1． Johnny is a lovely fish. He lives in the sea. He is very lonely. He wants to find a friend that looks like him. Johnny see an ink fish. The ink fish has eight legs. He doesn't look like Johnny. So Johnny goes away.
Johnny meets a shark. He wants to say hello to the shark. But the shark opens his big mouth and wants to eat him. Johnny runs away quickly.
Johnny is tired and hungry. He wants to have a rest. Then he sees around fish. She says to him, "Hello! Would you like to be my friend?"
Johnny answers, "Of course! But you are round, I am flat. You don't look like me. "The round fish says, "But we are both fishes."
Johnny thinks and says, "You are right. Let's be friends." They become good friends.

2． Mr. Brown is a young famous businessman. He lives in the countryside and he often drives his car to his office.
One day, while Mr. Brown was driving down a street with the loud music on, he saw some children running around. Suddenly, a stone flew to his car's door! He stopped his car and jumped out, shouting at a girl, "That's my new car and it will cost a lot of money to repair it!"
"I'm sorry. . . I didn't know what else to do, " the girl said. With tears in her eyes, the girl pointed to a boy lying on the ground. "It's my brother," she said. "He fell out of his wheelchair and I couldn't lift him up. He's too heavy for me. I just wanted to get your attention" After hearing her words, Mr. Brown lifted the boy back into the wheelchair.
Mr. Brown keeps the dent (凹痕) to remind himself, "Don't go through life too fast, or someone will have to throw a stone at you to get your attention!"

3． Mr. Lee was in bed and was trying to go to sleep when he heard the bell ring. He turned on the light and looked a this clock. It was twelve o'clock. "Who can it be at this time of night?" he thought. He decided to go and find out. So he got off bed, put on his dressing gown and went to the door. When he opened the door, there was nobody. "That is very strange," he thought. Then he went back to his bedroom, took off his dressing gown, got back into bed, turned off the light and tried to go to sleep.
A few minutes later he heard the bell ring again. Mr. Lee jumped out of bed very quickly and rushed to the door. He opened it, but again he found no one there. He closed the door and tried not to feel angry. Then he saw a piece of paper on the floor. He picked it up. There were some words on it: "It is now after midnight, so it is April Fool's Day. April Fool to you!"
"Oh, it was the English boy next door!" Mr. Lee exclaimed (惊叫) and almost smiled. He went back to bed and felt asleep at once. The bell did not ring again.

4． What kind of place do you usually choose to stay for the night during a trip? Expensive hotels that may make you feel like you don't get what you pay for? Or cheap hostels that put you and five other strangers in the same bedroom? If both choices sound terrible to you, here's something new: holiday apartments.
In a holiday apartment, you have more space than what a hotel room can give you. Everything in the apartment is at your disposal . The living room, the kitchen, the study, and of course, the bedrooms are all for your own use. Some apartments even have a lovely garden or a game room. You'll feel at home in the holiday apartment. The best thing is, a holiday apartment is not expensive. The price for a holiday apartment is for two people, and the apartment is often cheaper than a hotel room for two. You only need to pay a little more for a third or fourth person. If you travel with friends or your family, a holiday apartment will be your best choice!

5． At 8, 844. 43 meters high, Mount Qomolangma is the tallest mountain on Earth. While it is famous for its beautiful views, parts of the mountain are facing a problem: rubbish. Every year, thousands of visitors throwaway tons of rubbish, such as bottles and plastic bags.
According to the UN, over 140 tons of rubbish has been left on the mountain. To reduce rubbish, China is limiting (限制) the number of people who are allowed to climb up the north side of the mountain. Only 300 people will be allowed to climb it, and only during spring.
Local people cleaned the mountain last year, removing rubbish at a height of 5, 200 meters. They collected about 8. 4 metric tons (公吨) of rubbish.
This year, the local government plans to spend 4 million yuan on a new clean-up activity. The local government is also setting up stations to sort (分类), recycle and breakdown rubbish collected from the mountain. A group of artists will also try to turn the rubbish into artworks. They will show these works of art to remind people not to leave rubbish when climbing the mountain.

6． There were many plants in a forest. When spring came, a pine trees saw the red rose nearby and said, "What a beautiful flower! I wish I were that lovely."
The rose proudly said, "It seems that I am the most beautiful flower in this forest. " Then the rose looked at a cactus (仙人掌) and said, "Look at that ugly plant full of thorns (刺)!"
"What a proud flower!" thought the trees.
As the days passed, the red rose often looked at the cactus and said bad words about it, like "This plant is useless. How sorry I am to be his neighbor!"
The cactus never got angry and even tried to advise the rose, saying, "God did not create any form of life without a purpose."
Spring passed, and the weather became very hot. As there was no rain, the red rose began to wilt (枯萎).
One day the rose saw birds put their beaks(喙) into the cactus and then fly away. The red rose asked the pine tree what the birds were doing. The pine tree explained that the birds were getting water from the cactus.
"The cactus has water?" asked the rose.
"Yes, you can also drink some from it. The birds can bring water to you if you ask the cactus for help."
The red rose felt too ashamed to ask for water from the cactus, But finally it did ask for help. The cactus kindly agreed.
The rose learned a lesson and never judged (评价) anyone by their appearance again.

