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Shopping habits in America have changed a lot over the past few decades. Early ____ the 1900s most American towns and cities had a Main Street. Main Street was always in ____ heart of a town. This street was built with many stores on both sides. Shoppers walked into the stores to look ___ what they needed. ___, a change began to take place in the 1950s. Too many cars had crowded into Main Street while too __parking places were available(可用的) to shoppers. ___ the streets were crowded, shop owners began _____ look with interest at the open space from the city limits. When the first shopping center was built in the United States, an open space became _____ they first had considered.

People ___（live）in different countries made different kinds of words. Today there are about fifteen hundred ___ in the world. Each contains many thousands of words. A very large dictionary, for example, contains four ____five hundred thousand words. But we do not need______ these. To read short stories you need to know only about two thousand words. ____you leave school, you will learn only one thousand or more.
The words you know are called your vocabulary. You should try to make your vocabulary ____（big）. Read as many books as we can. There are a lot of books ______（write）in easy English. You will enjoy them. When you meet ___ new word, look it _____ in your dictionary. Your dictionary is your ___（much）useful book.

两千三百年前中国大哲孟子谓：“充实之谓美，充实而光辉之谓大，大而化之之谓圣，圣而不可知之之谓神。”此可总揽普天下所有大艺术之警世通言也，中、西莫不皆然。八大山人、伦勃朗、莎士比亚、陶潜，于美、大、圣、神皆有之矣，然其趋舍异途，绝无可融合处。比较艺术的目的，所望于后来者，为加大其距离，非缩小而趋同也。
The great Chinese philosopher Mencius, _______ lived two thousand and three hundred years ago, said, “Substantiality is called beauty; when substantiality is brightly displayed, it is called greatness; ________ greatness exercises a transforming influence, it is called sacredness; when sacredness is beyond our understanding, it is called divinity.” This extraordinary proposition is applicable to all the great arts of the world, _________(include) both Chinese and Western ones. The great Chinese artist of the seventeenth century Bada Shanren (1626—1705), the great artist of the Netherlands Rembrandt (1606—1669), the great British ________ (drama) William Shakespeare (1564—1616), and the great Chinese poet Tao Qian (c.365—427), who lived between the fourth and fifth centuries, all possessed the qualities of _________, greatness, sacredness, and divinity. __________, the objectives they aimed at, the things they chose to cast __________(side) and their approaches varied greatly from one another. There is ____________ (absolute) nothing that can be synthesized. Comparing the objectives of art, I hope that future artists will __________ the distance between Eastern art and Western art, instead of reducing it or gradually converging one into the _______________.

Alice: Mr. Black, This is Alice speaking. I’m calling to ask you __ I can take the afternoon off today.
Black: Well, of course. _ can you tell me what the problem is, Alice？
Alice: OK, Mr. Black. My son is going to take part in a singing contest ____(hold) in Washington tomorrow. He’s got so many things to take ____ he can’t go there alone.
Black: So you want to take __ there in your minibus？
Alice: Yes. And as soon as I put him up in the hotel, I__ (drive) back.
Black: Well, that would be __ too tiring journey. It’s nearly 300 kilometers away and it will take you at least six hours __ (travel) to and from Washington. Why don’t you stay there until you have seen your son perform？
Alice: But I have two _(class) tomorrow morning.
Black: Don’t worry. I’ll tell Mary to take your classes _ . She’s always willing to help.
Alice: That’ll be nice. Thank you and give my thanks to Mary.
Black: You’re welcome.

It was ____ (freeze) cold as I was waiting at a bus stop in my hunt for a job. The bus had just pulled ___ when a young woman walked up to the stop. She had on a T-shirt and slippers. When we talked she told me she lost her job and had no family in the area. I ___ (dig) into my purse and took out $ 5 so she could get something to eat. I then took off my jacket and gave it to her. After I got on the bus, that was ___the miracle（奇迹）of spreading kindness happened. I stepped up to pay ___ fare and the bus driver told me in a big smile that it was on him. A lady called me ____ to her seat and said, “What can I do for you to give back _ I just saw?” I said__ (joke) a job would be nice. The lady said she had an assistant position vacant (空着) in her company and wanted me to meet the manager. ___ turned out that the lady was ___ (heading) of HR at this company. I went in for the interview and started working there. I never expected to get so much back in return!