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①IF you can draw the 2008 Olympic mascots (吉祥物) yourself, youll become the coolest kid in your classmates eyes. All five have become top fashion.

Since China made its final decision at 8 pm November 11, the five mascots—Beibei, the fish; Jingjing, the panda; Huanhuan, the Olympic flame(火焰); Yingying, the Tibetan antelope (藏羚羊) and Nini, the swallow (燕子) —have been on school bags, hats and T-shirts. If you put their names together, they say “Beijing welcomes you!”in Chinese.

People rushed into many big shopping centres to buy them. Some shelves were empty after only one day of business.

Why do the mascots look like kids?

“Children are the future of the world. No one can say ‘no to kids smiles. So we have five child-like mascots,” said Wu Guanying, a key member of the design group. Wu came up with the idea of five dolls.

②When artists finished the first designs in April, they showed their work to kids to see if they liked them.

Thirty kindergarten (幼儿园) kids and 30 primary students acted as judges. ③They were quite happy at seeing the lovely images (形象). ④关于他们代表的含义，有多种说法。

“There were all kinds of answers. Some kids thought the mascots were a family of earth protectors (保护者). One even mistook the fish for a daughter of the sea. But the popularity of the mascots among kids impressed us,” said Wu.

⑤symbol, Games, mascot, for, a, an, the, is, Olympic. It carries within itself peoples best wishes for the success of the Games. Also, its always an image with special meaning for people of the host country (主办国).

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primary adj. 起步阶段的

judge n. 评判员

stand for. 代表

symbol n. 象征

version n. 版本

1. 将①句翻译成汉语: ________________________________________

2. 将②句翻译成汉语:

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3. 将③句改为复合句:

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4. 将④句翻译成英语:

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5. 将⑤处的单词连成一句话:

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(B)

这是一篇关于电脑病毒的阅读材料。1989年10月，中国的一些科学家在电脑上发现了病毒。据说，这种名叫“Jerusalem Viruses”的电脑病毒是由一些受过良好教育的年轻人研制的。它通常在星期五发作。电脑病毒的危害非常大，传播速度快。很多国家饱受电脑病毒之苦。目前还没有有效的办法清除这种病毒。

On October 12, 1989, some Chinese scientists were working at the computers to look for the invention they needed. Suddenly they saw something bright crossing the computers screens, and there was so much! At the same moment the computers were working much slower. To find out what was happening they stopped their work to check some parts of the computers. Much to their surprise, they found out that most of their stored information was cleared up by computer viruses (病毒)!What was worse, all these computers had been infected (感染) by computer viruses.

It is said that the computer viruses were made by a group of young men who all had good education. They made the viruses just to show their intelligence(才能). These kinds of computer viruses are called Jerusalem Viruses. These viruses can stay in computers for a long time. When the time comes they will attack the computers by slowing down the function (功能), damaging (破坏) their normal programs or even clearing up all the information.

We now come to know that Jerusalem Viruses often attack computers on Friday so they are also called “Friday Viruses” and that they are spreading (传播) to a lot of computers. Among the countries that suffered (遭受) computer viruses are Britain, Australia, Switzerland, the United States of America, and some other countries. But till now, how to clean up the terrible viruses is still a problem.

1. What did the Chinese scientists find out when they checked the computers?

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2. Why did the group of young men make the computer viruses?

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3. The computer viruses will damage the normal programs, wont they?

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4. Why are these computer viruses called “Friday Viruses”?

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5. Whats the best title of this passage?

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