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C. stop to cry D. to stop to cry

----I agree with you. ______ number of problems have appeared already.

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A. would rather play basketball than to sing

B. would rather play basketball to singing

C. prefers basketball to football

D. preferred playing basketball to singing

About 5000 years ago, people started to use the first written language. Well, do you know when【1】first alphabet (字母表) appeared?

Recent research suggests that it 【2】(use) first in Egypt around 1900B.C. Later, the ancient Greeks created 【3】(they) own according to this alphabet. And then the ancient Romans improved it almost like our modern alphabet. You can see that these【4】(letter) almost remain in our modern English alphabet by looking at letters from the Roman alphabet. A similar thing 【5】(happen) in the East. Paper was invented in China early in the second century A.D. Before that, written communication was done 【6】 rocks and shells. And the ancient Chinese invented their own system of symbols 【7】 became an alphabet in the end. Much of this is still used today. The【8】(China) alphabet of today is a mixture of single-sound symbols and symbols that represent (呈現(xiàn)) a word or a meaning. It is a beautiful-looking and wonderful-sounding 【9】.

Today, people use letters and symbols to communicate with each other, 【10】 pictograms (象形文字) haven’t gone away. You see them all the time. They remind us that communication is always developing but is, at its most basic, always the same.

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C. invented D. received

--- Thanks. An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

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Dumplings

You need:

wrappers（餃子皮）

vegetables

beef

salt

oil

Steps

1.Put beef in a bowl.

2.Cut the vegetables into small pieces with a knife.

3. Add the vegetables to the beef. Then add a little oil and salt.

4.Mix with chopsticks.

5.Put a spoonful of filling（餡）in a wrapper and told the wrapper around it.

6. Put the dumplings in the boiling water.

7.Take the dumplings out when they float（漂浮）to the surface.

8.Put the dumplings on a plate.

【1】Is the text above a menu?

【2】Besides the vegetables，what else do you add to the beef?

【3】How do you mix the filing?

【4】When do you take the dumplings out?

【5】Where do you put the dumplings at last?

A. grow up B. eat up C. put up D. get up