borrowed from other languages. About nine hundred years ago there were __2__ changes in England. __3__ words were borrowed into English from __4__. About five hundred years ago there was __5__ change. This time it was a change in pronunciation(发音), but the spelling was not __6__ changed. English words are spelled quite the __7__ as they were in those days. The spelling shows how words were spoken at that time. It does not __8__ us much about the pronunciation of words today. For __9__, the letters “gh” in the word “night” show us nothing about how it is spoken now. That’s __10__ students learning English find English spelling so confusing（容易弄混淆的）.
choose, never, thirsty, need, time, play, on, exercises, through difference Do you want to be healthier? Then go 1 the passage, and you may find it’s easy to keep fit.
1) Eat all kinds of foods, especially fruits and vegetables.
You may have a favourite kind of food, but the best 2 is to eat as many kinds as possible. If you eat 3 foods, you’re more likely to get the nutrients（营养） your body needs . Taste new foods that you 4 tried before. Some foods, such as green vegetables, are very important. Have five servings(份) of fruits and three vegetables.
2) Drink water and milk often.
When you are really 5 , cold water is the No. 1 choice. Kids need calcium(钙) to grow strong, and milk is a great source of this mineral (矿物质) . How much do children 6 ? About three glasses of milk every day. 3) Limit screen time.
What’s screen time? It’s the 7 for watching TV, DVDs, and videos, 8 computer games, and using the computer. If you spend much time 9 these activities, you may have less time left to take 10 , such as playing basketball, bicycling, and swimming.
call , swim , clever , bear , can , his , give , girl , something , read , Many years ago , there was a family ___1___ Franklin . They lived in Boston . There were five ___2___ and six boys in the family . On a January day in 1760 , another baby boy ___3___ . They boy’s mother and his father ___4___ the boy a name — Benjamin . Benjamin was the ___5___ of all the children . He could read when he was five and he ___6___ write by the time he was seven . When he was eight
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he was sent to school . In school Benjamin had been good at ___7___ and writing but not good at maths . He read all of ___8___ father’s books . And whenever （每当）he had a little money , he bought a book with it . He liked books . They told him how to do ___9___ . At that time he invented the paddles （脚蹼）for ___10___ .
eat, around , be , of , different , probable, gift, but, fun, other, Have you ever been to Disneyland? For most of the kids 1 the world, this amusementt park ( 游乐园)is a fantastic place for them to have _2_____. When we 3 young, we all have heard 4 Mickey Mouse,
Sleeping beauty, Snow White and many Disney characters. Some of us 5 have seen them in cartoons. Actually, you can go to see them all in a theme 主题park. Now, there are four 6 Disneyland amusement parks all over the world. Two are in the United States, one is in Tokyo, and the 7 is in France. There are not only some amusement attractions there , 8 also many specials with Disney characters. In Disneyland, you can have a lot of fun watching Disney movies, 9 in Disney restaurants, and buying Disney 10 .
need , animal , I , put , except , find , end , look , since , enough Let me tell you a story . A good friend of ___1___ lives with six hundred animals on an island . Ever ___2___ he left school , he has travelled all over the world ___3___ for animals for his own zoo . He writes books about his travels , and about his wonderful ___4___ . The money for his books helps him to pay for all the animal food . My friend told me that when he was looking for water last week (There is not enough water on the island , though there is a lot all around it ) , he ___5___ oil （石油） . He ___6___ money for his travels and for his zoo , and a little oil would buy ___7___ water for a long time , but he knows that if he tells anybody else about it , it will be the ___8___ of his zoo and his life’s work . So I think he will not tell anybody ___9___ you and me about what he found — because oil and water can’t ___10___ together . Oil may bring greater trouble to his animals than not having enough water . Do you think so ? well , second , may , strongly, afraid, sand , stay up, if, now, house We can’t stop an earthquake(地震), but we can do things to make sure they don’t destroy(毁坏) whole cities. First, it is not a 1 .________ idea to build houses along lines where 2. ________ of the earth’s plates(板块) join together. Second, if you
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think there 3. ________ be an earthquake, it is better to build houses on rocks , not on 4. ________. Third, you must make the houses as 5. ________ as possible. Weak buildings will fall down in an earthquake, but strong ones may 6. ________ . .
Scientists are 7. ________ that one day an even bigger earthquake will hit the part around San Francisco(旧金山) . They call it “ The Big One ”. However, people today are still building more 8. ________ . The population in and around San Francisco is 9. ________ ten times more than it was in 1906. This means that 10. ________ there is another earthquake, a great many houses and buildings will be destroyed.
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A woman was eating in a restaurant. She asked the waiter to do many (1) ________for her. Now she was (2) ________the waiter a lot of trouble. (3) ________, she asked the waiter to turn on the air conditioner（空调）because she (4) _________too hot. Then she asked him to (5) ________it off because she was too cold. This went on and on for (6) ________half an hour. But the waiter was very kind and (7) _________ .He did everything the woman asked (8) ________ to do without getting angry. Finally, someone (9) ________ in the restaurant asked why the (10) ________ didn’t just throw the woman out. “Oh, I don’t care.” the waiter said, Smiling. “We don’t even have an air conditioner.”
tell, hear, come, drum, much, fly , army, with, other, way Here are some old ways to sending messages. An Egyptian(埃及人) put his ear to the ground. He 1 . ________ the horses —2___________ this way. He ran to 3. ________ his people . He was a guard （警卫）. That was one way for Egyptians to send messages.
