is not good for______7_____food and the weather isn’t good for farming, either. The
organization” The Feed African Fund”_____8_____a lot of money every year on food for poor people in African. The money comes from generous(慷慨的)people, for they do not want to see children_____9_______from hunger. Just one dollar can buy enough rice or corn to feed family of four for three days. How____10______do you spend on food every day? Ten dollars? Twenty dollars? I am sure you can spend less on your own food so that you have a few dollars for” The Feed African Fund ”. Ladies and Gentlemen, we are now taking a collection. Please be generous. Thank you.
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32 Dear Ann,
Thank you for your letter, I’m fine.
I just come back from Canada. Canada is a very______1____country. There are
many____2______there. I like Banff National Park best. There are trees, flowers, lakes, animals, and mountains in that park. These make the park very beautiful. I went to Banff National Park with my____3______. It was a fine day. We rode horses in the park. It was great! I
liked_____4___horses. Then we went ____5__in one of the lakes. The water was____6_____. There were some fish in the lake. It was good to sit in the boat and____7____the beautiful scenery(风景). After that, we went to the mountains. In the mountains, there were many
animals. We walked and watched the animals. I thought they were___8_______. I loved them very much. Finally, I ate some food, I t was____9____! And I ________ some souvenirs for my friends.
How about you? Is everything ok? Looking forward to your letter. Best wishes to you!
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33 There was an old pear tree in a man’s garden. In the past, the tree fruited every year, so the man would get many pears. But now, the tree got old. There were no______1____pears for the man. So the ungrateful(忘恩负义的)man____2_____to cut the tree down. When he walked toward the tree with an axe(斧子)in his hand, the tree said to him,“ please don’t cut me down. I have borne(结)so many pears for you in the past years. Now I will die soon. I only have a short time to ______3____. Please don’t kill a ____4______tree that has done so much for you.” I’m sorry, I have to do so,” the man said,“ because I need wood to make a chair.” then he began to wave(挥动)his axe. At that moment, a bird in the old tree shouted at him,“ Don’t cut it down! Every time you go out and your wife feels_____5__, she will come out to the garden and sit under the tree to enjoy its cool shade(树阴)，and I sing songs to make her_____6____. We give pleasure to your wife when you are _____7______from home.” The man didn’t listen to the bird and drove it away. Just when
he was about to cut the tree, some trees flew out of it and said,” listen, if you agree not to kill this tree, we will give you delicious honey(蜂蜜) every day. Would you please___8______the tree with us?” the man got moved(感动). He said,“ You are so kind to the tree,______9____it has become old. Now I see that I shouldn’t cut it down. It has done so much for me and my wife. Let the tree stay here, and let the bird continue its songs here. ”With the words, the man left, and the old tree lived there to its___10_____day.
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34 Do you_____1____robots? There are a _______of robots in the world now. some of the robots can walk, sing and dance. Some can talk____3__people. Most of them can do heavy work. In a few_______4_____years, a robot will be able to____5_____a car, a train, a ship or a _______6_____. In a hospital, a restaurant or a shop,we___7_______see a robot at work. By then, we need____8____do the cooking or go shopping ourselves. We just give orders(命令)to a robot and it will do____9______the housework. A robot will be our good______10__. 1_________ 2_____________ 3_____________ 4____________ 5_____________
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35 For several years, Americans have enjoyed tele-shopping----watching TV and buying things by phone. Now tele-shopping is becoming___1______in Europe. In a number of European countries, people can turn on their TVs and_______2____for clothes, jewelry, food, toys and many other things. Tele-shopping is becoming popular in Sweden. For___3______, the biggest Swedish company sells_____4_____kinds of things on TV in 15 European countries, and in one year it made$100 million. In France there are two tele-shopping channels, and the_____5___spend about $20 million a year buying things___6______ those channels. In Germany, until last year, tele-shopping was only____7_____on one channel for an hour every day. Now the government_______8____tele-business. And many companies, including(包括)the largest American tele-shopping company and a 24-hour tele-shopping will help them___10_____more things. 1_________ 2_____________ 3_____________ 4____________ 5_____________
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36 In the past, women could only stay at home to do housework, such as____1______clothes, looking after babies, cooking meals and so on. They were looked down upon and not____2____to find a job outside. In the 1960s, women____3______to fight for their rights. Women in China enjoy a ____4_____life than before. They can get jobs___5___and can do all kinds of jobs. For example, there are women police officers, women doctors, women teachers, and women nurses. But it’s more____6_____for women to get to the top of a company as they do more housework at home. In the countryside, many people still____7___to have boys are stronger and are better at farm work than girls. I don’t think
it’s_____8______. In fact, women can do everything men can do. In China, everyone knows“ women hold up______9__of the sky”,but still the government must do a lot ____10____ to improve women’s life.
