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Valentine’s Day is the time of the year when couples show their love for each other by sending cards，flowers and chocolates. Its origins are________(clear) and hidden in the river of time.

It is said that the first_______(record) Valentine’s card was sent by the imprisoned Duke of Orleans in 1415.

Now，Valentine’s Day _______(celebrate) in many countries around the world. However, the traditions often differ from place to place.

My older brother and I are busy         (arrange) a trip to Africa.

After the trip by camel, we’re going to travel down the River Nile. We’ll start at Lake Victoria. A little way down the river from Lake Victoria, the water         (actual) gets quite rough.

It is so dangerous that our guides will have guns         (scare) the animals away if they come too near.

Therefore, as high school students of the Information Age, we need to learn to make use of this       (value) tool to communicate and display ourselves. What’s more, opening and organizing micro blogs need various abilities such aswriting, designing, being skillful at computer and so on. Only if we master those abilities can we make a successful micro blog. As a result, we improve ourselves while      (organize) our micro blogs.
In fact, micro blog      (oneself) is of little harm.

For example，if you want to quit ______(smoke), ask why do you want to quit? Then, if you want to quit for your health ask why do you want good health? Then，if your answer is to be alive long enough         (meet)your grandchildren，ask why do you want to meet your grandchildren?

Set up your goals positively．
How you describe your goal makes a big difference．Focusing on whatyou want to“bring into your life —not what you want to avoid—wi11 make you more likely to         (actual)pursue it.
Prepare for failure(in a good way)．
Moments of failure        (be)unavoidable，but most of us abandon the goal entirely when slight failures and setbacks start piling up．At the moment when you fail，often the first instinct(本能)is to push the goal away. It's so       (comfort)to be in that condition of self-doubt or self-criticism and guilt．

Over the years I've been teaching kids about a simple but powerful concept – the ant philosophy（哲学）, an   (amaze)four-part philosophy.
First, ants never quit. If they're heading somewhere and you try to stop them, they'll climb over. they'll climb under, or they'll climb around  They never quit    (look) for a way to get where they     (suppose) to go! Second, ants think about winter and summer.  They are always gathering in their winter food in the middle of summer and they are making______ (prepare) for the long cold winter.

If it       (turn) cold again, they'll dive back down. But they come out again if it is warm last,  how much will an ant gather during the summer to prepare for the winter? All that it        (possible)  can.

Do you like travelling? Staying      （health） while       （travel） can help to ensure your trip is a happy and enjoyable one．If you are travelling abroad, here are the tips you need to make your trip much       （easy）:
Make sure you have got signed passport（护照） and visas．Also, before you go, fill in the emergency information page of your passport! Make two copies of your passport identification age．This will help a lot if your passport   __ （steal）．Leave one copy at home with friends or relatives．Carry the other with you in a separate place from your passport．
Read the Public Announcements or Travel Warnings for the countries you plan to visit．Get yourself familiar with local laws and customs of the countries to which you are travelling．
Leave a copy of your itinerary（旅行日程） with familyor friends at home so that you can be contacted in case of an emergency．
Do not accept packages from strangers．Do not carry too much money or      （necessary） credit cards．If we make enough   （prepare）, we will succeed．Have a good time!

Many people travel during the holiday season but do not make sure that their houses and homes      (protect). Crime goes up     (rapid) during the winter and summer holiday seasons. Here are some things that you should keep in mind when you go on a holiday.
Always give     (strange) the feeling that you are at home. Have the snow     (clean) off your stairs or out of your driveway during the winter season. You might ask someone to park his cars in your driveway.
Tell your newspaper deliverer that you are not at home.    (have) a pile of newspapers and other mail on your doorsteps tells people that you are not at home, so you could also have a neighbor or a relative get your mail every day.

The truth that trees are vital to our life is not a secret. They provide us with food, wood and most          (important), oxygen. Now there is one more thing we can add to this list—blocking out harmful bacteria from water.
The discovery          (make) by a team       (consist) of scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and high school students who  were seeking a natural water filter—one that would help communities in developing countries that do not have              (accessible) to modern water filter systems.
The       (research), led by Professor Rohit Karnik, decided to turn to trees for help because they could allow liquid to flow through, while blocking out air bubbles.
They began by cutting 1.5-inch-wide sections of tree bark from the branches of a white pine tree. The people related then tested the wood’s filtering ability by pouring water containing red dye particles of different sizes through. To their amazement, they found that it was effective in trapping all the articles.     (encourage), the team conducted another experiment, this time with water that contained bacteria. Sure enough, the sapwood held back 99% of the bacteria, allowing only 1% to flow through.

