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阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（不多于3个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
Several times each year the Queen gives afternoon tea parties. But she simply sits beside a big silver plate, pouring cups of tea for everyone and (skill) avoiding the cakes and sandwiches.
At cocktail parities the Queen moves from group to group, chatting informally, and manages to make one glass of drink last entire evening.
Tours abroad are difficult because hosts seem to have a (believe) that the warmth of their welcome must be shown with wonderful state banquets (宴会). But the Queen has perfected the art of appearing to enjoy her meal without actually eating much.
During one visit the Pacific islands of Tonga, a specially – prepared dinner was arranged in her honor. The Queen looked uneasily at her plate she discovered a whole roast pig was her serving. Then a turkey, some meat, an apple and bananas (carry) in for each guest. But she depended her old favorite trick of talking with her host, King Tupou IV, and carrying on a warm conversation.
Sometimes the Queen will seem so carried away by foreign leader’s political chat she simply never has time to finish a meal before it is time to get up and make her speech. She will lift her fork to swallow a mouthful, and then put down again to make another point, leaving almost all of her meal (touch).

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Questioning can lead to _______(search) for an answer. If we are in the habit of raising doubts as to ______ what we are told is true, we can find the correct answer and learn more.
Two years ago, our teacher _____(offer) us an answer to a difficult math problem in class. Although the answer seemed a little strange, nobody _______ I doubted it. Thinking that his answer might be wrong, I _______(careful) analyzed the problem and tries to work ____ out in a different way. Half an hour _______, I managed to find the correct answer. When I showed my answer to him, the teacher praised me for my _______(depend) thinking.
From this experience, I have learned that questioning can serve as ________ bridge that helps us to seek the ______(true).

阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（不多于3个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
Long ago, there was a mother and a son living in a house. She worked hard every day, __ they were always poor.
One day, her son stole his friend’s bag. “Mom, what do you think of this bag?” His mother praised her son instead of scolding him. The next time, he stole ___ overcoat. She praised him again. A few years _ (late), he grew up to be a young man. He stole jewelry and brought them to his mother. This time, she __ did not scold her son. Then, he started to steal more expensive things.
One day, the police caught him. Before he ____ (put) in prison, he begged the police to meet his mother. They took him __ his mother. As soon as he saw his mother, he suddenly bit her ear. “Ouch! What is the matter with you?” She finally scolded him. Her son answered. “If you had given me a scolding like _ when I stole the first bag, I could not have become a thief.” ___ (look) at her son heading to prison, “If only I __ turn back time, I would scold him severely.” She said (regret).

根据上下文在空白处填入一个适当的内容（不多于三个单词）或括号内提供单词的正确形式。
Many Chinese students studying abroad like to stay with host families to learn their language and culture. Nowadays, many Shanghai whitecollar workers have received native Englishspeaking___(nation) students as their host families, too, in order to learn English from them.
It is usually free for a foreign student to stay in a host family in Shanghai, but he/she must take___the responsibility of teaching English to at least one certain member of the family. Miss Li has always worried about her____(limit) English. “I never knew what to say to an Englishspeaking person，” she said. She has taken a number of English courses, but____has proved to be useful. Last year, she saw____advertisement recruiting (征募) host families for foreign students, and that was how Carey (from Chicago, U．S.) came to her home. Carey is actually not a student, but a____(manage). She stays in Li's apartment for free，____has to teach Li oral English for an hour every day. “She could hardly speak Chinese at the beginning, and we had to guess____each other meant through gestures，” said Li.
Two months later, they could talk to each other___gesticulating. Now, Li can communicate with any Englishspeaking person freely. About 100 Shanghai families have received foreign boarding students, and the figure__(rise). However, foreign boarding students can not only help improve oral English, but examination skills.

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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 holiday makers (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 four “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 advantage special trip tickets on the railways. By the 1880s, (rise) incomes meant that many ordinary workers and their families could have holiday at the seaside. Welfare was reduced and cheap hotels (build) for them. Holiday makers enjoy (sit) on the beach, bathing in the sea and eating ice cream. Cheap entertainment was on offer and holiday makers went to have fun. Today English seaside remains popular with more than 18 million holidays taken there each year.