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Rowena and Billy Wrangler are model high school
students . They study hard . They do extreme well on 76．_______________ achievement tests . And next year , Rowena will attending 77．_______________ Harvard University . Billy , her younger brother , hoe to go 78．_______________ to Cornell . That makes Rowena and Billy different from 79．_______________ most students is that they don’t go to school . In fact , 80．_______________ they've never been to school . Since a kindergarten , they 81．_______________ have studied at home . Neither Rowena or Billy feels as if 82．_______________ they have missed out on nothing by being taught at home . 83．_______________ As many of the more than one million people who receive 84．_______________ home schooling in the United States , they feel if they 85．_______________ have gotten a good education .
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Did you enjoy yourself yesterday? I suppose you do. But I’d76．_______________ like to tell you what a bad day I had yesterday. Nothing 77．_______________ just went wrong. On the morning, my alarm clock didn’t ring,78．_______________ since I woke up an hour late. I was in such a hurry that I burnt my 79．_______________ hand when I was cooking the breakfast. Then I ran out of the house 80．_______________ to catch the 8:30 buses. This is the bus I usually take. But, you 81．_______________ may laugh, I missed it of course. I am very unhappy, and scared 82．_______________ as well because teacher hates the students coming late to school. 83．_______________ So I ran three miles to school only to discover that nobody 84．_______________ was there. The school was quiet but peaceful. Our classroom was 85．_______________ locked. I realized that moment: It was Sunday.
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Get a good education is more important today than 76．_______________ ever before .In Canada mostly children attend public 77．_______________ schools. Public schools are mainly found by governments 78．_______________ through tax income. Students in Canada taught in 79．_______________ English and in French. The rests of Canadian children 80．_______________ attend private schools, that are supported mainly by fees 81．_______________ paying by parents .By law ,the children must attend 82．_______________ the school from age 5 to 16. There are several different 83．_______________ levels in the Canadian education system .The first was 84．_______________ called Elementary Schools ,which include kindergartens 85．_______________ through grade 7 or 8.
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Yesterday we went to plant trees on the hill near to 76.
our school. The boys were made dig pits(坑).The 77.
girls were told to plant the young trees into the pits. 78.
All of us worked very hardly. Soon we were all wet 79.
with sweat.After the young trees planted, we 80.
began to water it.The water was at the foot of 81.
the hill. But we stood in line to pass pails(桶) 82.
of water from one to other up to the hill. 83.
We did not finish water the trees until it 84.
was dark.Though we were tired,we feel very happy. 85
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A few months after returning the US from Germany , I took 76. _______________ part in a college course in French. Since I have learned to 77. _______________ speak German good in Germany, I thought that it might be 78. _______________ interested to begin studying another language. At the first 79. _______________ class, the teacher asked us to do a pronunciation exercise, 80. _______________ in which he would say one word or two in French, and each 81. _______________ student would do their best to copy. When he got to me, he 82. _______________ kept having me to say more words, and I finally asked him 83. _______________ why. “I find it great funs. It’s the first time I’ve heard an84. _______________ American speak French with a German accent.”he explained it. 85. _______________
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It was fine yesterday. The sun was shining in the
sky. I went boating by myself. I didn’t take many76．_______________ friends with me because I wanted to row alone. 77．_______________ I hired a boat and rowed slowly to the center of lake. 78．_______________ A fresh breeze was blowing, fish was swimming and birds 79．_______________ were singing. When I reached the center, I took up the 80．_______________ paddles（桨）and lie down in the boat. With the blue sky 81．_______________ over me or green water around me I was extremely 82．_______________ relaxed. Over about two hours passed in this way before I 83．_______________ knew them. I came back home very l ate. I didn’t feel84．_______________ tiring at all, for I had really had a good time. 85．_______________
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I was anxiously expected your letter, and at last 76. _______________ it has reached to me. I am very glad to know that 77_______________ everyone at home is enjoying good health as usually. 78_______________ Things here are same now as they were before. The 79 _______________ final examination will take place in next week. So 80 _______________ I am now busy preparing for my lessons. It’s nice 81_______________ to think that the summer vacation is coming 82_______________ near. I can’t say much I want to se e you all again. 83 _______________ I am looking forward to spend summer days with you. 84_______________ Give my love to Father, Mother and anyone at home. 85_______________
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One afternoon , when I was on my way home , the sky 76．_______________ changed suddenly . Dark clouds were gathered . I began 77．_______________ to feel worried because I didn’t have both a raincoat 78．_______________
or umbrella about me . It soon started to rain . 79．_______________ Just as I was hurrying home , I heard of someone calling 80．_______________ me from behind . I turned to have a look and find that 81．_______________ he was Liu Wei , a good neighbour of mine . He 82．_______________ offered to share his umbrella with me . We walked all 83．_______________ the ways home . Without Liu Wei’s help , I would have 84．_______________ got wet to the skin . How much thankful I was for his help ! 85．_______________
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I worried about the missed bag all the evening. 76．_______________ I tried to remember exact what I had done from the 77．_______________ time I left the store until at the time I got home. I 78．_______________ remembered whether I had looked at the bag while I 79．_______________ was having lunch. So I must have it when I left the 80．_______________ store. I remembered showing it to a friend on the bus. 81．_______________ But I had the bag then. I came directly from the bus 82．_______________ to my house, and I must have forgotten it on the bus. I 83．_______________ was in hurry to get off and forgot to check the packages 84．_______________ lying on the floor. I should be much careful next time. 85．_______________
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A kind of little car may someday take place of today’s big 76．_______________ ones . If people drive such cars in the future ,there would be 77．_______________ less pollution in there air . There will be more spaces for 78．_______________ parking cars in cities . The streets will be less crowd . And 79．_______________ driving will be safer as these little cars can go only 65 km 80．_______________ per hour . The future cars will be fine for getting round a
city , so they will not be useful for long trips . Little cars 81．_______________ will go 200km , before needing to stop more gas . If big cars 82．_______________ are still used along with the small ones , two sets of roads
that will be needed in the future . Some roads will be used 83．_______________ for the big fast cars and another roads will be needed for 84．_______________ the slow small ones . It is said that third such little cars 85．_______________ fit in the space now needed for one car the usual size .
