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It was a rainy night in New Orleans. At a bus station in the town, I watched a young girl____(cry) as her baggage was taken down. It seemed that she had lost her ticket. She cried and __
__(beg) them not to leave her there.
The bus driver had a face of stone___no sign of wanting to help, and his heart was__
__(sure) the same. “Losing your ticket is like losing your money,” he said, leaving the girl in the rain. Then an old Indian stood__
_and blocked the driver's way, and would not let him pass__
__he said what he had to say. “How can you leave that girl out there? You can't leave her alone. You will meet your schedule,__
__she might meet her end.” The driver still didn't care about the young girl's problem. Then the old gentleman bought__
_a ticket and helped her put away the baggage. “How can I repay for_
__ kindness?” the girl said. “We are strangers and we won't meet again. A mere ‘thank you’ doesn't seem enough.” He replied, “What goes around comes around.”
This is what I've learned—Whatever you give, you will get it back. Always be___(help) and kind to others, and we'll be helped in the future.
How to learn a oreign language? Here are some tips for you.
Spend the time! The time you spend on a language, the faster you will learn. This means listening, reading, writing, speaking, and studying words and phrases. This means finding
(特别的) ways to spend as much as time
(体会) the language you are learning as possible.
Listen and read every day! Listen w you are on your MP3 player. Read what you are listening to. Listen to and read things that you like, things that you can m
understand, or even partly understand.
Take (责任) for your own learning! If you do want to learn the language, take control. Choose content of interest that you want to listen and read. Pay
(注意) to the words and phrases that you need to understand. Do not w
for someone else to show you the language. Talk when you feel like it. Write when you feel like it.
Relax and enjoy ! Do not worry about what you cannot remember, or cannot yet understand. It does not matter. You are learning and improving. The language will
(逐渐) become much clearer in your brain. So sit back and enjoy.
As the communication between China and Britain is becoming ____(increasing) frequent, the differences between them _
__(cause) a heated discussion in the past few years.
Firstly, table manners are the essential procedure in everyone’s daily life. We get used to ___(use) chopsticks while Englishmen use knife and forks. It’s not polite to burst into laughter when eating in Britain, __
__indicates you don’t respect others. _
__ the contrary, we laugh and talk during a meal. What’s more, in Britain, we have to wander along the left side of the road, but traffic in our country keeps to the right. In addition, for Chinese students, _
_they have experienced in studying is an __
__(organization) learning style. Students are required to follow a clear plan. __
_(compare) with Chinese education, British education is __
__ flexible and imaginative. Students there are encouraged to discuss the subject they want to learn. Last but not least, in China, “thank you” is not frequently used between friends and family members while “thank you” is widely used in Britain.
There is no sense in debating which is better. We owe these manners ____ a long history, so you should do as the Romans do.
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By “luxury(奢侈品)”, we mean "a pleasant and often expensive thing that is not necessary". From a historical point of view, things which were a luxury when they first came into being all became necessities later.
Anything, no matter luxurious it is, will become a necessity, when it is widely used. This is true of many of the present luxuries, among which mobile phones, cars, computers and many other things
(include). It is known to all that the purpose of the development of science is
(make) things easy for the mankind, not for only
small number of people.
, the first thing to do after a new invention occurs is to spread it so as to benefit
many people as possible. In the course of the spread, the luxury becomes decreasingly luxurious until
the end it becomes a necessity. This is an objective law, and
can be an exception.
With the quick (develop) of science and technology, the process for many things to become a necessity from a luxury will be greatly shortened. Anything that can be imagined will be invented and in no time becomes a necessity
(access) to ordinary people.
As a hiking-lover, I have climbed many famous mountains in China. I can still remember one of my happy and__________(难忘)hiking experiences on the Wuyi Mountain. It was the early spring when I decided to go hiking
___________my friends. Before our trip, I thought it a
___________of cake to get to the top of the Wuyi Mountain. At first, we all felt rather happy, chatting and laughing. However, after
__________ (到达) the middle of the mountain, we started to be tired out. We were thirsty and our legs were painful. All of us were unwilling to
m___________ on. We were about to give up
___________someone called out “come on, come on”.
E______ by his words, we all climbed to the top of the mountain.
From this trip, I deeply feelw__________ makes me happy is not only those beautiful
v__________ of the mountains but also the experience that we have overcome our mental and physical
___________ (挑战) to achieve our final goals and enjoy pleasures from them.
Like other living things, people need nourishment to live. Food supplies the energy needed for day-to-day activities, from automatic actions such as breathing and sleeping to more activities such as sports. Eating the right food each day helps your body
functions. No matter what your age, a well-nourished body is better
to heal properly and combat disease than a
nourished one is.
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Another decision you need to make housing is
by how much you can afford to pay. Housing prices
in different areas, such as in a city or a suburban or rural
, as well as in different parts of the country. When you have a limited amount of money to
on housing, location is a very important factor in deciding what kind of home you will be able to afford.