Jules Verne was born in 1828. He was neither an inventor nor a scientist, but he read many books about science and wrote some exciting stories about the things which he thought that scientists and inventors would one day be able to do. Years later many of the things he wrote about really happened. At that time, his stories seemed like fairy tales.
　　His most famous book is "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" (A "league"is an old word which means about three miles). In those days submarines (a submarine = an underwater boat) had not been invented, but he wrote about an underwater ship very much like a modern submarine. The men of the submarine in this book had many strange journeys and found many strange things.
　　The people in Verne's books often did surprising and sometimes impossible things, but they always seemed to be real people. In "Around the World in Eighty Days", Mr Fogg planned to travel around the world in eighty days. This may seem easy to you today, but in those days there were neither planes nor cars. Mr Fogg traveled in many different ways, even on an elephant at one time! If you want to know whether Mr Fogg succeeded, you should read the book.

3. All the characters in Verne's books____.

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　　The Westborough High School golf team had taken the official photos with the state prize. The other teams, disappointed, were on the bus heading home. And then Westborough instructor Greg Rota noticed something wrong on one of the score cards. A 9 had been recorded as a 7. They were not the state prize winner; Wobum High had won. "No one would have known," said Wobum's instructor, Bob Doran. For Rota, it wasn't a difficult decision: "The prize wasn't ours to take." Coin Stars "College students are lazy, but they also want to help," says University of Pennsylvania graduate Dana Hork. So she made it easy, placing cups in rooms where students could leave their spare coins, and handing out cups to first-year students to keep in their rooms. Her "Change for Change" effort has collected $ 40,000 for charities （慈善机构） , which were decided upon by students. Never Forgotten A school in Massachusetts received a $9.5 million check from Jacques LeBermuth. But it took officials several days of digging to discover his connection to the school. Records showed the LeBermuth came from Belgium and studied in the school in the 1920s. LeBermuth became a trader, owned shares of AT&T and lived off the earnings until he died, at age 89.

7. Greg Rota's decision shows that he was ____.

　　JINTAN, JIANGSU: The 20 students — 18 boys and 2 girls — had a thousand reasons to be proud of themselves. They had just climbed their way to the top rung（阶梯）out of 4 million students taking part in the Fifth National Hua Luogeng Gold Cup Mathematics Contest on Tuesday evening. The 20 gold medal winners are all primary and middle school students under the age of 14. "Many of the problems are of college level and these pupils can figure them out. It is just unbelievable!" said a teacher from Guangdong province.
　　Named after China's most famous mathematician, Hua Luogeng, the contest started in 1986, one year after his death. In less than 10 years, it has been recognized by the State Education Commission（国家教委）as the country's biggest and best contest of its kind.

　　The sun's heat warms the air and makes it move. This movement is called a wind. Different parts of the Earth receive different amounts of heat. Near the equator(赤道), the sun is overhead and heats the Earth intensely(强烈). Nearer the poles, the sun's rays strike the Earth at a low angle so the heat is not so intense.
　　A lot of the earth's heat is reflected back into spaces，by the atmosphere, clouds, dust in the air and by water, snow and ice. So some parts of the Earth are warm and some are cold. Warm air tends to rise and creates areas of high pressure. As warm air rises, cold air flows in and replaces it. The greater the pressure difference is, the stronger the wind blows.

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