A group of robbers dug their way into to basement of a bank in Paris and emptied almost 200 private safes. They entered the Credit Lyonnais branch using building ____ (equip) to dig holes and destroy walls __
__ Saturday night. They tied up a security guard and spent the next nine hours__
__ (rob) the bank.
One investigator described the robbery___ a “professional job”. The robbers came in at about 22:00 on Saturday and _
__ (leave) at 7:00 on Sunday. They entered through the basements of the neighboring building, digging through a series of tunnels and making a hole into a wall of 80cm thick to get into the bank, __
__ was having building works at the time.
When they left, the robbers set the place on fire to remove any trace of evidence, ____ (switch) on the anti-fire system and flooding the building. __
__ (fortune), the guard escaped unharmed. __
_ is difficult to estimate the total value of what __
_ (steal) as only the bank’s clients know the content of their private safes.
A woman was on her way to the airport (hurry). She was so absorbed in her own thoughts that she was not aware she was going on a different route. Suddenly,
man went inside the cab and took her handbag
she placed her visa, passport and all her money for the trip. She kept on thinking how
(luck) she was to be in that situation. That very same night, she heard a piece of
(shock) news. Flight 230 crashed! It was the plane that she was supposed to board into.
she had not lost her precious belongings, she could have lost something far more important—her life!
Sometimes bad things really happen. We fail in our exams, or get rejected by others . There are times when nothing seems to go our way. So what do we do about it? We must take all these frustrations out of our chest and start all over again with the consistent faith that we will get we deserve.
If you failed in the exams, maybe you’d be more successful and much _______(happy) in another field. If you were rejected
your friend, there are plenty of others out there who are much more deserving of your love and affection. Don’t waste your time and energy on things that can’t
(change).
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God has blessed me with a lovely brother. He is 4 years younger than me. I still remember that day when he was born. He is premature baby. When he was a little baby, he always used to cry for no reason and hardly slept. He never allowed me and my parents
(sleep) well.
As time went by, he(become) a little older. I used to get angry with
since he started snatching(抢) all my toys away from me.
, my parents taught me that he is my younger brother and I
make him learn to share things.
Now,we still fight over things, we both love each other deeply. We share the same school and have the same
, like doing sports, singing and reading.
We do a lot of secret things without informing our parents and if (catch), we will join hands to deal with the situation. Life is fun when we are together. As we are growing old day by day, we are becoming
(responsible) for our duties than before. And we know that no matter where we go in life, we both are always there for each other to face the hardships of life.
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Swedish businessman Nile is ____ (delight) with his new hotel, the world’s first igloo (冰屋) hotel.
(build) in a small town, it has been attracting lots of visitors, but soon the fun will be over. In two week’s time Nile’s ice creation will be nothing more than a pool of water. “We don’t see it as a big problem,” he says. “We just look forward to
(replace) it.”
Nile built his first igloo in 1991 for an art exhibition. It was successful that he designed the present one,
measures roughly 200 square meters. Six workmen spent more than eight weeks
(pile) 1,000 tons of snow onto a wooden base; when the snow froze, the base was
(remove).
After their stay, all (visit)receive a survival certificate(合格证) recording their success. With no windows, nowhere to hang clothes and temperatures below 0℃, it may seem more like a survival test
a relaxing hotel break. “It’s great fun,” Nile explains, “As well as a good start in survival training.”
The popularity of the igloo is beyond doubt: it is now attracting tourists 【小题10 all over the world. At least 800 people have stayed at the igloo this season even though there are only 10 rooms.
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“Equal pay for equal work” is a phrase by the American women who feel they are (fair) treated by society. They think it is not right for women to be paid less than men for the
amount of work. Some people say men have more duties than women. A married man has to earn money to support his family and make important _
(decide), so it is right for them to be paid more. Some are even against married women
(work)at all. When wives go out to work, they say, the home and children are given no attention
. If women are encouraged by equal pay to take up jobs, they will
(able) to do the things that they are best at doing: making a nice home and bringing _
children. Women who disagree say that they want to escape from the limited place which society wishes them to fill and have
freedom to choose between a job and home life,
a mixture of the two. In fact women have the right
_ to equal pay but also to equal chances.
“Put yourself in someone else's shoes.” isidiom that means if you imagine yourself to be in another person's position, good or bad, you may understand how they feel, good or bad, or why they have done
they've done.
This idiom comes from the facta pair of perfectly fitting shoes for someone may not fit another person as perfectly. So, literally, only if you put
another person's shoes can you feel how it is to walk in
.
Metaphorically speaking, “their shoes” stands for other people's position. A local boy is detained(扣留) by the policea theft, and one of his friends might
(private) say to himself: “I wouldn't want to be in his shoes now.” That is, he doesn't want
(put) into prison for stealing.
By trying to “put on their shoes”, we try to imagine ourselves insituation, by seeing things from their point of view, by thinking about how we would want to be treated if we were them.
Harper Lee, of course, (express) this idea best in To Kill a Mockingbird: “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view—until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”