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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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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.
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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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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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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_____.
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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_____________ 6_________ 7_____________ 8_____________ 9____________ 10_____________
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.
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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.
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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 _____10__$3,000 to keep secret what I found out!”
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PRESENTS: if you are ___1______to someone’s home to have a meal, it’s usual to take some____2_____ or a box of chocolates. it is not usual to take a bottle of wine_____3_____ you know your host well. Although flowers and chocolates are quite acceptable, it would be very nice if you could take something from your country. It is different if you are invited to a p[arty, and it also_____4_____on what kind of party it is. Many parties these days are “ bring a bottle” parties. Unless your host is very rich, then a bottle of wine is always____5_______if it is a bottle of 30 or more people. Ask whether or not you should bring a bottle when you are invited if you aren’t___6____. Say something like,“ Can I bring a bottle?” and your____7______will tell you what to do. DRESS: if you aren’t sure what you should___8_______, then ask your host or your friends. Usually dress is informal and individual in Britain for parties and for invitations to dinner in
people’s homes. If you are going to an ______9______reataurant, then men may have to wear jacket and tie. And jeans wouldn’t be ______10.______
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The customs (风俗)of people in other countries may appear_____1________to us. And some of our ways must seem just as strange to them. For example, let us look at old Japanese______2_____ . we sleep on ____3_______pillows and beds; they sleep on hard_____4____. We wash our faces and wipe(擦净) them dry with towels（毛巾）; they wipe their faces with ____5___towels. We lower our faces when we say prayers(祈祷)；they___6_____theirs. When entering houses, we_____7______off our hats; the Japanese take off their shoes. We give gifts when arriving; they leave them when departing. We open gifts in _____8______of the giver; they never do. When in mourning(哀悼)， we wear black; they wear white. We frown when scolded(责备); they_____9_______. When we say that the customs of people in other countries are strange, they could reply,“ The _____10_____to you” 1_________ 2_____________ 3_____________ 4____________ 5_____________ 6_________ 7_____________ 8_____________ 9____________ 10_____________
You have to shake hands when you’re coming or going in Germany, but in Britain you usually only____1______hands when you meet someone for the first time. You have to give your present in_____2_____ the Middle East to show it’s not a bribe(受贿)but it’s good manners to give present in private in Asia. You mustn’t give cutlery(刀具) in Latin American because it’s___3___ that you want cut off the relationship. You mustn’t give food or drink in Saudi Arabia because it suggests you think your hosts not offering you enough to eat and drink. You mustn’t give a ___4_______ in China because the Chinese word “clock” is similar to the word “funeral.”“ Come any time”___5______“ I want you to visit me” in India. If you don’t suggest a time and arrange a visit immediately, an India will think you are________6__the invitation. But if an English person says “come any time”, they will think you are bad-mannered if you start_____7____a date. Offices are usually_____8___ on Friday in Moslem(穆斯林) countries. Americans usually mean “yes” when they nod their heads. An English person probably just mean “ I understand”, and an Asia is just____9____interest.it’s bad manners to discuss at social occasion in India. In an English pub(酒店)， you have to take your_____10______to buy” round”-drink for everyone in your group.
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An India put his ear to the ground. He ___1_______many horses. They were coming his way. He ran to tell his people. Then he ran to tell the people of the next village. He was a ____2_____. Using runners was one way Indians sent_____3____. People in a land across the sea___4____messages, too. One man____5______his drum. In the next village the people heard the drum. They boat their drums. The message______6____ from village to village by drums. Much later, some armies____7______many pigeons(鸽子). These pigeons always___8____ back to their own nesting place. Suppose a soldier was sent far from his own army, he might take a pigeon along. He could__9____ a message to the bird’s leg. He would let the bird go. It would fly home with the soldier’s message. These were slow ways to send messages. Can you think of_____10______ways?
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When the steam engine(蒸汽机) was_____1____in the 18th century, it began one of the___2______revolution(革命) that had ever happened in our world. The______3____ of the petrol engine(内燃机)at the end of the 19th century led other great____4____ in our lives. And the computers is an invention more important than these engines____5_____. Just as there was a Stone Age(石器时代), an Iron Age(铁器时代) and so on, we have been ____6___for centuries in a Paper Age. And almost all information was______7____ and____8_____on paper, and so much of it is wasted after it has been used_______9_____that a large number of trees have to be cut down every year to make paper. But now, with the computer, a lot of information can be stored and sent______10_______any paper at all, using small discs(碟片) or magnetic tapes. 1_________ 2_____________ 3_____________ 4____________ 5_____________ 6_________ 7_____________ 8_____________ 9____________ 10_____________
Every June, parents drag(拖，拉) their kids to bookstores. For kids____1_______love to read, summer and books go together like Harry Potter and Quid ditch. But if you don’t like reading, the summer book list can be like a summer__________2________. You know the scene(情景)： your parents rush around the bookstore, pretending(假装) to be happy. They___3_____half a dozen books,____4________if they had just found jewels on sale for$5.95. then they put these treasures into your hands:“ How _____5____this one?” Mom asks, pushing book after book into your face. You keep on_________6_____your head. At last she will say,” Just pick something!” you choose a book just to get her to calm down(冷静下来). You would rather read the phone book______7________the book you’re taking home with you. In fact, you can do something to make things_____8_____. When your parents are going to bring you to the bookstore, take it as an outing. Ask your parents what they read when they were your_______9______. They may not be as hard on you. Remind them what they may call “trash ”is still reading. If you can’t find a book that___10_______you, don’t get one.
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51Most things cannot be ____1_______without_____2_____, bue reading can. While we are sitting ______3________in our houses, we can’t_____4______the world, and we can____5_____lots of things. We can talk with the persons hundreds of years ageo. Though we may be not_____6______, we can become the friends of____7_____men. Only books can give us these_______8____. If you cannot enjoy them, you are a ____9_______person. If you enjoy them most, you will be the____10_______person in the world.
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Bill works in a factory, and he___1_____comes home at half past six every evening. He came home very early last Friday, and he was very angry. He closed the door very______2_____, went into the living room and sat down. His wife in the kitchen, she went to her______3___and looked at him for a few____4_______. Then she said to him, “why are you angry, Bill?”“ But_____5_____cost three pence last week,_____6_____now they cost two pence,” he said. “But that isn’t bad, Bill,” his wife said, “It’s good，going by bus is___7_____now.”“ Yes , it is,” Bill said,“ But I always __8______ to work in the morning and come home on ________9____ in the afternoon.. last week, I saved six pence everyday, but now, I save two pence______10_____.”