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Whether you are a fan of athletics or not, chances are _____ you have heard of Usain Bolt--- the fastest man on the planet.
After the 29-year-old Jamaican had won victories in the 100- and 200-meter men’s dashes, Aug 29 saw him take home a third gold medal in a week at the 2015 World Athletics Championships in Beijing, ____ (lead) his national team to victory _____ the men’s 4× 400 relay final.
____ Reuters put it, “When _____ comes to major championship sprinting(短跑),Bolt simply has no equal.”This partly explains why the sprinter always ______ (wild) celebrates his wins. After each match, he does the trademark “Lightening Bolt” pose---putting one arm into the sky, as if he were about to throw a bolt of lightning at the stars. ______ 2012 London Olympics also saw him look back across the track at his competitors , do a couple of push-ups (俯卧撑)once he had stopped.
Some have called him a “showman”, but“ these will just add to the charm of Bolt---one of the most ____ (joy), self-confident athletes you’ll ever see”, wrote the Business Insider.
Indeed, now with six Olympic gold medals and 11 World Championships titles under his belt, the Jamaican star ____ (prove) “his ability to get the ____ (good) out of his huge natural talent”, Reuters noted.
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Dear Tom,
How time (fly)! You have been studying in Beijing for nearly a month, during which you must have achieved a lot. Well, is everything going? It is reported that the weather there is very hot and dry these days, which is very different from of your county. Have you adapt to it? In (add), you once complained that the food (serve) there was not to your taste. I hope that should have been improved.
I am glad to tell you that I will go to Beijing to take part in an English contest in July, is not only an honor, but also a great opportunity for me (improve) myself. And now I try my best to make preparation for it. However, I have some difference
(collect) the material relevant(有关的) and using the language. I will appreciate it if you give me a hand to solve problem.
After the contest, I am to drop in at your school to visit you.
Please wait my phone.
Yours,
Li Hua
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In the age of the smart phone, there seems no reason to ask questions about: the weather forecast, a business’s phone number or directions, ______can all be easily found on Google, but very often people______(actual) ask these things by telephoning. Your answer may ______(reply) to with a thank-you e-mail.
This isn’t the first time that great ______(change) have taken place in our manners due to technology. In the late 1870s, when ______telephone was invented, people didn’t know how to greet a caller. Often there ______(be) just silence. Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor, ______ (suggest) that people say “Ahoy”, but finally“Hello” won out,the greeting is now used_____everyday face-to-face communications.
Try to be______ (respect) no matter who you communicate with. Just keep it in mind that ______(polite) never goes out of fashion.
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One morning I sat on a bench in a park and watched a little boy (run) freely on the grass as his mother watched from a short distance away. The boy would fall to the grass, get up, and without looking back his mother, run as fast as he could as if nothing had happened.
When the kid fell down, he didn't think of the fall as failure. Instead, he considered a learning experience. He tried and tried again he succeeded. I (touch) by the boy's strong mind and the way he ran. With each attempt, he looked so (confidence) and natural. He only wanted to run freely and to do it as well as he could. He was just being a child—just being himself—being completely in the moment. He never _______(give) up. Each time he fell, he got himself back up again, as if he knew that falling down was simply a part of life. He was not looking for others' (smile), or worrying about whether someone was watching or not. He only wanted to run and to feel the experience of running fully and freely. I learned a lot from that experience, and have ________(success) brought that lesson with me in many parts of my life.
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At the end of the 16th century, most of the people_____spoke English lived in England. The language did ____ begin to be spoken in many other countries until the 17th century. Nowadays, more people speak English than ________ before. However, English ______(change) over time. The English ____(speak) in England between about AD 450 and 1150 was based more ___ German than the English we speak at present. Then from about AD800 and 1150, new settlers who ruled England spoke first Danish and later French. They enriched ____ English language and especially its vocabulary. ____ (gradual), English became less like German. In 1620 some British people moved to America and _____ (settle)there. Later in the 18th century some British people ____(take) to Australia too. English began to be used in both countries.
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Swedish businessman Nile Bergqvist is delighted with his new hotel, the world’s first igloo(冰屋) hotel.
