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Maria家楼上搬来了新邻居，他们的某些行为经常影响Maria和她家人的休息。因此她给邻居写了一封信。请根据这封信，完成下面表格。

Do you have a dog? I have a cute dog. It’s my birthday present (礼物)   1  my uncle. Its name is Maria. It’s an   2  dog. It is big and it is yellow in color. It likes running and jumping (跳跃). It   3  playing ball games with me. It’s great fun   4  with it. Maria is very   5 . It can play basketball. It is a basketball star in my neighborhood. Can it put the   6  into the basket (篮框)? Yes, it can.   7   does it do it? It uses (使用) its head (头). Maria is really good at it. All my friends like to   8  it play basketball. I’m   9  to have it. It brings me more friends. It is funny, too. It can dance   10  the music. What a lovely dog!

1.                A．on            B．to             C．for  D．from

2.                A．French         B．Chinese         C．American D．Japanese

3.                A．enjoys         B．dislikes         C．helps D．finds

4.                A．sleeping        B．playing         C．swimming D．eating

5.                A．busy           B．shy            C．clever    D．scary

6.                A．house          B．box            C．dog  D．ball

7.                A．How           B．Why           C．Where   D．What

8.                A．pay            B．watch          C．look D．visit

9.                A．beautiful        B．lazy            C．sad  D．happy

10.               A．to             B．with           C．and  D．on

— Would you please tell Maria about it?

— _________

Electronic (电子的) books, or e-books, have changed the way many of us read. Now, electronic textbooks are changing the way many students    1  . Many schools in Washington have begun using online course materials for their students. Rather than using a regular textbook, it’s all online.
“Our students are ready to use resources (资源) from different   2  ,” said the head teacher, Peter Noonan. He talked about the   3   of electronic textbooks to a reporter. “The world is changing   4 . Online textbooks can change right along with the things that are happening.  Besides, electronic textbooks   5  less than regular textbooks. We need to pay $8 million for the regular textbooks for our students, but we only need to spend $6 million   6   the electronic textbooks,” said Peter Noonan.
Students have different ideas about the change,   7  most like it. “I don’t have to carry a textbook around, so that is   8  ,” said a high school student named Melanie Reuter. Maria didn’t   9 . “I don’t like it because the Internet sometimes doesn’t work.”
Some students don’t have a computer or can’t go online at home. Stephen is   10  of them. But he said, “I can go to the library, or go to a friend’s house, to go online.”