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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.
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Tu Yoyo，84，was (honor)with the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Oct 5．She was the first Chinese citizen
win a Nobel Prize in science．Tu
(share)the prize with the Irish-born William Campbell and Satoshi Omura of Japan．
Tu (be)a researcher at the China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine now．She was given the prize for developing artemisinin(青蒿素)，a new drug therapy against malaria(疟疾)，
has saved millions of lives worldwide，especially in developing countries．
Tu and her colleagues joined a government project to find a new malaria drug the late 1960s．They made 380 herbal extracts from two thousand recipes from traditional Chinese medical books．In 1971，after nearly two hundred
(failure)，Tu’s team
(find)found an extract that was 100％effective against the malaria parasites—artemisinin．In 2001．the World Health Organization made artemisinin
(it)first choice in the treatment of malaria．
“The discovery of artemisinin is a gift to mankind from traditional Chinese medicine．It’s the collective achievement of the research team. (win)the prize is an honor for Chinese science and traditional Chinese medicine，”Tu said．
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He was a professor. At the age of 90, he still worked eight hours every day regardless the weather.
His secretary said: “He was extremely old, but he forced himself to walk from his living place to the office through two blocks. would take him an hour to do so, but he insisted because it made him get a sense of
(succeed).”
One day, a university student (step) out of his office with a pile of books. He complained: “He always answers my questions with just a yes or no. However, he always gives me dozens of books and suggests me
(find) the answer on my own.”
By chance, the professor knew the student complained about. He explained to him with a smile: “This is the method I have learnt---the
(hard) you work independently, the better solutions you will find. If you can make full use of the books, you will
(probable) become a good lawyer in the future.”
This 90-year-old man was Pound, was the president of Law College of Harvard. He believed “all slopes are easy
( go)”, of which he often reminded his students.
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Once upon a time in an old forest, there was a poor woodcutter (cut) wood by the lake. One day, his axe斧子）fell into the lake
accident. The poor woodcutter didn’t know how to swim,
he could do nothing but pray to the lake goddess.
The lake goddess heard his prayer and appeared before him.
“Help me!” said the woodcutter, “I’m very poor，and I lost my only axe. If I don't get my axe back，my family will starve to (dead)，please help me!” He cried. After a while, the goddess brought out an axe
(make) of gold from the lake.
“Is this your axe，my good man? ” asked the goddess.
"No." Then the goddess brought out a silver axe, but the woodcutter said that wasn’t his axe again.
The (three) time, she brought out the woodcutter’s axe. The woodcutter jumped up
(happy) and said，“This is my axe. Thank you very much!”
At the end of the story, the goddess was very pleased with the woodcutter’s honesty. He just wanted he deserved So she decided
(give) both the gold and silver axe to him. The woodcutter sold the axes, and
(become) a rich man.
The moral of this story is that honesty is the best policy.
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Truth and honesty is the best policy, which shows the importance of honesty. What are the benefits of honesty? If you are honest to _, they will be honest to you in return. When you are sad, they will comfort you. When you are
__ trouble, they will help you. Honesty is regarded as the traditional virtue of our Chinese nation.
__ is usually better to be honest than dishonest. Sometimes honesty may get you in trouble or hurt someone, but on the whole
_(tell) the truth is less harmful than lying. Dishonesty can result in guilty feelings,
_ (cause)distrust among people and even ruin your reputation. One of the
__(bad) things about lying is that it causes a guilty conscience(良心). As
_ result, people will not trust you any longer and you will lose your reputation and all your friends. Do you still remember the boy
__ cried wolf for several times so no one would trust him? At last all his sheep
__(eat) by the wolf. His dishonesty brought him shame as well as damage. So to sum up, honesty not only brings us honor and friendship, but
__ material gains. Honesty is the best policy we can take.
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Between about AD 450 and 1150, English was spoken in England andb______ more on German. Between about AD 800 and 1150, Danish and French
______ (rich) the English language, especially its
.
(词汇). At the end of the 16th century, about five to seven million people spoke English. In the 17th century, as a result of the v______ English was used by more people. Later in the 18th century, English began to be spoken in Australia. By the 19th century, English was
_____ (settle). Now, English is spoken in countries such as China, India,
______ (新加坡), Malaysia and South Africa as a foreign or second language. In a word, English has
______ (gradual) changed and developed over time and now is spoken all over the world.