业余时间你常参加什么运动？

　　与排球相比，大多数男孩更喜欢足球。足球也是我最喜欢的。上周我们和20中学进行了比赛。他们是相当强的一支球队，没有任何一支球队能击败他们。虽然我们既不高大，也不强壮，但我们确信能赢。我们按照老师告诉我们的去做，不断地传球并具有团队精神。上半场结束的时候，我们以1比0领先。他们得不到球，同时还错过了射门机会。最后，他们输了这场比赛。我们老师高兴地走过来对我们说：“好样的！祝贺你们！”

　　Which sport are you ___1_____ when you have time? Most of the boys ___2___ football ____3____ volleyball. Football is also my favourite sport.

　　Last week we ____4___ __5____ No.20 Middle School. They were __6__ a strong team ___7_____ ____8____ ___9_____ team couldn’t beat them. Though we were __10_____ big ___11______ strong, we were ____12__ to win the match. We did ___13____ the teacher told us, ___14__ __15___ the ball to each other and ____16___ ___17_____. At the end of the first half we were winning1-0. They couldn’t get the ball and ____18_____ kicking the ____19___.

　　At last they ___20____ the match. Our teacher came up happily and said, “Well done! Congratulations to you!”

　　答案：

　　1. in 2.prefer 3.to 4.played 5.against 6.such 7.that 8.any

　　9.other 10.neither 11.nor 12.sure 13.as 14.kept 15.passing

　　16.had 17.teamwork 18.missed 19.goal 20.lost

The Winter Olympics

　　The Winter Olympics （冬季奥林匹克运动会）is also called White Olympics. At this time, many colorful stamps are published（发行）to mark（标志）the great Games. The first stamps marking the opening came out on January 25,1932 in the United States for the 3 rd White Olympics. From then on, publishing stamps during the White Olympics became a rule（规定）.

　　During the 4th Winter Olympic Games a group of stamps were published in Germany in November 1936.The five rings of Olympics were drawn on the front of the sportswear. It was the first time that the rings appeared（出现）on the stamps of the White Olympics.

　　In the 1950’s, the stamps of this kind became more colorful. When the Winter Olympics came, the host countries （东道国） as well as the non---host countries published stamps to mark those Games. China also published four stamps in February 1980, when the Chinese sportsmen began to take part in the White Olympics.

　　Japan is the only Asian country that has ever held the White Olympics. Altogether 14,500 million stamps were sold to raise （筹集） money for this sports meet.

　　Different kinds of sports were drawn on these small stamps. People can enjoy the beauty of the wonderful movements of some sportsmen.

　　注释：

　　（1）to make the great Games 以这伟大运动为标志

　　（2）publishing stamps during the White Olympics 在奥林匹克运动会期间发行邮票

　　（3）the five rings of Olympics 奥运五环

　　（4）that the rings appeared.五环出现在……

　　思考题

　　（1）本文描述了篮球这项运动的由来。

 　　（2）第一自然段是篮球这个设想产生的背景，最后一段写了这种运动名字的由来，前后呼应。

Basketball

　　Basketball is still a young game. It is over a hundred years old. In the winter of 1891, a college was having some trouble with its boy students. The weather was bad and the students had to stay indoors. As they could not take part in their usual outdoor sports, they were unhappy, and some even got into fights from time to time.

　　Some of the teachers at the college asked Dr. Naismith to invent a game so that the students might have something to play at. It was not easy to invent such a game because it had to be played indoors, and the court was not very large.

　　Dr. Naismith thought for a few days and invented a kind of ball game. It was a fast, wonderful game with much moving and passing of the ball. It was played between two teams. In order to make a score, the ball had to be thrown into the basket ten feet above the floor on the wall. At each end of the court there was such a basket. At first, Dr. Naismith wanted to have the ball thrown into a box. As he could not find boxes of the right size, he had to use fruit baskets instead. That is how the game got its name.

　　注解

 　　（1）college n. 大学；学院

 　　（2）indoors adv. 在室内

 　　（3）outdoor adj. 户外的

 　　（4）court n. 场地

 　　（5）wonderful adj. 奇妙的；了不起的

　　思考题

 　　（1）How did basketball get its name?

 　　（2）Try to say something about one of your favourite sports.

　　In the 13th century, the famous Italian traveller, Marco Polo, travelled a long way to China. During his stay in China, he saw many wonderful things. One of the things he discovered was that the Chinese used paper money. In western countries, people did not use paper money until the 15th century. However, people in China began to use paper money in the 7th century.

　　A Chinese man called Cai Lun invented paper almost 2,000 years ago. He made it from wood. He took the wood from trees and made it into paper. He then put these pieces of paper together and made them into a book.

　　Now paper still comes from. trees. We use a lot of paper every day. If we keep on wasting so much paper, there will not be any trees left on the earth. If there are no trees, there will be no paper. Every day, people throw away about 2,800 tons of paper in our city. It takes 17 trees to make one ton of paper. This means that we are cutting nearly 48,000 trees every day. Since it takes more than 10 years for a tree to grow, we must start using less paper now. If we don't, we will not have enough time to grow more trees to take the place of those we use for paper.

　　So how can we save paper? We can use both sides of every piece of paper, especially when we are making notes. We can choose drinks in bottles instead of those paper packets. We can also use cotton handkerchiefs (手帕) and not paper ones. When we go shopping, we can use fewer paper bags. If the shop assistant does give us a paper bag, we can save it and reuse it later.

　　Everyone can help to save paper. If we all think carefully, we can help protect trees. But we should do it now, before it is too late.

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　　1. When he was in China, Marco Polo ____.

　　A. discovered Cai Lun invented paper

　　B. learned to make paper

　　C. saw many wonderful things

　　D. read a lot of books

　　2. People in western countries first used paper money in the _____ century.

　　A. 17th   B. 15th    C. 13th    D. 7th

　　3. About ____ tons of paper are thrown away every day in our city.

　　A. 1,700  B. 2,000   C. 2,800   D. 48,000

　　4. Which of the following is NOT the way of saving paper?

　　A. To use both sides of every piece of paper.

　　B. To use the paper bags from shops more than once.

　　C. To use cotton handkerchiefs instead of paper ones.

　　D. To grow more trees.

　　5. Which of the following is NOT true?

　　A. If we keep on wasting paper, we will have no paper to use.

　　B. The Chinese used paper money much earlier than the people in western countries.

 　　C. About 48,000 trees can be used to make 28,000 tons of paper.

 　　D. It is never too late to plant trees for paper.

　　【Key】 1. C  2. B  3. C   4. D   5. D

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