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De ar Da vid,

Glad to receive your e-mail. Our school has made safety ________(rule) for us to follow. Let me tell you something about them .

We are asked to be _________(care) with electricity when we are ________(use) it. It is dangerous to play ______ fire, for it may cause terrible accidents. We should make sure doors and windows are shut before we leave. Besides, we are not a_________ to swim alone,

__________(especial) in deep rivers or lakes. If we really want to, we must go to the __________ (swim) pool with our parents or teachers .What’s more, ________(follow) traffic rules is also very important. Everyone should watch out when crossing the road. And our school warns us not

_____________(play) on the road.

I think these rules are __________(必要的) as safety _______(come) first.

Have a good summer holiday!

Yours,

Wang Wei

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Do you see a driverless car? Recently a police officer noticed a slow moving car in Mountain View, California, the US. When he made the car stop, to his s__________，he saw two passengers in it but no driver. The car was driving itself! The driverless car was ________(invent) by Google. Self －driving cars may seem like something out of a movie, b_____ experts say the cars could become a safer choice of carrying passengers within the next few years.

Many experts say driverless cars can make roads even _______(safe). More than 90 percent of car _________(accident) are caused by mistakes made by drivers. Unlike people, driverless cars don't get angry, _______(sleep), tired or distracted(注意力分散的). Right now, driverless cars are ______(see) in only a few states in the US. Trained passengers must ride inside the cars to control them in case something goes wrong. Also, Google is still improving its cars. Many haven't been tested at a s______ of over 25 miles an hour. It's said that ____ first self driving car will go for sale as early as 2019. They will be very popular around the world in the future. One day children might even “drive” by _______(they) to school!

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Since computers were invented in the USA _____ the 1950s, they have ______(come) very important in many areas of work and leisure. There is no doubt that computers are

very _______(use) in the technology and business. In space, computers have been used to control the speed and direction of a spaceship. W______ the help of computers, doctors can find diseases _______(easy) and solve other problems. For _________, tiny computers which are inside patients’bodies can keep hearts _________(beat) normally. In factories, robots are _________ (control) by computers that are like human brains. They can do work that is ____________(danger) to humans. In business, computers are used to place and cancel orders. They are also making the workplace _______(safe) and better.

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Do you like eating raisins(葡萄干)? They are dried grapes that have been eaten ________(wide) for thousands of years. Nearly 3500 years ago, the first raisins were _________(discover) as grapes that were drying in the sun on a vine(藤). In the past, ___________(Europe) used raisins as medicine and even as a form of money.

In America,raisins were _______(see) after the 1873 heat wave in California which destroyed its valuable grapes, leaving only dried but tasty grapes. Soon, some f_______(farm)began developing seedless(无籽的) grapes in California.These grapes would be d_______ in the sun and became the popular dark raisin we eat and enjoy today. Later, there was a kind of ______(gold) raisin. It was made by treating grapes with a chemical(化学物质)and using some special methods to process them.

Today, central California remains the center of the world’s raisin industry. It can p_________ nearly 95 percent of the world’s raisins. Its_______ (sun) climate and hot temperatures provide the perfect conditions________ grapes that are dried into raisins.

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How much pocket money do you get from your parents every month-200 yuan? Some may need more to buy birthday __________(present), fast food lunches, ice cream or cartoon (动画) books. But for Zhou Li, 30 yuan a month is e________. The only thing she buys is lunch-1.5 yuan each day. "My favorite is fried potato slices and rice," said Zhou, "meat is too e________ for me."

Zhou, 14, is a Junior 1 student at Hongzhi Experimental School in Beijing. Her parents ______(be) migrant workers(外来务工人员). They come from Henan. Her father now works

as a ________(clean) and gets 500 yuan every month. Her mother has no job. Every day, Zhou gets up at 5:30 a.m. and rides 20 minutes to school. She studies h______, and even reads books during breaktime. Like many teens, Li has a lot of homework, but that is not all ______(she) work. During the week she helps her mom cook. On weekends, she helps wash clothes.

She is afraid of ________(have) to leave school. Zhou didin’t go to school at 12 for one year __________ her family had no money. This year, the school didn’t ask her to pay the 600 yuan fees because her family is too poor. "I hope I will always be in school," said Zhou. She says she wants to be a doctor when she ________(grow) up.