Food is a very important and necessary part of our lives.

    We eat food because we need it to live. It gives us the nutrients that we need for our bodies to grow.  (1)  If we are happy, we eat; if we are sad, we eat; boredom, depression, and loneliness are other reasons that we eat.  (2)  Whefi we have friends or family over, we usually have Some form of food to offer them, whether it is a light snack or a full meal.

      (3)  Many of us like certain foods because we have been raised eating those foods. In many cases, whatever our parents eat or like to eat is what we eventually enjoy eating. The region where we live as well as economics determines much of our food selection. If we lived in China we would eat a lot office because it is what is grown there.  (4)  .

    Food is also a part of our many celebrations. However, the way that food is used in celebrations varies from home to home, and country to country.  (5)   To understand why different foods are used in different celebrations, we need to understand a little about culture and how it could affect the foods we use.

Pablo Picasso is a Spanish artist,  (1)  (consider) as the greatest western artist of the twentieth century. He was born in Spain on October 5, 1881 and  (2)  his early twenties he moved to France. From 1902 to 1904 he painted a series of pictures_(3)   the main color was blue. These pictures aimed   (4)  (show) poor, sad people and are known  (5)  Picasso’s “blue period”. From 1904 to 1906 Picasso painted much  (6)  (happy) pictures which were in the color pink.  (7)  (nature), this period was called Picasso’s “pink period”. It was another Spanish artist George Braque  (8)   started Cubism with Picasso. Cubism was one of the most important modern art  (9)   (move), trying to show different aspects of the subjects at the same time. In Picasso’s painting Guernica, he showed his feelings about what    (10)   (happen) to a town during the 1930s war in Spain.

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Friendship is one of the most important things in everyone’s life. It is very difficult  (1)   (find) a better definition(定义) of friendship. A true friend is the person  (2)  can share all our sadness and double all our happiness. In time of trial(尝试) , he or she is always at our side to give  (3)  (we) his or her help and comfort.     

Knowing how  (4)  (value) friendship is, we should be very careful with our  (5)  (choose) of a friend. We should choose those people with a good character as our friends, but we must try to avoid   (6)  (make) friends with a bad man. Besides, we should forgive their mistakes and try to help them as much as possible.     

A true friend can always  (7)  (trust), loved and respected. If you tell a friend your secrets, he or she won’t tell   (8)  (other). Friends share their joys and sorrows. They help each other when they are  (9)  trouble, and cheer each other up when they are sad.  (10)  most important thing is that a friend always understands you. In conclusion, when you have made a good friend, don’t forget him or her.

There was once a meat cutter   (1)   always worked very hard. At the end of one day，he went into the freezer to put away some meat , but   (2)  (lock) in it. He screamed and wanted someone to help him，but no one responded. It was after working hours，  (3)   he surely knew there was no one   (4)  (leave) to save him. Hours went on，so he decided to make peace with God，knowing the angel of death was arriving soon.

Just then，the door opened wide. Shocked，amazed，puzzled，grateful, he saw the security guard    (5)   (stand) in front of him.  “  (6)   did you know I was here？” the man asked the security guard   (7)  (curious)．“Very simple，” he replied. “For 10 years，you have been   (8)  only person who has said hello and goodbye to me with a kind and warm smile. However，today I only heard the hello，but never heard the goodbye，so I made a(n)   (9)  (judge) that you had to be here.”

Every day，a smile or a kind word or two from you may make a difference in someone’s  life and if   (10)  chance they come back to you，well，that would be nice.

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Once a year, a race is    (1)   _ (hold) for old cars. A lot of cars entered for this race last year and there was a lot of    (2)   _ (excite) just before it began. One of the most handsome cars was a Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost.   (3)   _most unusual car was a Benz    (4)   _ had only three wheels. Built in 1885, it was the oldest car taking part. After a great many loud explosions(轰响)，the race began. Many of the cars    (5)    (break) down on the way, so some drivers spent   (6)    (much) time under their cars than in them! A few cars,    (7)   , completed the race. The winning car reached a speed of forty miles an hour-----much faster than any of    (8)    (it ) rivals(对手). It sped downhill at the end of the race and the driver had a lot of trouble    (9)   (try) to stop it. The race gave everyone a great deal of pleasure. It was very different    (10)    modern car races but no less exciting.

