One of the great questions of all time still has scientists taking part in discussions: What happened to the land called Atlantis? Long ago, the ancient Greek philosopher（哲学家） Plato wrote about Atlantis. He said that long before his time it was a beautiful land near Europe. Historians believed that it was a very rich place with palaces and traditional culture. All of a sudden it disappeared. Ancient people thought it went down into the sea. Over time, a number of scientists have tried to look for it.

    Now, some scientists believe that the Greek island of Santorini may be the lost Atlantis. Today, Santorini is an island in the Aegean Sea with a huge hole in the center filled with sea water. However, 3, 500 years ago it looked very different. Then it was a round island with a tall volcano（火山） in the middle. Today, Santorini has 13 villages and about 6, 000 people, but in the past it had cities and perhaps even more people. Starting in 1967, researchers started to carry out a big dig on Santorini. They wanted to know about what was underground. They found part of a city with apartment buildings full of furniture as well as streets and water systems. They also found quite a few colored paintings and pictures on the walls of houses. In 1999, the diggers discovered some valuable gold art showing a female calf.

    Researchers thought about the strange city for some time until they understood what had happened to it this city beside the sea was buried by a terrible explosion（爆炸） of the volcano. Hot lava and ash（岩浆和灰） suddenly came out of the volcano and buried the roofs of the city.

    To this date, scientist have not found the bodies of any people stuck there. They think that in the final days before the volcano blew the island apart, the people were successfully able to get out. Although Santorini is said to be the lost Atlantis, no one has proved it yet. Today tourists from around the world come to see the museum and wonder if Santorini is actually the lost Atlantis. Without question, it is a very beautiful place.

    Reading newspapers has become an important part of our everyday life. Many people read newspapers the first thing to do in the morning.(other) read newspapers as soon as they are free during the day so that they can learn what is (happen) in the world.

    Sometimes, however, we do not have enough time to read all the news carefully, so we just take a quick look at the front page, at other times, we may be in such  hurry that we only have a few minutes to look  the names of the passages.

    Newspapers can (find) everywhere in the world. We can get many different kinds of newspapers in the big cities, of course, in some of the mountain villages we can see few newspapers.

    Some newspapers are published (one) a week, but most of the newspapers are published once a day with many pages, some even published twice a day! As you know different people enjoy reading different newspapers, some like sports news, some like economic news and others prefer short stories. They just choose what they are (interest) in.

    Today newspapers in English have the (large) number of readers in the world.

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Dear Mom and Dad,

    Time files! …

Yours,

Tom

    My uncle John used to live in a beautiful little house by the sea in Atlantic City. I say he "used to" live there 1 he doesn't live there any more. He was killed two years ago. He2living there before he died. He had $60 million in the bank.

    After Uncle John's death, I came to stay in his house for a while. I had been there for two days when I3a message on the screen of the old computer. I was very surprised, because I thought the computer had been4.he message said, "You have new5!" When I read it, I thought it looked like the6of a novel. "This looks interesting." I thought, "It must be7one of Uncle John's friends." I decided I should make an answer to the e-mail to tell him or her that Uncle John was8. However, the computer would not let me9.

    Every day for the next three weeks, more e-mails kept arriving. I printed10of all of them. The story was about Jane Winterbourne, a young writer working on her first novel. She sent her novel to Jack Tanner, an old writer and asked him to11her to publish it. However, he cheated her, and published the novel himself-pretending that he had12it. The novel was very13. Tanner made a lot of money, and bought himself a house by the sea in Atlantic City. It was then that I realized that "Jack Tanner" and "Jane Winterbourne" were14names. "Jack" was15 to be Uncle John.