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This is my story of friendship. About two years ago, I was really just a happy guy stress. However, one day in the fourth grade, all things changed. My best friend and I got into
big fight and didn’t talk to each other for a year. After that, I got really sad and had many thoughts
(kill) myself. A few weeks after the fight, my first best friend,
I met in daycare, helped me a lot. I hadn’t talked to him for a really long time, but he still took me in and
(hang) out with me and made me feel
(good). Another year later, I had lost almost all my self-confidence and I cruelly treated
(me), from pulling my own hair to
(hurt) myself. At this period, I also got looked down upon a lot. And again, my best friend came to help me. Since then I have made a promise
I will never hurt myself. This taught me the value of friendship and how
(power) it can be. Without my best friend, I might not be here today.
It has become acceptable for people to say that women work less than men and therefore deserve less! It may have been true in the past when women were expected to stay at home and look after children, but women have changed over the years. They have “come out”! Gone ______ (be) the days when they toiled (辛苦) the kitchen stove all day long; they are now aware of their needs and are willing to fight for them. They expect to be given the respect they deserve, both at home and at work. They have realized
_____ intellectual potential and have determined to do something about it!
Women on two wheels have become ______ familiar sight on the roads of most Asian countries during the past few years. It is common to find a woman
______ (take) her children on her bicycle to school and then reaching her office in time.
“Super woman” ______ she is, it is rather difficult to combine a career and a decent home life. She needs to feel
______ (support). She may arrive at work feeling as if she has already done a full day’s job.
______ colleagues doubt her passion to her job, she will feel sad. At the same time, women of today expect their partners to contribute towards childcare and household chores.
Today’s women are learning to avoid situations that make them feel more stressed and it is a hard struggle. ______ ______ ______all this, the new woman, “the superpower” has arrived. She still believes in the power and value of a family unit and she holds it in high esteem (尊重).
The year was 1932. Amelia Earhart was flying alone from North America to England in a small single-engined airplane. At midnight, several hours after she had left Newfoundland, she ran into bad weather. To make things worse, her altimeter (高度表) failed and she didn’t know how high she _____ (fly). At night, and in a storm, a pilot was in great difficulty without an altimeter. At times, her plane nearly plunged into the sea.
Just before dawn, there was further trouble. Amelia noticed flames coming from the engine. With all the difficulties, Amelia Earhart wasn’t sure if she _____ reach land. There was nothing to do but keep
______ (go).
In the end, Amelia Earhart did reach Ireland. It was with the great courage ______ she made the safe landing. And for the courage she had shown, she was warmly welcomed in England and Europe. When she returned to the United States, she
______ (honor) by President Hoover at a special dinner in the White House. From that time on, Amelia Earhart was famous.
What was so important about her flight? Amelia Earhart was the first woman______ (fly) the Atlantic Ocean alone, and she had set a record of fourteen hours and fifty-six minutes.
In the years that followed, Amelia Earhart made several flights across the United States, and on each occasion she set a new record for flying time and was ____ (skillful) than her previous flight. Amelia Earhart made these flights to show that women had a place in aviation (航空) and that air travel was useful. Her passion for flight lasted in her remaining life
______ she mysteriously disappeared from public in the year 1937.
Has the world just witnessed its first ever robot suicide? Boring housework was seemingly too much for one cleaning robot to take, when it apparently rebelled and decided to end it all.
The robot was given the tiresome task of cleaning up some spilt grain before it climbed on to a kitchen hotplate ___ it destroyed itself, according to reports in Austria. It had reportedly grown tired of
_____(force) to clean the house every day and decided to become a martyr(殉道者) to the robot cause.
“Somehow it seems ____(restart) itself again before it made its way along the work surface. Then it pushed a cooking pot out of the way and basically that was the end of it,” explained fireman Helmut Kniewasser, who
_____(call) to deal with the fire at Hinterstoder in Kirchdorf. “It pretty quickly started to melt underneath and then stuck to the kitchen hotplate. It then caught fire.
___ _____ _____ we arrived, it had become just a pile of ash.” He added: “The entire building
____ _____be evacuated (疏散) and there was severe smoke damage particularly in the flat in which the robot had been in use. “It’s a mystery how it came to be started and ended up making its way to the hotplate.”
____ took an hour to clean and make the building safe. The homeowner plans to charge the robot’s manufacturer.
After 30 years _____ a pilot, Captain Peter Elliott got to fly holiday-makers on a Thomas Cook flight from Birmingham, UK, to Tenerife, Spain with his daughter.
Senior First Officer Laura Elliott ____(fly) for six years but has never before got to work with her father. “It’s my dream to be able to fly with my Dad,” she said.
It had seemed unlikely that the pair would ever co-pilot _____ same aircraft because Miss Elliott learned to fly on Airbus planes when she joined the company in 2009, and her father flew Boeings. However, after Peter Elliott, 59, retrained to fly Airbuses, their dream of flying together came true.
Miss Elliott, 30, became interested in flying when____(inspire) by her father with a trial flight as her birthday present. Miss Elliott said: “Becoming a pilot was never something I had considered. It was only when my Dad bought me a trial flight for my 18th birthday
____ I considered following in my Dad’s footsteps.”
The pair finally sat in the cockpit (驾驶员座舱) together and Mr Elliott made an announcement to passengers___ the flight made it a special day for him as he was flying with his daughter.
Miss Elliott recalled the flight, ____(say), “I was initially nervous and he kept asking
_____ I was nervous or not. It was like going for a driving lesson with him. Thankfully, everything went smoothly and the passengers loved it. If it ever happens again, I will definitely be a lot
____(relaxed).”
Tears come out of my eyes when I talk to my parents on the phone.What are they doing when I call them? This is w__________ I want to know most.I promise my mother to study hard in the university because I am her h___________
.I just want her to promise me that she can take care of h______
and my dad because they are just l_____
the blood in my body.
In my family, everyone is equal.We are very happy to have meals together.Mum says that the h_________time for Dad and her is to see my sister and me come back home.We play cards in the room, watch TV and do anything we like, with Dad and Mum p_______
delicious food in the kitchen.I forget all the difficulties and unhappiness at that t____
.The o________
thing I would like to do is to enjoy the time with my parents.
Sometimes, love doesn’t n_______ many words.Love your parents as they love us.G__________
them a call, telling them you love them and miss them.