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| something, real, they, true, sell, decide, happy, inside, stomach, later |
Once a man had a hen and the hen laid two golden eggs every day. The man was very happy. Every day he took the two golden eggs and ________ them in the market. With the money he and his family lived ____
____.
One day one of his friends said to him, “Friend, every day you take these two eggs to market and sell ________ there. It is not easy money, isn’t it? Why not take out all eggs from her ____
____ at once?”
He liked the idea, but couldn’t make a ________ to kill that hen. A few days ___
_____ he decided to implement (实施) that idea because he found the ___
_____ in his friend’s advice, and he was __
____ tired of (厌烦的) taking those eggs to the market daily.
The next day he killed the hen and then opened the hen’s stomach. But as he opened her stomach, he couldn’t find ________ in it. He looked for them here and there, left and right, up and down, but there was nothing ____
____.
If you keep working hard, you’ll _______________ your dreams.
More and more ___________ kids are interested in Chinese fairy tales.
These pictures always _________ me of the happy days we spent together.
-Can you help me ________ these apples, please? –OK. It’s four kilos.
Now people in big cities like driving to the countryside to __________ the fresh air.
| make up shop clear win help oneself to |
Alice explains things very well, what she says can be understood very ___________.
I think Susan will be the ____________ of the English competition in our school.
--Where is your mother? –She is ___________ in the supermarket.
__________ the fish and chicken, my boys!
I must well prepare my English test, because it___________ 40% of the final exam.
| you buy twenty-one high please |
| survey, on, compare, both, find, opposite, to, low, necessary, whether, increase, high |
At present, quite a few teens spend much time with their iPods listening to music, but a new study suggests that teens who spend too much time listening to music may be at risk of depression (抑郁症).
The study, led by Brian, an assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, that teens who listened to music more often had 80% higher risk of depression,
with teens who listened to music less often.
According to the study, teens who most often listened to music could listen for at least four five hours a day.
“At this point, it’s not clear depressed people begin to listen to more music to escape, or whether listening to large amounts of music can lead to depression, or
,” said Brian in a statement. However, researchers found that reading books had the
result: with increase in time spent reading, teens’ risk of depression dropped 50%.
For the study, the researchers 106 teens of 7 to 17 for two months. According to the survey, music showed strong associations (联系) with
depression risk. But that doesn’t
mean that music causes depression — for some depressed teens, music may even help.
| ago, age, reply, modern, good, even, someone, seem, what, be, specially, impossible |
“Mommy, am I special?” asked nine-year-old Ali.
“How special do you want to be?” asked his mother.
“Like the inventor of the computer,” Ali.
“Well, you are always special to me if you did not invent the computer,” said his mother.
Ali felt happy every time his mother said he was special. But deep inside, Ali really wanted to be someone .
Ali said, “Mommy, almost all of my best friends to have something that makes themselves special. Kimberly is top in math. Nigel is the
football player in my class. Gopal is the fastest runner in the school. When it comes to drawing, Rajoo won first prize in the city drawing competition three days
…”
“Ali, you should be pleased with yourself. You’re friendly and polite. You’re healthy,” said his mother, as if she knew he was thinking.
“Thanks, Mommy, but I really want to be special and do something different. I don’t want to be an ordinary person.”
“Dear, when I was your , I also wanted to do something special and make myself different. But I’ve realized that a simple life is a true life and a peaceful life is a happy life.
an ordinary person is great.”
Ali lost in thought.
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