某英文报就近年来我国学生出国留学低龄化的利弊在报上展开讨论，希望广大读者畅所欲言，就此事发表自己的看法。假设你是中学生李华，请用英语给编辑写一封120-150字的信，谈谈你的看法。既可以赞同，也可以反对，但必须说明理由。  （注意：信的开头已给出，字数不计算在内。）

Dear editor,

I’m writing to tell you about my opinion on Chinese students going abroad for further studies when they are very young．

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[1]Seven Chinese sailors are missing after a Chinese cargo ship sank in Russian waters near Japan on Saturday, the Foreign Ministry said Wednesday．

[2]"Three of the 10 Chinese sailors on board were saved but                   after the ship sank off the waters of Vladivostok," it said in a statement on its website．

[3]The cause of the incident wasn’t mentioned．And rescue efforts and an investigation into the incident are ongoing．

[4]But the Global Times, a Chinese language newspaper based in Beijing, said yesterday the ship was fired on by the Russian navy before it sank, citing a Russian newspaper．　　

[5]New Star, the cargo ship, was sequestered（扣押） at the Russian port of Nakhodka earlier this month for alleged smuggling．It left the port not far from the Sino-Russian border without permission from Russian authorities last Thursday and was chased by a cruiser, the newspaper said．

[6]However, the Chinese ship started to sink on the way．According to the report, in a period of almost 24 hours, Russian navy officers and soldiers on board the cruiser（巡洋舰）watched the sinking boat and did not make any response to the cries for help from the crewmen．A Chinese Foreign Ministry official on Friday said that Russia’s attitude on the sinking of a Chinese cargo ship in Russian waters is unacceptable．In the end, 16 sailors on board New Star got on two lifeboats．

[7]Chinese Deputy Foreign Minister Li Hui Thursday summoned Russian ambassador Sergei Razov, urging Russian authorities to complete investigations into the incident as soon as possible and try its best to search for the missing crew members．

1．What does the passage mainly tell us? （Within 15 words）

2．Which sentence in the passage has the close meaning with the following sentence?

    People are trying to find out the cause of the incident and look for the missing ones．

3．Fill in the blank in the second paragraph．（Within 5 words）

4．What’s the possible cause of the cargo ship’s sinking, according to the passage? （Within 15 words）

5．Translate the underlined sentence in the passage into Chinese．

1．Our information comes from a ____________ （可靠的） source．

2．We p______________ the match from May 6^th to May 15^th．

3．He a______________ a label to his luggage．

4．I knocked at the door, but there was no r_______________．

5．His f_____________ English made us think that he was a native speaker．

6．Go your way according to your own ______________（良心）

7．A French firm will _________（投标） for the contract．

8．She wants to study ________________（建筑学） in college．

9．She could t________ her family tree back to the 16^th century．

10．The present government’s p__________ on trade isn’t very satisfying．

Susan Sontag （1933--2004） was one of the most noticeable figures in the world of literature．For more than 40 years she made it morally necessary to know everything—to read every book worth reading, to see every movie worth seeing．When she was still in her early 30s, publishing essays in such important magazines as Partisan Review, she appeared as the symbol of American culture life, trying hard to follow every new development in literature, film and art．With great effort and serious judgment, Sontag walked at the latest edges of world culture．

Seriousness was one of Sontage’s lifelong watchwords（格言）, but at a time when the barriers between the well-educated and the poor-educated were obvious, she argued for a true openness to the pleasure of pop culture．In “Notes Camp”, the 1964 essay that first made her name, she explained what was then a little-known set of difficult understandings, through which she could not have been more famous．“Notes on Camp”, she wrote, represents “a victory of ‘form’over‘content’,‘beauty’over‘morals’”．

By conviction（信念）she was a sensualist（感觉论者）, but by nature she was a moralist （伦理学者）, and in the works she published in the 1970s and 1980s , it was the latter side of her that came forward．In illness as Metaphor —published in 1978, after she suffered cancer—she argued against the idea that cancer was somehow a special problem of repressed personalities（被压抑的性格）, a concept that effectively blamed the victim for the disease．In fact, re-examining old positions was her lifelong habit．

In America, her story of a 19th  century Polish actress who set up a perfect society in California, won the National Book Award in 2000．But it was as a tireless all-purpose cultural view that she made her lasting fame．“Sometimes,” she once said ,“I feel that, in the end, all I am really defending is the idea of seriousness, of true seriousness．”And in the end, she made us take it seriously too．

1．The underlined sentence in paragraph 1 means Sontag_________．

A．was a symbol of American cultural life

B．developed world literature, film and art

C．published many essays about world culture  

D．kept pace with the newest development of world culture

2．She first won her name through ___________．

A．her story of a Polish actress

B．her book illness as Metaphor

C．publishing essays in magazines like partisan Review    

D．her explanation of a set of difficult understandings

3．According to the passage, Susan Sontag__________．

A．was a sensualist as well as a moralist

B．looked down upon the pop culture

C．thought content was more important than form

D．blamed the victim of cancer for being repressed

4．As for Susan Sontag’s lifelong habit, she __________．

A．misunderstood the idea of seriousness                 B．re-examined old positions

C．argued for an openess to pop culture                   D．preferred morals to beauty

5．Susan Sontag’s lasting fame was made upon___________．

A．a tireless, all-purpose cultural view

B．her lifelong watchword：seriousness

C．publishing books on morals

D．enjoying books worth reading and movies worth seeing

A team of researchers recently created a robot that can repair itself．The newly designed machine can sense injury to itself and adapt．That ability sets the new robot apart from earlier machines．Because the robot can recover from unexpected damage, it may be especially useful in exploring unfamiliar places．“There is a need for planetary robotic rovers to be able to fix things on their own,” says Josh Bongard, one of the device’s creators．“Robots on other planets must be able to continue their mission without human help if they are damaged and cannot communicate their problem back to Earth．”

       A typical robot functions according to a computer program, but the new robot works differently．First, sensors in its four legs observe the robot’s movements and signals to its built-in computer．From the formation it collects, the robot creates its own programs that allow it to adapt to different situations．For example, when the researchers shortened one of the robot’s legs, the smart machine simply adjusted its way of walking—it used three legs instead of four．

       The researchers are looking for other places to put the resilient robot to work．One possible spot is the ocean floor．That dark and dangerous undersea terrain might be a good choice for a robot the scientists call the Starfish．“We never officially named the robot, but we usually refer to it as the Starfish, even though a real starfish has five rather than four legs,” says Bongard．“Also, a real starfish is much better than our robot at recovering from injury, because it can actually regrow its legs．” Scientists have created robots that help humans in many ways: by exploring space, fighting fires, and even performing surgery．

1．The newly designed robot is different from the former ones because it ___________．

A．can communicate with people on the earth about their problems

B．works according to a certain computer program

C．can find problems itself and get used to the new environment

D．can explore unfamiliar places

2．An example is given in the second paragraph in order to explain that the robot ___________．

A．is used to create new programs                   B．has typical robot functions

C．has sensors to observe its movements           D．can adapt to new conditions

3．The underlined word “resilient” in the last paragraph means the robot __________．

A．is creative       

B．uses advanced technology

C．recover easily  

D．is informative

4．What might be the best title of the passage?

A．How does the Starfish Robot work

B．Do-It-Yourself Robot Repair

C．Robots Designed to Work On Other Planets

D．New Robot Helping Us In Many Ways

5．Which of the following is True about the Starfish?

A．It has more than four legs．

B．It hasn’t been officially named．

C．It can regrow its legs quickly．

D．It has started to work on the ocean floor．