【正文】 t of Harvard. He formed a pany with his friend Paul Allen.Bill gates started Microsoft Company in 1976 and in the years since then, his pany has produced puter technology that has changed the way people work, municate and play. Bill Gates was the chief executive officer of Microsoft until 2000 when he became the pany’s chief software architect. Because others were helping to run the pany, Bill Gates and his wife Melinda had time to spend on projects to improve global health and education. So far, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the largest charity organization in the world, has donated a lot of money to various charities. On 27th June 2008, Bill Gates stopped his fulltime work at Microsoft.Bill Gates was married on 1st January 1994. He has three children. He is an avid reader, and enjoys playing golf and bridge.生詞：1 passion 激情 2 executive 行政的 3 avid 酷愛的Questions: 執(zhí)行的(1)When was Bill Gates born?(2)How did Bill Gates bee interested in puters?(3)Did Bill Gates finish his college education? Why or why not/(4)What kind of new job did Bill Gates take when he stopped being the chief executive officer of Microsoft in 2000?(5)What do we know about Bill Gates’ hobbies?18There is a new kind of addiction called internet addiction. According to researchers, Internet addicts spend at least thirty to forty hours online every week. The use of the Internet can be an addiction like alcoholism or drug use. People are unable to control the time they spend on the internet.For example, one college student was missing for several days. His friends were worried, and they called the police. The police found the student in the puter lab。 he had been surfing the netfor seven days straight.Current studies show that about 6to 10 per cent of internet users bee addicted. And some researchers worry particularly about young people because the Internet is taking the place of the mall or the playing field for some of them. They spend more time in cyberspace than in the real world of friend and family.What is the cure? There is advice to help Internet addictseven online. Some experts remend that people set strict limits on their time for Internet use. You have to control it. The Internet shouldn’t control you.生詞： 2. addict上癮者。酒精中毒 Questions:(1) What is Internet addiction?(2) How much time do Internet addicts spend online every week?(3) What did the missing student do?(4) Who do some researchers worry particularly about? Why?(5) How can people cure Internet addiction?19Most people believe we must not drink sea water. They believe that if we do we shall be very ill because of all the salt in the water. A doctor called Bombard did not believe this. He thought that people could stay alive by drinking sea water and eating animals and plans from the sea. To prove he was right he set out in a small boat to cross the Atlantic Ocean without any food or water with him.Every day Dr Bombard drank just a little sea water. He also caught fish and they had water in them. He drank this water. He could not cook the fish so he ate them as they were. He took small plants from the sea, which gave him more food.He travelled from one side of Atlantic Ocean to the other in 65days. He lost 20kilos but he showed that people can live on sea water and the animals and plants in the sea.Question。(1) What do most people believe about sea water?(2) What did Dr Bombard think about it?(3) What did he do to prove that he was right?(4) How did he live on the sea?(5) What was the result of his experiment?20I am an American student and I want to tell you about some of the things America is famous for. I think these are all important parts of American popular culture.Firstly, America makes lots of amazing films. Films are very popular in America. When a new film is released at the cinema, lots of people go and watch it. Many America actors are world famous. Lots of them have huge houses in a place called Hollywood.Fast food is very popular in America. In a fast food restaurant, you can buy chicken and beef burgers, chips and soft drinks as well as other things. It is great because once you have ordered your food you only have to wait a couple of minutes for your meal to be ready. I think fast food is delicious, but try not to eat it too often because it is unhealthy.My favourite sport is basketball. All my friends like watching it, and many students in America support a team in the NBA. Because I live Chicago, I support the Chicago Bulls. My favourite player is Michael Jordan. He is very famous and earns a lot of money, but he does not play any more because he is retired.Questions:(1) What does the student think of the thing he wants to talk about?(2) What is said about many America actors?(3) Why does the student say fast food is so popular?(4) What suggestion does the student give us about fast food?(5) What do we learn about many students in America?21Tom was on a bus when it happened. He was travelling along when suddenly there was a loud crash. The bus driver had fallen asleep while he was driving, and had driven into a huge building. Everything went black. All Tom could remember was being in great pain.He woke up three days later, with a bad headache. It was then that he realized that he had only one arm. During the accident a sharp piece of metal had cut off his arm. That is why he so much pain.At first he found it difficult to adjust to life without one of his arms. He had to learn to do many things with just one arm instead of two. However, after some time he got used to it and began to be motivated to do many things again.Nowadays，he is back at work and has started running every day. He enjoys running because it keeps him fit and healthy. Also he is very fast, and it doesn’t matter that he has only one arm. It has been hard to adjust to life after the accident, but now he is as happy as he has ever been.Questions:(1) Why did the bu