_____ (build) in an small town, it has been attracting lots of visitors but soon the fun will be over. In two weeks’ time Bergqvist’s ice creation_______ (be) nothing more than a pool of water. “We don’t see it as a big problem, ”he says. “We just look forward to ______(replace)it. ”
Bergqvist built his first igloo in 1991 for an art exhibition. It was______ successful that he designed the present one, ______ measures roughly 200 square meters. Six workmen spent more than eight weeks______ (pile)1,000 tons of snow onto a wooden base;when the snow froze, the base______ (remove).
After their stay, all visitors receive a survival certificate recording their success. _____no windows, nowhere to hang clothes and temperatures below 0°C, it may seem more like a survival test _____ a relaxing hotel break. “It’s great fun,” Bergqvist explains, “As well as a good start in survival training.’’
The______ (popular)of the igloo is beyond doubt:it is now attracting tourists from all over the world. At least 800 people have stayed at the igloo this season even though there are only 10 rooms.
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I was on my way to the Taiyetos Mountains. The sun was setting when my car ______ (break) down near a remote and poor village. Cursing my misfortune, I was wondering where I was going to spend the night when I realized that the villagers who had gathered around me were arguing as to ____ should have the honor of receiving me _____ a guest in their house. Finally, I accepted the offer of an old woman who lived alone in a little house. While she was getting me _____ (settle) into a tiny but clean room, the head of the village was tying up his horse to my car to pull it to _____ small town some 20 kilometres away_____there was a garage. I had noticed three hens running free in my hostess’s courtyard and that night one of them ended up in a dish on my table. ______ villagers brought me goat’s cheese and honey. We drank together and talked _____ (merry) till far into the night. When the time came for me to say goodbye to my friends in the village, I wanted to reward the old woman ______the trouble I had caused ______.
Travelling by subway can be quite an adventure, especially during rush hours. You have to fight your ______ into the carriage, and that’s not the end. You also have to protect yourself from big backpacks and fight for space with t who sit and stretch their legs.
To deal with this problem, New York City has (启动) a campaign making people take off their backpacks on the subway. The movement is also (针对) at male riders who like spreading their legs to take up two, or even three seats.
Some people say that the campaign l (限制) everyone’s freedom. Male travelers even feel it is unfair, saying that women who cross their legs also take up too much space. ______ the campaign has been supported by people who are concerned about (个人的)behavior in public spaces.
In fact, all countries have written or unwritten (规则) that travelers are expected to follow. For example, eating and drinking on the subway are banned in many cities, i Washington DC in the US and Brussels in Belgium.
So _____ time you take public transportation, avoid bad behavior.
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“That is my grandmother’s house,”I say, ( point ) across the baby to a shabby old house. I am in Nova Scotia on a pilgrimage with Lise, my granddaughter, seeking roots for her, retracing treasured ( memorize ) for me. Lise was one of the mobile children, moved from house to house in childhood. She longs a sense of home, so we have come to Nova Scotia where my husband and I were born and where our ancestors ( live ) for 200 years.
We soon pull up by the house and I tell her it was like here, the memories rushing back, swift as the tide. Suddenly, I long ( walk ) again in the house where I was once so gloriously a child.
It still belongs to a member of the family, but has not been lived in for while. We cannot go into the house, I can still walk through the rooms in memory. Here, my mother sat in her bedroom window and wrote in her diary. However, that was long after those childhood days. Lise Listens ( attentive ) as I talk and then says, “So this is where I began; where I belong.”
She has found her roots. To be rooted is “to have an origin”. We need that origin. Looking
backward, we discovered what is unique in ; learn the meaning of “I”. We must all go home again-----in reality or memory.
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Tom: Sandy. It seems that only half of the students passed the final exam.
Sandy: Really? The exam have been very difficult this time.
Tom: Well, I’m really (surprise) too. There are many students who definitely didn’t fail. According to Jack, there are eight boys in his class who failed, (include) himself and Scott.
Sandy: Oh! Scott is of the top students in the college. What about his sister, Kate? Did she pass?
Tom: Oh, yes. It seems she (get) good marks.
Sandy: That’s (absolute) unbelievable! Scott was much better student than his sister, and has been working so hard for the last few months.
Tom: It seems (fair), doesn’t it? But, from I’ve heard, perhaps he worked too hard. He was ill during the week of the exam.
