初三任务型阅读1

初三任务型阅读

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Peter and Mike are very good friends. They are in the same class at school. They often go to school and play together. They often visit each other's home at weekends, too.

Peter's mother has got a new baby. Peter is very glad to have a little brother, so he always talked about his younger brother to Mike. At first Mike was very interested in the new baby because he didn’t have any sisters or brothers . But after some time he began to get with Peter's endless talking about it. He also felt

a little jealous(妒忌的) of his friend.

One morning before class, when the two boys met at the school gate, Peter said to Mike cheer fully, "Do you know, Mike, my little brother has put on nearly a pound in this week." "That's not very much at all," answered Mike ."I know a baby who can put on more than ten pounds a day ." "Oh, that can't be true ," answered Peter laughingly. "Whose baby is it?" "An elephant's," said Mike in a cold voice.

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Happy Farmis an online game. It is very popular among people in China. The game offers you a piece of empty land and some seeds (种子) at first. You are like the farmer. If your land is small, you can spend some money to make it big. And you must harvest your things on the farm on time, or some other farmers will steal your fruits, vegetables, milk, eggs and so on. Of course, you can steal theirs. If you want to make money, you must sell out your things .

Some Chinese websites have offered this game to its users. So far, it is said that about 16 million Chinese people are playing this game. Some people were so crazy (疯狂的) that they even get up in the midnight to harvest their crops and steal others’.

Happy Farm brings happiness to people. It is really a fascinating game. But it also brings many problems. It is reported that a baby died in a hospital just because th e doctor didn’t give him timely treatment. Do you know what the doctor was doing? He was playing Happy Farm! There are many stories like this.

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Hello, everyone! Have you heard of Pink Shirt Day? In Canada, it’s celebrated on the last Wednesday of February every year. On this day, people wear pink shirts to stop bullying(欺凌).

Now, over 25 countries, including America, Australia and the United Kingdom, celebrate Pi nk Shirt Day every year.

The original event was organized by two Canadian students, David Shepherd and Travis

Prices. On the first day of school in 2007, David and Travis saw ninth-grade schoolboy Charles McNeill being bullied by some other boys because he was wore a pink shirt. They bought 50

Pink shirts and asked some students to wear them. The next day, hundreds of students were in pink! Soon, the story spread all over Canada. From then on, Pink Shirt Day began to be celebrated .

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Cambridge（剑桥）is one of the top universities in the world，and it’s a city as well. To the surprise of most visitors，there are no walls around the university．Classroom buildings，libraries and offices can be seen all over the city．Most of the members of the city are the students and teachers of thirty—one colleges（学院）．It got its name “Cambridge” from the river called Cam and a bridge built over it．Before the university was founded 800 years ago，Cambridge was a developing town．It developed faster because of the opening of the railway and became a city in 1951．Now it has a population of more than one million．Many young students hope for the chance to study at Cambridge．Perhaps you’ll be a member of Cambridge one day．