People in 4.________ countries sent message, too. When enemies came, one man beat his drum. In the next village people heard the drum and beat their drums, too. The messages went from village to village by 5.________ .
What’s________ , some armies () kept many pigeons(鸽子) . These pigeons always 7. ________ back. When a soldier was sent far away from his own 8. ________ , he might take a pigeon along. He could tie a message to the bird’s leg. It would fly back 9. ________ the soldier’s message.
These are shown ways to send messages. Can you think of more 10. ________?
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before , fast, in, come, watch , so, fast, it, ago , shine, can Light travels at a speed(速度) which is about a million times 1 . ________ than that of sound. 2. ________ one second, light travels about 300,000 kilometers, but sound travels only 340 meters. You can get some idea of this difference by 3. ________ the start of a running match. If you stand far away from the starter(发令员), you can see smoke 4.________ from his gun 5.________ the sound reaches your ears.
The fast speed of light produces some strange facts. The nearest star is 6. ________ far away that light which you can see from it tonight started to travel to you four years 7. ________ at a speed of nearly two million kilometers every minute. The light from some of tonight’s started on 8. ________ journey towards you even before you were born.
So, if we want to be honest(诚实), we 9. ________ say , “ The stars are shining brightly tonight.” We have to say, “ The stars look nice. They were 10. ________ four years ago but their light has just reached our earth. ”
move, enough, find ,desert, make, use , another, friend , carry , trouble, You may think there is nothing but sand in the desert of the world, but it is not true. In the desert we can 1._______ stones. We can see hills, too. There is a little rain in the 2.________, but it is not 3. ______ for most plants.
The animals are 4. _______ to the desert people in many ways. The desert people eat the meat and drink the milk of the animals. They use their skins to 5. ________ shoes, water bags and even tents(帐篷). They use the camels(骆驼) for 6. _______ things.
The people of the desert have to keep 7. _______ from places to place. They must always look for grass or desert plants for their animals. They usually live in the tents. When there is mo more food for their animals, they take down their tents, put them on the camels and move to 8. _______ place. The desert people are very 9. _______. No man in the desert would ever refuse to help the people in 10._______ and give them food and water.
how, they ,winter, spend, care , dance , show , open , only, good The world of the out-of doors is full of secrets. And 1. ________ are so interesting that quite a lot of people are busy studying them. All around us are birds, animals, trees and flowers. The facts about 2.________ they live and grow are as interesting as anything could be.
Do you know that one of the great presidents of the United States 3 ________ hours and hours studying birds? A businessman who lives near New York City
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became so interested in insects(昆虫) that he began to collect them. He now has more than one thousand different kinds 4. ________ kept in the glass boxes.
Come then with me, and I will help you find some of Nature’s secrets. Let us go quietly through the woods and fields. Here we shall find how a rabbit tells the other rabbits that there is danger. We shall follow a mother bear and her young ones as they search for food and get ready for 5. ________ sleep. We shall watch bees 6. ________ in the air to let other bees know where they can find food. I will 7.________ you many other interesting things, but the 8. ________ thing that I can teach you is to keep your eyes and ears 9.________ when you go out of doors. Nature tells her secrets 10.________ to people who look and listen carefully.
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Thomas Edison was a great American 1.________ . When he was a child, he was always 2.________ questions and trying out new ideas. No matter 3.________ hard it was, he never gave up.
Young Tom was in school for only three months. His teacher didn’t understand why he had 4.________ many strange questions. Most of them were not about his lessons. The teacher didn’t want to teach Tom any 5.________ . He asked Tom’s mother to take the boy home. Tom’s mother taught him to read and write, and she found him 6.________ a very good pupil. He learnt very fast and became very 7.________ in science.
One day , he saw a little boy 8.________ on the railway tracks at a station. A train was coming near quiclly, and the boy was too frightened to move. Edison rushed out and carried the boy to 9 .________. The boy’s father was so 10.________ that he taught Edison to send messages by telegraph.
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\"Dreams (梦 ) may be more important than sleep. We all need to dream,\" some scientists say.
Dreams take up about one quarter of our 1 .________ time. People have several 2. ________each night. Dreams are like short films. They are usually in colour. Some dreams are 3. ________ old films. They come to us over and over 4. ________. That may be because the dreamer is worrying about something. Dreaming may be a way of trying to find an answer. Some people get new ideas 5. ________ their work from dreams. They may have been 6. ________ about their work all day. These thoughts can carry over into dreams.
Sometimes we 7. ________ with a good feeling from a dream. But often we can't
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remember the dream. Dreams can disappear (消失) 8. ________ from memory (记忆). Too much dreaming can be harmful (有害的). The 9. ________ we sleep, the longer we dream. The mind is hard at work when we dream. That is 10. ________ we may have a long sleep and still wake up tired.