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Dear Bob,
I must say that I do agree with you. Though you find 76．_______________ something, but it doesn’t mean it belongs to you. If you 77．_______________ can find who it belongs to, you should try to return back 78．_______________ it. I’m sure you would want someone to do same for79．_______________ you. Once I found a beautiful picture. I wanted to keep 80．_______________ it. Then I remembered see one just like it in an office. 81．_______________ I went to the office and found the person to who it 82．_______________ belonged. The lady was very happy to get back and 83．_______________ gave me delicious apples. So you see, Bob, I get two 84．_______________ rewards: one I could eat and another I could keep in 85．_______________
Yours,
Li Ming
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Mr Zhang is over sixty years old. He has retired（退休）.
He is one of my respected teachers. He teaches us 76. _______________ chemistry when we were in senior Grade One. He was old, and he 77. _______________ taught us good. He tried his best to make his classes lively. 78. _______________ Mr Zhang usually made good preparations for the lesson and was strict 79. _______________ to us, too. Whenever we made mistakes in our homework. 80. _______________ he would ask us to correct them. At that time, I was used to be 81. _______________ poorly in chemistry. Mr Zhang often helped me with my studies 82. _______________ very patiently. With his help, I had made rapid progress and 83. _______________ caught with the class. He is always very kind to every student. 84. _______________ As an experienced teacher, he is respected and loved by all 85. _______________ the students.
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I can’t swim because I have a strong fear of water.
Look back at my childhood experience, I think 76. _______________
that three reason might explain the fear. The first 77. _______________
reason is that I was not allowed to go near the water 78. _______________
when I was a child, for my mother had unreasonable 79. _______________
fear of it. So, even as a child I was taught see the 80. _______________
water as something danger. Second, my eyes 81. _______________ became bad ones when I was five. If I took off my 82. _______________ glasses in the water, I couldn’t see anything, but this83. _______________ increased my fear. The worst part of your experience 84. _______________
is that as a child I often see a neighbor drowned. Since 85. _______________
then I have been more frightened.
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Most people who are ambitious and want to achieve
something live on stress. They need them. I like to use 76．_______________ example from the animal world because there is a biological 77．_______________ basis for what I say. If you take a turtle and force it to run with as 78．_______________
fast as a race-horse, you should kill it. So it’s useless to say79．_______________
to a turtle type human what he must achieve this because his 80．_______________ father was famous and his grandfather was successful. You can’t 81．_______________ make race-horse out of a turtle. But the reverse is also true. If you 82．_______________
are the race-horse type, as more efficient businessmen and politicians 83．_______________ are, you have the urge to do many things and to express you. If 84．_______________
you told not to do anything, you are under terrible distress. 85．_______________
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Have you ever heard from the saying : All work and no play 76．_______________ make Jack a dull boy ? What this means is that if you study 77．_______________
all the times you will become a boring person . You must 78．_______________ go out and having fun with your friends , otherwise you will 79．_______________ lose him . No one wants to be friends with someone who only 80．_______________ talks about work and study . 81．_______________ Perhaps you have a confidence problem . Please try remember 82．_______________ what the work you do is for yourself but no one else . You 83．_______________ do not have to compete with your classmates . No one could 84．_______________ be happier in studying seven days and seven nights in a week . 85．_______________
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Deare Abby ,
How are you ? Today I’ve got a wonderful news to tell you .76．_______________ I have offered a scholarship at a university in Australia for my 77．_______________ further education . One hundred and twenty students took exam 78．_______________ for it , but only a few was chosen and I was one of them . However , 79．_______________ my parents are not happy about it . They are strong against me 80．_______________ going there . They say it is too far away that they will not see me 81．_______________ for a whole year and they are afraid of I will feel lonely . They 82．_______________ can't imagine a girl so young live alone . They advise me to study 83．_______________ in the capital instead . Then I’ll be able to co ntinue living with 84．_______________ them . How can I persuade them to accept the fact I have grown up ? 85．_______________
Best Wishes
Jane
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I used to love science class—all of them—76．_______________ biology, chemistry, geography or physics. I think I 77．_______________ liked those classes because I felt that it helped me 78．_______________ understand what the world works. For example, 79．_______________ when I was a child, the rain was a mystery. In one 80．_______________ class, I learned why it rained. I think science classes 81．_______________ clear up mysteries. But then there is always more 82．_______________ mysteries look into. What was my least favorite class? 83．_______________ That was math. After learn the basics of the subject, 84．_______________ Nothing else seemed very practically to me. I never 85．_______________ saw how I could use it in my daily life.
