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1、1As is known to all, books t_ us about life, truth, science and many other useful things. They increase our knowledge, broaden our m_ and strengthen our character. In o_ words, they are our good teachers and wise friends. This is the reason why our parents always e_ us to read more books.Reading is

2、a good thing, but we must pay great a_ to the choice of books. It is true that we can g_ benefits from good books. However, bad books will do us more h_ than good.teach, minds, other, encourage, attention, get, harm2Most people who work in the office have a boss. So d_ I. But my boss is a l_ unusual

3、. Whats unusual about him? Its a big dog. Many men have dogs, but few men b_ their dogs to the office everyday. My bosss dog, Robinson, is big and brown. My boss brings him to w_ every day. He takes the dog to meetings and he takes the dog to have lunch. When there is a telephone call for my boss, I

4、 a_ know if he is in the office. I only look under his desk. If I see something brown and hairy u_ it, I know my boss is somewhere in the office. If there is no dog, I know my boss is o_.do, little, bring, work, always, under, out3Once there lived a cat. She thought, “The lion is the s_ of all the a

5、nimals. It is good to have strong friends. I shall go to the lion and make friends with him.” She did so and the lion and the cat were friends for many, many days. Once they went for a walk together and met an elephant. The lion began to f_ with the elephant and the elephant killed him. The cat was

6、very s_. “What shall I do?” she thought. “The elephant was stronger than the lion. I shall go to see the elephant and make friends with him.” She did so and they were friends for many, many days. Once they went for a walk and met a hunter（獵人）. The hunter shot at the elephant and killed him. The cat

7、was sorry, but she thought, “The man is stronger than the elephant, I see.” So she went to see the hunter and asked, “May I go with you?” “All right, let us go home together,”he said.They came to the mans h_. His wife met him and took his gun（槍） from him. The cat saw that and thought, “Oh, the woman

8、 is the strongest of all! She can take the hunters gun from him, and he does not fight with her. He does not even say a w_!” The man sat down at the table and the woman went to the kitchen. The cat went to the kitchen, too. She decided to s_ with the woman forever. Thats why you always see a cat in

9、the kitchen at a womans f_.strongest, fight, sad/sorry, home, word, stay, feet4At a hospital in Illinois, doctors and patients dress up as clowns and put on little plays to make each other l_. A hospital in New York puts funny books in its library for p_. Can laughter make sick people feel better?Sc

10、ientists think laughter can help sick people feel less p_ and get better more quickly. This new idea is being t_ to students in medical school. Doctors have known for a long time that stress and loneliness, lack of friends and family can h_ sick people. Now they are learning that laughter can help p

11、ut people on the road to recovery.Scientists discovered that laughter gives the body a healthy form of exercise. Also, laughter set free a chemical in the body that speeds healing.Some doctors are using this new r_ to make their patients feel better. At a California hospital, people who have cancer

12、tell each other funny stories and perform with a famous actor who has had cancer surgery (手術(shù)).Laughter can be good m_.laugh, patients, pain, taught, harm, research, medicine5Basketball is still a young game. Its over a hundred years old. In the winter of 1891, a certain college was having some t_ wi

13、th its boy students. The weather was bad and the students had to stay i_. As they couldnt play outdoors, they were u_, and some even got into fights from time to time. Some of the teachers, at the college asked Dr. Naismith to invent a game so that the students might have something to play with. It

14、was not easy to invent such a game b_ it had to be played indoors , and the court (球場) was not very large. Dr. Naismith t_ for a few days and invented a kind of ball game. It was a fast, wonderful game with much moving and passing of the ball. It was played between two teams. To make a score , the b

15、all had to be t_ into the basket ten feet above the floor on the wall . At each end of the court there was such a basket. At first, Dr. Naismith wanted to throw the ball into a box. As he could not find boxes of the right size, he had to use fruit baskets i_. That is how the game got its name.troubl

16、e, indoors, unhappy, because, thought, thrown, instead6There was a time when some birds and some animals lived in the sky. The dog and the Hen lived there, too.One day, it was very cold and rainy in the sky. The birds asked the Dog to go down to the earth and bring some fire back to make the sky w_.