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There was once a poor artist attempting   (1)  (win) a prize in an important painting competition. He lived nearby a leafy avenue,   (2)  was full of trees with fragrant flowers. One day, he took his paints and brushes to a local café near the avenue to have a cup of coffee and get inspiration. Looking around him, he noticed how the trees’ shadows were growing longer   (3)  time passed.   (4)   (inspire), he immediately took a brush for painting and   (5)  (adopt) the style typical   (6)  the Impressionists. He set out to paint, and soon the painting was completed. It looked so   (7)   (appeal) and real that it attracted everyone who saw it. Happily, he wrote his signature at the bottom of the painting and sent it to the competition committee. It was   (8)  (evidence) that judges appreciated it greatly and gave it high marks.

Now, it is one of the great paintings  (9)   (possess) by a great museum in Paris. If you have an opportunity to go there, do visit it in   (10)  flesh.

Kenneth Williams is considered one of the  (1)   (great) British comedy actors of the twentieth century. His voice is his outstanding gift; it virtually defined him   (2)  a performer. Williams would often spend weeks   (3)   (decide) how a character should sound and this “voice” determined his approach to each role.   (4)   even after he had chosen his “voice”, he didn’t always stick to it. In the middle of a single performance, he would sometimes change   (5)   tone or speed of his speech, for greater comic effect. While still a beginner, he felt he should be given the freedom to do as he wished on stage and often ignored his directors’  (6)   (instruct). This greatly annoyed some directors, who refused   (7)   (work) with him. Sometimes, he would completely ignore the script (台词) and make up his own lines  (8)   performance. Although he was proud of his ability to go “off script”, he became extremely angry  (9)  other actors tried to do the same, arguing that they were simply not good at it. Williams loved to make his audience laugh. When performing a scene   (10)  there were few laughs, he would often make up his own jokes, which always entertained the audience, but sometimes also ruined the scene.

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   A  mouse, because of an   (1)     (luck) chance, made close friends with an evil frog. One day,    (2)    frog played a trick on the mouse by   (3)    (tie) a foot of the mouse to his own. At first, both of them joined together and the frog   (4)    (lead) his friend toward the pool in which he lived, and didn’t stop   (5)    he reached the side of the water. Then the frog suddenly jumped into the water and the mouse was pulled in with   (6)    _(he). The frog enjoyed the water and swam in it around, happily crying   (7)    if he had done a great deed. The unhappy mouse died soon in the water, and his dead body floated around on the surface,   (8)    (fasten) to the foot of the frog. A hawk saw the dead mouse, suddenly flew down towards it, caught it and flew away. The frog, still tied to the leg of the mouse, was also carried off as a   (9)    (prison), and it   (10)    (eat) by the hawk. Harm hatch, harm catch.

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Colorful fruits and vegetables are helpful to our health. Their  (1)  (nature) colors help protect our bodies from disease. Think about the colors of fruits and vegetables---the red of tomatoes, the orange of carrots, the green of apples and the purple of grapes. You can enjoy   (2)  (eat) fruits and vegetables of all colors---green, yellow, blue, purple, and white. Each color  (3)  (be) important to our health. These colors work together to protect   (4)  (we) bodies. Scientists have studied them and discovered   (5)  good of colorful fruits and vegetables. The list below shows some benefits of some colors in fruits and vegetables:

 Red gives us a healthy heart. It can  (6)  (possible) reduce heart disease. Red helps improve our memory.

Ÿ  Yellow is good   (7)  our eyes.

Ÿ  White can reduce cholesterol．

Ÿ  Green is helpful to eyes. It also gives us strong bones and   (8)  (tooth).

Ÿ  Blue helps us keep a good memory as we grow old. It also helps fight heart disease.

So,   (9)  you are buying or eating fruits and vegetables, remember    (10)  ( try)different colors of them.

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Soon after Dave left college, one of his uncles, 61._____was rich and had no children of his own, died and  62.______  (leave) Dave a lot of money, so he decided to set up his own real estate (房地产)________(agent). He found a nice office, 63 .______(buy) some new furniture and moved in. He had only been there for a few hours when he heard someone 64._______(come) towards  the door of his office. “It’s my first customer!” he thought. He quickly picked up 65._____ telephone and pretended to be very busy answering 66.______ important call from someone in New York   who wanted to buy a big and expensive house in the country. The man knocked at the door 67 .______this was going on, came in and waited    68. ______(polite) for the agent to finish his conversation. Then he said to him, “I’m from the telephone company, and I 69._____ (send) here to connect 70.____ telephone.”