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Today, after finishing dinner in town, my husband and I were driving back home. As we pulled over, we saw a couple painting their furniture.
I went inside our home,_______ (change) and then went back out again to ask our neighbors if they needed any help. While leaving my home, I was plagued (困扰) by thoughts of
_______ (embarrass), denial, or being received.
________, I gathered the courage to go down and ask
________ ,anyway!
Initially, the woman denied. Then, the man said, “Sure”, and he handed me a spray paint bottle. We got into some good conversations_______ painting with great effort. When we finished, I briefly chatted with them before leaving.
In the end, not only _______ I enjoy helping them, but also learned about my neighbors.
________ the way home, I must admit, I couldn’t help but wonder
________ they might be thinking about me.
________ is tough to do a good deed for others and not expect that they will be thinking good about you.
Today’s experience taught me some ________ (value) lessons in my life! Hopefully, these lessons will help me continue my acts of kindness in future.
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Simon: ______ did you begin this sort of work, Fiona?
Fiona: Let me see. Um, about four years ago.
Simon: Are you enjoy ________?
Fiona: Oh, yes, very much. It is very __________ (tire) because of long working hours, sometimes as many as 12 hours. But it’s exciting to meet people from all over the world.
Simon: What _______ (exact) do you do?
Fiona: Well, I take tourists to the famous places in the city, tell them the history of the places, and explain why they’re famous.
Simon: What special qualifications are _________ (necessity) for guides?
Fiona: Well, they have to enjoy ________ (meet) new people. And they ____
_____ (take) special courses in the history of the city when they studied at college.
Simon: And do you have to know a foreign language?
Fiona: That’s _________ must. My company will only hire those ____
____ can speak at least two foreign languages.
Simon: And you? How many foreign languages can you speak?
Fiona: I can speak three: Spanish, ________ (France) and Italian.
Simon: Three foreign languages? Then I can understand why your work is so easy for you.
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One day, Nick invited his friends to supper. He was cooking some delicious food in the kitchen. Suddenly, he (find) that he had run out of salt. So Nick called to his son, “Go to the village and buy some salt,
pay a fair price for it: neither too much nor too little.”
His son looked surprised. “I can understand why I shouldn't pay too much, Father, but if I can pay less, not save a bit of money?”
“That would be a very (reason) thing to do in a big city, but it could destroy
small village like ours,” Nick said.
Nick’s guests, had heard their conversation, asked why they should not buy salt
(cheap) if they could. Nick replied, “The only reason why a man would sell salt at a lower price would be that he was desperate for money. And anyone who took advantage of that situation would be showing a lack of respect
the sweat and struggle of the man who worked very hard to produce it.”
“But such a small thing couldn't (possible) destroy a village.”
“In the beginning, there was only a very small amount of unfairness in the world, but everyone added a little, always (think) that it was only small and not very important, and look where we have ended up today.”
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I was born in a small village, the people lived a simple life. There were five hundred families
total in my village. They concentrated
whether their children could stay
(health). They were
(delight) to be free from the
(pollute) that most big cities were faced with. Although the villagers lacked the
(late) technology, they were content. I studied in a school
(found) in 1964,
was
only school in my village.
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Tu Yoyo，84， (honor)with the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Oct 5．She was the first Chinese citizen
(win) a Nobel Prize in science．Tu
(share)the prize with the Irish-born William Campbell and Satoshi Omura of Japan．
Tu is a researcher at the China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine now．She was given the prize for (develop) artemisinin(青蒿素)，a new drug therapy against malaria(疟疾)，
has saved millions of lives worldwide，especially in developing countries．
Tu and her colleagues joined a government project to find a new malaria drug the late 1960s．They made 380 herbal extracts from two thousand recipes from traditional Chinese medical books．In 1971，after nearly two hundred
(failure)，Tu’s team
(final)found an extract that was 100％effective against the malaria parasites—artemisinin．In 2001．the World Health Organization made artemisinin
(it)first choice in the treatment of malaria．
“The discovery of artemisinin is a gift to mankind from traditional Chinese medicine．It’s the collective achievement of the research team. Winning the prize is honor for Chinese science and traditional Chinese medicine，” Tu said．
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Some (invent) happened in strange ways. “Potato chips” is one of them.
White Lake House was restaurant in New York in the 1850s. George White was the cook there. Many highly-ranked people often came to the restaurant
(enjoy) his cooking.
One thing which really upset George was that a customer complained the food and sent it back to the kitchen to be done over. He would often return it overcooked. He was unhappy to see the customer walk out of the restaurant
(angry).
On August 24, 1853, a customer returned his fried potatoes to the kitchen they weren't crunchy (脆的) enough. George reacted in his
(usually) way. He cut the potatoes very thin and cooked them in hot oil. They were so crunchy and George was sure that the man would refuse to eat them. Instead, the man loved them. He even
(order) more.
Now, do you know invented the potato chips? It's George White! He later set up his own restaurant. He named it George's House. He put baskets of his potato chips on all the tables. They made his restaurant a very popular place.
Today, potato chips are one of Americans' (favor) foods!