I have always been interested in clowns(小丑)．The earliest thing I can remember，as a child of three，is seeing a pair of clowns梠ne is very fat，the other is very 1 ndline．A traveling circus(馬戲團) came to our town and my parents took me to see it．When we arrived at the circus，egeryone was laughing at the clowns．I didn't un-derstand why they were laughing，2 ndline I laughed,too．
While I was 3 ndline，the fat clown came and sat down next to me．“Shall we dance?”he asked，then 4 ndline me up and began dancing．I felt frightened and I began to cry．5 ndline then I have been interested in clowns．They make me laugh a lot，although they still make me a bit 6 ndline too．
In life，we sometimes laugh at things that 7 ndline us．We often laugh most at people who make us nervous．When we laugh，we relax and 8 ndline ourselves．People who never laugh can become worried and ill．
Laughter is like medicine and a clown is like a 9 ndline．
There have always been，and there will always be clowns，because people need to laugh．Laughter is the best kind of 10 ndline in life．
Who wants to carry a heavy bag to school? Not children. Nobody wants one shoulder to be lower than the other, and aching too. In India, most people would look at the reduction(減少) of textbooks as a way out. But in a country like America, there are always more choices. A company called goReader has created a "school bag" which is as small as a laptop computer (筆記本電腦) , weighing . about 2.5 kg. The goReader has a color screen and can "hold" any textbook that a student may need, says a report in The Asian. Age Newspaper. The company plans to work closely with the publishers(出版社) of textbooks so that these books can be offered on the Internet. All the students will have to do is to download(下載) their textbooks. Making notes and marking key parts of a lesson can be done just as students have usually done on their textbooks. At present, the project is being tested out in a university. Richard, who founded. the company, is having his invention tested at Chicago's DePaul University, where he studied. Does that mean we will say gooLlbye to the soimd of tuming ne,w paper and the smell of the black ink?
( )1. Children like to carry heavy bags to school according to the passage. ( )2. The school bag created by goReader is very big and heavy. ( )3. There are many kinds of textbooks in goReader. ( )4. Students can't make notes and mark key parts of a lesson on the school bag created by goReader at present. ( )5. Richard graduated from Chicago's DePaul University.
