Dad drove very fast. ―You‘re d________(6)too fast,‖said Mum. ―You don‘t n________(7)to drive so fast. It‘s early.‖
Dad laughed and drove more slowly. There wasn‘t too much traffic,and they got to Brighton at nine o‘clock. It was a s_____(8) day,and the sea looked very blue. ―There‘s a cafe,‖said Gina. ―Can we have breakfast there?‖
―Yes,‖said Mum. They went into the cafe,and a____(9) a very big breakfast.
―oh dear, I ate too much,‖said Gina. ―How can I swim w________(10)I‘ve got all that food inside me?‖
―Easy,‖shouted Mike. ―Just watch me!‖ He ran towards the sea.
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Fu Mingxia was born in Wuhan, Hubei Province of China in 1978. When she was very young, she t_________(1)in gymnastics. Later she j_______(2)the diving (跳水)team,and soon became an excellent diver.
Fu Mingxia joined the national diving team in 1990. She trained for many h________(3)a day so that she bacame one of the best divers in China. She was only twelve when she w________(4)an important diving prize in Australia. She was small and slim(苗条的)，and looked very beautiful w________(5) she dived. She was the y________(6)person to win the prize.
The Olympic Games are the most important sports c______(7)in the world. They happen e______(8)four years in a different country. In 1992, the Olympic Games were in Spain. Fu Mingxia won the most important women‘s prize. She was f_____(9)years old. In 1996, the Olympic Games were in America. Again, Fu Mingxia won the biggest women‘s prizes in these Olympic Games.
After the 1996 Games, Fu Mingxia l_____(10)the diving team because she wanted to study at university in Beijing.
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May :What‘s up? You look really unhappy. Kate: Yes,I feel t_______(1)about something. May :Tell me about it.m______(2) I can help.
Kate: Well,I needed some new shoes to wear to a party. But I didn‘t have enough p______(3)money to buy any. So I asked my sister if I could wear her new shoes. May :That was nice of her.
Kate: No,you see,that‘s the p_____(4). She r_______(5)to let me wear them because she wants to k______(6)them new for her 16th birthday party. They were expensive. She saved up a lot of money to buy them,and she‘s really p________(7)wore them to the party. And on my way home, I fell,and one of the shoes is broken now. May :Can you m_______(9)them?
Kate: No, I don‘t think anyone will be able to do that.
May :Mmm,that does sound serious. But if you a______(10)honest, she‘ll be even angrier with you.
Kate:I know you‘re right.
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He Understood!
Two Americans were traveling in Spain. One morning they came into a little r________(1)for lunch. They did not know Spanish,and their waiter did not know E_______(2). They w______(3)him to understand that they wanted some m______(4)and sandwiches.
At first they pronounced the word ―milk‖many t______(5). Then they s_______(6)it. But the waiter could not understand them.
At last one of them took a piece of paper and began to d______(7) a cow. He was finishing his drawing, when the waiter looked at it and ran out of the restaurant. ―Do you see,‖ said one of the travelers, ―what a pencil can do for a man w______(8)has difficulties in a foreign country?‖
The waiter was b_______(9)again some time after,but he brought no milk. He put down in f_________(10)of the two men tickets for a bullfight.
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Sell a Car
A man was traveling abroad in a small red car. One day he left the car and w_______(1)shopping. When he came back,its roof was b________(2)damaged. Some boys told him that an e________(3)had damaged it. The man did not believe them,but they took him to a circus,which was n_______(4)there. The owner of the elephant said, ―I am very s_____(5)! My elephant has a big,round,red chair. He thought that your car was his chair, and he s_______(6) on it!‖ Then he gave the man a letter, in w_____(7)he said that he was sorry and that he would pay for all the damage.
When the man got back to his own county, the custons(海关)o________(8)would not believe his story. They said, ―You sold your new car while you were a_______(9)and bought this old one!‖ So he had to pay taxes for s________(10)his own car,which he didn‘t.
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What does blood do for ua? It brings food to all p______(1)of our bodies and takes waste away from them. All parts of our bodies are m______(2) of cells(细胞). These cells are very small. They all need food a_____(3)the time. No one could make p_______(5)of cells because no one could see them.
What makes the blood move round the body? The heart d_______(6). The heart is a pump. It pumps the blood and sends is t_______(7)the body. The heart has rooms with doors between them.It pumps blood in and out t_____(8)these doors by changing the size of the rooms so that the doors are opened and shut. The heart keeps a stream of blood going all around the bady and back again ti i________(9). The heat is a very important part of one‘s body. When is stops b____(10),one will die.