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Some Americans judge success on the length 76．_______________ of his vacations . The man who gets a m onth’s 77．_______________ vacation each year consider himself more successful 78．_______________ than the man gets two weeks . Many people want 79．_______________ to be teachers because it is teachers who can 80．_______________ get three-month vacation every year . Some college 81．_______________ teachers who teach the three classes consider 82．_______________ themselves less successful than that who teach 83．_______________ only one or two , or none in all . In short , the less 84．_______________ work Americans do , the less successful they 85．_______________
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As is known, that is interesting to teach children to 76．_______________
swim while they are still babies. Most the large towns in 77．_______________ Florida and California have already run particularly lessons for 78．_______________ babies. The idea has quickly spread to Europe from where, 79．_______________
in several countries, special courses are now offered to 80．_______________
the children who are from 7 to 24 month old. 81．_______________
The first step is to have child get rid of fear of 82．_______________ water. Next, he is teaching to float in water. Once he 83．_______________
can do that naturally and can swim with fear, the child can 84．_______________ master the technique and push him forward through the water. 85．_______________
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Dear Mr. Green
I work in the Friendship Shop on Zhongshan Road 76. _______________
where you have often come to buy things. The other day 77. _______________
if you bought a vase at our shop with your wife, I made 78. _______________
the mistake about the price. You looked at two different 79. _______________
price of the same vase, one costing 30 yuan and the other 80. _______________
21 yuan. You took the 21 yuan one so I accepted 30 81. _______________
yuan from you. I found my mistake only after you and 82. _______________
your wife have left. Will you please come to our shop to 83. _______________
get in your change or to return your vase and get a 30 84. _______________
yuan one instead? I apologize you for it. 85. _______________ I’m looking forward to your coming earlier.
Yours truly,
Wang Hua
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In many western countries heavy industry is high developed 76．_______________ The difference between heavy and light industry are based on 77．_______________ the nature of the goods produced. Heavy industry produce 78．_______________ machines while light industry uses machines produce the 79．_______________ smaller objects required for various purpose in our home 80．_______________ and offices.
The growth of industry in country depends on the 81．_______________ general level of economic or industrial development. 82．_______________ In its beginning, industrialization is likely to be cheap. To 83．_______________ decrease （减少）costs, industrialists in an area usually depend on 84．_______________ Local supplies of the coal or electric power for their operation 85．_______________
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It happened in a morning that I was walking in the street .
76．_______________
I ate up a banana and threw its peel on the corner of the road .
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see what was happened .A little girl about 8 years old fell
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down and the banana peel was exactly under her left shoes .
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She stood up without cry .Then she picked up the banana peel
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and ran toward the dustbin .
On that moment ,I realized my fault , and went to
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apologize her for that ,but my vanity (虚荣心)prevented me .
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The little girl had taught me a good lesson by her action .
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And now ,after I do everything , I’ll think carefully whether
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it’s right or wrong . I’ll do my best to be in good habits and qualities .
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Mr Wang is my physics teacher. He has 1.75 meters 76．_______________
in the height. He was born on November 4,1952. So 77．_______________
he is a middle-aged man. He graduated Qinghua 78．_______________
University in 1978. After graduation, he becomes a middle 79．_______________
school teacher. He has been taught physics for more than 20 years. 80．_______________
He is very successful as a teacher. He has been given a 81．_______________
lot of honor. He not only is a good teacher in 82．_______________
physics but also speak English and Russian very well. 83．_______________
In his spare time, he likes reading books, collect stamps 84．_______________
and listening music. Also, Mr Smith is kind-hearted. 85．_______________
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Dear Lily,
I got your letter and pleased to hear about your job 76._______________ interview at a grocery store. I know you wanted to 77._______________
get a job at the TV station, and you’ve been looking 78. _______________
for several week now and haven’t found anything. 79. _______________
The job at the grocery store doesn’t sound badly. If I 80. _______________
am you, I’d take it. If you worked there a while, you 81. _______________
but I advise you to take it. Let me to know what you 83. _______________ decided to do. By the way, after you get the job you 84. _______________
can think about get a bike later. 85. _______________
Love
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Dear Abby：
How are you? I’ve got a wonderful news to tell you
76．_______________
I have offered a scholarship at a university in Australia for my
77．_______________
further education. One hundred and twenty students took exam
78．_______________
for it, but only a few were chosen and I was one of them. Therefore,
79．_______________
my parents are not happy about it. They are strong against my
80．_______________
going there. They say it is too far away that they will not see me
81．_______________
for a whole year and they are afraid of I will feel lonely. They
82．_______________
can’t imagine a girl so young live alone. They advise me to study
83．_______________
in th e capital instead. Then I’ll be able to continue living with them.
