With the ________ (develop) of industry, air pollution
_______ (get) more and more serious. In Beijing, many people suffer different kinds of illnesses as a result of air pollution.
Air pollution is caused by the following__________: about half of the problem is caused by transportation. There are more and more cars, buses on the roads, and they give off
_________ (harm) gases. 25% of air pollution is caused by factories. Another factor is the smokers. Smoking not only does harm to their health
_________ to others.
_________ these, about 10% of air pollution is caused by other reasons.
We should take some measures to fight ________ pollution. New fuel can be used to take
________ place of gas. We can plant more trees.
__________ everybody realizes the importance of environment and does something to stop pollution, the problem will
________ (solve).
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It had rained for a few days. I felt very____________(厌烦的). But it became fine last Sunday morning. So I got up early and decided to go for a walk and take some p________
____ in the
__________(美丽的)country. After breakfast, I carried a camera with me and set ___
_____ . Everything went smoothly. I enjoyed my trip so much that I didn’t
(意识到)the weather had turned bad again. I began to run and it was too late. I was c
in the rain and was wet through. I kept on running u
I got to the bus stop. I stood there w
a long time for the bus shivering with cold. Shortly
I got home, I had a high fever,
made me stay in bed for a whole week!
Blood is important to support our lives. But for now, the only way we can get more of it is through donation. And donated blood has its own problems. First of all, certain blood types are extremely rare. Type O negative blood (O-), for example, only (exist) in 7 percent of people, according to Sunday Times. There are fewer
(donate) and therefore there isn’t enough of this type of blood for everybody who needs it. In addition, donated blood comes from various people, which means that it has to
(examine) carefully for diseases such as HIV to make sure that it’s safe for transfusion(输血).
This is__ scientists all over the world have been trying to make blood in labs. And now, someone finally succeeded—Marc Turner at the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service has produced blood fit for transfusion, reported Forbes. Different from many ____
scientists, who have tried to make blood by mixing up different ingredients together, Turner chose to grow blood
(direct) from human stem cells. He developed
special technique to create a chemical environment similar to that in our bone marrow (骨髓). This environment encourages stem cells to develop fully
red blood cell.
According to Turner, his artificial blood is (likely) to contain disease viruses or produce side effects. And the best part is that
he managed to produce was type O- blood. Not only is it a rare blood type, it’s also a universal type, which means it can be transfused into any patient.
During the Spring and Autumn Period, the State of Wu launched an attack against the State of Yue. The king of Wu was seriously wounded and soon died.__ ___(he) son Fu Chai became the new king. Fu was determined to revenge. He trained his army_____
___(strict) until it was a perfect fighting force. Three years later, he led his army ____
____the State of Yue and caught its king Gou Jian.
In order to avenge his father’s_______ (die), Fu let him live in a shabby stone house by his father’s tomb and ordered him to raise horses for him. Gou pretended to be loyal to Fu,__
_____ he never forgot his humiliation(羞辱).Many years later , he ____
___(set) free. Gou secretly accumulated a military force after he went back to his own state. In order to make himself tougher he slept on firewood and ate a gall-bladder(苦胆) before having dinner and going to bed every night. At ___
___ same time he administered his state carefully,___
____(develop) agriculture. After a few years, his country became strong. Then Gou seized a favorable opportunity to wipe off the State of Wu.
Later, people use it (describe) one who stands self-imposed(自愿接受)hardships to ___
____(strong) one’s determination to realize one’s ambition.
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There was once a beautiful girl who hated herself because she was blind. She also hated everyone else, except her ___ (love) boyfriend who was considerate and was always there to help her. One day she told her boyfriend, “You _
(be) so kind to me and if I could only see the world, I should marry you.”
One day, someone donated a pair of eyes to her. Doctors spent several hours doing ____ (operate) for her and the boy accompanied her at the bedside all the time. When the bandages came off, she was able to see everything, her boyfriend _
__ (include), of course.
He asked her, “now ___ you can see the world, will you marry me?” The girl looked at her boyfriend and saw that he was blind, too.
The sight of ___ ugly closed eyelids shocked her and made her feel sick. She had not expected that, and __
__ thought of looking at them in the rest of her life led her to refuse to marry him.
Her boyfriend left ___ tears and a few days later sent a note to her, __
_ said,“Please take good care of your eyes, my dear, because before they are yours, they were _
__!”
After reading the words, the girl burst out crying, regretting what she had done to the boy.
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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