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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.
I was on my way to the Taiyetos Mountains. The sun was setting my car broke down near a remote village. Cursing my
(fortune), I was wondering where I was going to spend the night when I realized that the villagers who had gathered around me
(argue) as to who should have the honour of receiving me
a guest in their house. Finally, I accepted the offer of
80-year-old peasant woman who lived alone in a little house. While she was getting me settled into a tiny but clean room, the head of the village was tying up his horse
my car to pull it to a small town some 20 kilometers away
there was a garage.
I had noticed three hens (run) free in my hostesscourtyard and that night one of them ended up in a dish on my table. Other villagers brought me goats cheese and honey. We drank together and talked
(merry) till far into the night.
When the time came for me to say good
bye to my friends in the village, I wanted to reward the old woman for the trouble I (cause) her. But she refused.
Sitting on the bus I took the book out and was about to read but I was attracted by a young woman behind, who was speaking ________ her cell phone.
She was talking to her brother. She wanted to know where he was, why he wasn't where he was supposed to be, why he had _________(撒谎) to their mother again and if he knew that their mum had broken down in
t___________ that morning because of him.
She kept it quiet but she didn't have any mercy on him. She let him know exactly ___________she thought of him but I could tell there was
________ (爱) under all the disappointment. She tried so hard to get this boy to come to see his mother and make it all right, but I got the
_________ (印象) she was fighting a losing battle.
When she left the bus, I got_________ behind her. "Excuse me," I said. "Do me a favor, would you?
T__________ this money and buy your mum a box of chocolates
__________ a bunch of flowers. And tell her a stranger said that
b_________ a mother is the hardest but most important job in the world."
“At last, no more exams.” It’s a common feeling among high school graduates who have just completed the college entrance examination. What a relief! However, rather than fill the next three months with sleep, eating, and (watch) TV, some students have started working on finding a good choice of foreign college.
Different from those who begin their ___ (apply) for foreign colleges in Senior 2, Li made a late decision on a US education. She began to think about it in Senior 3, but decided not _
_ (give) up the college entrance exam.
Li’s classmate Mao Bingxin_____ (consider) studying in Canada after the top exam. She began a TOEFL course on June 11.
He Wei, ____ 18-year-old who studies at Shenzhen Bao’an High School, isn’t allowing _
___much freedom this summer vacation either, devoting her time to looking for a language school_
__she can study French and some overseas study consulting agencies.
He Wei considers ____worthwhile spending the summer preparing for college rather than hanging out with friends. “__
___we don’t really know what the future holds for us, we are sure that the better preparations we make
__it, the more choices we will be given.” she said.
We may find ourselves in many situations, where we discover or learn something that matters for us. But somehow, it really makes no____(different). So what can be done？__
_(benefit) from each experience in a learning environment, you need to answer these 3 questions：
What have I learnt or discovered? Most of us___(easy) answer this question. We just list__
__learning points that matter to us. At this stage we are rarely sure of why，__
__we simply don't express it.So what does it mean to me? This question __
__(help) us to express how important the learning points are and why__
__are important.
And now what do I do with this? This last question is the____important because this is the one that helps us to use the learning. It turns the theory into practice.
____doing so, you'll surprise yourself how much these simple questions change the way you learn greatly. Over the coming weeks and months, you'll notice how much you immediately apply __
__you've learnt and also how much it opens up your perceptions(洞察力) of everyday life.
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.