84．_______________
How can I persuade them to accept the fact I have grown up?
85．_______________
Best Wishes,
Jane
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I went to see film after supper. On my way to the 76. _______________ cinema, I met an old English woman, she had lost her 77. _______________ way. I gave up the chance to see the film, walking towards 78. _______________ her and took her to her hotel. While go there, I told her 79. _______________ great change had taken place in the past few years and she 80. _______________ told me something about Britain and her family. 81. _______________ Though I missed the film, however I felt very happy, 82. _______________
for I not only helped the old lady out from trouble but also 83. _______________ practise my spoken English. If I hadn’t worked hard at84. _______________ English, I would have been able to help her. 85. _______________
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I was anxiously expected your letter, and at last 76. _______________
everyone at home is enjoying good health as usually. 78. _______________
Things here are the same now as we were before. 79. _______________
The final examination will take place of next week. 80. _______________
But I am now busy preparing my lessons. It’s nice to81. _______________
think that the summer vacation is coming near. I can’t 82. _______________
say much I want to see you all again. 83. _______________ Looking forward to spend summer days with you. 84. _______________
Give my love to Father, mother and anyone at home. 85. _______________
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Helen is one of my best friends. She had taught
76．_______________
us English when I attended training course two
77．_______________
years before. Helen always made good preparations
78．_______________
for the lessons, she tried her best to make her
79．_______________
classes lively. I used to being poor in English,
80．_______________
especial ly in written English. But now I’m able
81．_______________
to write English letters and reports correct.
82．_______________
I still remember how she helped me for my
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English patiently. Teachers’ Day’s come. I’m going to
84．_______________
send to her a card and give her best wishes.
85．_______________
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ow I'd like to tell you why I learn English．76．_______________ I often read English aloud and try learn something 77．_______________
important by hearts, which helps me remember it easily and 78．_______________
form the good habit of thinking in English．79．_______________
I listen to a lot and talk with others in English．80．_______________ In this way, I was improved both my hearing 81．_______________
and my spoken English．
I keep a diary in English every day but my
spoken English is becoming better and better．83．_______________
I also try my best to master the necessary grammar
knowledge．By this means, I can express itself 84．_______________
in English correct．That's the way I have been learning 85．_______________
English．I hope it will be useful to you．
That's all．Thank you．
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I passed all the other course that I took at my university, but I could 76. _______________ never pass botany. This was why all botany students had to spend 77. _______________ several hours a week in a lab look through a microscope at plant 78. _______________ cells, and I could never see through a microscope. This was used to 79. _______________ make my professor angry. “I can’t see everything, ” I said. Then80. _______________ he began patient enough to explain how to see through it, but I still 81. _______________ couldn’t make it. At last we tried it with every adjustment of the82. _______________ microscope known to man. With my pleasure, I saw something 83. _______________ and drew it quickly on the paper. “What’s that?” my professor asked.
“That’s what I saw.” I answered. “No, you don’t!” he shouted,84. _______________ and he bent ov er and looking into the microscope. “That’s your85. _______________ eyes! You’ve fixed the lens so that it reflects! You’ve drawn your eyes!”
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One cold day, an aged lady was sent for her doctor. When he came, 76．_______________
she tells him that her right leg was very sore(酸痛)in the knee. 77．_______________
The pain sometimes was bad enough to make it walking difficult. 78．_______________
She asked him what the trouble could be because she had never before 79．_______________ suffered some similar discomfort. After making a careful examination, 80．_______________
the doctor said, “You are in a very bad state of health for a woman81．_______________
of your age. I think the trouble in your right knee is just matter of 82．_______________
old age. We get diseases as we get old. The trouble will mostly 83．_______________
clean up in spring!” “Nonsese, doctor!” she said, “My left knee is84．_______________ perfect, and it is exactly same age as my right.”85．_______________
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May I have you attention please? I have a few 76. _________
things to tell you. When you have a class here in the 77. _________
language lab, please be here a little early. Change 78. _________
your shoes before enter the lab. Don't bring anything 79. _________
here except your text books. When you are into, 80. _________
please don't touch these machine without permission. 81. _________
should only speak the English, not Chinese. Recorders 83. _________ can be used make a copy of the listening materials. 84. _________ When class over, turn off your machines and leave 85. _________ the lab one by one.