7． My neighbor is a doctor. He and his wife are some of the (1)       people I have ever met. A few years ago, we started this kind of "favor war" where one of us would do something kind for the other, such as (2)       the driveway or building a shed, and next time the other would (3)       to top it with another favor.
Yesterday morning there was about 2 or 3 feet of snow on the ground and I (4)       he shoveled (铲) my driveway for me when I was out on a business trip last (5)       . So I took out my shovel and took care of both our sidewalks and driveways because it was my turn to do a favor (6)       . It took a while but I finished it and got into my car for work.
That night I got a (7)       on my door, it was my neighbor. He immediately shook my hand and thanked me for shoveling (8)       driveway and sidewalk, so that he was able to get to work earlier and (9)       a boy.
"As soon as I started the car early this morning, a (10)       came through that a young boy in our neighborhood was seriously ill. (11)       , my partner and I were only about 2 minutes away, but the closest ambulance (救护车)10 minutes," added he. "A young boy got to live his life (12)       you did me the favor earlier this morning."
It wasn't too much (13)       to shovel a driveway, but what I did got a young boy to see his family again, go back to school again and live his life again.
(14)       favor is too small. Even the smallest favor can make the biggest (15)       . One favor will always be followed by another.

23．　　Without Thomas Edison, the world might still be in the dark. (1)He lit up the world with his invention of the electric light. However, the electric light was not his only invention. He also invented the motion picture camera and 1, 200 other things. About every two weeks he created something new.
　　Thomas Edison was born in 1847. He attended school for only three months. His mother taught him at home, but Thomas was mostly self-educated. He started experimenting at a young age.
　　(2)他花了很多时间寻找第一份工作. When he was 12 years old, he go this first job. He became a newsboy on a train. He did experiments on the train in his spare time. Unluckily, his first work experience did not end well. (3)They fired him because the train caught fire by accident. Then Edison worked for five years as a telegraph operator, but he continued to spend much of his time in experimenting his first patent(专利权) in1868 for a vote recorder run by electricity.
　　Thomas Edison was totally deaf in one ear and hard of hearing in the other, but he thought of his deafness as a blessing in many ways. It kept conversations short, so that he could have more spare time. He always worked 16 out of every 24 hours. (4)有时候他的妻子不得不提醒他睡觉和吃饭.
　　Thomas Edison died at the age of 84. (5)He left a number of inventions that improved the quality of life.
阅读短文, 将文中画线部分译成汉语或英语.

24． After spending 40 hours playing the online game King of Glory, a 17-year-old middle school student in Guangdong Province had a stroke (中风) and nearly died in April, 2017. It shows how bad things can happen if one becomes addicted to (沉迷于) the Internet. In fact, among China's 772 million Internet users, about 151 million of them are between the ages of 10 and 19. To stop it, the government has called on parents and schools to monitor (监督) students' use of Internet and mobile phones. But it helps little because teenagers are addicted to the Internet so much that they don't want to stop it at all. Henry, a reporter from Guangdong News of People
Zombies (僵尸) are real! You meet them every day on the sidewalk (人行道). They walk slowly, their heads are down, looking at their mobile phones, and they will not look at you. They are living in a different world, a world of mobile phones! So people call them Mobile zombies. Now more and more people are complaining (抱怨) about these Mobile zombies because they walk slowly, making it difficult for other people to use the sidewalk. Do you have any suggestionsfor us?
I have a happy family. But now I have a serious problem — the Internet problem. My little son, Jason, is just fifteen. I think he should do a lot of homework at his age, but he doesn't seem to be interested in it. Now he hardly does his lessons at home. I have tried to talk to him about this problem, but it didn't work. He can happily spend much time on the Internet every day. He chats with people that he has never met before, but speaks little to me. And he will be angry if I ask him to do his homework. I wonder why the Internet is so interesting. Please tell me what I can do! ——Rebecca, a worried mother

25．网络让人们的生活更精彩, 交流越来越广泛. 然而, 网络的危害也显而易见, 特别是手机、互联网让低头族越来越多. 青少年沉迷网络游戏的情况也越来越严重. 根据第二节(回答问题)材料并结合自己的日常生活体验, 写一篇80词以上的英语短文, 谈谈你对网络的看法, 简要说明网络的优缺点.
注意:不得出现人名和校名等真实信息.