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Dear editor,
My hometown used to be a beautiful place. Thick trees and green grass could be seen ___(到处). In ____to build houses and grow more crops, people cut down more and more trees. _ time going on, the whole forest was almost ___(毁灭). Gradually the green hills have c_____ into wasteland. As a result, sandstorms strike us now and then, from ___ we suffer a lot. So, I do hope all the people will r__the terrible result of __caring about our environment. What's_____, we should take good care of the forests and plant trees instead of cutting them down to improve our living c_____.

Asia has long tradition of tea-drinking. And China is no exception.
However, lately more and more Chinese people are turning to a different drink. Coffee has become an increasingly popular choice of Chinese people. It is also a popular crop among those who live in the mountains of Yunnan Province.
In big _____ (city)such as Beijing, coffee shops seem to be on nearly every major street corner. Many young Chinese people drink coffee ____(social)-- when meeting with friends. On average a person in China drinks about five cups of coffee a year. This information _____ (come)from the China Coffee Association Beijing.
On any given day, Groove Café - a South Korean coffee chain - is busy with activity and coffee drinkers in Beijing. A chain is a group of stores or businesses that are usually under the same ownership.
With more people ____(drink)coffee, many see an economic opportunity for Chinese-grown beans. China-grown coffee may be a money-maker even if most of the coffee on sale in China _____(import).
Most of China's coffee is grown in the _____ (south)province of Yunnan. A French missionary brought plants to the area over a century ago. But the roots of growing coffee did not take hold until more recently.

I was being tested for a driving licence for the third time. I had been asked to drive in heavy traffic and had done so ___ (succeed). After ___ (instruct) to drive out of town, I began to acquire confidence. Sure that I had passed, I was almost beginning to enjoy my test. The examiner must have been pleased with my ____（perform）, for he smiled and said, 'Just one more thing, Mr Eames. Let us suppose that a child suddenly crosses the road in front of you. As soon as I tap on the window, you must stop within five feet. I continued __ (drive) and after some time, the examiner tapped loudly.

Nowadays many parents leave their work in order to provide necessary help for their children when they reach Senior Three. They usually live with their children in the rented apartment to keep their children________(陪伴).There are positive effects as well as negative effects over the issue.
The advantage is obvious. With parents preparing food and doing all the washing, children can eat41．_________(有规律) and have more time to study and enjoy themselves. Most of all, children can enjoy the love of their parents every day.
However, it costs more money and gives students more43．_________(压力) because they have to think about how to44．_________(回报)their parents.

The Olympic motto is "faster, higher, stronger." The ___( intend) meaning is that one's focus should be on bettering one's achievements, rather than on coming in first.
The motto ___  （be） with the Games from the    _    (found) of the International Olympic Committee in 1894. It was proposed by the father of the modern Olympic Games, Pierre de Coubertin, who got it  from a speech given by a friend of his.
Eachof the five Olympic rings is a different color. Together, they represent the five inhabited continents, although no particular ring ___   (mean) to represent any specific continent. The rings are interconnected to represent the idea that the Olympics are universal, __    （bring）athletes from the entire world together.
The Olympic flag places the Olympic rings on a white background. As every national flag in the world contains at least one of the flag's six colors (black, blue, green, red, yellow, white), this further symbolizes the universality of the Olympics.

One day, Nick invited his friends to supper. He was cooking some delicious food in the kitchen. Suddenly, he ______ (find) that he had run out of salt. So Nick called to his son, “Go to the village and buy some salt, but pay a fair price for it: neither too much nor too little.”
His son looked surprised. “I can understand why I shouldn’t pay too much, Father, but if I can pay less, why  not save a bit of money?”
“That would be a very ______ (reason) thing to do in a big city, but it could destroy a small village like ours,” Nick said.
Nick’s guests, who had heard their conversation, asked why they should not buy salt more _______ (cheap) if they could. Nick replied, “The only reason a man would sell salt at a lower price would be because he was desperate for money. And anyone who took advantage of that situation would be showing a lack of respect for the sweat and struggle of the man who worked very hard to produce it.”
“But such a small thing couldn’t ____(possible) destroy a village.”
“In the beginning, there was only a  very small amount of unfairness in the world, but everyone added a little, always _____ (think) that it was only small and not very important, and look where we have ended up today.”

How do you know what is happening in the world every day? Do you watch news programmes on television? Or do you read a newspaper or listen to the radio ? There are _____ （组织）called news agencies that gather the news so that we read and hear about______（事件）quickly．
News agencies usually have a main office in a capital city and small offices in other capital cities around the world．Many journalists are____（雇佣）in each office and they gather information in the country，and in other countries nearby．
News agencies try to be quick，fair andt____ When they gather news stories．If the news is inaccurate，it will be worthless．And people like to know about important news stories, especiallyt___ with pictures．
The oldest news agency in the world is Reuters，which was___（成立）in 1851.Their work has changed a lot，especially since email and the Internet began to be used．They also provide news for people____on（飞行）on airplanes, so even in the air you can know what is happening many thousands of metresb    on the Earth!

