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After graduation from university, I ________ (able) to secure a permanent（固定的）job in my small town. So I decided to leave home for New York,_________I might have a better chance to find a good job.________ (earn) some money to pay the daily expenses, I started working in a local café________ a waiter. I believe that if I________ (offer) a good position, I would resign at once.
Over time, the high cost of living became a little burden on my already________ (tire) shoulder. On the other hand, my search for a respectable job had not met with much success. As I had studied literature at university, I found________quite difficult to secure a suitable job in big companies. Mother had just said that if I want to have a better career advancement, I had to find work in the city. Perhaps what my mother had told me was ________ ( deep ) rooted in my mind. I just did as she had expected.
Soon I had lived in the city for over six months but I still did not like it. Apparently, I had difficulty ________ (adapt) myself to life in the city, let alone finding a job. To my delight，after nine months of frustration, I eventually decided to go back to my small town. Not until I returned did I realize that a quiet town life was the best for me. Here the air is fresher. Besides, the environment is cleaner ________that in the city.

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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 as________failure. Instead, they consider ________as a learning experience.They try and try again________ they succeed.
I was also touched by 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--- 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.

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Since early childhood, I love dancing. I always admire the movements of (profession) dancers. My mother used to laugh at me every time I glued my head in front of the TV set during a dancing video. Later, I registered myself at local ballet dancing class where I was able to examine the type of dancing movements and learn how to move better. I remember that my (feel) were that life was too good to be true.
Now, I have to stop my classes, my dancing days are (certain) not over. Today, every time I (give) a chance alone in the living room, I enjoy (move) my body to the music.
Have you ever noticed that dancers are always （healthy), have more energy, and seem to have a lot more fun than non-dancers? That is because dancing is one of the best ways for people to keep a better statues. is generally admitted that when one is in good health, he or she is able to enjoy life and avoid its negative impacts _him or her every day.

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Were you the first or the last child in your family? Or were you a middle or an only child? Some people think____matters where you were born in your family. But there are different ideas about what birth order means. Some people say that oldest children, ___are smart and strong-willed, are very likely___(succeed). The reason this is simple. Parents have a lot of time for their first child and give him or her a lot of attention. An only child will succeed for_ same reason.
What happens to the children in the family? Middle children don’t get so much attention, so they don’t feel that important. If a family has many children, the middle one sometimes gets lost in the crowd. The youngest child, _____, often gets special treatment. Often this child grows up to be funny. But a recent study saw things quite _____(difference). The study found that first children believed in family rules. They didn’t take many chances in___lives. They usually ____(follow) orders. Rules didn’t mean as much to later children in the family. They took chances and they often did better in life.