technology is available (可用的) now, but convincing (说服) more people that they don't need paper to read a newspaper is the next step. But resistance to computer newspapers may be stronger from within journalism. Since it is such a cultural change, it may be that the present generation of journalists and publishers will have to die off before the next generation realize that the newspaper industry is no longer a newspaper industry. Technology is making the end of traditional newspapers unavoidable. Despite technological advances, it could take decades to replace newsprint with computer screens. It might take 30 to 40 years to complete the changeover because people need to buy computers and because newspapers have established financial(财经的) interests in the paper industry.

The first time I heard the actual London Bridge was in Lake Havasu City, Arizona, I thought it was a joke. A stupid joke at that. I mean, what sort of moron would take a perfectly good, perfectly famous bridge and move it halfway around the world to some no-name town in northwest Arizona? Back in 1962 when all this started, Lake Havasu City was nothing. A couple of shops, a couple of homes, and no tourism at all. It turns out Robert McCulloch is the moron in question, and he wasn't quite the moron I thought he was. His 2.45 million dollar investment(投资) in the 130-year-old bridge—which the British government was selling because it was about to fall into the Thames (泰晤士河)—ended up being the investment of a lifetime. You see McCulloch was a real businessman, among other things, and his money paid off big. He turned Lake Havasu into one of the most visited tourist attractions in Arizona. It took nine long years to take down the bridge, ship it brick by brick to the middle of nowhere , and build it up again. When it finally did open up in 1971, it was a huge deal covered by the international press. The bridge is now a popular tourist attraction, and there' s even a mini "English Village" at the foot of the bridge with souvenirs(纪念品) and real British food so you can have a good old time. Nowadays Lake Havasu is a busy town with a population of about 56,000 citizens and another 2.5 million visitors each year. Most of that is during spring break when the town overflows with energetic boys and girls. Even MTV and the Girls Gone Wild people get in on the action. All thanks to that little bridge. I don't know about you, but I'm saving my pennies. When the French get sick of that Eiffel Tower, I'll be the first to put money on it. It'll look great in my backyard.

What does the man have to do now?

We found that bar at last. I didn't have to ask again, for there it was in big red neon letters over the window—Star Bar. There were some iron tables outside with plastic chairs around them. A few people sat around, looking at a portable television set that someone had brought out of the bar. They were all in thin summer dresses or short shirts; even at that late hour it was stifling . Two thin dogs lay under one of the tables with their tongues out, and some of the women were fanning themselves unenthusiastically(无精打采地) with magazines. "He's not here," I said, after a quick look around. The television was speaking out an advertisement for a detergent (洗衣粉), and the people sitting round had their eyes glued to the picture of a woman proudly showing how white her husband' s underwear was after having been washed. They took no notice of us at all. "Well, what did you expect?" replied Fergus, yawning (打呵欠). "It's only half past nine, and he said he would be here at nine. You ought to know Graig by this time. He'll turn up sometime after ten."

Ralph and Celia________a lot of each other since they moved to the same city.

One day a farmer's donkey fell down into a well. The animal cried piteously【K1】______ hours as the farmer tried to figure out what to do. Finally, he decided the animal was old, and the well needed【K2】______ (cover) up anyway; it just wasn' t worth【K3】______ to save the donkey. He invited all his neighbors to come over and help him. They all grabbed a shovel (铲) and began to shovel dirt into the well. At first, the donkey realized【K4】______ was happening and cried horribly. Then, to everyone's amazement, he quieted down. A few shovel loads later, the farmer finally looked down the well. He【K5】______ (astonish) at what he saw. With each shovel of dirt【K6】______ hit his back, the donkey was doing something【K7】______ (amaze). He would shake it off and take a step up. 【K8】______ the farmer' s neighbors continued to shovel dirt on top of the animal; he would shake it off and take a step up. Pretty soon, everyone was amazed as the donkey stepped up over【K9】______ edge of the well and happily ran off! Each of our troubles is a stepping stone. We can get out of the deepest wells just【K10】______ not giving up! Shake it off and take a step up.

假定你是李明。上周末学生会组织部分学生去附近社区进行了一次义务劳动，受到居民的欢迎。请你给校园英文报写一篇报导。活动内容包括：1．打扫卫生；2．浇灌花木；3．帮老人干家务；4．跟小朋友做游戏等。注意：1．词数80词左右，题目已为你写好；2．可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；3．请直接将书面表达写在答题卡上。

Young women who take part in beauty contests (比赛) are helping to keep alive an outdated opinion of women: that a woman' s most important value is how she looks. Women have been working very hard through the years to change their image (形象). They have been trying to prove that the value of a woman does not lie only in her beauty. The world is just beginning to recognize that women are as smart, wise and strong in personality as men are, and that there are qualities more important than looks when judging people. When women take part in beauty contests for top prizes, they encourage people to value them for their beauty alone. It is unfair to say that beauty alone determines one's worth. Beauty contests not only encourage spectators(观众) to judge women by their appearance, but they encourage this idea in the contestants as well. These young women spend months losing weight to be the " right" size and learning how to dress, wear makeup, and walk just right so that some judges will consider them beautiful. I think it's great for a woman to feel good about her appearance, but looks shouldn' t be sought after in an extreme or unreasonable way. There are too many other, more important, things in a young woman's life: learning, developing friendships and preparing for their future work and perhaps a family. As long as there are beauty contests, women won' t be fully recognized as well-rounded human beings.

