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Mr. Johnson lived in the woods with his wife and children. He owned a farm, which looked almost abandoned. (lucky), he also had a cow
(produce) milk every day. He sold or exchanged some of the milk in the towns nearby for other food and made cheese and butter for the family with what
(leave). The cow was their only means of support, in fact. One day, the cow was eating grass
it began to rain heavily. While making great
(effort) to run away, she
(fall) over the hill and died. Then Johnson tried to make
living without the cow. In order to support his family, Mr. Johnson began to plant herbs (草药) and vegetables. Since the plants took a while to grow, he started cutting down trees
(sell) the wood. Thinking about his children’s clothes, he started growing cotton too. When harvest came around, he was already selling herbs, vegetables and cotton in the market
people from the town met regularly. Now
occurred to him that his farm had much potential and that the death of the cow was a bit of luck.
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This is a most incredible tale. In the summer of 1903, an American businessman named Henry had some bad luck. He was carried out to sea by ____strong wind and was __
____ (spot) by a ship before giving up. Then he landed in Britain _
____ chance. He earned his passage by working as an unpaid hand,
___ accounted for his
___ (appear). He was lost in London and had no money on him. _
__ knows who he was.
Then ____ (expect) he was invited to a large and beautiful house by two rich brothers, Roderick and Oliver. Henry told his experience to them. He asked if they _
____ (can) offer him some kind of work there. To his surprise, they gave him a letter with money in it. He couldn’t open it until two o’clock. Henry thought this was silly. In fact, Henry didn’t want charity but an honest job. He was _
___ (puzzle) at what he did and _
___ (promise) to open it until two o’clock.
A group of robbers dug their way into to basement of a bank in Paris and emptied almost 200 private safes. They entered the Credit Lyonnais branch using building ____ (equip) to dig holes and destroy walls __
__ Saturday night. They tied up a security guard and spent the next nine hours__
__ (rob) the bank.
One investigator described the robbery___ a “professional job”. The robbers came in at about 22:00 on Saturday and _
__ (leave) at 7:00 on Sunday. They entered through the basements of the neighboring building, digging through a series of tunnels and making a hole into a wall of 80cm thick to get into the bank, __
__ was having building works at the time.
When they left, the robbers set the place on fire to remove any trace of evidence, ____ (switch) on the anti-fire system and flooding the building. __
__ (fortune), the guard escaped unharmed. __
_ is difficult to estimate the total value of what __
_ (steal) as only the bank’s clients know the content of their private safes.
Old age may not sound_______ (excite).But recent findings provide good news for older people and for people
_______ (worry) about getting older.
The findings came from ______ survey of more than 340,000 adults in the United States. The Gallup Organization questioned
______ by telephone in 2008.At that time, the people were between the ages of eighteen and eighty-five.
The researchers asked questions about emotions like happiness, ________(sad) and worry. They also asked about mental or emotional stress. The research team found that levels of stress were
________ (high) among adults between the ages of twenty-two and twenty-five. Stress levels dropped
_______ (sharp) after people reached their fifties.
Happiness_______ highest among the youngest adults and those
_______ their early seventies. The study also showed that men and women have similar emotional patterns as they grow older.
______ , woman at all ages reported more sadness, stress and worry than men.
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With the(develop) of industry, air pollution is getting more and more serious. In Beijing, many people suffer different kinds of illnesses because of air pollution.
Air pollution is caused by the (follow) reasons. It is
(main) caused by vehicles. There are more and more cars, buses on the roads and they give off
(poison) gases. About 25% of air pollution is caused by factories. Another factor is the smoking,
not only does harm to smokers’ health but also to others’.
these, about 10% of air pollution is caused by other reasons.
We should take some measures ( fight) against pollution. New fuel can be used to take
place of gas. We can plant more trees. If everyone realizes the importance of environment
does something to stop pollution, the problem will
(solve).
Have you ever asked yourself why children go to school? You will (probable) say that they go to school to learn languages, arithmetic, history, science and some other knowledge. That is quite true, but
do they learn these things?
We send our children to school (prepare) them for the time when they will be big and will have to work for themselves. Nearly everything they study at school has some practical use in their life. But is that
only reason why they go to school?
There is more in education than just (learn) facts. We go to school to learn how to learn, so that when we have left school we can continue to learn. A man
really knows how to learn will always be successful, because when he has to do something new, he will not only be able to do it well himself, he will but also be able to teach
how to do it in the best way. The
(educate) person, on the other hand, is either unable to do something new, or just
it badly. The purpose of schools, therefore, is
(teach) languages, arithmetic, history science, etc., but to teach pupils the way to learn.