British families started going on holiday to the seaside around the middle of the 19th century. The (invent)of the railways made this possible. The first holidaymakers (be) quite rich and went for their health and education. The seaside was a place to cure people of illness. And doctors recommended bathing in the sea and drinking sea water. At that time ordinary working people had very little time off work. , in 1871, the government introduced for “Bank Holidays”, that is national holidays. This allowed people (have) a day or two out now and then, gave them a taste for leisure and seaside. At first, they went on a day trip, taking advantage special trip tickets on the railways. By the 1880s, (rise) incomes meant that many ordinary workers and their families could have holiday ant the seaside. Welfare was reduced and cheap hotels (build) for them. Holidaymakers enjoy (sit) on the beach, bathing in the sea and eating ice cream. Cheap entertainment was on offer and holidaymakers went to have fun. Today English seaside remains popular with more than 18 million holidays taken there each year.
Two little children were sitting by the fire one cold winter’s night. Suddenly, they heard a knock at the door. “Who can it be?” they wondered. One ran (curious) to open it. There, outside in the cold and the darkness, stood a child no shoes on his feet and dressed in old thin garments. He was trembling with cold, he asked if he was allowed to come in and warm himself.
Yes, come, cried both the children. They drew the little stranger to their warm seat, (share) their supper with him, and gave him their bed, and they slept on a hard bench.
On the night, they (awake) by sweet music, was played by a band of children in shining garments. Suddenly the stranger child stood in front of : no longer cold and ragged, but dressed in silvery light. He said, I am the Christ Child, (wander) through the world to bring peace and (happy) to good children as you. As you have helped me so much, this tree will give rich fruit to you every year.
When he was saying that, he broke branch from the tree that grew near the door, planted it in the ground and disappeared. But the branch grew into a great tree, and every year it bore wonderful golden fruit for the kind children.
A tornado, _ is a rotating column of air from a thunderstorm to the ground usually (occur) in the US , _ (affect) several US states greatly.
Hurricanes, which are strong tropical storms, usually _ (strike)the east coast of the US from Texas to Maine, the (bad) one of which caused 6,000 _(die), and (destroy) 3,6o0 buildings.
Here is a story about the worst hurricane. Charles Coghlan, a famous Irish actor, moved to Canada, then New York, and finally Galveston, he died in 1899, a year before the hurricane came. In the hurricane , his cemetery was destroyed and his coffin ended up in the sea, which _ (carry) by the Gulf Stream to his home on Prince Edward Island in the east of Canada eight years _ (late).
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A young man, while traveling through a desert, came across a spring of clear water. ___water was sweet. He filled his leather container so that he could bring some back to an elder_had been his teacher. After a four-day journey, the young man____ ( present ) the water to the old man. His teacher took a deep drink, smiled___ ( warm ), and thanked his student very much for the sweet water. The young man went home____a happy heart.
After the student left, the teacher let____student taste the water. He spit it out, ___ (say) it was awful. Apparently, it was no longer fresh because of the old leather container. He asked his teacher, "Sir, the water was awful. Why did you pretend to like___?" The teacher replied," You tasted the water. I tasted the gift. The water was simply the container for an act of kindness and love. Nothing could be____ (sweet). "We understand this lesson best____we receive gifts of love from children. Whether it is a cheap pipe or a diamond necklace, the proper response is appreciation. We love the idea within the gift rather than the thing.
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Gandhi, an Indian national hero, was honored ______ the father of the Indian nation. He has been respected and beloved by the Indians. He was born in India in 1869. Following the local custom, he got ______(marry)at the age of 13. In 1888 he sailed to England, _______ he studied law for three years and became a lawyer. On his return to India, he was sent to South Africa to work on a law case. In South Africa he was_____ (surprise)to find that the problem of racial discrimination (种族歧视)was serious. There he formed an organization and started a magazine to fight ______equal rights. Gandhi returned to India in 1915, ______ India was controlled by the British. He led the Indians to fight for an end to the British rule and independence for his country. In the political movement many Indians _________(include) Gandhi were put in prison. _______, the struggles never stopped. The British government had to give______and India won its independence in 1947. ______(fortunate)Gandhi was shot by an Indian who opposed his views and died on January 30th, 1948.