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37 Bill Gates born on October 28, 1955. He was___1______ William Henry after his father and grandfather. He was a very clever boy, at school, his favorite___2______were science and math. When people asked him_____3___he wanted to be in the future, he always said,” A scientists.” when he was 13 years old, Bill started to play____4______computers. At that time, a computer was a very large____5_____. Once he was interested in a very old computer. He and some of his friends spent lots of time____6______Unusual things with it. In the end, they worked out a software program(软件程序)。 Bill sold it for 4,200 dollars when he was only 17. In 1973, Bill went to Harvard University, there he developed the BASIC language for the first microcomputer (微机). But he didn’t finish his studies in Harvard. In his_____7_____year, he left Harvard to work for Microsoft(微软). He thought computer would be an ______8______tool(工具) in every office and in every home,___9_____he began developing software for personal computers. He made it much_____10_____for people to use computers than before. 1_________ 2_____________ 3_____________ 4____________ 5_____________
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38 Moths is rather than fun, you know. The problem and puzzles are often very____1____. Would you like to have a try? Now here is a ____2______for you. Three men had a ___3____in a restaurant. After the meal, the waiter brought them a bill for thirty dollars. Each man ____4____the waiter a ten dollar note. The waiter then took the thirty dollars to the cash-desk(收款台). The bill was only twenty-five dollars, so he ___5_______five dollars back to the three man. But the three men could not divide(分)the five dollars_____6_____them. “Let’s give the_____7____two of the five dollars,” said one of the man,” Then he can give us one dollar___8______” the other men agreed to his. And so each man received only one dollar from the waiter. This means that each man____9___nine dollars for his meal. The waiter____10______two dollars. Three times(乘)nine is twenty-seven, plus(加)two is twenty-nine. Where is the other dollar then?
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39 The Kiwi(几维鸟) lives only in New Zealand. It looks a bit a long_-beaked(长嘴的) chicken, but it has no tail and it can’t fly. Kewis Live in _____1__. They sleep in the day time and come out to _____2____at night. They eat worms and insects(昆虫) that live among dead_____3___. They also enjoy fallen___4_____. The Kewi is a very strange-looking bird. It is about 45cm long. A female Kiwi weighs___5_____ 4 kilos, but her egg weighs about 0.5
kilo____6___. That’s nearly ten times as ______7____as chicken’s egg! It gets its name from its_____8_____of Ki-wee. The number of Kiwis is getting smaller and smaller because so many have been___9______by the cats, dogs and other animals that people have____10____to New Zealand. What a pity!