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Dinner on Children's Day
On Children's Day last year, our city held an interested 76. _________ activity, in which children and their parents play the rich 77. _________ and the poor. In the dinner, the rich could have more delicious 78. _________ food, but the poor could only have bread with porridge(粥). 79. _________ Parents both hoped to have the dinner for the poor with the 80. _________ children. They hoped that their children could be taught the 81. _________ lesson from the dinner.
Now many people on earth don't have enough food and clothes. 82. _________ Every day only one half the world could enjoy enough food. 83. _________ The activity was held to make the families understand the 84. _________ differences from the poor and the rich and also make the parents 85. _________ know that too much material life won't always do good to the children.
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We'll never forget the day which my classmates and 76. _________ I paid a visit to a chemistry factory last week. 77. _________ It was a larger one with nearly 2,000 workers. It 78. _________ looked a garden and we could see colorful flowers, 79. _________ grass and trees anywhere. We also visited some 80. _________ workshops and saw workers worked very hard. We 81. _________ talked to them and learned a lot. We understood 82. _________ them further. On the way home we felt tiring. 83. _________ We all thought that we had a very good day. We 84. _________ really hoped that we could get more chances of 85. _________ leave the school and learn social experience.
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One morning Mrs Jenkins went to department store 76. ___________ to buy a coat. There was not shop assistant in the store 77. ___________ before she got there. She had to wait. Then a fat lady. 78. ___________ came in. She went to Mrs Jenkins and asked her to serve 79. ___________ for her. She told Mrs Jenkins that she wanted to buy 80. ___________ a coat. Mrs Jenkins said that she couldn't do. 81. ___________ The fat lady got angrily. She didn't let Mrs Jenkins 82. ___________
would do that right away because it was her job. 84. ___________ At last Mrs Jankins has to tell her that she was 85. ___________ a customer herself and wanted to buy a coat, too.
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If there are much more people in the world, there must 76. ________ have more food to feed the people. But food is already a 77. ________ problem in today's world. One-third of the world's population 78. ________
is starving, because there is not enough food. Ten thousand 79. ________ people died of hunger every day in some parts of the world 80. ________ But in others parts of the world, people become ill or die 81. ________ because they eat too much food, and they are very fat. Some 82. ________ countries have no food, but the others have too much, and 83. ________ they throw them away. How can tomorrow's world feed 84. ________
its people? The world needs produce more food than 85. ________
it does now.
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There are strange similarities in the life 76. _________ of John F. Kennedy and the life of Abraham Lincoln. For 77. _________ example, Kennedy became a president in 1960,while Lincoln 78. _________ elected in 1860.This was exactly one hundred years 79. _________ apart. Then both men were shot after, on a Friday and in 80. _________ the presence of their wife. There is another very 81. _________ strangely similarity. Kennedy's secretary, named Lincoln, 82. _________ told him to go to Dallas. Lincoln's secretary, named Kennedy, 83. _________ told him not to go to the Ford Theatre. But all of them went 84. _________ and both were shot to die. 85. _________
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A US-led War against Iraq broke out in March 20, 2003 76. _________ without the agreement of the UN. They came less than two 77. _________ hours after Bush's deadline for Saddam leave his 78. _________ country has passed. There are about 250,000 US armies 79. _________ around Iraq. There are also armies from another countries. 80. _________ includes Britain and Australia, fighting with the American 81. _________ soldiers. Their force is much more bigger than that of Iraq 82. _________ But they met stronger resistance than they expected. 83. _________ “These things are never easy. There will have some difficult 84. _________
British Prime Minister Blair.
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My husband 96-year-old grandmother came to live 76. __________ with us for many years of independence. We did 77. __________ all the things we could make her feel comfortable, 78. __________ in our home, including giving her the private line for 79. __________ their bedroom. One evening we were having a party 80. __________ while the phone rang. It was telephone operator, 81. __________ who asked, “Do you have a grandmother on upstairs? 82. __________ “Yes,what’s happened?” my husband replied.“Well,”the 83. __________ operator again continued,“She can't remember. 84. __________ your phone number, and she like a cup of tea.. ”85. __________
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I'd like to tell you something more about the problem of 76. _________ pollution we are facing to. As we know, the factory 77. _________ besides our school gives off heavy smoke all day 78. _________ long. Very loud voices hurt our ears. Rubbish and 79. _________ waste are thrown here or there. It also sends out 80. _________ polluting water and poisonous gas. All this has 81. _________ made a great harm to the health and study of the 82. _________ teachers and students. But as time goes on, a little 83. _________ has done to change the situation. I don't think we can 84. _________ study well until the problem is solved. We do hope 85. _________ you'll help and support us.