Sandy: Oh, I see. These things happen, sometimes. I suppose the teacher will take his illness into account and give him a pass.
Tom: Well, there is a rumor going around the head of the Department is leaving.
Sandy: Because of the bad result, you mean?
Tom: Well, I suppose so. I’m not sure. Maybe Mr. Smith is going to be the new Department Head.
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Computer began as a calculating machine in France in 1642 Computer developed very _(slow) and it took nearly two hundred years __ it was built as an analytical machine, __followed instructions from cards with holes. In 1936 Alan Turing wrote a book ___(describe) how computers could be made to work as a "universal machine" ___(solve) any mathematical problem.
By the 1940s computer __(grow) as large as a room . As time went__ it has grown smaller, and with artificial__(intelligent), it is getting cleverer and cleverer, quicker and__(quick). In the early 1960s, computers could be connected by a network. So people were able to share their information __others through the World Wide WeB.
Many people travel during the holiday season but do not make sure that their houses and homes (protect). Crime goes up (rapid) during the winter and summer holiday seasons. Here are some things that you should keep in mind when you go on
holiday.
Always give (strange) the feeling that you are at home. Have the snow (clean) off your stairs or out of your driveway during the winter season. You might ask someone to park cars in your driveway.
Tell your newspaper deliverer that you are not at home. (have) a pile of newspapers and other mail on your doorsteps tells people that you are not at home, so you could also have a neighbor a relative get your mail every day.
Fix a timer in some of your rooms turns lights on and off during different times of the day. Some TVs also come with a timer that you could set to be turned on during certain times. Have motion (运动) sensitive lights outside your house that keep thieves away you are not at home.
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W:Where are you going to spend your holiday this year, Bob?
M:We may go abroad ,____I'm not so sure.
W:What do you mean?
M:Well, my wife's talking about Egypt recently. She may want to go there. I'd like to go there,____.
W:Yes, it's an interesting country___(see).
M: But we can't make up____minds yet. You know, a roundtrip ticket to Egypt costs a lot.
W:But you may go by sea.
M:You're right. It's___(cheap), isn't it?
W:You may save at least half of the money if you go by ship.
M:But don't you think it would take___long time and…
W:But you can enjoy the scene of the sea and the____(rise) sun.
M:Yes, I'll tell my wife.
W:You'll definitely enjoy____, I'm sure.
M:Don't be so sure. We may not go____.
W:You always hesitate at everything.
M:It's not my fault, you know. My wife always worries too much.
W:Like what?
M:Well...Who is going to look after the house? Who is going to look after the garden? And who is going to look after the pets? We have these___(problem) every year. And in the end we stay at home and look after everything.
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The Chinese government has decided to end its one-child per family policy and let families have two children. A statement gives the reasons for the change, ______ (say) it is meant to balance population development, stop a declining birth rate and strengthen the country’s work force.
China _____ (carry)out the one-child policy in 1980. But the government permitted a small number of _____ (couple) to have two children. For example, some rural families were given approval to have two children if the first-born was a girl. In 2013, the government permitted other families to have two if one parent was ____ only child.
A teacher and population expert, Jiang Quanbao, explains how Chinese families will react ___ the policy. “Many young people in the cities are ______ (probable) not interested in having a second child,” he says. “People in rural villages may be ____ (much) interested, but some of them are already allowed to have two children.”
At the end of 2014, China had a population of 1.37 billion people, a total of 800 million of _____ are employed. But that job market population is expected ______(drop) by 2050. With the two-child policy, the labo__ (short) will be relieved, starting in 20 years.
In order to know a foreign language thoroughly, four things are necessary. Firstly, we must understand the language when we hear spoken. Secondly, we must be able to speak it ourselves correctly with confidence and without hesitation. , we must be able to read the language, and fourthly, we must be able to write it. We must be able to make sentences that are grammatically correct.
There is no easy way to success language learning. good memory is a great help, but it is not enough only (memorize)rules from a grammar book. It is not much use learning by heart long lists of words and their (mean), studying the dictionary and so on. We must learn by using the language.
we are satisfied with only a few rules we have memorized, we are not really learning the language. Learn through use is a good piece of (advise) for those are studying a new language. Practice is important. We must practise speaking and (write) the language whenever we can.
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