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Life is not a spelling game, where no matter how many words you‘ve got right, you fail if you make one mistake. Life is more like a baseball season, where even the best team loses one third of its games and even the worst team has its good days. Our goal is to win more games than we lose. When we accept that imperfection is part of being human, and when we can continue rolling through life and enjoy it, we will have reached a wholeness. That is what life asks of us ---- not ―be perfect‖, not ―don‘t even make a mistake‖, but ―be whole‖.
If we are brave enough to love, strong enough to forgive, generous enough to rejoice in another‘s happiness, and wise enough to know there is enough love around us all, then we can achieve a sense of fulfillment that no other living creature will ever feel.
Title: The wholeness of life Main comparisons The incomplete circle The perfect circle Contexts Searching for its missing piece, it (1) ____ slowly, doing what it wanted to on the way. After (2) ____ the missing piece to itself, it rolled fast, unable to take (3) ____ of everything. Thinking (4) ____, it left the piece and became slow. A person (5) ____ something A person with everything The author‘s attitude toward life (8) ____ conclusion Accepting his limitations and throwing away unrealistic dreams (9) ____ can make a person successful. And to live a whole life, a person must learn about himself, his strength and (10) ____ hard times and survive. 答案：
1. moved / went 2. fixing 3. notice / note 4. back 5. lacking 6. richer 7. won‘t 8. In 9. bravely 10. experience
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Farmers might think the idea of growing food for fun sounds strange. But there are some people who do it all the time.
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They grow some vegetables because their natural color or shape is pleasing to see. They grow others because scientists have developed new colors or different size for traditional vegetables. One example is the bell pepper (胡椒). Seed companies sell seeds for several different kinds of bell peppers. One pepper is a weak yellow color when it begins to grow. Then its color changes to white. As it grows, it changes color two more times ---- to orange, then red.
Another unusual plant is known as the yard-long bean or snake bean. It grows up to one meter in length. It is an important part of the food supply in areas of Asia.
American farmers like it because it is different, yet tastes very much like the green beans they traditionally grow. Each bean has from ten to twenty seeds. The outside or pod can be eaten. Some of the very long beans are green outside but have black-and –white or red seed.
Gourds (葫芦) are plants that people like to grow because of the many different shapes. They also have many uses. Some round gourds are dried, painted and made into containers. Others have long necks and big bodies. These are dried, cut and made into pour drinking water.
Another kind of gourd is used to make sponges (海绵). When it is fully grown, it is removed from the vine and permitted to dry for a few weeks. Then it is placed in water for a few hours. The outer shell is then removed. The gourd is placed in the sun to dry. When it is fully dry, it is cut into pieces for use as sponges. They have a rough surface. They can be used to clean away dead skin cells, which makes them a popular skin-care product.
Title: (1) ____ vegetables Items Colors or shapes Vegetables A kind of pepper changes its color several times during its (2) ____. The yard-long bean or snake bean grows as long (3) ____ one metre. Gourds grow (4) ____ differently, among which one kind are of long necks and big bodies. (5) ____ Pepper is pleasing to see. The yard-long bean or snake bean can be nice to (6) ____ at. Gourds can be made (7) ____ into containers or for sponges. Uses Pepper is used as a kind of flavor. The yard-long bean or snake bean is used as an important food supply. Having been (8) ____, Gourds can be made to pour drinking water or as a popular skin-care product. A phenomenon (9) ____ knowing People‘s attitude 答案：
1. Unusual 2. growth 3. as 4. shaping 5. Characteristics 6. look 7. either 8.
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processed 9. worth 10. Rather Type 4
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Chinese women want to look more Caucasian
Chinese women want to change the shape of their faces, while men want straighter noses, a recent survey by the Beijing-based Horizon Research Consultancy Group has found.
The survey polled nearly 1,600 people aged 18 and 55 from Shanghai, Tianjin and Shenzhen. The results were given on the independent polling company's website.
Almost 33 percent of women wanted to improve the contours of their faces, the survey found. Eyelid surgery was second most popular at 29 percent. A face shaped like a goose egg and double eyelids were favorite, it showed.
