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Joyce:What do you think of the head teacher’s speech?

Caroline:I think it was __41   (interest).

Joyce: __42    do I. I hear Mike is likely to win all the prizes in the exams this year.

Caroline:Yes, his teacher says so. He __43   (work) hard at his lessons every evening for months. He wants to go to Oxford University next year.

Joyce:I hope he will realize his goal.
Caroline:I hope so. __44     I think he studies too hard. I hope he’ll go out and enjoy  __45     for a change. How about your son Carl?
​Joyce: Don’t mention him. Carl never starts studying.

Caroline: You are joking. I heard that Carl  __46    (win) the competition prize.

Joyce: You have made  __47     mistake. That is White Carl, My son is Brown Carl. The Whites lives in the same community  __48      we do. White Carl has always been so hard working. He wants to be a  __49     (write). My son likes going to the concert. He only likes singing.

Caroline: _ _ 50     he practises singing, he will become a singer in the future.

Joyce: Not all people can become a singer. I don’t think he has the talent.

Every winter in Alaska a race is held. But this is no ordinary race. Teams of dogs pull sleds（雪橇）along the snow and ice,   61   (carry) up to 500 kg of supplies. A single driver is in charge of each team, and stands on the sled. This race   62   (know) as Iditarod runs from the town of Anchorage to the village of Nome, a journey of more than l,800 kilometers. It usually takes the teams about ten days to complete the course.

The Iditarod is usually run in   63   (extreme) difficult weather conditions. Daytime   64  (temperature) range from zero to minus 40 degrees. Visibility（能见度）is often very poor,   65  drivers never allow   66   (them) to become separated from their team of dogs. Indeed, the drivers depend almost entirely   67   the dogs for their survival.

The origin of the race   68   (go) back many years to a time   69   some medicine needed to be taken from Anchorage to Nome, a very remote village. Because of severe weather, the only way to send the medicine was to use dogs. Happily, the medicine was delivered just in time to save lives. To celebrate the heroic journey, Alaskans   70   (develop) the Iditarod.

 I was always told that the three “P”s, patience, positive thinking and perseverance (毅力), were a sure path61. ______ success. But this advice does not always work as planned. My high school maths exam is one example. The exam,62. ______ was originally to be held inour classroom, 63.______(change) to the library at the last minute. 64.__  _ this didn’t bother me because maths had always been my strongest subject. I patiently walked to the library, took my seat and did some deep breathing to help relax 65.______(me).

    But my mood quickly changed when I saw 66.______first question. I had no idea how 67.______ (do) it. I tried to stay positive and persevered until I finally found the solution. With the problem 68.______ (solve), I felt proud of my achievement. 69.______ (lucky), I then noticed that I had just 10 minutes left70. ______ (complete) the rest!

When we face the difficulties ,we should never give up               (we).

　　More than half of all Chinese have a smartphone. They reach for it the moment they wake up， keeping it in hand all day. At    ​61        (party)， more people are on their smartphones than on their drinks. In addition， too many people are using smartphones while        62        (drive). And as a result， many car accidents happen everyday on the road. Drivers confirm that text messaging is their number one driving interruption. Smartphones are unbelievably becoming more important than the lives of        63        (them) and others. As many people take risks just        64       ​ (send) a text or check their messages， smartphones are        65        many ways very dangerous to people.

　　The smartphone        66        (affect) our desire　to communicate face to face with others. Besides， it is lowering people’s competence to communicate. In many cases， some people check or send text messages in the presence of a friend，        67        means that the person they are texting is more important. Most        68        (serious)， relying on smartphones to make friends does not give us        69        same advantage as making new friends in the real world. Face－to－face conversations will give us much        70        (strong) communication skills in the long run.

     The eye doctor instructed her patient to read a chart on the wall.He looked at it and read，“A, B, F, N, L and G．”The doctor turned the light back on and wrote in her notebook.

      “How did I do, Doctor？” the patient 61____________ (wonder)．

      She replied, “Let’s put it this way—they are just some 62____________ (number)．”

      “But Doctor, ”he argued，“this is the way I see it！”

      I find I’m in the same situation most of the time.Much of my happiness or unhappiness is a result of my perception(看法)．“This is the way I see it，”I tell 63____________ (me)．

      I see some problems as challenges that encourage me 64____________ (take)action and others as obstacles that stop further progress.It’s just the way I see it.

      And sometimes I see new situations as fun，and other times I see them as fearful.

      My life can be OK if I see it that way, or it can be a major source of stress.And an unexpected thing in my schedule can be a bother or，if I see it that way, 65____________ (possible)the best thing I could do that day.Even an 66____________ (embarrass)mistake can be the beginning of a new learning.

     One of 67____________ greatest blocks to my happiness is forgetting that it is 68____________ (much)about the way I see it than what is happening to me.

     As Marcel Proust said, “The real voyage of discovery lies not in  69________________ (seek)new landscapes, 70__________ in having new eyes.”It’s in the way we see it.

As we have grown up, we should learn to look after ______(we)

W: Hi, Allen. What did you do on Saturday? Did you have ____46____ good time?

M: Pardon?

W: I ask what you did on Saturday and whether you enjoyed ____47____ (you).

M: I went hiking with some of my club members yesterday. We had a lot of fun.

W: That's very good. But why are you look anxious?

M: Well, Linda I need your help. I have some difficulty ____48____ (write) the composition that must be handed in next Monday.

W: What can I do for you?

M: Er, it's very easy! I want to borrow your iPad for one day ____49____ my computer has broken down.

W: Oh, my God. I just bought it last week.

M: I know it. I promise you I will use it very ____50____ (careful). You know, I must finish the composition this weekend and I hate
​___ 51(hand) it late. So I must spend the whole day writing it tomorrow ____52____ (finish) it.

W: OK, here you are. Anyway tomorrow I won't use it.

M: Ok. I am so ____53____ (delight) to know that you'd like to lend your iPad. I give my sincere ____54____ (appreciate) to you. I make sure that I ____55____ (return) it to you before tomorrow evening.

Two years ago，Boyan Slat，a then 19—year—old university student in Holland，made the claim that he  61  clean up the oceans vast accumulation of plastics in about five years．

      62  a scuba diving holiday in Greece，Boyan Slat，aged 16，found there were  63  (many)plastic bags than fish in the sea．He started seeking for a solution to ocean plastic  64  (pollute)．In 2012，he decided to make his intentions public．It sounded like a pipe—dream to many when Slat first described his idea，but he felt it was so simple it just might work．

    Slat came up with  65  he called a floating“Ocean Cleanup Array．”Instead of going after the plastics，he designed an array(排列)of long floating barriers to let the ocean currents concentrate the plastic  66  (it)．The system of floating barriers is over a mile long．

    The system had its first proof-of-concept test，which  67  (perform)in the Azores Islands．After proving the feasibility(可行性)of the array in doing what it was supposed to do，the real evaluation of the array will take place in the second quarter of 2016，in a two—year pilot project in real—world conditions off the coast of Tsushima，an island  68  (lie)between Japan and South Korea．

    This pilot project is worth watching to see if it  69  (work)．And if it does work as  70  (expect)，we have something even bigger to look forward to．