A young man, while traveling through a desert, came across a spring of clear water.    61  water was sweet. He filled his leather container so that he could bring some back to an elder   62   had been his teacher. After a four-day journey, the young man   63    ( present ) the water to the old man. His teacher took a deep drink, smiled   64   ( warm ), and thanked his student very much for the sweet water. The young man went home   65   a happy heart.

      After the student left, the teacher let   66   student taste the water. He spit it out,    67 (say) it was awful. Apparently, it was no longer fresh because of the old leather container. He asked his teacher, "Sir, the water was terrible. Why did you pretend to like   68 ?"

     The teacher replied, “You tasted the water. I tasted the gift. The water was simply the container for an act of kindness and love. Nothing could be   69   (sweet). ”

     We understand this lesson best   70   we receive gifts of love from children. Whether it is a cheap pipe or a diamond necklace, the proper response is appreciation. We love the idea within the gift rather than the thing.

People 61________ (live) in different countries made different kinds of words. Today there are about fifteen hundred 62__________ in the world. Each contains many thousands of words. A very large dictionary, for example, contains four 63______ five hundred thousand words. But we do not need 64________ these. To read short stories you need to know only about two thousand words.65 _________ you leave school, you will learn only one thousand or more.

    The words you know are called your vocabulary. You should try to make your vocabulary 66_________ (big). Read as many books as we can. There are a lot of books 67_________ (write) in easy English. You will enjoy them. When you meet 68_________ new word, look it 69_________ in your dictionary. Your dictionary is your 70__________ (much) useful book.

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I was leaving my office late last Saturday morning. I felt a little bit    57      (annoy) because I had to get up early and worked a whole morning on the weekend.    58    I was complaining about all this to my husband on my cell phone, I saw a man    59    (sleep) on the grass. Immediately my    60    (angry) disappeared. I went back into my office and opened my mini fridge. I took every bag of snacks（零食），several pieces of cheese, two bottles of cold water and put    61    in a box. I placed the box next to the man and walked away    62    (quiet). About five minutes later, when I stopped at a traffic light I    63    (find) the man had waken    up. He was looking at the box, scratching (挠）his head and looking around. Then I saw him raise his hands towards the sky and say something    64    I couldn’t hear. Then he took a long drink of icy water. I felt glad that without even knowing it, the   65    (home) man had reminded me    66   (appreciate) my day so much.

Schools in Beijing are to close and outdoor construction to stop after the Chinese capital issued   75     (it) first "red alert" over smog levels. The red alert is the highest possible warning level, and has not   76     (use) in the city before, the state-run Xinhua news agency says. Cars with odd and even number plates will be prevented from   77     (drive) on alternate days.

Current pollution levels in Beijing are   78      (actual) lower than last week’s,  79     the red alert has been placed because of levels expected over the coming days. The order will last from 07:00 local time on Tuesday until 12:00 on Thursday,   80    a cold front is expected to arrive and clear the heavy smog.
　　Coal-powered   81     (industry) and heating systems, as well as vehicle emissions and dust from construction sites, result    82     the smog. It was last week   83     activists from Greenpeace urged the Chinese government to declare a red alert, which showed the air pollution degree was  84     (severe) than an orange alert .

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As we all know, games play a very important role in the growth of children. Children should grow along with playing games. Through playing, they can not only acquire knowledge, but also cultivate their 61.________ ( able ) to get along with others.

      However, most children are 62.         ( face ) with a completely different situation. Most parents fear that games will prevent children from increasing new knowledge and

68.    _ is a piece of good advice to those parents: 69.          you want to expect your child to be able to accomplish something, you must first of all develop his ability to adapt to the new surroundings. That kind of education can lead to nothing 70. ______ a failure in the children’s growth.

I was about to leave                     it began to rain.

A young American woman worked in a school in Shanghai.   61   she came to China, she knew little about the Chinese culture of language. One day on her way to school, she went to a bank    62   (draw) some money, To    63   surprise, the bank clerk asked her if she had had her lunch. She was surprised at such    64   question because in the American culture it would mean that the bank clerk is inviting her to lunch. Between unmarried young people it can also mean the young man’s interest in dating the girl. Since this bank clerk    65   (be) a stranger to the American woman, she was very puzzled, and quickly answered that she had    66   (eat) already. After this she went on to school and was even    67   surprised when one of the teachers asked her the same question．

By now she understood that it could not be an    68   (invite) but was puzzled as to why they asked it. In the following days she was asked the same question again and again and she spent many hours    69   (try) to work out why so many people kept asking her this. At last she thought that these people must be    70   (concern) about her health. She was rather thin at the time，and she thought they must be worrying that she was not eating well!In fact the question like that has no real meaning at all — it is only a greeting．

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Today I received a sweet letter from Brianna,  61  was one of my “cookies”. It was wonderful to hear  62  her. You see  63  I taught kindergarten, I called all my sweet children “cookies”. Brianna said that every day she would walk into kindergarten and see a smile  64  my face. I named them “cookies” because I always feel that children can bring great happiness and  65  (excite) to my life. I still feel that all children are the  66  (great) joy I could ever have.

So far I  67  (teach) children for over 35 years. There is no doubt  68  all my children were and are now a great joy of my life.  69  (hope), I feel much fortunate to be able to use my life’s talent to teach children and have fun  70 (do) it every day. I am able to spread my wings and help my “cookies” to spread their wings.

John Snow was a well--known physician in London in the 19^th century and wanted to help ordinary people  51  (expose) to cholera which was the deadly disease of its day.It was believed that cholera was commonly caused by the bacteria in the air or people absorbed this disease into their bodies with their meals.   52  (suspect) that the second theory was correct, he made further investigations and discovered that it was the water that was   53  (blame). Next, John Snow looked into the source of the water for these two streets  54   all the dead people had lived. Fortunately   55   he found that it came from the river polluted by the dirty water from London, he told the   56  (astonish) people in Broad Street immediately to remove the handle from the pump so that   57   could not be used. In another part of London, supporting evidence from two other   58  (die) that were linked to the Broad Street outbreak was found by him, too.

  59  this extra evidence, John Snow was able to announce with   60  (certain) that polluted water carried the virus. Finally “King Cholera” was defeated.

Mencius was a thinker  (1)  teachings were very similar to those of Confucius. Mencius was born in 372 BC. His father died  (2)  he was young, and he  (3)   (bring) up by his mother. He became a student of Confucius’s ideas,  (4)   was then given an important position in the government of a state.  (5)  , when he saw that the ruler was not following his advice, he resigned. For many years he traveled from state to state,   (6)  (teach) the principles of Confucius. He then became an adviser to another ruler. He spent his last years preparing a book of his teachings  (7)  (call) The Book of Mencius. Mencius believed that the reason  (8)   man is different from animals is that man is good. He taught that if the government was kind, then people should be good. He believed that people were   (9)  (important) than rulers, and hated the state when it treated people  (10)   (bad).