Parents are busy people. If they are working, they are usually not at home1when/ after their children return from school. Sometimes it is necessary for a parent to write2an after-school note for their children. They sometimes put the note on the kitchen table, the refrigerator, 3or another place where their children are sure to find it. A note is often a4better way to "talk" with a child than using the telephone. For one thing, parents have time to think about5what they want to say before they write. For6another, the note lists all the information in one place. It is easy to read again and again People often forget all the details that they7hear in a telephone call. Finally, cell phones can be turned8off or telephone calls not answered. For these reasons, after-school notes are very popular with parents.
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A young and successful manager was travelling down a neighborhood street,going a bit too fast in his new Jaguar,__ ____a brick hit the door of his Jaguar.
He jumped out of the car,______ _(seize) some kid and pushed him up against the parked car,shouting,”That`s ___
____ new car and that brick you threw is going to cost a lot of___
___.Why did you do it ?” “I`m sorry. Ididn`t know what else to do?” begged the youngster.
“It`s my brother,” he said. “He fell out of his wheelchair and I can`t lift him up.” Sobbing,the boy asked the manager, “_________you please help me get______
__ back into his wheelchair? He ___
_____(hurt),and he`a too heavy for me.”
________(move) beyond words,he lifted the young man back into the wheelchair back and took out his handkerchief and wiped the scrapes and cuts,_____
___(check) to see that everything wsa going to be okay.
“Thank you,sir.And God bless you.” the grateful child said to him and then pushed his brother down the sidewalk________ their home.
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Every day, on her way to work, Amelia had to pass a slum(贫民窟). As social worker, she had not paid much attention to
. This changed one day when she met a ragged boy named Sam. Sam knew
she was the head of social services, and that she could help. He reached out his hand
said, “Can you help me? I’m looking for my dad.” His hands were so cold. Amelia said, “What’s up?” “My mom is
(terrible) sick. Her birthday is coming. I know my father’s coming back would be the best present. My dad had left us
I was two years old,” said the boy.
Amelia was deeply moved and asked Sam to take her to his home. He (lead) her to a small house. Amelia saw a woman
(lie) on the bed. The woman knew she was dying. She said to Amelia, “Please find a home for my son.”
Amelia take her hand and nodded tears in her eyes. She got an idea. Her husband and she had no children, and looked forward to having one. Later Amelia brought Sam home. Ever since then, the new family have had happiness and
(laugh).
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Many weight loss programs seem attractive to people. But for most people are overweight, the results are so
(limit) that they will give up long before achieving any realistic results. It turns out that the programs are practically of no use. You lose weight for a while, only
(gain) back more weight when you stop your weight loss program. This is
such programs are not natural. Is there a natural weight loss solution?
A sure way of achieving natural weight loss is to increase amount of exercise you get every day.
, this doesn’t necessarily mean spending hours at the gym
in front of a weight loss video. Increase your weight levels
(nature) by walking or biking short distances instead of driving, or by taking the stairs instead of the elevator. There are even exercise that you can do while
(sit) at your desk. All of these activities can burn extra calories
taking up too much time.
Global warming could make humans shorter. Scientists claim to have found evidence that it caused the world's first horses （shrink） nearly 50 million years ago. In fact,a team from the universities of Florida and Nebreaks says
has found a link between the Earth heating up and the size of mammals-homes，during the last time the world heated up. The scientists used fossils to follow the evolution of homes from their earliest
（appear) 56 million years ago. As temperatures went up．their size went
. The scientists say that the current warming could have the same effect
mammals and could even make humans
（small）．“Horses started out small，about the size of a small dog. What's
（surprise）is that after they first appeared，they then became even smaller and then dramatically increased in size, and that
（exact）corresponds to the global warming event, followed by cooling.”"It had been known that mammals
small during the last warm time，
we hadn't realized that temperature specifically was driving the evolution of body size”Dr. Bloch said in the "Science”journal.
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In the age of the smart phone, there seems no reason to ask questions about: the weather forecast, a business’s phone number or directions, ______can all be easily found on Google, but very often people
______(actual) ask these things by telephoning. Your answer may
______(reply) to with a thank-you e-mail.
This isn’t the first time that great ______(change) have taken place in our manners due to technology. In the late 1870s, when
______telephone was invented, people didn’t know how to greet a caller. Often there
______(be) just silence. Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor,
______ (suggest) that people say “Ahoy”, but finally“Hello” won out,the greeting is now used
_____everyday face-to-face communications.
Try to be______ (respect) no matter who you communicate with. Just keep it in mind that
______(polite) never goes out of fashion.
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