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Helen is one of my best friends. She has taught 76. _________ us English when I attended training class two 77. _________ years before. Helen always made good preparations 78. _________ for the lesson, and she tried her best to make 79. _________ her classes lively. I used to being poor in English, 80. _________ especially in written English. But now I'm able 81. _________ to write English letters and reports correct. 82. _________ I still remember how she helped me for my 83. _________
send to her a card and give her best wishes. 85. _________
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The early morning fire damaged the historic Gallad House today. 76___________ It destroyed the third floor of the building so fire fighters saved 77___________ the first and the second floors. There were only a few elderly people 78___________ living in the building at the time and they carried out to safety. 79___________ The Gallad House was built in 1718 and was used for a hotel for over 80___________ 150 years. George Washington stayed in here in 1782. The Gallad family 81__________ owned the building for the elderly. Several fire department were called 82__________ to the scene. When Fire Chief Andrew Bond asked when the fire 83__________ started, he answered that perhaps a burning cigarette caused it. 84__________ Chief Bond had promised to further examine the cause.85__________
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When passing the bus station on my way home，I found out a
little girl alone crying. Obviously,she was losing， looking for her mother. I came up and asked her why. When asked where her mother was,she just shook head and kept crying. Then I took her to the station broadcasting room for a help. "Anyone who lost a child please come to our broadcasting room..." which was soon heard again and again. Minutes later,a worrying mother came. The girl ran to her mother happily，tears still in eyes. The mother was very thankful and asked for my name. With smile，I answered，" I'm only a League member.
I have just done that a League member should do. It's my duty." 76__________ 77__________ 78__________ 79__________ 80__________ 81__________ 82__________ 83__________ 84__________ 85__________
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I used to going to the countryside to draw animals
and plants. One day I was walking across a field looking for rabbits to draw. Losing in thought， I hadn't noticed a bull to running towards me. About 100
meters ahead was a tree under that I would sit and draw. Suddenly， I heard the noise behind me. I turned and saw the bull. Knowing a bull can run more faster than a man， I quickly reached the tree and climb up. From there I saw the bull kicking my food bag by its feet. It kept done this for 15 minutes and moved away. But I was quite nervous in the tree. 76__________ 77__________ 78__________ 79__________ 80__________ 81__________ 82__________ 83__________ 84__________ 85__________
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You can speak to people on other side of the earth over the 76__________
photos on the earth and produce maps. Some pictures
taking by satellites show us the exact place where different metals can be found. They can also tell the differences between healthy plants or poor ones. This is a great help to the scientists work in forestry and in agriculture. Satellites benefit by our daily life. For example,satellites for broadcasting are used to sending radio and TV programmes
from one part of the world to other. It is the satellites
to make our world seem smaller. 78__________ 79__________ 80__________ 81__________ 82__________ 83__________ 84__________ 85__________
短文改错练习（46）Dear Alice and Jenny，
We are counting the days to their weekend with you in Emei. We are delighted what you have asked us， and we certainly won't let anything to prevent us from coming.
We plan to take the four o'clock train on a Friday afternoon， July 24th as you suggest. And we'll take the early express back Chengdu on Monday morning.
Thanks too much for asking us. We're looking forward to spend two wonderful days with you and the Smiths. We're also especially hoping for the tennis you talk about.
We haven't had a chance to play the tennis for quite a long time. 76__________ 77__________ 78__________ 79__________ 80__________ 81__________ 82__________ 83__________ 84__________ 85__________
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With building works underway in Athens and Beijing， eyes have turned to the battle for the right to hosting the Olympic Games
in 2012. Nine cities have all expressed their wishes hold the biggest sporting event in the world. Between the bidding cities，
London held two Olympics， in 1908 and 1948. Paris also hosted the Games in 1900 and 1924. The 1980 Olympiad took place on Moscow. London is regarded as the favourite in this time， alongside Paris that competed with Beijing for the 2008 Olympics, as does Istanbul. The name of the cities which will host the 2012 Olympics will announced at the IOC meeting in Singapore， on July 6， 2005. 76__________ 77__________ 78__________ 79__________ 80__________ 81__________ 82__________ 83__________ 84__________ 85__________
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One day morning， I with my mother went to the People's Hospital in Shandong because she had caught a bad cold. While we sitting in
the waiting room， some people smoked. The smell was very strong that I found hard to breathe， as did my mother. We could ask
none of them to stop smoke though， so we had to go to another room. So there， the situation was worse. Why do so many 76__________ 77__________ 78__________ 79__________ 80__________ 81__________
people smoke in public places？ The sign， "Smoking is harmless to health"， is printed on cigarette packets to remind smokers that smoking not only harms themselves but the people around them either. So we should take actions to reduce some of smoking's bad effects.82__________ 83__________ 84__________ 85__________
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Several weeks ago， our college decided to stopping students from bringing their computers to school if they did no pass all exams from the previous semester （学期）. Students didn't welcome by the decision. The computer is one of the greatest invention of
the 20th century and has become important part of modern life. Therefore， it is also a headache for school leaders. Many students ignore （忽略） their studies and spend too much time play online games， watching films， and chatting online. Leaders
wanted to deal this serious problem in this way. They didn't
expect that something even worse will happen as a result. 76__________ 77__________ 78__________ 79__________ 80__________ 81__________ 82__________ 83__________ 84__________ 85__________
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In my village a lot of children were leaving school for various reason. Some families are too poor to send their children to school， and they have to earn money to support their families. Many parents think it useful to send their children to school. They would rather let their children to stay at home.