17、The Dog went down and came to a mans house. He saw many bones near the house. He began to eat the bones and f_ about the birds and the fire.The birds waited and waited for the Dog, but he hid not come back. He d_ to live with the man.As it was still cold, the birds sent the Hen down to bring some fi

18、re back. The Hen went to a mans house and saw some seeds near the house. She liked the seeds very much.The Hen did not think about the fire, b_ ate up all the seeds. And she wanted to live with the man, too.Thats w_ the birds and the animals do not like the dog or the hen. They left their friends in

19、 the c_ for the sake of good things. Now you know how the dog and the hen b_ domestic animals.warm, forgot, decided, but, why, cold, become7From artificial lights to late-night TV and now our smartphones, modern life is often blamed for ruining our s_. But this study suggests our ancestors didnt get

20、 any m_ sleep than we do.The researchers monitored traditional societies in Namibia, Tanzania and Bolivia, where people live like ancient hunter-gatherers o_ did. They found they slept on a_ six and a half hours a night. Surprisingly, natural light didnt have as big an i_ as was thought. Most people

21、 fell a_ hours after sunset. However, temperature was important. The mornings coldest point was when most people w_ up.Insomnia was also extremely rare.sleep, more, once, average, influence, asleep, woke8When you are learning English, you find it not clever to put an English sentence, word for word,

22、 into your own language. Take the sentence“How do you do? ” as an e_, if you look up each word in the d_, once at a time, what is your translation(翻譯)? It must be a w_ sentence in your own language. Languages dont just have different sounds, they are different in many w_. Its important to m_ the rul

23、es for word order in the study of English, too. If the speakers put words in a wrong order, the listener cant u_ the speakers sentence easily. Sometimes when the order of words in an English sentence is changed, the meaning of the sentence changes. But sometimes the order is changed, the meaning of

24、the sentence doesnt c_. Lets see the difference between the two pairs of sentences. “She only likes apples. ” “Only she likes apples. ”“I have seen the film already. ” “I have already seen the film. ”example, dictionary, wrong, ways, master, understand, change9Long ago, a mother and a son lived in a

25、 house. The woman worked hard every day, but they were still poor.One day, her son stole his friends bag. Mom, what do you think of this bag? the son asked. His mother praised him r_ than scolded him. It looks great!The next time, he stole an overcoat. She praised him again.A few years later, the so

26、n grew up to be a young man. He stole some pieces of jewelry and brought them to his mother. How beautiful! This time, she still did not scold her son.Then, the young man started to steal more e_ things. One day, the police c_ him. Before putting him in jail, he begged the police to meet his mother.

27、 They took him to his mother. As soon as he saw his mother, he bit her earlobe. Ouch! Whats the m_ with you? She finally scolded him. Her son answered, If you had given me a scolding like that when I stole the first bag, I would not have become a t_.She collapsed as she looked at her son heading to

28、prison. If I only could turn b _ time, I would scold him strictly. She r_ that she always praised him, whatever he had done.rather, expensive, caught, matter, thief, back, regretted10Mr. Baker worked in a small town. Two weeks ago, his friends helped him to find work in New York. So he and his wife

29、were going to m_ to a building in the big city. Mr. Baker wanted to live in a room on the first floor so that he could go for a walk by the beautiful garden after supper. But his wife hoped to live on the second floor.There is enough sunlight, I think . And we can watch the flowers in the garden by

30、the w_ , said the woman .Mr Baker thought she was right and a_ with her.It was Saturday . All their friends came to help them. They were tired but still h_ a party , Mr. Baker got nice food ready . They ate , drank a lot . Then they sang and danced. After a few hours, the telephone r_ , Mr. Baker we

31、nt to answer it . Then he said to her husband p_ Luckily you have listened to me ! The man downstairs complained on the telephone that they couldnt fall asleep because of the n_ in our rooms!move, windows, agreed, held, rang, proudly, noise11A beautiful and very successful actress was the star of a

32、new musical show. Her home was in the country, but she didnt want to have to go back there every night. So she bought an expensive house in the center of the city, got some beautiful furniture and h_ a man to paint the rooms in new colors.It was very d_ to get tickets for her show, because everybody wanted to see it, so she decided to g_ the painter two of the best seats. She hoped that this would make him w