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Satellites Forecast the Weather
Now satellites are helping to forecast (预报) the weather. They are in space, and they can reach any part of the world. The 1.________ take pictures of the atmosphere (大气), because this is where the weather forms (形成). They send these pictures to the 2. ________ station. So the scientists there can see the weather of any part of the world and tell how the weather will change.
Today, nearly five hundred weather stations in sixty countries can 3. ________ satellite pictures. 4. ________they receive the new pictures, they compare (比较) them with the earlier ones. Perhaps they may find that the clouds have 5. ________ during the last few hours. This may mean that the weather on the ground may soon change, too. In their next weather 6. ________, they can tell people about it. So the weather satellites are of a great 7. ________ to the scientists at the station. In the past they could forecast the weather for about 24 or 48 hours 8. ________. Now they can make good forecasts for three 9 ________ five days. Soon, perhaps, they may be able to forecast the weather 10. ________ a week or more ahead.
or win education more if help on first realize everything Parents, especially those of teenagers, care about their children’s education more than anything else. They would do 86 for their children. Many of them spend most of their spare time 87 their children with studies. If they have no time or cannot do it themselves, they would hire family teachers 88 send their children to after-class schools. It seems as if a better is all that parents expect for children.
How can we explain the present situation? First of all, many parents have 90 that future success depends more and more 91 skills and education. Secondly, in a competive (竞争的) society there are both losers and 92 . Those who have better skills and more knowledge will enjoy 93 opportunities.
Certainly, it is important to learn to succeed, but the 94 thing to learnis how to survive (生存) how to be a qualified citizen (合格的公民). 95 this is included in good education, the children will surely have a bright future and healthy in body mind.
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tire, be, in ,late, see, when ,show, year, jump, prepare Adam worked very hard and had little time to rest. One day he decided to go on a short vacation in the mountains. He arrived at his hotel 86 on Friday evening. Mrs. Harper, the owner of the hotel 87 him to his room. Adam was very 88 and went to bed at once. The next morning, he went downstairs Mrs. Harper was making breakfast. Mary, Mrs. Harper's daughter, sat next to him. Adam asked her why there 90 an empty chair at the table. Mary told him that the empty chair was for her father. Three 91 ago, he went hunting 92 the mountains and never returned. Her mother believed that he would come home some day and kept 93 meals for him. Mary showed Adam the picture of her father. Then Adam 94 a man coming down the stairs. It was the man in the picture. Adam 95 up and ran out of the house. Mr. Harper asked what was wrong with Adam and then found out that Mary had told the empty chair story again.
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Dogs have been man's good friends for thousands of years. Many s 81 are told about how bravely dogs helped people in trouble. With the help of dogs, many people l 82 in the snow found their way home.
Dogs have also helped people in many s 83 researches .
The first space -- traveler was a dog named Laika. It was s 84 up in a man-made earth satellite in 1957 by Russian scientists.
Dogs have b 85 film stars, too . A dog called Lossre was
the star in quiet a few American m 86 .
Dogs can hear and s 87 better than man but they can't s
88 very well. A dog may l for about 13 or 14 years. A fourteen- year-old child isn't grown up yet, but a fourteen --year--old dog is very old , i 90 .
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With more and more farmers coming to work in cities, their children follow them. However, problems 86 One of these problems is that it is difficult for these children to get education in cities.
Luckily, there are some free schools for them, but they are not
87 . Ten-year-old Li Xin is one of the lucky girls who get a chance to study in one of these schools. Although she has to spend about two
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hours and change 88 twice, she is very happy. For children like Li Xin who don't have enough money for school, these free schools are their choice, because they can have free classes, textbooks, uniforms and meals in the school for two years.
But there is a long way to 90 . The free schools for children from migrant workers' (务工人员) families are not enough, because running a school is not easy and 91 lots of money. A school officer said they needed at least one million yuan to run the school. \"Luckily, some 92 and companies donate (捐赠) money, used books and a lot more other things to help us. Also some people 93 as teachers for free. \" he added.
In one word, both the government and the people keep 94 the whole country’s education
either in countries or in cities. Don't you think the children nowadays are 95 than their parents were?
Anyhow, we must try to give them an equal chance to get better education so that we can make our society harmonious (和谐) one. shape, same, live, anything, believe, on, even, lie, take, of
The Moon is about 384 400 km from the Earth. This is about the 56 as 59 River Niles. It 57 about 4 or 5 days for spaceship to fly to the Moon.
The light of the Moon comes from the Sun. The Sun is always shining on the Moon during the day and the night, 58 when we can’t see the Moon.
The Earth goes around the Sun once every year and the Moon goes around the Earth once every month. The Sun, Moon and Earth 59 along a straight line. Sometimes not all of the sunlight reaches the Moon because the Earth is in the way.
Depending 60 where the Moon is in its orbit(围绕„„运动) around the Earth, you will see different amounts(数量，数额) of light reaching it and so you’ll see a different 61 . Scientists have looked for signs 62 life on the Moon, but they haven’t found
63 yet and they probably never will.
However, some people that in the future humans will find a way to build cities and houses on the Moon and make it a safe place 65 in.
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