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These days,a new kind of restaurant is becoming popular. People who go there can not o_______(1)enjoy their meals,they can also enjoy playing computer games and have fun with their family and friends on the Internet.uWink is the r_______(2)name. It is in LosAngeles,and it‘s about fun and food.
In uWink,there are n______(3)waiters or waitresses around you. The screens have replaced(取代)them. You can order the food you want by t______(4)the screen in front of you and
runners will bring it to the tables. You can also play video games with the people a _______(5)the next table. The screens can show music video,m_______(6)and so on. But mainly they are used to show video games.
It‘s an interactive(互动的)restaurant where you will control your meal and your fun. The sercice is fast and the runners know c_______(7)where to go.There will be no waiting for a waiter,and no misunderstandings(误解)in the kitchen. Different kinds of food are s_________(8)at any time of day. uWink is a place which hosts ―room games‖,where every table in the restaurant can have a video game competition at the same time.
The owner of the restaurant h_____(9)that u Wink can make it easy for people to be interactive,have fun and enjoy a d______(10)meal.
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Coffee
For thousands of years,coffee has been a part of people‘e lives. Now it is still one of the favourite d______(1)in the world. A lot of people begin to work e_____(2)day by drinking a cup of coffee. They say that a cup of coffee in the morning can help them work b_______(3).
Do you know what in coffee can h_______(4)people work better? It is caffeine( 咖啡因). There is caffeine in t________(5),coffee,chocolate and some other foods. A little caffeine is probably not h________(6). It can make our b_______(7)and brains active. So,a little caffeine is helpful. It may increase person‘s mental and physical abilities(精力和体力) But d________(8)say that too much caffeine is harmful. It can make people nervous and sleepless.T_______(9)why so many people don‘t drink coffee after supper or b______(10) they go to bed.
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Good morning.I‘m Chen Huan. Here‘s my culture r_____(1)for today,Monday:
A new film starts tonight at the student cinema at eight o‘clock. The film is Pirates of the Caribbean. It‘s a fantastic a_____(2)film. Johnny Depp and Orlando Bloom are the stars. They are both very p_____(3)and famous,and they both act well in this film,and make their characters believable.
The story is a______(4)an old ship. It sails around the Caribbean i_______(5).Depp and Bloom try to find some lost gold. Then they come face to face(面对) with some terrible men, and have to f_______(6)them.There‘s lots of action,and the fighting looks really dangerous. They also save Keira Knightley. She plays Elisabeth , the d_______(7)of a rich man. The scence with Knightley and Bloom are beautiful and romantic.
The film isn‘t true to life,but it‘s very exciting,and s_________(8)of it is very funny.It‘s an enjoyable film,a__________(9)in my opinion there‘s too much fighting. But excupt for that,it‘s an excellent film. If you d________(10)see it when it first came out, I advise you to go and see it now. I‘m sure you‘ll enjoy it. It‘s showing all week.
Passage 38
Children in the U.S.A . like K Day very much. K is for k_______(1). March7 is the day. On that day lots of children go out in the o__________(2)air. They take their kites with them. Some kites are very big. O ________(3)are small. They are in d_______(4) colors. Every kite has a long string. To get the kites up,the children begin to run. They let out the string from the ball in their
hands. Now the kites are f______(5)in the air. How nice they l_________(6)!
Now all of the kites are high up in the air. Some are h ______(7)than the others. Oh,a kete is flying away! The string is b_______(8). But the children are running after it. They want to get it banck. People are watching them and laughing.
Passage 39
If you want to make a fresh fruit salad,the first thing to do is to select(挑选出)the f________(1). You should choose four or f_______(2)kinds of fruit that you like. Try to select ripe(成熟的)fruit,but don‘t buy fruit t________(3)is too soft. After you select the fruit,c________(4)some crisp(爽脆的)lettuce(生菜). Also buy one lemon.
Be sure to wait until about thirty m________(5)before mealtime before beginning to wash and cut the fruit and the lettuce. Peel(剥皮)the fruit, cut out all seeds(籽),then c_______(6)them into small pieces and put the pieces in a large bowl. T_______(7)squeeze (挤)the lemon onto the fruit. Finally ,make a bed of lettuce on each p_________(8)and spoon the salad onto the lettuce.
Passage 40
How to Hitch a Ride in Britain
A :Can you give any advice about hitching(搭便车) a ride in Britain? B :Yes!Britain is one of the best c________(1) for hitching. A :How do you s________(2)the cars?
