—It _______ nice.
—I _______.
—_______, please do it now.
—Sure, the TV programmes are too _______．
—Once a month.
People all over the world eat rice. 1 people in Asia (亚洲), Africa (非洲) and South America 2 it every day of their lives. Some people almost don't eat 3 except rice.
Rice is a kind of 4. There are more than 7, 000 kinds of rice. Most kinds are water plants. Farmers 5rice in many countries even in the southern part of Russia and in eastern Australia.
No one really knows where rice 6. Someone in China wrote about it almost 5,000 years ago. Some scientists (科学家) think that rice 7 in West Africa first, but 8 think it 9from India and then was 10to other parts of the world.
Computers are useful machines. They can help people a lot in their daily life. For example, they can help people to save much time to do much work, and they can help people to work out many problems they can't do easily. Our country asks everyone to learn to use computers except the old people.
Today more and more families own computers. Parents buy computers for their children. They hope that computers can help them to improve their studies at school. But many of their children use computers to play games and watch videos. For most students, computers can not help them to study better but make them fall behind. So computers are locked in boxes by parents.
In some other countries, even some scientists also hate computers. They say computers let millions of people lose their jobs or bring them a lot of trouble. Will computers really bring trouble to people or can they bring people happiness? It will be decided by people themselves!
Why do we say the computer is a useful machine?
What do many parents complain about?
In this passage we know computers ______.
Can computers really help children to study better?
How do you understand the last sentence of this passage?
The Internet is becoming important in our life. How much do you know about it? The following questions and their answers will help you to know more about the Internet.
What is the Internet?
The Internet is a large, world-wide collection (聚集) of computer networks (网络). A network is a small group of computers put together. The Internet is many different kinds of networks from all over the world. These networks are called the Internet. If you have learned to use the Internet, you can have a lot of interest on the World Wide Web (网) .
What is the World Wide Web?
The World Wide Web has been the most popular development of the Internet. It is like a big electronic (电子) book with millions of pages. These pages are called homepages. You can find information about almost anything in the world on these pages. For example, you can use the Internet instead of a library to find information for your homework. You can also find information about your favourite sport or film star, talk to your friends or even do some shopping on the pages. Most pages have words, pictures and even sound or music.
What is e-mail?
Electronic mail (e-mail) is a way of sending messages to other people. It's much quicker and cheaper than sending a letter. If you want to use e-mail, you must have an e-mail address. This address must have letters and dots (点) and an @ (means “at”). For example: Lily @ Yahoo.com. Write a message, type a person's e-mail address, and then send the message across the Internet. People don't need to use stamps, envelopes or go to the post office because of the invention of the Internet. Quick, easy and interesting — that's the Internet.
The Internet is______.
The World Wide Web is like_______.
The sentence “You can talk to your friends on the pages.” means ______.
People like to use e-mail to send messages to their friends because______.
The “e” in e-mail means_______.
Which is your favorite _________（频道）?
I hope _________ (收到) a letter from you.
—Where's Mr. Green?
—He has gone to attend an _________ (国际的) meeting.
_________ (放松) and enjoy the ride.
There is a _________ (巨大的) building near the river.
There are not any _________(programmer) on TV now.
Would you _________ (mind) me opening that door?
Suddenly this _________ (dark) became terrible.
Where were the _________ (Australia) and Englishman watching TV?
She _________ (pick) up the dictionary and began to look up the new word in it.
People eat rice in the south of China. （将主动语态改为被动语态）
Rice _________ _________in the south of China.
I have been there for two days.（对画线部分提问）
_________ _________ _________ you _________ _________?
He left here yesterday.（对画线部分提问）
_________ _________ he _________ _________?
Her mother has been a Party member for three years.（改为同义句）
Her mother _________ the Party three years _________.
The Greens moved to France two years ago. (改为同义句)
_________ _________ two years _________ the Greens moved to France.
1)它是一个来自澳大利亚的新英语课程，它包括一本书和五个光盘；
2)对学生和游客有益；
3)可以了解有关使用电话、问答问题以及谈论天气和时间；
4)话题包括了旅行、宾馆、食品、饮料、购物及货币；
5)你一定会从中受益非浅的。
