Lionel Messi, player from the SOUTH American country of Argentina, is the greatest soccer player alive today . At a young age, he
(move ) to Spain and now plays
(profession ) for the Barcelona soccer club. Messi started playing soccer at the age of 5 for a small soccer team
(own ) by his father . Even as a young boy, he did very well. But when he was 11 years old , he found out he had a sickness which would prevent him from growing much
(tall ). There was a way to help him grow more,
his parents did not have enough money to pay for his medical needs. So, they looked around for a soccer club
would be able to do this for them . The clubs in Argentina couldn’t help him, but the famous Barcelona club in Spain offered
(accept ) Messi on the junior team and pay for the bills. The Messi family happily took the offer and moved to Spain . In the Barcelona soccer club, Messi was one of the best
(play ) through his teen years.
his incredible talent , Messi has surprised the word.
A tornado, _is a rotating column of air from a thunderstorm to the ground usually
(occur) in the US , _
(affect) several US states greatly.
Hurricanes, which are strong tropical storms, usually _(strike)the east coast of the US from Texas to Maine, the
(bad) one of which caused 6,000 _
(die), and
(destroy) 3,6o0 buildings.
Here is a story about the worst hurricane. Charles Coghlan, a famous Irish actor, moved to Canada, then New York, and finally Galveston, he died in 1899, a year before the hurricane came. In the hurricane , his cemetery was destroyed and his coffin ended up in the sea, which _
(carry) by the Gulf Stream to his home on Prince Edward Island in the east of Canada eight years _
(late).
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A young man, while traveling through a desert, came across a spring of clear water. ___water was sweet. He filled his leather container so that he could bring some back to an elder
_had been his teacher. After a four-day journey, the young man__
__ ( present ) the water to the old man. His teacher took a deep drink, smiled_
__ ( warm ), and thanked his student very much for the sweet water. The young man went home__
__a happy heart.
After the student left, the teacher let____student taste the water. He spit it out, _
__ (say) it was awful. Apparently, it was no longer fresh because of the old leather container. He asked his teacher, "Sir, the water was awful. Why did you pretend to like_
__?" The teacher replied," You tasted the water. I tasted the gift. The water was simply the container for an act of kindness and love. Nothing could be__
__ (sweet). "We understand this lesson best__
__we receive gifts of love from children. Whether it is a cheap pipe or a diamond necklace, the proper response is appreciation. We love the idea within the gift rather than the thing.
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Gandhi, an Indian national hero, was honored ______ the father of the Indian nation. He has been respected and beloved by the Indians. He was born in India in 1869. Following the local custom, he got
______（marry）at the age of 13. In 1888 he sailed to England,
_______ he studied law for three years and became a lawyer. On his return to India, he was sent to South Africa to work on a law case. In South Africa he was
_____ （surprise）to find that the problem of racial discrimination （种族歧视）was serious. There he formed an organization and started a magazine to fight
______equal rights. Gandhi returned to India in 1915,
______ India was controlled by the British. He led the Indians to fight for an end to the British rule and independence for his country. In the political movement many Indians
_________(include) Gandhi were put in prison.
_______, the struggles never stopped. The British government had to give
______and India won its independence in 1947.
______（fortunate）Gandhi was shot by an Indian who opposed his views and died on January 30th, 1948.
There once was a goat and a donkey(驴), which lived _____ a farm. The donkey worked the hardest so the farmer fed it the ____
__ (much) food. Sometimes the donkey was given more food___
___it could eat. This made the goat so jealous ___
___ it began plotting against（谋划对付）the donkey. "Hey, donkey," the goat said one day. "I think you do too much work on this farm. You carry such heavy things from morning to night. Why don't you pretend ___
____ (get) sick so you can take a day ___
____?'' The donkey thought the goat had a great idea. So the next morning, the donkey lay in the stable（畜栏） on its side with its eyes ____
___(close). Right away, the farmer called the doctor. _
_____looking at the donkey, the doctor said it needed a special medicine ___
____（make）from the heart of a goat. So the farmer killed ___
____goat and gave the donkey medicine made from its heart.
As a working mom with three young sons, keeping the house clean is a big challenge. ________ we clean the house every week, one hour later after cleaning our bedrooms and bathrooms are back to their __________
_(mess) look. When asked, my boys will help neaten their room, clear their plates from the table and pick up their school junk. But I need to remind them______
____ it again and again.
If I don’t remind them, I will step over all the things _________make my house look like a garbage can. This is quite _______
___ change from my pre-kid years when I never ______
___(leave) any waste in the house. ____
____seems that I cannot get these days back again at my own house.
When last week I found a program called “Share a Healthy Habit” on a newspaper, I saw a great chance to engage my sons in cleaning chores. Why not encourage these behaviors during the summer, while school is out and their life is __________ (relax)?
The goal for my boys is to clean__________own dorm room themselves when they are free. The rewards for clean habits start young and continue as they get ______
____ (old), so I need to start my plan as soon