Lastyear,mybrotherandIwenttoMi-优题课

“Remember, your father is only one year （old） than you．” That was Mum’s usual excuse when Dad said the wrong things or did something （fool）．
Dad quitted drinking exactly one year before I was born．He joined a group of other people．He said they（stop） drinking, too．I loved my dad I hated the way his weekly meetings took him awayme．It seemed that they were more important to him than I was．But with my birthday coming up I thought Dad would make an （except）．“Can’t you miss it just this time? Saturday is my birthday! ” I begged him but（refuse）．He said “I am chairing the meeting this Saturday．We will have your party on Sunday．”
Saturday evening I sat on my bed,（feel） sorry for myself．Dad started to leave, then paused and said,” Why not come with me together tonight? It’s an open meeting．All are welcome”. would I do at a meeting? But maybe I needed to see why something Dad every week mattered so much．
After we arrived, Dad announced the theme of the meeting was going to be gratitude．He told his story about giving up smoking．Later, a man（call） Dave also told his story．Only then did I know it was Dad that saved his life from drinking．Showing up week after week and meeting with people, Dad was changing lives．Shame washed over me．

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While thousands of college students headed for warm climate to enjoy sun and fun during their week off from classes, seven local students had other plans.
The Northern Essex Community College (NECC) students and one of their teachers spent part of their spring break in New York City, helping repair an area(destroy) by the hurricane. “I wanted to see for myself what happened,” said Terry. “I couldn’t imagineit is like to lose your home and everything that you know and the(power) effect the hurricane had on those people. I wanted to do something, to understand their feeling of helplessness.” The group headed into Brooklyn’s Red Hook area, which was hit hard by the hurricane. There they met people from other parts of the country, had also volunteered to help. Together, those volunteers and the NECC students(work) to clear rubbish out of a three-story building. They put on protective suits and glovesthey entered the building.
Inside the building, the students saw nothing but broken walls and doors and pieces of the building(lie) all over the place.
The students returned to school with sense of achievement, a feeling they helped people in need. It was remarkable how a community lost so much and was still able to recover, and this left the deepest impression the students.

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Once there lived a rich man wanted to do something for the people of his town. first he wanted to find out whether they deserved his help.
In the centre of the main road into the town, he placed very large stone. Then he (hide ) behind a tree and waited. Soon an old man came along with his cow.
“Who put this stone in the centre of the road?” said the old man, but he did not try to remove the stone. Instead, with some difficulty he passed around the stone and continued on his way. man came along and did the same thing; then another came, and another. All of them complained about the stone but not tried to remove. Late in the afternoon a young man came along. He saw the stone, (say) to himself: “The night (be) very dark. Some neighbors will come along later in the dark and will fall against the stone.”
Then he began to move the stone. He pushed and pulled with all his (strong) to move it. How great was his surprise at last! the stone, he found a bag of money.

Vitamins are complex chemical substances (find) in many foods. The human body needs them for health and (grow). The body makes some vitamins, but usually in amounts too small to meet its needs.vitamins are not made in the body. These must ___(supply). No one knows (exact) how all vitamins work. Doctors do know that vitamins have very special uses. , One vitamin cannot take the place of another. The steady absence of one vitamin causes a deficiency disease. Rickets, scurvy, and pellagra are examples___ deficiency diseases.
It is best to get vitamins eating the foods in which they occur. There are also pills that contain a single vitamin __a combination of vitamins. People should ask their doctors___they take any vitamin pills.

If we agree that the function of education is to prepare us for life, then there is very little time to waste. So, while we can, we ought to concentrate ________ teaching children something really useful.
Politeness is a mark of civilization. _________ sooner children learn this, the better. In any case, a lot can be accomplished by a smile and good manners.
Like it or not, our adult lives will be consumed by the struggle for money, but we don’t make an effort to teach children _________ to mange it. So our schools have a duty to teach them this ability from the beginning.
Children should learn to take care ________their health. They should know that________they eat junk food, they will become fat and unhealthy. They should be very clear about ________ will happen to their bodies when they smoke or drink.
All of _________ are part of society. We have rights and responsibilities. We have to know a little bit of our history and geography, because we need to have an environment in which to relate to the people around us. Our school should spend every moment they have telling this to our children: “This is life, this is what you are going to face ________ this is how you deal with it.