Passage 15

　　More and more people are l  1     the life with computers. Using computers you can send E-mail q   2    and easily. You are able to send a letter with pictures and sounds to someone, a   3    in the world without putting a stamp. E-mail can send its message to the other side of the world i  4    seconds. E-mail is easy to use and it s  5    time and money. It serves(服务) for twenty-four hours. So it doesn't matter if your friends are in bed when you send E-mail to them, or you are seeing a film at the cinema when they send E-mail b  6  .

　　Can you imagine(想象) the future without teachers b   7    computers? Students will teach themselves in the schools of the future. Computers help students develop their own ways of l   8    . Students will follow the learning programmes by looking at online libraries and w   9    lessons by world-class teachers. If they don't understand something, they will ask other students o   10      or E-mail their teachers. Computers are becoming more and more popular indeed.

　　Passage 16

　　Wang Yani was born in 1975 in Guangdong, China. A  1    a baby, she loved to draw. She drew lines everywhere. She e   2    drew on the walls! Her father was an artist. Yani wanted to be like h   3   . So she tried to stand like her father w  4    he painted. This made him laugh. One day, she d  5    lines on his painting. She was only two and a half years o  6   , but her father got angry. She cried and said, "I want to paint like you!" T   7    her father thought about his own childhood. He also wanted to draw and paint. But his parents c   8    understand him. They just got angry. He decided to help his daughter b   9    an artist.

　　Wang Yani was famous at a young age, b   10    she still has a normal(常人的) life. So the Wang family lives like everyone else.