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The woman often called the First Lady of New York died on August. Brooke Astor was one hundred and five years old. The extremely wealthy and famous New Yorker spent much of her life___ (help) the needy in her beloved city.
She was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. She was the only child of a high level military officer. After two earlier___(marry),she married Vincent Astor in 1953 again. He came from a family__
__had been rich for least one hundred years. Among other things, he owed many buildings in New York City. Brooke Astor became one of the_
__(rich) women in the world when Vincent Astor died. She also became head of a huge charity organization_
__ (found) by her husband. He repeatedly had told her she would have fun giving_
__his money. And apparently she did. Miss Astor gave tens of millions of dollars__
_ (main) to places and people in New York City. She said it was the sensible choice because that was_
__the money had been made. She gave financial support to the city's cultural centers, the poor and disabled as_
__as to many other smaller charities. When she died, the mayor of New York said the city would not be what it is today__
__her support.
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W: ____do you think of the football match we ___
__(watch) yesterday afternoon?
M: Very ________(excite).The two teams did very well in the match and it was really __
_close game.
W: I enjoyed it very much too. I have never seen a more interesting game so far this year.
M: I had expected it to be a wonderful match because of the teams had excellent players.
W: I’m sorry I missed the first part of it..
M: You were late for the match? What for?
W: I was filled with anxiety to see the match and fell my bike on the way. My leg hurt,
I had to ride my bike slowly. It took me quite some time before I got to the sports field.
M: I’m sorry (hear) that. Were your legs hurt?
W: Yes, but not very ________(serious).
M: You should have seen a doctor first. How long were you late for the match? What time was it when you got to the sports field?
W: When I got to the sports field, was already three twenty.
M: Three twenty? Oh, you were twenty minutes late for the match. You missed a wonderful part of the match.
W: Yeah. It was really a pity.
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This gift was the Amber Room, was given this name because several tons of amber were used to make it. The amber which was
had a beautiful yellow-brown colour like honey. The design of the room was in the fancy
popular in those days. It was also a treasure
_ with gold and jewels, which took the country' s best artists about ten years to make.
However, the next King of Prussia, Frederick William I, to whom the amber room , decided not to keep it. In 1716 he gave it to Peter the Great. In return, the Czar sent him a
of his best soldiers. So the Amber Room became part of the Czar' s winter palace in St Petersburg. About four metres long, the room served as a small
hall for important visitors.
However, some of the Nazis secretly the room itself. In less than two days 100,000 pieces were put inside twenty-seven wooden boxes. There is no
that the boxes were then put on a train for Konigsberg, which was at that time a German city on the Baltic Sea. After that, what happened to the Amber Room
a mystery.
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Animals have been killed for their fur and feathers, and (thousand) of kinds of animals have disappeared from the world forever. About 170 kinds in the US alone
___ (consider) in danger.
Why should people care? we need animals, and if they are gone, there will never be any more. Every animal has its place in the balance of nature.
(destroy) one kind of animal can create many problems. For example, when farmers killed large numbers of hawks (老鹰), the farmers’ stores of corn and grain were destroyed
rats and mice. With no hawks to keep down their numbers, the rats and mice multiplied (繁殖)
(quick).
Luckily, some people are working (help) save the animals. Some groups raise money to let people know about
problem. And they try to get the governments to pass laws protecting animals in danger. Quite a few
(country) have passed laws. These laws forbid the killing of any animals on the danger list. Slowly, the number of some animals in danger ___
__(be) growing.
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One morning I sat on a bench in a park and watched a little boy (run) freely on the grass as his mother watched from a short distance away. The boy would fall to the grass, get up, and without looking back
his mother, run as fast as he could as if nothing had happened.
When the kid fell down, he didn't think of the fall as failure. Instead, he considered
a learning experience. He tried and tried again
he succeeded. I____
(touch) by the boy's strong mind and the way he ran. With each attempt, 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—just being himself—being completely in the moment. He never __
__(give) up. Each time he fell, he got himself back up again, as if he knew that falling down was simply a part of life. He was not looking for others'
(smile), or worrying about whether someone was watching or not. He only wanted to run and to feel the experience of running fully and freely. I learned a lot from that experience, and have ___
____(success) brought that lesson with me in many parts of my life.
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Yesterday was my 18th birthday. As Father and Mother thought it was a big occasion for me,they suggested I (hold) a birthday party at home to celebrate it. For several days they had been busy
(prepare) for this. By 4 o’clock I was pleased to see all my friends had come
a lot of beautiful presents. Mother cooked us a big meal.
We (spend) a wonderful night together, eating and talking
(happy). The most exciting moment was when Mother put a big birthday cake on the table and all my friends began to sing Happy Birthday. Seeing the 18 candles burning, I couldn’t keep back my tears. _
_ mother and father’s love, I would not lead such a happy life now. Mother asked me to make a wish
I blew out all the candles. After that,everyone enjoyed the sweet birthday cake and shared my happiness.
I am eighteen years old now, means I’ve become an adult and have more
___ (responsibility). I’ll do
(me) best to return my parents’ love and live up to their expectations.