All parents love their children. Many parents want their kids to 1 well-known people when they 2 up. Most of them want their kids to live better than others. Many of them 3 their kids will be singers or actors. Actors and singers can 4 money easily in our country. When they appear in the advertisement，they will get much 5 which a farmer or a worker can't make all his life.

    Some of the parents want their kids to be businessmen or doctors. If they work 6, they will have cars and big houses in several 7. Some parents want their kids to work in cities and towns. They don't 8 them to work in the countryside. People who work in the cities and towns can get money after they 9. If you are a famous man，especially an actor, you'll get much but pay a little. A farmer is 10 一 he gets little but pays much.

一 Because we were told to have a picnic this weekend.

一 I am going to attend a swimming class.

一 By surfing the Internet.

— Right. It's really useful.

A

    My grandfatherJack is 96 years old,and he has had an interesting life.He has travelled a lot in his life in the Far East.He visited the Taj Mahal in India and the Pyramids in Egypt.He hunted （狩猎） lions in Africa, and rode a camel in the Sahara Desert.He says the most beautiful place he has travelled to is Kathmandu in Nepal.

    Jack has married twice. His first wife died when she was32.He met his second wife Maria while he was cycling round France.They have been married for 50 years,and they have lived happily in a small village since they got married.

    Jack says that he has never been ill in his life.The secret of good health,according to my grandfather,is exercise. He goes swimming every morning.He has done this since he was a boy.He also has a glass of wine every night！Perhaps that is his secret！

B

    Every morning my father buys a newspaper on his way to work.Every evening my mother looks through magazines at home.And every night,I look at the posters with photos of David Beckham and Yao Ming on my bedroom wall before I go to sleep.Can we imagine life without paper or print?

    Paper was first created about 2,000 years ago,and has been made from silk,cotton,bamboo,and,since the 19th century,from wood.People learned to write words on paper to make a book.But in those days,books could only be produced one at a time by hand.As a result,they were expensive and rare.And because there weren't many books,few people learned to read.

    Then printing was invented in China.When printing was developed greatly at the beginning of the 11th century,books could be produced more quickly and cheaply.As a result,more people learned to read.After that,knowledge and ideas spread quickly.

    Today information can be received online,downloaded from the Internet rather than found in books,and information can be kept on CD-ROMs or machines such as MP3 players.

    Computers are already used in classrooms,and newspapers andmagazines can already be read online.So will books be replaced by computers one day? No,I don't think the YaoMing poster on my bedroom wall will ever be replaced by a computer two metreshigh！