There once was a goat and a donkey(驴), which lived _____ a farm. The donkey worked the hardest so the farmer fed it the ______ (much) food. Sometimes the donkey was given more food______it could eat. This made the goat so jealous ______ it began plotting against(谋划对付)the donkey. "Hey, donkey," the goat said one day. "I think you do too much work on this farm. You carry such heavy things from morning to night. Why don't you pretend _______ (get) sick so you can take a day _______?'' The donkey thought the goat had a great idea. So the next morning, the donkey lay in the stable(畜栏) on its side with its eyes _______(close). Right away, the farmer called the doctor. ______looking at the donkey, the doctor said it needed a special medicine _______(make)from the heart of a goat. So the farmer killed _______goat and gave the donkey medicine made from its heart.
As a working mom with three young sons, keeping the house clean is a big challenge. ________ we clean the house every week, one hour later after cleaning our bedrooms and bathrooms are back to their ___________(mess) look. When asked, my boys will help neaten their room, clear their plates from the table and pick up their school junk. But I need to remind them__________ it again and again.
If I don’t remind them, I will step over all the things _________make my house look like a garbage can. This is quite __________ change from my pre-kid years when I never _________(leave) any waste in the house. ________seems that I cannot get these days back again at my own house.
When last week I found a program called “Share a Healthy Habit” on a newspaper, I saw a great chance to engage my sons in cleaning chores. Why not encourage these behaviors during the summer, while school is out and their life is __________ (relax)?
The goal for my boys is to clean__________own dorm room themselves when they are free. The rewards for clean habits start young and continue as they get __________ (old), so I need to start my plan as soon
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Number the Stars", by American author Lois Lowry, is about________ escape of a Jewish family from Copenhagen during World War II. The story centers________ ten-year-old Annemarie, who lives with her family in Copenhagen in 1943. __________ with her family, she is involved in an event to help local _________ to reach Sweden to avoid _________(send) to Concentration Camps. She risks her life to help her best friend, Ellen, by pretending that Ellen is Annemarie's older sister Lise. In this process, Annemarie _________ (begin) to realize that the world they live in is a place ________ the right thing is often hard, and sometimes dangerous. ________ she has to take a deep breath, take her responsibility, and make a decision. The following ________ (content) are right there waiting for you to read, to explore and to comprehend. _________(hope), you will enjoy and benefit a great deal from the novel.
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One day, an old monk named Wisdom, followed by two young monks, was walking from one town to another____ they caught sight of a lake. Tired and thirsty, they stopped to have a rest. ____old monk, pointing to the lake, asked the ____ (young) one to get him some water.
When the little monk reached the lake, a cart____ (draw) by an ox started crossing the lake, ______made the water very muddy. The little monk thought, “How can I give this muddy water to my master to drink!” So he came back_____ any water, saying, “The water is very muddy. I don’t think____is suitable to drink.”
After a while, the same monk _____(ask)to get water again. When he went back to the lake, he found that the mud _ (settle) down already, so he collected back a pot of water. Wisdom looked at the water happily and then up at the monk, “To make the water clean, ____you need to do is just to let it be and the mud would settle down on its own.”
It is also the same with your mind. When it is disturbed, just let it be. Give it a little time and it will settle down itself.
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Where will you choose to live, in the city ____ the countryside? People have different ideas ___ the question. Some of my friends would like to live in the city. They can enjoy TV films, entertainment and delicious food. Everything____ (be) convenient in the city. ____ people are thirsty, they can have boiled or bottled water at once. When a child is ill, he____ (send) to hospital in just a few minutes. _____, people have to suffer heavy traffic and air pollution anyway.
On the ____ hand, others will choose the countryside. The reasons are simple. Nothing is better ____ to live in fresh air, drink clean water, and enjoy free natural beauty. Of course the most important is a longer and a_____ (happy) life. Which will be your____ (choose), my friend?
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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.
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