B :In Britain you just hold out your hand,usually you put your thumb(大拇指)upwards. Or you may show a piece of while card to the d_________(3). On the card, you can write the place you want to go to. Make the l_______(4)quite big.
A :Where should you s_____(5)if you want to hitch?
B :If there is a traffic light,stand a few metres a ________(6) from it. Or stand fruther away from the corner so that the driver can w________(7)the other drivers that he is going to stop. If t_____(8)is a roundabout(环形交叉点)，stand at least ten metres away from it, so the driver can see you b________(9)he speeds up. Of course,if you stand at the lay-by(路边停车处)，driver can stop e______(10).
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Peter had lived in the same town for twenty years. But he had to m_______(1)to a new place recently.
It all b______(2)a year ago when Peter got home one evening and found a big dog in front of his gate. He liked a________(3)very much and gave it a piece of chocolate. The n_______(4)day,the dag was there again. It put up its paws and got a piece of chocolate again from Peter. He c_______(5)his new friend ―Bingo‖. He never found out the dog‘s real name,because he didn‘t know w________(6)dog it was. From t________(7)on Bingo went to Peter‘s home every afternoon. When Peter gave it some bread, it wasn‘t glad. Very soon it wasn‘t pleased with small pieces os chocolate,it wanted b_______(8)ones. If at any time Peter forgot to give Bingo chocolate, it would get angry and didn‘t l__________(9)him open the gate. Every day he had to make the dog feel happy with a big piece of chocolate,or he could not get in to his own house. He spent a large part of his money on chocolate. So at l_____(10)Peter decided to move to a new town.
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Fishing is Mr.Turner‘s favorite way of enjoying life. He often f______(1)for hours without catching anything. But this did not worry h _______(2). Some fishermen couldn‘t catch fish. Sometimes they c_______(3)old boots or rubbish. Mr. Turner was even w_____(4)than the fishermen. He never cauht anything, not e________(5)old boots. After he spent whole morning on the river,he always went home with an e_______(6)bag.
―You must give up fishing!‖ his friends said: ― It‘s a w_______(7)of time.‖
―But they don‘t r________(8)one important thing. I‘m not really interested in fishing. I am only interested in sitting in a boat and doing n________(9)at all. It can make me forget the noise of the city and live q____(10)for some time.‖he always said to himself.
Passage 43
Three Women Swam
There were three people standed(被困)on an island,a brunette(黑人),a redhead, and a blonde. The brunette looked over the water to the mainland and estimated(估计)about 20 m________(1)to shore(岸).So she announced, ―I‘m going to t________(2)to swim to shore.‖ So she swam out five miles, and got really t______(3). She swam out ten miles from the island,and she was too tired to go on,so she drowned(淹死).
The second one, the redhead, said to h_____(4), ―I wonder if she made it. I guess it‘s better to try to get to the mainland than s______(5)here and starve.‖ So she attempts to swim out. The redhead had a lot more endurance(耐力)than the brunette, as she swam out 10 miles b________(6) she even got tired. After 15miles, she was too tired to go on.so she drowned.
So the blonde t_______(7), ―I wonder if they made it! I think I‘d better try to make it.too.‖ So she swam out 5 miles,the miles, 15 miles,and nineteen miles from the island. The shore was just in sight, but she said, ―I‘m too tired to go on!‖ So she swam b______(8)
Passage 44
If I were you ,I wouldn’t do that.
A woman was at the cinema, and she was e_____(1)the film very much, but there was a man in the next s_______(2),and he began looking on the floor u _______(3)him. The woman was angry and whispered ―what are you doing there? What are you looking f_________(4)?‖ ―A piece of hard chocolate,‖ the man whispered to h_________(5). ― I d_______(6) it on the floor.‖ ―A piece of chocolate?‖ the woman said angrily, ― if I were you , I w_____(7)do that foolish thing. It‘s dirty now! Take this and be q_______(8), please! I‘m listening to the film!‖ she g____(9)the man a big piece of chocolate. ―But,‖ the man said, ―my t_______(10)are in the piece on the floor!‖
Passage 45
Body language
When we tale with each other, we may use body languge. For example,in the U.S.A, people point to their h______(1)when they think someone is clever. However ,human b_________(2) are not the only ones who use body language. Animals also use body language to tell e_______(3) other how they feel and what they think.
When a dog is happy,its e______(4)will stand up and its eyes will be wide open. When it is