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During the Spring and Autumn Period, the State of Wu launched an attack against the State of Yue. The king of Wu was seriously wounded and soon died.__ ___(he) son Fu Chai became the new king. Fu was determined to revenge. He trained his army________(strict) until it was a perfect fighting force. Three years later, he led his army ________the State of Yue and caught its king Gou Jian.
In order to avenge his father’s_______ (die), Fu let him live in a shabby stone house by his father’s tomb and ordered him to raise horses for him. Gou pretended to be loyal to Fu,__ _____ he never forgot his humiliation(羞辱).Many years later , he _______(set) free. Gou secretly accumulated a military force after he went back to his own state. In order to make himself tougher he slept on firewood and ate a gall-bladder(苦胆) before having dinner and going to bed every night. At ______ same time he administered his state carefully，_______(develop) agriculture. After a few years, his country became strong. Then Gou seized a favorable opportunity to wipe off the State of Wu.
Later, people use it (describe) one who stands self-imposed（自愿接受）hardships to _______(strong) one’s determination to realize one’s ambition.

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There was once a beautiful girl who hated herself because she was blind. She also hated everyone else, except her ___ (love) boyfriend who was considerate and was always there to help her. One day she told her boyfriend, “You _ (be) so kind to me and if I could only see the world, I should marry you.”
One day, someone donated a pair of eyes to her. Doctors spent several hours doing ____ (operate) for her and the boy accompanied her at the bedside all the time. When the bandages came off, she was able to see everything, her boyfriend ___ (include), of course.
He asked her, “now ___ you can see the world, will you marry me？” The girl looked at her boyfriend and saw that he was blind, too.
The sight of ___ ugly closed eyelids shocked her and made her feel sick. She had not expected that, and ____ thought of looking at them in the rest of her life led her to refuse to marry him.
Her boyfriend left ___ tears and a few days later sent a note to her， ___ said，“Please take good care of your eyes, my dear, because before they are yours, they were ___！”
After reading the words, the girl burst out crying, regretting what she had done to the boy.

Will money make kids pass exams? A new report says promising children money does not help exam grades．It could be a waste of money using cash to get kids to study more．________, taking kids on trip somewhere nice could encourage them to do better at school. ______10,000 pupils surveyed in the research，there has been an improvement in class work and homework，but this does not result in better test scores．
Lead researcher Dr．Burgess suggestsi the research doesn’t look______ the things _____really get kids to increase their effort．He adds that clearly some kids believe that education is a way to achieve their dreams, but there are other kids who think one’s efforts make _____difference. These kids _____ think exam success is because of genes and their family background．Education expert Dr．Collins holds the view that______ really matters is how students are taught．Good teachers are better __ rewards，especially for children from low-income families．

Have you ever noticed this phenomenon? Sometimes Chinese English teachers are puzzled by such questions, "Could you please give me some advicehow to improve my reading comprehension?"
Actually, many of the teachers can't give their students effective way to deal with reading. Anyway, they often simply say, "Readand practise more, and you will get more experience in reading comprehension. " Frankly, these teachers' good suggestions are only helpful to arouse (激起) students' interest in readingnot helpful to deal with the questions in the examinations of reading comprehension. Personally, think the skill for reading comprehension should be based on the knowledge of English writing.the English passages are written under some rules or principles, the science of reading and understanding may have a close relationship with writing. Reading comprehension can't be independent the knowledge of
writing. So to do better in reading comprehension ever, we should learn the knowledge of writing, study how questions are designed and the relationship between questions and the reading materials.

British families started going on holiday to the seaside around the middle of the 19^th century. The （invent）of the railways made this possible. The first holidaymakers(be) quite rich and went for their health and education. The seaside was a place to cure people of illness. And doctors recommended bathing in the sea and drinking sea water. At that time ordinary working people had very little time off work. , in 1871, the government introduced for “Bank Holidays”, that is national holidays. This allowed people (have) a day or two out now and then, gave them a taste for leisure and seaside. At first, they went on a day trip, taking advantagespecial trip tickets on the railways. By the 1880s,(rise) incomes meant that many ordinary workers and their families could have holiday ant the seaside. Welfare was reduced and cheap hotels (build) for them. Holidaymakers enjoy(sit) on the beach, bathing in the sea and eating ice cream. Cheap entertainment was on offer and holidaymakers went to have fun. TodayEnglish seaside remains popular with more than 18 million holidays taken there each year.