12．　　"Are you listening, Simon?" Simon's teacher asks.
　　Simon smiles and shakes (摇晃) his head. He doesn't often (1)       or try hard in class. Talking is so much better. He wants to be heard. That evening, Simon starts to feel a bit sick. By bedtime, his throat (咽喉) feels really bad. He has cakes and hot chocolate to make his throat feel better, but he isn't sure it'll (2)      .
　　The next (3)      , when he opens his mouth to say, "Good morning." Nothing comes out.
　　When he gets to school, Mrs. Jacobs says "hello" to him, and he just nods (点头). When his friends start to ask him what TV shows he watches, he just can't say anything. By the time they start (4)      , almost everyone is looking at him as if he's got a third eye.
　　Simon sits in class, bored (无聊的) (5)       he can't talk to his classmates. He watches them talk to each other, but he can't even do that. You know what? It isn't that bad. He can really do his homework that night. It gives (6)       more TV and game time because (7)       is all finished.
　　The next day, his voice is (8)       back, but he stays quiet (安静的) again. The third day, he can talk (9)      , but he doesn't talk. He listens and puts up his (10)       to speak.
　　What a difference that one day makes!

13．The following is John's timetable. Please answer the questions according to the table.

14．　　Snake meat is popular in restaurants. Some people think eating snakes is good for their health. But these people don't know that snakes feed on mice and worms (虫子), so there are many parasites (寄生虫) in snakes' bodies. They may be bad for our health. And we're sorry to see a butcher's (屠夫的) knife is killing more snakes.
　　An English newspaper says, "People eat about 1,000 tons of snakes every year in China. In Shenzhen, sometimes people serve 10 tons of snakes on dinner tables in a day."
　　If we continue to eat snakes, there will be a vicious circle (恶性循环 ). If people eat more snakes, snakes are becoming fewer and fewer. But mice are becoming more and more, and there will be few crops.
　　This will make more people hungry. Who wants to see such a bad thing happen? So people must stop eating snakes. To protect snakes is to protect ourselves.

15．　　Now I'm studying in the US, I find there are some differences between schools in the US and in China.
　　One big difference is the clothes students wear at school and how they look. In my country, all the students should wear uniforms when they go to school. Boys aren't allowed to have long hair. Girls aren't allowed to have long or colored nails (指甲). But American students always wear casual clothes (便装) and jewelries (首饰). A British student tells me that students in England can also dress casually in the school.
　　Another difference is about the rules for parents. When we begin a new year in my school, our parents have to go to a meeting in our class. If they don't go to that meeting, their children won't have a grade or a report card (成绩单) from school. However, in the US, there aren't such strict rules above (以上).
　　In the US, many students work after school, but students can't go to work in my school because they can't find a job if they're under 18. I think American students' part-time jobs help them make money. More importantly, taking part-time jobs helps them become more independent. They're able to do things by themselves in their own way, without asking other people for help.

16．　　Jobless people just held an Unemployment Olympics in New York. About 60 people took part in the first-ever games in a park.
　　Most of the Olympians have college or graduate degrees and they didn't expect to be out of work. They are aged from 23 to 61. They have been unemployed for an average of four months and most of them showed up alone. "Who am I going to bring?" asked Erika Garcia, an out-of-work lawyer. "My friends still have jobs." Though the event is not encouraging, things at the Unemployment Olympics are generally cheerful. The prizes are mostly the gift certificates (礼券) to local restaurants and bars. Goddard tried to get free medical insurance as prizes but was unable to do so.
　　The Unemployment Olympians laughed, but they were not really happy. They had moved into small apartments with friends and asked their parents for help. Three people said that they had cut back on groceries (食品杂货) and had actually lost weight. Some were thinking about leaving the city altogether. They are tired and bored, but on this last afternoon in March they were making light of their situation.
　　26-year-old Nick Goddard is the organizer of the Unemployment Olympics. He said, "The Unemployment Olympics is trying to put a smile on everyone's face, and I think it worked out really well today." Shira Miller, who recently lost her job, said, "It seems like a fun event. I know that most people who have jobs don't realize, but the biggest problem is, you don't have anything to do. So this is a nice try from the usual."
　　The unemployment rate in America is now about 8 percent, the highest since late 1983.

17．　　Anthony Hopkins is an actor. He won an Oscar in 1988 for The Silence of the Lambs. He and his wife live in London and they don't have any children. Every day, he gets up at about 6:30 a.m., and he puts on a T-shirt and goes running for about 2 miles in the park. He goes home for breakfast. He has an orange, some bread and a glass of milk. He never uses public transport, such as buses or subways in London, and he walks for miles, to meetings, to the dentist's — everywhere.
　　In the morning, even when he is not making a film, he always does something. He usually spends at least 90 minutes learning the script (文本) for his next film. He uses a color pen to mark each line. It helps him to remember the words. He never reads a newspaper or listens to the radio because it's all bad news.
　　He usually has a sandwich for lunch. He eats very fast — he doesn't really enjoy any meals because he's always busy. The only time he rests during the day is at about 3:00 every afternoon, when he has a 15-minute sleep.

(1)What is Anthony Hopkins?
      
(2)According to the passage, how does Anthony probably go to the supermarket?
      
(3)Why does Anthony use a color pen to mark each line?