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Night after night, she came to tuck me in (盖被子), even long after my childhood years． (follow) her longstanding custom, she’d lean down and push my long hair out of the way, then kiss my forehead.
I don’t remember it first started annoying me — her hands pushing my hair that way．Finally, one night, I shouted out at her, “Don’t do that anymore — your hands are too rough!” She didn’t say
in reply．But never again
my mother close out (结束) my day
that familiar expression of her love.
Time after time, with the passing years, my (think) returned to that night．By then I missed my mother’s hands, — missed her goodnight kiss on my foreheaD．
Now those hands I once thought to be so rough were still doing things for me and my family．I (frequent) recalled the night my young voice complaineD． One night, catching Mom’s hand in hand, I blurted out how sorry I was for that night．I thought she’d remember as I diD． But Mom didn’t know what I
(talk) about．She had forgotten — and forgiven — long ago.
That night, I fell asleep with a new (appreciate) for my gentle mother and
caring hands．And the guilt that I had carried around for so long was nowhere to be found.
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Polar bears live in such environment that is too cold for most animals. For much of the year, they live and hunt on the ________ (freeze) Arctic sea ice. Nature has prepared them for the cold conditions but nothing has prepared them for the danger
________ threatens(威胁) their only home.
The polar bears’ world is melting. Polar bears________ (suffer) in a warmer world are in danger. Studies show that the polar ice
________ (reduce) by 9.8% every 10 years since 1978.At present , about 20,000 to 25,000 polar bears live in the Arctic. Polar bears depend on the sea ice for their
________ (survive). “The sea ice is more than just the platform that the bears walk
________ ,” says Andrew Derocher, who studies North American polar bear populations. “Without
________ , they can’t exist.”
Some melting and refreezing of the polar ice is natural. But in a ________ (warm) world, these cycles speed up, and bears have less time to hunt.
________ (normal), they have three months in the spring when they gain more weight and the extra fat is used later,
________ the bears are not actively hunting. Therefore, it is urgent to protect the environment and maintain the ecological balance.
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Mr. Johnson lived in the woods with his wife and children. He owned a farm, which looked almost abandoned. (lucky), he also had a cow
(produce) milk every day. He sold or exchanged some of the milk in the towns nearby for other food and made cheese and butter for the family with what
(leave). The cow was their only means of support, in fact. One day, the cow was eating grass
it began to rain heavily. While making great
(effort) to run away, she
(fall) over the hill and died. Then Johnson tried to make
living without the cow. In order to support his family, Mr. Johnson began to plant herbs (草药) and vegetables. Since the plants took a while to grow, he started cutting down trees
(sell) the wood. Thinking about his children’s clothes, he started growing cotton too. When harvest came around, he was already selling herbs, vegetables and cotton in the market
people from the town met regularly. Now
occurred to him that his farm had much potential and that the death of the cow was a bit of luck.
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Until recently daydreaming was viewed as a waste of time or it (consider) an unhealthy escape from real life and its duties. But now some people are taking a fresh look at daydreaming. Some think it may be a very
(health) thing to do. Some researchers are finding that daydreaming may be important to mental health. Daydreaming, they tell us,
a good means of relaxation. But its benefits go
this. A number of psychologists have conducted experiments and have reached some
(surprise) conclusion.
Dr. Joan T. Freyberg has concluded that daydreaming contributes growth. It also improves (concentrate),attention span, and the ability to get along with others. Industrialist Henry J.Kaiser believed that much of his success was due
the positive use of daydreaming. Florence Nightingale dreamed of becoming a nurse. The young Thomas Edison pictured
as an inventor.
For these notable achievers, it appears that their daydreams came .Dr Harry Emerson Fosdick offered this advice: “Hold a picture of yourself…in your mind’s eye, and you will be drawn toward it. Picture yourself
(vivid) as defeated and that alone will make victory impossible.
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As a well-known doctor in London, John Snow was willing to help ordinary people (expose) to cholera. He knew that only when
cause of it was found could the
(dead) disease be controlled. He has two theories in mind explaining how cholera killed people.
was that cholera multiplied in the air without reason; the other was
people absorbed it into their bodies
their meals. After many
(investigate), he found the drinking water was to blame because the river
(pollute). Immediately John Snow told the people to remove the handle from the water pump
that it could not be used. Soon the disease began to slow down. To prevent the disease from
(happen) again, the water companies were instructed not to expose people to polluted water any more. Finally "King Cholera" was defeated
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For more than six million American children, coming home after school means (come) to an empty house. Some deal with the situation by watching TV. Some may hang out outside.
all of them have something in common. They spend part of each day alone. They
(call) latchkey children---they are children who look after themselves while their parents work. And their bad situation has become a subject of concern.
A headmaster of an elementary school said that there was a school rule against wearing jewelry. A lot of kids had chains around their necks with keys(attach). He was constantly telling them to put them inside shirts. There were so many keys
he slowly learned were house keys.
He began talking to the children who had them. Then he learned the influence working couples and single parents were having their children. Fear is the biggest problem faced by children at home alone. Many had nightmares and were worried about their own
(safe).
The most common way latchkey children deal with this is by hiding. It might be in a bathroom, under a bed in a closet. The second is TV. They’ll watch it with the volume turned up high. Most parents don’t realize
(it) effect on their children and most parents are slow to admit the fact
they leave their children alone.