Fat removal from the stomach and waist ranked third, followed by liposuction of the legs. Nose sculpting came last among the top five most sought-after procedures for women.
A Beijing-based cosmetic surgeon surnamed Huang said women wanted to look more Caucasian.
They particularly wanted to look leggy, busty and skinny, he said.
In comparison, men were less concerned about fat and only 7.5 percent would consider liposuction, the survey said.
Nearly 45 percent of men said they wanted to straighten their noses to give them a more masculine look.
Nearly 33 percent said they would consider double eyelid surgery, followed by cosmetic improvement of the teeth and face shaping.
Many men did not want their partner to have breast implants, even though women did it to please them, cosmetic surgeon Huang said.
There are about 1 million plastic surgery operations performed every year in China, according to official estimates.
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Keys:1. eyelid surgery 2. cosmetic improvement of the teeth 3. face shaping 4. improving their faces 5. eyelid surgery 6. fat removal 7. liposuction of legs 8. nose sculpting 9. breast implants 10. straightening noses
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What do you usually use your cell-phone for? Calling friends or sending them text messages? As technology develops, nowadays cellphones can do much more than that. They have become an all-in-one device.
A typical example is Apple‘s phone. The touch-screen cellphone plays music, connects to the Web, sends email and takes photos. More than 1 million Apple‘s Phones have been sold since it was launched（发售） in June.
―Today‘s young people enjoy using all kinds of digital functions, such as those of a music player, a camera and even a computer, constantly. An all-in-one device is easy to carry. That is the goal of developing a technology to make our lives more convenient, simple and relaxed,‖ said Professor Ding Shouqian at Nankai University.
However, the all-in-one cellphones come with some problems. Users have complained that they are too complicated to use, and that their battery life is too short. Cellphone producers say that they are working hard to make their phones even better.
It‘s very convenient to use it ―We are trying to make the cellphones in a way that people can quickly move from phoning to taking pictures to listening to music,‖ said Alastair Curtis, Nokia‘s chief designer. ―If you look at the Nokia 3250 model, it has a twisting（转动） bottom. So you twist it half a turn, and it‘s in camera mode. You twist it another 90 degrees, the alpha-numeric（字母和数字的）keys have disappeared and the music keys are there.‖ Japanese companies such as Toshiba and
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Fujitsu are also working to develop a new battery for mobile phone.
If all the problems are solved in the future, all-in-one phones will change our lives for the better.
The all-in-one cellphone It plays music. 1____________ It is 2____________ to the web. It can 3________________ and take photos. It can also be used as a 4___________. 5_____________ problems problems a. The cellphones are _____6_____ to carry and to use b. make our lives more ._____7_______ , simple and relaxed. Their battery 8______________ is not very long. b. The companies make better batteries that last10____________ The way to solve the a. Make it easy and 9_________to move from one mode to another 1.functions 2.connected 3.deliver/send e-mails 4.camera 5.advantages/ convenience 6. easy 7. convenient 8. life 9. quick 10. longer
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Moon landing. The computer chip. Genetic engineering. The artificial heart. The achievements of U.S. scientists are known and admired throughout the world. But whether American highest position in research and technology will continue into the 21st century is far from certain. Thirty-two years after the Russians sent up Sputnik setting off a hot race to produce more and better U. S. physicists, the scientific pipeline is drying up. In an Educational Testing Service study of five countries and four Canadian provinces, American 13-year-old graded last in math and nearly last in science. How did America, birthplace of Edison and Wright brothers come to such a dangerous situation? One reason is lack of enough financial support for science education. After Sputnik, funding for the National Science Foundation, the leading U. S. founder of scientific research, shot up from $18 million to $130 million. By now financing for NSF‘s education had fallen rapidly to zero. The image of scientists is less lustrous(光辉的，灿烂的) than it was in the 50‘s and 60‘s, when men and women in lab coats were seen as national heroes helping the U.S. beat the Russians to the moon. Today the country‘s brightest desire is to be bankers and lawyers, not chemists or rocket designers. We really hope something must be done to vitalize(激励) America‘s science education, or America will have to face great losses in science development. Title: America‘s (1)________ In the past 更多精品尽在大家网高考英语
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