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40 A long_____1_____ago there was an old woman. She lived with her two____2_____in a small house. There_____3____two rose trees in her____4____. One rose tree had white flowers. One of her daughters was as beautiful as a white rose. Her name was snow white. The other rose tree had red flowers. the other daughter had long hair and big blue eyes. She was as_____5______as a red rose. Her name was Rose Red, And she liked singing and____6___. Snow white liked_____7____at home and working in the house with her mother. The girls were good friends and they were ___8___together. They loved their mother. They_____9____care of their mother, their mother liked them very much.. they lived___10_____. 1_________ 2_____________ 3_____________ 4____________ 5_____________
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41 Mr. and Mrs. White had two sons and three daughters. One Sunday, Mrs. White said to her husband,“ The children don’t have any lessons today, and you’re_____1____, too. There’s a new funfair in the park. Let’s all go there to play.” Her husband said, “I want to__2____some work today.”“ oh, forget it. Go there and make our children___3______. That’s the most important work,” Mrs. White said. So Mr. and Mrs. White_____4_____their children to the funfair. Mr. White was forty-five years old, but he_____5______the funfair more than his children. He hurried from one thing to another, and_____6____lots of sweets. One of the___7_____said to her mother,“ Dad is just____8____a small child, isn’t he, mom?” Mrs. White didn’t want to____9_____her husband around any more at that time and answered,“ He is even worse than a small child, Mary, because he might_____10____more money than a small child.” 1_________ 2_____________ 3_____________ 4____________ 5_____________
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42 Library is room or building for collection of books kept there for reading. Our school library’s a newly-built five-story building, standing in the___1_____of our schoolyard. It has become the most attractive_____2______to both the teachers and the students ever since it came into use. The library has a____3____of over 3 million books which are stored in different parts. On the ground floor, a great variety of reference(参考书)books and_____4____ are for people to read. As more as 2,500,000 books on ____5_____and engineering are shelved on the first floor, materials about ____6____and humanity(人类)are available(可得到的) on the third floor. Novel-lovers can go up to the top floor to
__7_____their favorites from among300,000 books on literature(文学) arts. on the second floor, more than 80 kinds of newspapers and 200sorts of magazines and periodicals are on display, welcoming groups and groups of____8_______. We can ___9______a lot from the library, not only about subjects. But also about everything we want to know. Going to library_____10_____to be part of school life. We love our school library. 1_________ 2_____________ 3_____________ 4____________ 5_____________
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43 Work styles(方式)have changed dramatically. Instead of person-to –person contacts,________1____, faxes and the internet are used more frequently to keep business operations. Chen Pengcheng, general manager of Wangfu Economic and Trade Co. Ltd. In Zhuhai of Guangdong said,“ we thought SARS would disrupt(破坏) our normal operations, but with modern office equipment, everything is as_____2___.” “It reminds me that our work procedure(过程) could be well more streamlined(合理化).many flights and____3___ are actually redundant(多余的)，”said Chen. Pan Yining, professor of Zhongshan University in Guangdong said,“ It’s good opportunity to strength the cohesion(凝聚力) of the nation, and for many people, a reassessment(重新估价) of the value of their____4_____”“ SARS is an all new test of rapid response capability(能力) of china’s public ____5_____adiminstration(机构) and government officials,” said Pan. Tang Yong, who works with china southern airlines, said he and his son would_____6_____his collections of reports______7____medical workers fighting SARS____8_____during the coming holiday.“ I would ______9____ my child this: when the motherland calls, your parents would make the same_____10____. And I hope you do, too,” said Tang. 1_________ 2_____________ 3_____________ 4____________ 5_____________
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44 Mr. Green was a proud man.“ I’m sure my family is one of the oldest in the country,” he often told people.“ It has long ___1_____”
One day, he went to see an export on family history, Mrs. Polly.
“I want you to find out____2_____about my family,” he said.“ Where do they come from? Who was the first Green? were there any famous people in your family? Do I have any rich____3_____?”
“Ok,”Mrs. Polly said,“ but it will cost you $ 2,000.”
Mr. Green thought about this. Two thousand dollars was a lot of ___4_____. At last he said, “ All right, But for $2,000, I want a _____5_____history. I want full details.” The experts___6______,“Come back in three months,” she said. Three months later Mr. Green____7____Mrs Polly.
“Well,” he said, “have you found out everything about my family?”
“YES,” she said, “it’s a very interesting family. However, my price is $5,000”
“Five thousand dollars!” Mr. Green______8____.“ But you told me the _____9_____was only $2,000.”
“I see, it was $2,000 to find out everything about your family,” she said,” It’s