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Why is pink or purple a color for girls and blue or brown for boys?
The answer depends largely _________ cultural values as well as personal experiences. To the Egyptians, green was a color ___
____ represented the hope and joy of spring, while for Muslims, it means heaven. Red is a symbol of good luck in many cultures. During the Spring Festival in China, children __
____(give) money in a red envelope to bring good fortune in the New Year. For many nations, blue is symbol of protection and religious beliefs. Greek people often wear a blue necklace hoping to protect __
___ against evils（灾祸）.
People’s _______(choose) of colors is also influenced by their bodies’ reactions toward them. Green is said to be ___
__ most restful color. It has the ability to reduce pain and relax people both mentally ___
__ physically. People ___
___ (work) in green environment have been found to have fewer stomach aches.
Red can cause a person’s blood pressure to rise and increase people’s appetites（食欲）. Many decorators will include different shades of red in the restaurant. And many commercial websites will have a red “Buy Now” button because red is a color that _____ (easy) catches a person’s eye.
Blue is another calming color. Unlike red, blue is believed to cause people to lose appetite. So ____ you want to eat less, some suggest that eating from blue plates can help.
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Many weight loss programs seem attractive to people. But for most people are overweight, the results are so
(limit) that they will give up long before achieving any realistic results. It turns out that the programs are practically of no use. You lose weight for a while, only
(gain) back more weight when you stop your weight loss program. This is
such programs are not natural. Is there a natural weight loss solution?
A sure way of achieving natural weight loss is to increase amount of exercise you get every day.
, this doesn’t necessarily mean spending hours at the gym
in front of a weight loss video. Increase your weight levels
(nature) by walking or biking short distances instead of driving, or by taking the stairs instead of the elevator. There are even exercise that you can do while
(sit) at your desk. All of these activities can burn extra calories
taking up too much time.
Global warming could make humans shorter. Scientists claim to have found evidence that it caused the world's first horses （shrink） nearly 50 million years ago. In fact,a team from the universities of Florida and Nebreaks says
has found a link between the Earth heating up and the size of mammals-homes，during the last time the world heated up. The scientists used fossils to follow the evolution of homes from their earliest
（appear) 56 million years ago. As temperatures went up．their size went
. The scientists say that the current warming could have the same effect
mammals and could even make humans
（small）．“Horses started out small，about the size of a small dog. What's
（surprise）is that after they first appeared，they then became even smaller and then dramatically increased in size, and that
（exact）corresponds to the global warming event, followed by cooling.”"It had been known that mammals
small during the last warm time，
we hadn't realized that temperature specifically was driving the evolution of body size”Dr. Bloch said in the "Science”journal.
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In the age of the smart phone, there seems no reason to ask questions about: the weather forecast, a business’s phone number or directions, ______can all be easily found on Google, but very often people
______(actual) ask these things by telephoning. Your answer may
______(reply) to with a thank-you e-mail.
This isn’t the first time that great ______(change) have taken place in our manners due to technology. In the late 1870s, when
______telephone was invented, people didn’t know how to greet a caller. Often there
______(be) just silence. Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor,
______ (suggest) that people say “Ahoy”, but finally“Hello” won out,the greeting is now used
_____everyday face-to-face communications.
Try to be______ (respect) no matter who you communicate with. Just keep it in mind that
______(polite) never goes out of fashion.
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Once there lived a rich man ________ wanted to do something for the people of his town. But first he wanted to find out whether they
_______ (actual) deserved his help.
In the centre of the main road into the town, he placed very large stone. Then he
______(hide) behind a tree and waited. Soon an old man came along with his cow.
“Who put this stone in the centre of the road?” said the old man, but he did not attempt ________ (remove) the stone.
___________,with some difficulty he passed around the stone and continued on his way.
________ man came along and did the same thing; then another came, and another. All of them complained about the stone but nobody tried to remove it. Late in the afternoon a young man came along. He saw the stone,
________ (say) to himself; “The night
_______(be)very dark. Some neighbors will come along later in the dark and will fall against the stone.”
The he began to move the stone. He pushed and pulled with all his _______ (strong)to move it. To his amazement, he found a bag of money under the stone.
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Tuan was a farmer in Vietnam. For decades, he had been struggling to rid his family of hunger.However, it always confused him to expand the output of his crops. This
job.
One day, when skimming through a newspaper, Tuan read comment on Yuan Longping. He underlined Yuan’s nationality and occupation, and then
(focus) on his discovery and the statistics of his research. He found the knowledge Yuan circulated very
(practice). Therefore, he made a summary and began to build up a new farming method. He planted super grain of rich nutrition and equipped
(he) to keep his crop roots free of bacteria and pests. He also enriched minerals in the soil while
(reduce) chemical fertilizers. Though it cost him more time and freedom, he was full of hope.
The next year, Tuan was sunburnt satisfied with his production very much. Thanks to YuanLongping, he not only won the battle
hunger, but he could also export his crops abroad.