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阅读短文，根据短文内容，从所给的选项中选出可以填入空白的最佳选项，使短文的意思完整连贯。 When you are learning English , listening, speaking and writing are important, but reading can also be very helpful. When you read, you can not only learn some new words, but also you can learn how to use these English words. When you read, it gives you a good example for writing. Good reading tips. (1)Read something that you can (more or less) understand. If you need to stop every three words to use a dictionary, it is not interesting. (2)If there are four or five words on a page, write them in your notebook. But you dont have to write them while you read. Instead, try to guess their meaning as you read: mark them with a pen. Then come back when you have finished reading to look them up in a dictionary and write them in your own vocabulary book. Then try to remember them. Try to read regularly. For example, read for a short time once a day. (3)Fix (固定) a time to read and keep to it. You could read for fifteen minutes when you go to bed, or when you get up or at lunchtime. Read what interests you. Choose a book or a magazine about a subject that you like, because you are going to spend time and money reading it. So, choose an interesting book. You can also read newspapers. (5) For example, 21st Century Teens. It is easy enough for you to understand it. There is something interesting in it.A. Fifteen minutes every day is better than two hours every Sunday.B. Try to guess the meaning of the new word.C. Try to read at the right level.D. Try to increase the number of your new words.E. There are many English newspapers in China.F. Reading newspaper is a better way to learn English. There are many names for Australia-Oz, Down Under, and the official (正式的) name, the Commonwealth of Australia. But the name that Australians like best is “the Lucky Country”.(1) But after gold was discovered in the 1850s, thousands of people left Britain and went to Australia. Over 80% of Australias population is of British origin now. (2)English is the national language, cricket is the national game, and Australians drive on the left. (3)Everyone says “Gs day” when you meet them. “Gs day means “Hello”. It is an example of Australian English. Australia has a population of about sixteen and a half million people now. Over half of the population lives in the south-east side of Australia between the two big cities of Sydney and Melbourne. (4 ) Here you can find the most dangerous spiders(蜘蛛) in the world. All children need to learn how to treat spider bites at school. Australia has ten times as many sheep as people and is the worlds largest producer of wool. (5 )Tourists come to enjoy Australias warm weather and to see the special animals, such as the koala and the kangaroo.A. Australia is a big country but with a small population.B. This can be seen in many ways of Australian life.C. The central part of the country is mainly desert and very few people live there.D. A few hundred years ago there were very few people in Australia.E. Tourism has also become important.F. Australians are very friendly.G. Many tourists come to visit it every year. Rice is a big part of Chinese life. In the past, people greeted each other by saying “ Have you had your rice?” Some people still say it today. The rice-growing season is different from north to south in this big country. (1)Near the Yangtze River, rice is planted from April to June and harvested form August to October. In Chinas southeast, early (March to July) and late (June to November) rice harvests are both very big. China is the worlds largest rice-growing country. In 2003, China grew 166 million tons of rice. (2 )In the 1960s, thousands of Chinese died because they had no food to eat. In the 1970s,a Chinese scientist, Yuan Longping, grew a new kind of rice called hybrid rice. (3) Hybrid rice is a stronger plant, compared with common rice. It can grow lots of water or in not much water. (4) Today ,half of Chinas rice plants are Yuans special hybrid. (5) Yuan is known as the “father of hybrid rice.” At the end of last month, he won the World Food Prize for his work to help feed so many people.A. It makes 20 percents more rice than other types of rice.B. In northern China, the season is from May or June until August or September.C. China use Yuans hybrid to grow much more rice than before.D. But it is not easy to feed the worlds largest population.E. The population of China is becoming larger.F. It also doesnt easily get diseases or worms.G. We can feed more people than before. In the past, people travelled to foreign countries because they thought they would be different in many waysthe buildings, the food, the dresses and so on.(1) They all have their Hilton or Sheraton Hotels everywhere. They all have their McDonalds, their KFCs and their Pizza Huts.(2) And of course, people are driving the same brands(口牌) of Japanese or European cars. Then what do the foreigners travel for? What do tourists hope to experience in a foreign country that they cannot experience at home? (3)It is a nations history and culture that are the main attractions. Most people travel overseas to find out what foreign countries history and cultures were like in the past, not what they are like today. Tourists try to learn the history and cultures of foreign countries by visiting different kinds of museums. Every country also has its own beautiful places for tourists to visit. (4) Finally, there is perhaps a countrys attractionits people. A country is not just its old buildings, its works of art or beautiful places , its also the people who live in it. This is why a country such as Thailand attracts millions of people.(5) It is why the Pacific islands are also so popular. The friendly, smiling people make visitors feel welcome.A. Their own special scenery (风景) would certainly attract tourists from other countries.B. The answer could be that people are very interested in the past.C. The tourists come mainly because of the friendliness of the people there.D. At present, however, one large city is similar to another.E. Officer buildings look the same everywhere, and most city centers are full of office buildings.F. So people like to visit a different place.G. People always enjoy the beautiful scenery there. As is known to all, China has the largest population in the world and most of them live in the countryside. Since they are poor, many families, especially in the rural areas,(1) many children have to drop from school. The “Project Hope” is aimed at solving this problem so that (2) The “ Project Hope” mainly depends on the people and overseas Chinese who care about the development of Chinas education. The money will give to the countryside to help the children who cannot go to school. (3) “Project Hope” is a good way to improve the education in the rural areas, (4) .By now,only a few children can get the money for the education. So I suggest that people of all work of life pay more attention to (更多的注意力) the problem and do much more to help raise the educational level(水平) of the country.A. but its far from the factB. dont have enough money to send their children to schoolC. they cant go to school because they are poorD. every child of school age can receive regular education(正规教育)E. Everyone can help a little.F. One hundred yuan will help such a child finish his primary education. From my experience, getting birthday presents as a father can be great, especially you can give ideas on what you want before your birthday. I have two children and both asked me what I wanted for my birthda