What is the woman going to do?

When Tom Szaky sees a juice container thrown away, he doesn' t see rubbish; he sees a pencil case. Sweet wrappers (包装纸) ? A beautiful kite. But these are not the imaginings of a dreamer. For the 28-year-old CEO of Trenton, New Jersey-based TerraCycle, they're a business model. The fast-talking Szaky is leading the new industry of upcycling. Instead of recycling (shredding or breaking down materials and enabling them to be reproduced as other products), TerraCycle takes packaging headed for landfills(垃圾填埋) and reuses it—more or less whole. TerraCycle' s 85 employees make nearly 200 products, sold at shops such as Petco, Kmart, Whole Foods Market, and Target. Szaky's $7. 4 million company, now also moving ahead in Mexico, Canada, the United Kingdom and Brazil is a far cry from the business he founded with classmate Jon Beyer in 2002 as a freshman at Princeton University. The two entered a business competition with a plan to sell an organic plant fertilizer (有机肥料) made from worm waste. They lost the competition but started the business anyway. With their goal—to make products entirely out of rubbish—suddenly clear, Szaky knew the time was right to drop out of Princeton. TerraCycle' s first product used dining-hall waste to feed the worms and thrown-away bottles to package the fertilizer. The result: a cheap, green breakthrough. Word spread, and in 2004, Home Depot began carrying the fertilizer in its Canadian stores. To Szaky, waste does not exist in nature. TerraCycle is a "second chance" employer of, say, a piece of furniture, an ice-cream container. As Szaky points out: "The biggest problem with most green, fair-trade, and organic products is that they tend to cost more. At TerraCycle, everything is made from rubbish, and rubbish is free. People should be able to protect the planet without having to pay a cost for that right."

假定你是李明，你的英国朋友Dave与你在同一个城市工作。你去邀请他和你一起参观一个中国画展。他不在，请你根据以下要点给他写个留言条。 要点： 1．介绍画展 中国画 历代名画展 展期：本月8日～18日 地点：艺术博物馆 2．约定会面的地点和时间 注意：词数80词左右。

Chicago's Children's Hospital is the lucky receiver of a surprise $18 million gift from Gladys Holm. She once was a secretary who never earned more than $15,000 a year and never married. She lived alone in a small flat in Chicago, and was a volunteer at the Children's Hospital. She was called the "Teddy Bear Lady" because she brought toy animals to sick children on her regular visits. But Miss Holm, who died in 1996 at the age of 86, was also a long-time buyer of stocks(股票). Over the years, she saved money that rose up to $18 million, which she left to the Children's Hospital. It was the largest single donation in the hospital's 115-year history. The hospital president, Jan Jennings, was shocked when she heard the news. "When Miss Holm's lawyer called to tell me how much that money was, I asked him to repeat it, since I was certain I had misheard." Why did Gladys Holm feel so strongly about the Children's Hospital? Jennings said the hospital first touched Miss Holm's heart nearly 50 years ago, when doctors there saved the life of her friend's daughter. She never forgot the happiness she felt all those years ago. Holm's gift will be devoted to heart disease research. People at the hospital said they regretted that they couldn't thank Miss Holm for the surprising gift.

Can you imagine life without French fries(炸薯条)? Potatoes are very popular today. But in the past this was not true. Potatoes grew in South America five thousand years ago. But they only became popular in other places two hundred years ago. In the 1500s, the Spanish took the potato from South America to Europe. But the people in Europe did not like this strange vegetable. Some people thought that if you ate potatoes your skin would look like the skin of a potato. Other people could not believe that you ate the underground part of the plant. So they ate the leaves instead. This made them sick because there is poison (毒素) in the leaves. In the 1800s, people in other parts of the world started to eat potatoes. In Ireland, potatoes became the main food. Then, in 1845, a disease killed all the potatoes in Ireland. Two million people died of hunger. Today, each country has its own potato dish. The German people eat potato salad, and the United States has the baked potato. And, of course, the French invented French fries, which are now popular all over the world.

We were able to buy________furniture from________friend at cost price.

We asked Philip to come with us________he knows the road.

Is Cactus City Wild West Park old?

It was Clark' s first visit to London Underground Railway. Against【C1】______ advice of his friends, he decided to go there after 5 o' clock in the afternoon. This is a bad time to【C2】______ in London, because numerous people go home from work【C3】______ this hour. He had to join a long【C4】______ of people who were waiting for tickets. When his turn came, he had some difficulty in making himself【C5】______by the man selling tickets. However, he got the right ticket【C6】______ the end and, by asking people the【C7】______ , he also found the right platform. It was packed tight【C8】______ people. He did not【C9】______ to get on the first train, but he was【C10】______to move nearer to the edge of the platform so as to be in a better【C11】______ to get on the next one. When this train came in, Clark was【C12】______ forward on to the train by the【C13】______ of people from behind. The doors closed and the train【C14】______ off. He was unable to see the names of the stations where the train stopped, but he knew that the station he wanted was the sixth【C15】______ along the line. When the train got to the sixth station, Clark got off, feeling good that his【C16】______ had been so easy. But he suddenly【C17】______ that he had come to a station he had never heard of. He explained his difficulty to a man who was standing on the platform. With a【C18】______ on his face, the man【C19】______ Clark that he had caught a train going in the opposite【C20】______ .

Where does the woman live?