I feel worring about this. I think every child should have the chance to go to school. We should pay many attention to the education of children， for we will play an important part in our socialist construction in the future. Ways must be found prevent children from leave off their studies. 76__________ 77__________ 78__________ 79__________ 80__________ 81__________ 82__________ 83__________ 84__________ 85__________
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Our School was built in 1950,and now it had 36 classes with about 2，000 students.The school lays at the foot of the famous Y unju Mountain. In the east here runs a small river from north to south into the Changjiang River. There is a big stone bridge across it. The playground is nearby the river. In the middle of the yard is a big garden，which there are many flowers and old trees. On its left stands a lab,and its right,a library. North
to the garden is the teaching building. Behind the building is the student dormitory. There are two wood in the school. One is in the west，and 76__________ 77__________ 78__________ 79__________ 80__________ 81__________ 82__________ 83__________
the other is in the southeast. The school gate is in the east,in the front of which lies a highway.The school is not large,and beautiful,clean and tidy. All the teachers and the students like it very much. 84__________ 85__________
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My wife and I go to theatre whenever we have time . But 76．__________
when we buy tickets , we like to know if the play is good or bad . 77．__________ When a new play opens , we usually read the review on our 78．__________
local newspaper to get information about it . Last week a new 79．__________ comedy was opened at the theatre . The newspaper story said 80．__________
it was very amused , so we decided to go on Saturday night . 81．__________ My wife took a long time to make up his mind what to 82．__________
wear so we left our house a little late. By the time we went there , 83．__________
the first act already begun . We were sorry we missed part of the 84．__________
play , because the rest of it was very fun . The review had been 85．__________
right .It was an extremely entertaining comedy .
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After I finished the school ,I began to look for work. 76．__________ Now one month has passed ,but I haven’t found the job 77．__________
I’m interested .Last Sunday morn ing ,I received 78．__________
a phone call from a man calling Mr .Zhang .He said on 79．__________
the phone , “I hear you do well on your studies .I may 80．__________
offer you a job .” I entered into his office with a beating81．__________
heart .How I wished I can go through the job-hunting 82．__________
talk ,and that she would take on me as an assistant. 83．__________
But to my surprised ,what he said disappointed me. 84．__________
That he needed was only a model. 85．__________
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Today many families have our own televisions, and a lot of 76. __________ people like watching TV. TV plays important part in people’s77. __________ everyday life. By watch TV, people know many things in other 78. __________ places of the world. It is helpful in opening people’s eyes and mind79. __________
It helps people to learn more new things and master better ways work 80. __________
out problems. It also makes people to feel that the world is too small 81. __________
It is really interested to watch TV. However, if you spend too much 82. __________
time watching TV, that’s badly, especially for your eyes. You will have83. __________
fewer time for work and study. So you’d better watch TV in your spare84. __________
time and never watching it too long. 85.___________
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People who are near-sighted can only look things that are 76．__________
very close to their eyes .Everything before their eyes seem 77．__________ unclear. Many people do a lot of close work ,writing ,reading 78．__________ and sewing become near-sighted .So they have to wear glasses 79．__________ so as to see distance objects clearly .People who are far-sighted 80．__________ suffer from just the opposite problem .Although they can’t see81．__________ things that are far away ,but they have difficulty reading 82．__________ a book if they hold it at an arm’s long. If they want to do 83．__________ many reading, they have to wear glasses ,too .Other people do 84．__________ not see clearly because of their eyes aren’t exactly of the right shape. 85．__________
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Dear Editor,
I used to be a happy little girl but now I’m shy 76. ____________
and say a few words. When I was eleven, I lost one 77.____________
of the front teeth and it replaced by a false one. 78._____________
No one knows about it besides two of my friends. 79._____________ However, I find that it hard to face them because 80._____________ they know my secret. When I spoke to them, they 81._____________ often stare at my mouth, what makes me feel 82._____________ uneasy. I am afraid of making new friend as I 83._____________ think they will laugh at me. Sometime I even 84._____________ want to kill me indeed. What should I do? 85._____________
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Last week life didn’t look very well for heart transplant patient.76. __________ Barry Brooks from London. He was told six month ago that he would 77. __________ need the operation if he is to survive. He immediately planned to make 78. __________ the across Atlantic journey to the hospital in Chicago to have the 79. __________ operation on. While he was in transit（中转）at JFK airport in New York, 80. __________
he received the news that his new heart had accidentally transported 81. __________
to other hospital. Barry then had to get on a different plane to 82. __________ convey him to the other hospital, there the operation was carried. 83. __________ out in time. Barry is now gradually recovering from the transplant. 84. __________ but he told us,“I feel like being a new man-this new heart has”85. __________ changed my life.”
