When I was in junior high school, darkness began filling my mind. I don’t know the reason why it began. All I know is that I started f hopeless and worthless. I hid in my room, staring out of the window, thinking about all my
(失败). I even questioned whether being
(活着) was worthwhile. My dark mood wasn’t constant. It would fade at t
, but it always returned.
It was my parents and my friends that helped me ge the dark mood. At the beginning when I was depressed, I was
(尴尬) to tell anyone. I didn’t want to seem weak or needy. But later I found that when I told my friends my feelings, they never laughed at me. On the
, they supported and encouraged me. So remember: no one can face depression a
. If you’re depressed, find someone — a friend, parent or teacher — and tell them your feelings. Consider
a doctor or psychologist, if it is getting worse.
In fact, t depression affects many people all over the world, treatments are available and can bring hope and joy back into their life.
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Jean is a 17-year-old high school student. On Saturday mornings, Jean and her friends take part in the program __(call) SAVE THE KIDS. They travel to a poor area of Washington D.C.. They help _
_(young) students learn how to read and to solve mathematics problems. Many American teenagers join in programs _
_serve their communities. _
_weekends Jean sometimes works at an ice-cream store. _
she is not working, she gets together with her girlfriends. They might go to a movie, to a shopping mall or to an eating place. Or they might attend _
_sports event of their high school. They also often stay at one girl’s house for night.
Like teenagers in most parts of the country , Jean began driving a car when she was 16 years old. _, she does not have her car. She must share the family car with her parents. About 70 percent of American teenagers have their own cars. Many of them drive their cars to school every day. Jean does not smoke cigarettes or drink alcohol. Neither do her friends. But many teenagers at her school do. Every weekend teenagers have parties, where _
_drink alcohol. Then they drive to other parties. People under the age of 21 _
_(not allow) to drink alcohol in the United States. And it is dangerous to drink _
_driving a car. Yet this does not stop some teenagers.
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Mr. and Mrs. Jackson worked in the same company. The man was skillful and earned twice as much, if not more than, his wife. But he had to give all his money to his wife,
bought the food, clothes and drinks for him. He was angry with her
couldn’t say anything. All the men in the workplace were afraid of their wives and they felt sorry for each other.
It was March 8th and all the women had a day off. The men were free to say whatever they wanted. They had endless (complain) about their wives. And they thought
unfair that women had their own festival but they didn’t. The more they said, the
(angry) they became. They decided to write a letter to the UN and advised them
(cancel) “Women’s Day”. They asked Mr. Jackson to do it, too. The man agreed and began to write it.
When Mr. Jackson finished it, his wife came in. Her key (leave) in the workplace and she came for it. She made him hand the letter to her.
(read) it, the woman said with a smile, “How can you post it to the UN
I don’t supply you with the money for buying a stamp?”
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English has changed over time. Actually all languages change and develop when cultures meet and communicate with each other. At first the English _______(speak )in England between about AD 450 and 1150 was very different _
_____ the English we speak today . It was based more ___
__ (Germany) than the English we speak ___
__ present. Then __
____(gradual )between about AD 800 and 1150, English became less like German because those __
____ ruled England spoke first Danish and later French. These new settlers enriched
___ English language and especially its vocabulary. So by the 1600’s Shakespeare _
___ ( be ) able to make use of a wider vocabulary than ever before. In 1620 some British
____(settler) moved to America. Later in the 18th century some British people were ___
(take ) to Australia too. English began to be spoken in both countries.
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One afternoon, Wang Kun and his sister Wang Wei sat in the yard talking about their dream taking a bike trip along the Mekong River. They began their trip from
it begins to where it ends. During their trip, they happened to witness an earthquake, In fifteen seconds, a large city lay in__
___ (ruin), and a number of people ____
___ (injure) or killed. But all hope was not lost. The rescue team
(organize) breath by the army came to help those
__ (survive) and slowly the city began to
__ again. Wang Wei said, “They are the heroes of the city and the people injured in the earthquake”. “Yes, they remind me of another hero who helped the black people to fight __
____the white people to make black and white people____
_____.(equality)” Wang Kun said. Heroes are different, but heroes are_
____.(same) What they had done is to help people live a peaceful life.
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Lucy felt a little ____________(frighten), but she felt very inquisitive and excited as well. She looked back
__________ her shoulder and there, between the dark tree trunks, she could still see the open doorway of the wardrobe and even catch
_________ glimpse of the empty room
___________ she had set out. She had left the door open, for she knew that it was very silly
_________(shut) oneself into a wardrobe. She began to walk forward. In about ten minutes she reached it and found it was a lamppost. As she stood looking at it,
_________(wonder) why there was a lamppost in the middle of a wood, she heard the pitter-patter of feet coming towards her. And soon after that a very strange person
_________(step) out from among the trees into the light of the lamppost.
He was only a little taller than Lucy. From the waist upwards, he was like a man, but his legs ___________(shape) like a goat’s. One of his hands held the umbrella; in the other arm he carried several brown-paper parcels.With the parcels and the snow
_________ looked just as if he
__________(do) his Christmas shopping.