Last Sunday , my parents l___?___ for London on
b____?__. I had to stay at home for two weeks by m__?___ . I used to be a___?___ of the dark , so I t__?___ on all the lights in the evening . I keep the lights on in my bedroom the w__?___ night. My mother u__?___ to wake me up every morning , but now she isn’t at home. So I have set my a_?____ clock at 6:30 before g__?___ to bed .My mother used to wash clothes for me. She told me I could s___?__ the dirty clothes to the l__11____ . But I didn’t want to do that. Look! I’m w__12____ my clothes now.
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One summer , a library in Texas in the United States was
h__1___ a big problem. The books in the library i__2____ fast but there was not enough room to hold them. They had to be m___3___ to a newly built library across the town. E__4____ had been ready. Then the heads of the library found out that they hadn’t left enough money to move their mountain of books across the town .Even the c__5_____ moving company would ask for s__6____ thousand dollars to have books packed into boxes and moved .What could they do ? F___7____ one clever librarian had an idea .She said that the
move would take all summer and the library would be closed d__8____ that time. Why not ask everyone to come to borrow 20 ,40 ,or even 100 books ? At the e___9___ of the summer they could r__10_____ them to the new library .The idea worked s____11___ .Not only d___12__ the library save much money ,but also people read many books.
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Failure is what often happens. It is e__1____ in our life .Students may f___2__ in exams ,scientists may fail in their research work ,and players may fail in competitions. Although failure h___3___ to everyone , different people’s attitudes t___4____ failure are different.
Some people don’t think that their failure is an important thing at all. So they pay no a____5____ to it .As a r__6_____ ,they will have the same failure later .Some people think they t__7_____ are fools and lose their h___8____ in everything after they get a failure .Then they spent their time and energy on useless things .At last ,they may really be fools as they have thought.
Other people are quite different from these two kinds of people m__9_____ above . I___10___ of being hopeless and
lost , they d___11___ a lesson from every failure and become more e__12______ . After hard work ,they will be successful in the end .So we should draw a lesson from every failure and become more experienced.
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Little Tommy was doing very b__1___ in math. His parents had t__2___ everything—tutors， cards， special learning centers—in short， everything they could think of. Finally they took Tommy to a catholic school.
After the first day， little Tommy came home with a very s__3____ look on his face. He didn‘t kiss his mother h_4____. Instead， he went s_5____ to his room and started s__6____. Books and papers were spread out all over the room and little Tommy was hard at work. His mother was s___7____. She called him down to dinner and as soon as he finished e___8_____， he went back to his room， w__9____ a word. In no time he was back hitting the books as h___10__ as before. This went on for some time， day after day while the mother tried to understand what was h__11_____.
Finally， little Tommy b___12___ home his r___13___ card. He q__14____ put it on the table and went up to his
room and hit the books. His mom looked at it and to her surprise， little Tommy got an A in math. She went to his room and asked， “Son， what was it？ Was it the nuns？” Little Tommy looked at her and s___15___ his head，“No.” “Well then，” she asked again. “What was it？”
Little Tommy looked at her and said， “Well， on the first day of school， when I saw that man nailed to the plus sign ， I knew they weren‘t j____16__.”
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It was M__1____ Day, but the young mother was
a little u___2____, because she was 800 miles away from her parents. In the morning she p__3___ her mother to wish her a happy Mother's Day, and her mother told her about the beautiful lilacs (丁香) in the g__4_____.
Later that day, when she told her husband about
the lilacs, he said, \want. Get our children Peter and Lily, and come on.\went, d__6____ down the country roads．
There on a small h__7____, they saw a lot of beautiful purple lilacs, The young woman ran q___8____ to enjoy the flowers. Carefully, she p___9___ a few here and a
few there. On their w__10____ home there was a smile o__11____ her face.
When they were p__12_____ a nursing home , the young woman saw an old granny s___13____ in a chair. She had no children w___14___ her. They s___15___ the car and the young woman walked to the old woman, put the flowers i__16_____ her hands, and smiled at her. The old granny thanked her again and again. She smiled h____17___, too.
When the young mother came back to her car, her children asked her, \our flowers to her?
\Day, and she has no children. I have all of you, and I s___18____ have my mother. Just think how much those flowers m__19____ to her.\
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A___1___ her husband had g___2___ to work. Mrs. Richards s___3__ her children to school and went u____4___ to her bedroom. She was too e___5___ to do any housework that morning, f__6____ in the evening she