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).
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Jane was walking round the department store. She remembered how difficult _was to choose a suitable Christmas present for her father. She wished that he was as easy _
(please) as her mother, who was always delighted with perfume.
Besides, shopping at this time of the year was not __ pleasant experience:people stepped on your feet or _
(push) you with their elbows (肘部), hurrying ahead to get to a bargain.
Jane paused in front of a countersome attractive ties were on display. “They are real silk,” the assistant tried to attract her. “Worth double the price.” But Jane knew from past experience that her _
(choose) of ties hardly ever pleased her father. Jane stopped where a small crowd of men had gathered. She found some good quality pipes _
sale. She did not hesitate for long: although her father smoked a pipe only once in a while, she knew that this was a present which was bound to please __
When Jane got home, with her small but well-chosen present in her bag, her parents were already _table having supper. Her mother was excited. “Your father has at last decided to stop smoking,” Jane_
_ (inform).
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David: Mary Liuse? I haven’t seen you since we(graduate) in high school.
Mary: David? Randy David? Oh, you look definitely the same! Even your figure is the same.
David: Well, you look …a lot(difference)…
Mary: Well, I got tired of that blonde hair, so I decided to become a redhead. I also lost a lot of (weigh), and I’m really
(try) hard to keep it off.
David: So, do you live here? What do you do?
Mary: I’m a lawyer in Brookfield and I just come out here on weekends to go skiing. What about you?
David: I sell insurance, I’m actually working in Springfield. We are looking to open a new office here, so that’s why I’m out here.
Mary: Do you like your job?
David: Well, I guess I makenice living, but I’m really
(bore) with the work. I wish I could just change careers.
Mary: I agree.(exact) speaking, I have theopposite problem. I work for an environmental law firm, so the work is exciting, and I feel like I’m really making a difference. The only problem is
the pay is quite low, so I’m basically living hand to mouth every month.
David: That sounds like a fair trade, though. I’d switch placesyou in a second.
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How Learning Habits Influence On Learning Results. It is useful and necessary to discuss learning habits. There is a famous saying “Good habits lead to good endings”, shows the importance of habits.
“An apple a day keeps doctor away” also shows how a healthy everyday habit helps to build up our body., good learning habits can help us gain great learning results
(include) high scores and abundant knowledge. At first, learning habits form our ways of thinking and attitudes
_ the content of our learning. Obviously, a good habit can help us to speed up to reach our destinations.
we can see, cultivating a good habit is so important
I would like to introduce one kind of good learning habits --- --- keep a learning diary every day. We can start the habit by
(write) learning summary and remember to record something impressive and
(mean). Keep it in mind, and gradually we can gain this good learning habit and benefit from it.
What`s more, I find out that I still have some bad learning habits as well. I can concentrate on reading for a short time and I
(conquer) this problem by spending more effort on concentration practice.
I believe that through my efforts, I can gain good learning results by having good habits.
One afternoon many years ago, I sat down on a chair in a park and watched a little boy, around 2 years old, (run) freely on the grass as his mother watched from a short distance.The boy would fall to the grass, get up, and without looking back at his mother, run as fast as he could as if nothing
( happen).
When kids fall down, they don't think of the fall asfailure. Instead, they consider
as a learning experience.They try and try again
they succeed.
I was also touched by the way he ran. With eachattempt, he looked so (confidence) and natural.He only wanted to run freely and to do it as well as he could.He was just being a child--- being himself completely at the moment.He never gave up.Each time he fell, he got up again by
, as if he knew that falling down was
(simple) a part of life.
He was not looking for others' smiles, or worrying whether someone was watching or not.
he wanted was to run and to feel the experience of running fully and freely.I learned a lot from the experience.
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We are what we eat because what we eat every day has great impact on our health. Therefore, we should make every effort to change our bad eating habits.
we all know, baked or fried foods may be
(taste), but eating too much of them will
(probable)result in some illnesses. Moreover, some food that costs us a great deal of money and is not healthy is junk food.
(compare) with people in the West, Chinese people used to eat more grain and vegetables, but
(little) meat, which is a good eating habit. However, things are quite different now. With the rapid economic
(grow) of our country, we are now also eating a lot of food that is high in sugar and fat. We
(run) the risk of eating out without
(consider) the balance of our diet .The food we choose affects our health, so we suggest that the food we choose
give us the nutrients we need.