Hello,everybody.Welcome to surf on a new Web site—SCIENCE NEWS FOR KIDS!

    Our goal is to offer timely items of interest to kids,accompanied by suggestions for hands on activities,books, articles,Web resources,and other useful materials.

    Our emphasis is on making the Web site attractive by offering kids opportunities to comment on and grade the subject matter,get ideas for science projects,and try out math puzzles.At the same time,we offer teachers creative ways of using science news in their classrooms.

    The Science News for Kids Web site,supported by several corporations and foundations,strengthens the usefulness of Science News in the middle－school classroom and offers entertaining reading and activities for students interested in science.

    A section of the Science News for Kids Web site is devoted to particular interests.At present,we have six such zones: a weekly brainteaser（难题）for those who enjoy solving and inventing puzzles (PuzzleZone),entertaining science－fiction composition exercises for those interested in writing (SciFiZone),and weekly science short description along with science project ideas and tips (ScienceFairZone).The GameZone contains a small selection of logic and memory games.The TeacherZone has materials,including question sheets related to the feature article of the week,so that teachers can bring science news topics to the classroom.The LabZone features a weekly hands on activity or science project idea.In the future,we might add additional zones,for example,for kids interested in robotics,the environment,computers,math,or veterinary（兽医的）medicine and animals.

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    Washington,DC 20036                 Phone :202-785-2255             Fax: 202-659-0365

注意：

1).词数100左右；

2).短文开头已给出，不计入总词数。

Dear classmates,

    Now I'd like to tell you how I learn English.

许多家庭的门上都装有防盗门镜（俗称“猫眼”），从室内透过防盗门镜向外看，可以看到来客的正立、缩小的像，由此可以断定，门镜的作用于一个：（    ）

1).你的态度；

2).列举上大学的好处（2-3点）；

3).你对上大学的认识。

注意：

1).词数100左右；

2).可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；

3).信的开头与结束语已为你写好（不计入总词数）。

Dear Liu Hua,

    I learn that you prefer to work directly after high school rather than go to college.But I don't think it is a wise choice in a long term.

Liu Ming

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在此符号下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线（＼）划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；2.只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

    After shopping,Mother and I went to a restaurant for lunch.I notice Mother looking at a nearby table occupy by an elderly woman and young couple.They ate silently,and it was clearly that things were not going well.As we left, Mother stopped on their table.“Excuse me,”she said,put her arm around the unhappy old woman.“You remind me so many of my mother.May I hug（拥抱）you?”The woman smiled happily as she accepted to it.After we left,I said, “That was very nice of you,Mother.So I didn't think she looked like Grandma.”“Neither did me,”said Mother cheerfully.

    Does the age gap matter in a relationship?

    The love story of French President Emmanuel Macron and Brigitte Trogneux, 24 years his senior, has aroused heated discussion on age differences {#blank#}1{#/blank#} relationships. Does age matter or should love prevail(战胜) over all?

    I find {#blank#}2{#/blank#} a very heartwarming love story. Not just this couple,{#blank#}3{#/blank#}any couple - what does age difference matter after all? If they love each other,{#blank#}4{#/blank#} ( devote) to the relationship and work on making it strong, that is what{#blank#}5{#/blank#} (count).

    It is nearly impossible for Chinese women to accept Macron's relationship. It is  {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (common) for older men to marry younger women, but for an older woman to marry a younger man is often seen as {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (appropriate). If you get along well, go for it, it's your life and life is way too short{#blank#}8{#/blank#} (let) a potential soul mate get away because of what you think others would say. I think it really doesn't matter. It is involved in the {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (devote) of the people and how well they enjoy each other's company is important along with supporting each other {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(emotion), financially etc....

    Reading good books is one of the greatest pleasures in life. It 1 our happiness when we are cheerful, and lessens our 2 when we are sad. A good book may absorb our attention so 3 that for the time being we forget our 4.

    Whatever may be our main purpose in reading, good books should never fail to give us 5. With a good book in our hands we will never be 6. Whether the characters in the book are taken from real life or are purely 7, they may become our companions and make us laugh. The people we meet in books may 8 us either because they are similar to our close friends or because they present 9 types whom we are glad to welcome as new acquaintances. Our human friends sometimes 10 us, but the friends we make in books are always respect us. By turning the pages we can 11 them without any fear of hurting their feelings, When our human friends 12 us, good books are always there to give us sympathy and encouragement.

    One of the most valuable gifts from books is 13. Few of us can travel far from home.14 all of us can lead varied lives through the pages of book. When we wish to 15 from the dull realities of everyday life, a book will help us when 16 else can. To travel by book we don't have to 17 and save a lot of money. Through books we may gel the thrill of adventure without 18. We can climb high mountains or cross the hoi sands of the desert,19, through books the whole world is ours for the asking. The 20 of our literary experiences are almost unlimited.

    Reading good books is one of the greatest pleasures in life. It 1 our happiness when we are cheerful, and lessens our 2 when we are sad. A good book may absorb our attention so 3 that for the time being we forget our 4.

    Whatever may be our main purpose in reading, good books should never fail to give us 5. With a good book in our hands we will never be 6. Whether the characters in the book are taken from real life or are purely 7, they may become our companions and make us laugh. The people we meet in books may 8 us either because they are similar to our close friends or because they present 9 types whom we are glad to welcome as new acquaintances. Our human friends sometimes 10 us, but the friends we make in books are always respect us. By turning the pages we can 11 them without any fear of hurting their feelings, When our human friends 12 us, good books are always there to give us sympathy and encouragement.

    One of the most valuable gifts from books is 13. Few of us can travel far from home.14 all of us can lead varied lives through the pages of book. When we wish to 15 from the dull realities of everyday life, a book will help us when 16 else can. To travel by book we don't have to 17 and save a lot of money. Through books we may gel the thrill of adventure without 18. We can climb high mountains or cross the hoi sands of the desert,19, through books the whole world is ours for the asking. The 20 of our literary experiences are almost unlimited.

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