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Have you ever made an excuse for not going work? 76. __________
I guess the most people have. But have you ever called in 77. __________
a day off because of your dog is sick? I bet（打赌）you 78. __________
didn't. Most people wouldn’t have the guts（胆量）. 79. __________
Therefore, some companies in New Zealand find 80. __________
this as a acceptable reason for taking a day off. 81. __________
It is considered as paying sick-leave. The reason, they say. 82. __________
is simple.“A sick dog is as dependent as a 83. __________ child.” That makes plenty of senses, doesn’t it? This84. __________ is now known in New Zealand like“dog days off”. 85. __________
I wonder what the bosses in China will say if someone calls in a dog off.
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My mother was born in a small town in Italy. She was three
when her parents settle in the USA in 1926 . They lived 76．_________ in Chicago , that my grandfather worked making ice cream . 77．_________ At 16 my mother graduated a high school, went on to 78．_________
A secretarial school , and finally worked with a secretary 79．_________
for a railroad company .
She was beautiful , too. When a local photographer
used her pictures in his monthly window display , 80．_________ she was very happily . Her favorite photo showed her 81．_________ sitting by Lake Michigan . My mother was always used 82．_________ to say that when we died , God gave you back your 83．_________ “best self” . She’d show us that picture and say us 84．_________ children, “This is how I’m going to look like in heaven.”85．_________
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Dear Mr.Brown
I’m very thankful to you for invite me to stay with 76．_________ you in Beijing in the coming vacation . I have been 77．_________ dreamed of seeing you again so that I can get more 78．_________ help from you in my English learning . And I’m afraid79．_________
I can’t go to your place in thi s summer . Because I have 80．_________
promised my grandmother, she lives in the country , 81．_________ to spend the summer with her . She misses me too much 82．_________ that I find difficult to refuse her request . 83．_________ I’m busy now prepare for my examinations . I plan 84．_________ to visit you in winter if it convenient to you . 85．_________ Best wishes .
Yours sincerely ,
Li Ming
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I often dream of a teacher , I dream of standing on the 76．__________ platform in the classroom and give lessons to lovely boys 77．__________ and girls . I teach them , play with them , but watch them 78．__________ growing up . I am always young when I was staying 79．__________ with them . I know there is not easy to be a teacher . You 80．__________ have to learn in order to teach . Without many knowledge, 81．__________ you can never learn well .What is more , you have to 82．__________ be friends with your pupils and take good care of him . 83．__________
respect from them . Though I am a student now , 85．__________ but I will work very hard to make my dream come true .
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The zoo has big basket for rubbish. People can throw 76．__________ waste into them. On the Saturday afternoon there 77．__________ are usually a lot of people around the cages which 78．__________ the lovely animals are kept , and last Saturday nobody was 79．__________ there. Mr. Patties was surprised. But he was even much 80．__________ surprised to see few children around the basket near 81．__________ the tiger’s cage. He quickly went up and looked at 82．__________ their heads and saw a little rat run about in the basket 83．__________ and looking for food. The rat was afraid and the children 84．__________ were interested in the rat than in the tigers. 85．__________
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This is a story told by my father: “When I was boy,76.___________ the most exciting thing was when to celebrate the Spring 77. ___________ Festival. My grandma was the best cooker in the world 78. ___________ but could make the most delicious dishes. One time, I just 79. ___________ c ouldn’t wait for the Spring Festival dinner. As I was80. ___________ about take a piece from a cooked duck, I saw Grandma in 81. ___________ the kitchen looking at me. Shake her head, she said, ‘ It82. ___________ isn't a good time to do that, dear.’ At once I apologize 83. ___________ and controlled me at my best till the dinner started. You 84. ___________ know, that was a dinner we had waited for several month.” 85. ___________
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Dear editor:
We have to say that the condition of the pollution
is getting worse. An other day my friend and I went 76．_______ fishing on a riverside. We found the river so dirt and the 77．_______ smell so terribly that we could hardly stay there. We 78．_______ also found that some rubbish and dead fish were floated 79．_______ on the water. It is because good many factories always 80．_______ dump waste water and some people throw rubbish into the 81．_______ river. If the rivers all of over the country were polluted like 82．_______ this, all the alive things in the rivers would be killed and 83．_______ harm will be done to the people near the rivers. We hope the 84．_______ river will be made cleaning again soon, and that something 85．_______ will be done to stop people from polluting our surroundings.