Every evening, Blackie would be waiting for Alan to come back from school. He would greet Alan with a woa woa and a wagging tail. Blackie was a dog and Alan was his master. Blackie liked to play with Alan.
One evening when Alan returned from school, there was no woa woa and a wagging tail. Blackie was missing. Early the next morning, Alan and his brother went____ (look) for Blackie. They walked and searched from morning to evening, _____(shout) “Blackie, Blackie!”But there was no woa woa and a wagging tail. The children were very sad and tired.
One day, the children heard a woa woa coming from a house. It sounded like Blackie. The children ran to the house and ____(ring) the bell. A man opened the door. The children asked,“Uncle, have you seen a black dog?” The man replied,“No.”But the children still heard a woa woa coming from the house.
The children decided to climb a small hill that leads to the back of the house. It was not easy to climb the hill. They had to hold on to twines and pull___ (they) up the slope. When the children reached the top, they saw Blackie tied to a chain. Then the man realized that he could no longer hide the _____(true) from the children so he returned Blackie to them. Blackie looked ____(happiness) and greeted the children with a woa woa and a wagging tail.

There are various reasons why people compose(创作) poetry. Some poems tell a story or describe something in a way that     ( 留下印象) the readers deeply, while others try to c    certain emotions. The first poems       (写) in English were nursery rhymes, which were used to delight small children. With their strong rhythm and a lot of repetition, they were easy to learn and to       (背诵).Cinquain is another form of poetry which  （包含）of five lines. People can describe a picture in just a few words with these poems.The Japanese form of poetry Haiku, made up of seventeen syllables, is not a traditional form of English poetry but p  with English speakers. In      （此外）, Tang poems are borrowed by English speakers, which are translated into English, making the English poetry more colorful.

There are  ____（amaze）things in the world. The story about Nessie, the Loch Ness Monster, is one of the widely spread_______（legend）in the early 20th century.
On 22 July 1933, two visitors, Mr and Mrs George Spicer, were driving along the Loch Ness —one of the most famous  ______（湖）in the highlands of Scotland. Suddenly, they saw an animal on the road in front of them. Unlike any other animals that they _____（see）before, it had a very big body and a small head, but no legs. When Mr and Mrs Spicer saw it, it was moving towards the lake like a snake.
Soon, stories about this strange ___ (动物)and Loch Ness became famous all over the world. Now people are still  ___ (interest) in Nessie and many visit Loch Ness in the hope of  ____ (see) Nessie.

Dear Mum and Dad,
The College Entrance Examination is around the corner, I wish I c___have a heart-to-heart talk with you.  Thanks to your    (鼓励) and unselfish love, I have been  m great progress in my studies. It will be less than three weeks before I take the exam, which makes me under great pressure.  Therefore, good studying conditions and timely help will  do me a lot of good. My dream is the very one you always have. In order to make f      use of the time, I decide to make a few detailed study    (计划) for the exam. What’s m , it’s also necessary that I do some physical exercise once in a while so that I can keep f  .  All in all, I have   (自信) in my future life and   I do wish you good health and a happy life.
Yours,
Li  Hua

Many people think that teachers give pupils too much homework．They say that it is unnecessary for children to work at home in their free time．Moreover, they argue that most teachers do not     （proper）plan the homework tasks they give to pupils．The result is that pupils have to repeat tasks that they     （do）at school already．
In Greece，many parents complained about the difficult homework that teachers gave to their children．The parents said that most of the homework was a  waste of time，and they wanted to stop it．Spain and Turkey are two countries which stopped homework．In Denmark，Germany and several other       （country）in Europe，teachers cannot set homework at weekends．In Holland，teachers allow pupils        （stay）at school to do their homework．The children are free to help one another．Similar        （arrange）also exists in some British schools．
Most people agree that homework is not fair．A pupil doing his homework in a quiet and comfortable room is in a much       （good）position than a pupil who does his homework in a small，     （noise）room with the television on．Some parents help their children with their homework．Other parents take no interest in their children’s homework at all．

Everyone has his own attitude to  getting old. The night before her eighth birthday, I found my daughter Lizzy sat on her bed ________ (weep).“I love being seven,”she cried.“I don’t want to be eight!”I held her in my arms and explained that it  was going to be even better to be eight than being seven. I told her how much I loved her and  what a wonderful birthday she was going to have. _______ (eventual) she was comforted. It’s always strange ____ (tell) that you are a year older, even when you aren’t very old. Now I’m in my early 60s, and I don’t always recognize the face in the mirror, but something has changed the way that I think. The process of aging increasingly interests and amazes me, annoys and irritates me, and sometimes still makes me _____ (frighten), too, but much, much less than it used to. There is an ongoing sadness at the absence of the friends and family members who  have died before me.