where it ends and planned the s_________. Because she doesn’t care about d______, I told her something about the Mekong River and then we went to the library. The s_______ of the Mekong River is at an a__________ of more than 5,000 meters in Qinghai province. Half of the river is in China. It passes through deep v________, traveling across western Yunnan Province. And when it enters Southeast Asia, its p_____ slows. It makes wide bends or meanders through low v_________ to the plains. At last it f_______ into the South China Sea.
Unit Four
Some s________ things were happening in the countryside of northeast Hebei. The chickens and pigs were too n________ to eat. Fish jumped out of ponds. The water in the wells r______ and fell. There were some deep c________ in the well walls. The water pipes in some buildings cracked and b_______. Then everything began to s_______. A big natural d_________, an earthquake, was coming.
The greatest earthquake h_________ in Tangshan in 1976. It was so s_______ that one-third of the nation felt it. In fifteen terrible seconds the large city l______ in r______. Everything in the city was d_________. Bricks covered the ground like red autumn leaves. Even the railway tracks were now u________ pieces of steel. What’s even w_______, a great number of people were t_______ under the ruins. The survivors were s_________ by what they saw before their eyes. People had no idea how long the disaster would l_______.
Unit Five
Elias couldn’t study any more because of his poor family. He got a job in a gold m_____ but he had no p________ and was afraid of becoming out of work. Then Elias t_______ to Nelson Mandela, when Nelson Mandela worked as a l________, offering g________ to black people on their l________ problems. It was Nelson Mandela who helped him and made him more h________ about his future. He a________ Nelson Mandela so much that he joined the ANC Youth League o_________ by Nelson Mandela. From Nelson Mandela, Elias learned that the s__________ in South Africa had reached a s______ where black people had almost no equal r_______ at all and that black people had chosen to a________ the laws and a_________ violence with violence.
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As a matter of fact, Elias hated v_________, but he still helped Nelson Mandel b_____ ______ some government buildings at the risk of being put in p_______. Unit 1
The Amber Room, which was c___________ one of the w________ of the world,
had an a_________ history. The room was designed in the f________ style and d_________ with gold and jewels.
In 1716, Frederick William I, to whom the amber room b________, gave it to Peter the Great. So it became part of the Czar’s winter palace in St Petersburg and s_______ as a small reception hall for important visitors.
Later, Catherine II had it m_______ to a palace outside St Petersburg and told her artists to add more d_______ to it. But in 1941, when Russia and Germany were at war, the Nazi army e________ the summer palace, r________ some treasures s_______. After that, what happened to the Amber Room remains a m_________. Unit 2
A G______ writer about 2,000 years ago called Pausanias came on a magical Recently, a new Amber Room has been built at the summer palace by the Russians and Germans.
j_________ to find out about the present-day Olympic Games. He i__________ a volunteer named Li Yan. He learned that there were two main s______ of Games--- the Winter and the Summer Olympics, and that both were held every four years on a r_________ basis. Anyone who has reached the agreed s________ for their event can be a__________ as competitors. To Pausanias’s surprise, women are playing a very important r______ in many games. Every country wants to h________ the Olympic Games, and it is a great r__________ but also a great h________ to be chosen. Li Yan told his that the Chinese were very p_______ because the 2008 Olympic Games would be held in Beijing. Pausanias was happy to know the m______ of the Olmpics---“S________, H_______ and S________” and he felt very interested in it.
Unit 3
Over time I have been changed a lot. In 1642, I was a c__________ machine in
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France, which could s_________ difficult sums. Nearly two hundred years later, I
was built as an analytical machine by Charles Babbage and could think l__________.
In 1936, Alan Turing wrote a book about how I could work as a u__________ machine to s________ any mathematical problems. Since the 1970s, I have been used in office and homes. As I g_________ changed my shape, my m_________ has also developed so much. In the early 1960s I was given a family c_________ by a n________ and could share my knowledge with others through the World Wide Web.
Since the 1970s, many new a__________ have been found for me and I have been used in many fields. Now I am truly happy because my g_______ is to p_________ the human race with a life of high q________. 8