Last night, my dad showed me something special that I had never seen before. It was____ old box which contained many silver coins. My dad has been collecting old silver coins_
____ he was a kid. But I didn’t know
______ he had put all his coins he showed them to me. He said his father used to do the same. He decided to give me his collection when I was to move out to live
______ my own. I knew the
_______(choose) I made was a difficult one, but I wanted to do things by myself.
My father divided his collection into two parts and told me to use______ only when I really got into trouble. I didn’t understand what he
______(mean), so he explained it to me. And I didn’t know whether I could sell them or not, so I asked my father some other questions about them and he answered them
_______(patience) one by one. He said he only sold_
____ of his coins to help him finish his studies many years ago. After_
_____(take) out part of the coins, I thanked him and promised that I would use them wisely.
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I will never forget the night my mom left．She walked out and left me standing at the door
(cry)，“Come back !” The next morning, tears filled my eyes as I walked from room to room calling for her．When I went into the kitchen and saw my dad preparing breakfast，he told me she was gone and wouldn’t be coming back，but I still believed she’d be returning from work that afternoon．
Day became night and my mom had not returned．I asked my dad again she was and when she was coming home．
“Baby girl, Mom is not coming back，she left and went (live) with someone else．”These were his exact
(word)．I asked if she did not love me anymore，and then I cried myself to sleep.
My mom came home a few days later and I was very happy， when I ran to hug her，she acted as if she did not know me．She said she had only come for the rest of her stuff ( 东西 )．When she left this time，all the pain and sadness came down so hard on me
all I could do was to lie in my dad’s arms.
The next month brought (much) sadness for my dad and me. We had to move because I would cry all day，searching each room for Mom．My dad said a new house would be good for me.
I have not seen my mom for five years．She has missed my entire childhood and now she (miss) my high-school graduation in a few weeks．No matter how long she’s gone，though , there’s a part of every child that needs a mother. There’s still a part of me that
(true) wishes to reunite with her and try to build a relationship.
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The Amber Room (put) up in 1709. It used to belong
Frederick William I, the first King of Prussia. Peter the Great fell in love with the room on a visit, and in 1716 the King of Prussia sent it to Peter the Great as a gift.
The Amber Room was shipped to Russia in 18 large boxes and put in the Winter Palace in St Petersburg as a part of a European art collection. It was first open in 1746 in the Winter Palace, it was housed till 1755. In 1755, Czarina Elizabeth ordered the room
(move) to the Catherine Palace in Pushkin. An Italian
(art) Bartolomeo Francesco Rastrelli redesigned the room to fit into its new larger space,
(use) extra amber from Berlin.
seems hard to believe that boxes of several tons of amber could go missing, and many historians have tried to solve the mystery. Most of them believe
the boxes were destroyed in the Second World War. One of the more extreme theories is that Stalin
(actual) had a second Amber Room and the Germans stole a fake (赝品).
The history of the new Amber Room, at least, is known for sure. The reconstruction (重建), was based largely on black and white photographs of the original Amber Room, began in 1979 at Tsarskoye Selo and was completed 25 years later.
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It was a busy day at the grocery store and the old couples were in line behind me with birthday balloons.
They were chatting together about their rush to get ready for the party. From they said, I knew their nephew had a twin and something bad happened to the baby at birth. Though they did all they could
(help) them but times were still tough for them.
They seemed to be too nervous and were too (anxiety) to leave, so I asked
they wanted to go ahead of me or not. They didn’t understand what I
(mean) at first. After knowing it, they were very appreciative. But they stood behind me.
At that time I knew it had to be a significant day to them. Nothing could be (good) if someone offered to help them. So I told the cashier to add the balloons to my purchases. The old couples refused at first
I insisted. I said, “You tell your sweet nephew that there are always nice people who want to give them
hand in this world.” They thanked me over and over and the cashier got teary-eyed,
(say) there was an angel in her line today.
That little act of (kind) made everyone who saw it feel good—but it made me feel the best of all!
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When he was a little boy, Christopher Cockerell once noticed his mother turning the wheel of her sewing machine with her hand. “Won’t it work quickly if a machine (turn) the wheel for you?” he asked. “I suppose it will.” said his mother, without paying any attention to him. Christopher knew she always had a lot of work and that she was
stubborn that he could hardly do anything to change
mind. But he wanted to help. In his bedroom there was a toy steam engine
(buy) by his father as a gift to him. “I will make better use of it,” little Christopher said to himself. So, when his mother was not using her sewing machine, he decided to fix the toy steam engine onto it. When he finished
(do) it, he was quite pleased, thinking his mother would like it. “Very clever,” his mother said when she saw it. But then she sat down and went on turning the wheel
hand. “I
(work) like this for too many years,” she explained. Christopher felt very
(disappoint). He couldn’t understand his mother’s
(behave).
This teaches Christopher a lesson that anyone tries to improve anything has to learn: many people don’t like new ideas.
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It has become acceptable for people to say that women work less than men and therefore deserve less! It may have been true in the past when women were expected to stay at home and look after children, but women have changed over the years. They have “come out”! Gone ______ (be) the days when they toiled (辛苦) the kitchen stove all day long; they are now aware of their needs and are willing to fight for them. They expect to be given the respect they deserve, both at home and at work. They have realized
_____ intellectual potential and have determined to do something about it!
Women on two wheels have become______ familiar sight on the roads of most Asian countries during the past few years. It is common to find a woman
______ (take) her children on her bicycle to school and then reaching her office in time.
“Super woman”______ she is, it is rather difficult to combine a career and a decent home life. She needs to feel
_____ (support). She may arrive at work feeling as if she has already done a full day’s job.
______ colleagues doubt her passion to her job, she will feel sad. At the same time, women of today expect their partners to contribute towards childcare and household chores.
Today’s women are learning to avoid situations that make them feel more stressed and it is a hard struggle. ______ ______ ______all this, the new woman, “the superpower” has arrived. She still believes in the power and value of a family unit and she holds it in high esteem (尊重).