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The custom（风俗） of drinking tea began in China almost 5,000 years ago. The drink spread to the rest of Asia and reached Europe in the middle of the 16th century. It did not appear in England
about a hundred years later.
One of the first coffee housewho offered tea sold it at 6 to 10 per pound, a price only the very rich could
. Regardless of the price, tea got popular. As more and more of it was imported(进口 ) into Britain, it
enough for the rich. By 1750, it had become a
drink of all classes in England.
Anna Maria Stanhope( 1783～1857) , known the Duchess(公爵夫人) of Bedford, is considered the creator of the British meal "aftemoon tea". Dinner was not
until late in the evening, and the Duchess felt hungry in the afternoon. She really enjoyed inviting friends to join
for a meal at five o'clock which included cakes, sandwiches, sweets, and, of course, tea. This custom was quickly picked up by other fashionable people, and by the
of the country in the end.
用方框中所给单词的适当形式填空，使对话通顺、正确。每词仅用一次（每空一词）。
S1: Can you come to my party on Saturday afternoon?
S2: Sorry, I can’t. I have __ to go to the cinema that afternoon.
S3: I’m afraid not. I have a __. I have to see a dentist.
S4: Sorry, I’m not ___ until Saturday evening. I am going to hang out with my cousin.
S5: I’m sorry, I’m tired. I just __ home this morning after a long journey. I want to rest.
S1: OK. Maybe another time. What about you?
S6: Sure, I’d love to.
S1: __! Catch you on Saturday afternoon!
It was unusually quiet in the emergency room (急救室) on December 25. I was the nurse on duty. A woman and four small children up at my desk.
The mother said they were all sick. But when I asked for more information about their illnesses. none of them could tell me .
I was sure something was wrong, but I didn't say anything.
I explained that it might be a few minutes the doctor could see me. She replied, "Take your time. It's warm here. "
I looked down and checked the form that she had finished. N0 they were homeless. The waiting room was warm. Something was clear in
mind. The family were gathering by the Christmas tree. The
one was pointing at the TV and talking about something to his mother. The oldest one was
at an ornament (装饰物 ) on the Christmas tree.
I entered my office and took out the that I prepared for my children. Some food drinks I collected
other offices were also put on the table next to the Christmas tree. I asked the family to get together, eating, singing, dancing and sharing the gifts. We all had a warm and happy Christmas.
, as the family left, the little 4-year-old boy gave me a hug and whispered(低声的 说)," Thanks for being our angel（天使）today ! "
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Some people remember the things by ________ notes to themselves. Then they leave the notes in obvious(明显的) places, such as on the table or on the floor in the middle of the living room. I don’t _____
_______I like to write notes to myself. Most of the time I lose them or forget to look at them ______
______ it’s too late. I prefer to use an alarm clock（闹钟) to tell me ________
_______ I should do. I have ten alarm clocks in my house. They could tell me about things. For example, if I have to _____
_______a telephone call at a certain time, I’ll set an alarm clock to go off a few minutes early and put the clock by the telephone. Or _________
________I want to watch a certain television program, I’ll set an alarm clock at the right time and put the clock on top of the TV set. I can remember almost anything if I use my clocks. However,______
_______ an alarm clock goes off and I don’t know what it______
______. I always remember setting it, but not why I set it. If the clock is by the telephone, I know I may have set it to tell me to call someone, but I can’t be ____
______. I might have set it to tell myself _____
______somebody was to call me at a certain time.
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Do you still remember the scores in your past exams? Perhaps the only test score that I remember is the 55 I got when I was in high school.
The test was the final for a course. I remembered waiting anxiously (焦虑地) as my teacher Mr. Right passed out our papers one by one. It was a rather ___________ test. I heard my classmates groaning (叹息), and I could tell by the groans that the scores weren’t looking good.
Mr. Right put my paper on my desk. There in big red numbers, was my score, 55! I lowered my head, and ___________ the score up quickly. A 55 is not something that you wanted your classmates to see. “The scores were not very good, none of you
____________,” Mr. Right said. “The
____________ score in the class was a 55.”
A 55? That’s me! I didn’t feel so bad. I had the highest score. I felt a lot ____________.
I walked home alone that day with the low but high score. My mother___________ that I had a big test that day and asked me as soon as I got home, “How did you do in your test?” “I made a 55,” I said. A frown (皱眉) now stood on my mother’s face. I knew I had to
___________ at once. “But Mum, I had the highest score in the class,” I proudly said. I thought that explanation would make a difference. “You
___________!” my mother replied. “But it’s the highest!” I insisted (坚持). “I don’t care what scores others had, but you failed. What matters is what you do!” my mother firmly said.
For years, my mother was __________ in that way. It didn’t matter what others did, it only mattered what I did and that I did it excellently.
We often don’t understand the ___________ of good parents until we ourselves stand in the parents’ shoes. My mother’s words have helped me throughout life.
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Once there was a lovely vegetable field with a very big tree in it. Both the vegetables and the _______ made the garden look wonderful.
No one knew that the vegetables in the field and the tree couldn't get on well each other. The vegetables
_______ the tree. They thought the tree did not leave them
______ light to survive（生存）. On the other hand, the tree hated the
. He complained that the vegetables drank nearly all the water
_____it could get to him.
The situation became worse and . One day, the vegetables got angry and decided to use up all the
_______ in the ground so that the tree would dry up. The tree fought back by refusing to give the vegetables shade(树荫) from the hot
. Soon they both began to dry up. Neither of them thought that the gardener would stop watering his vegetable
_______ when he saw it becoming worse. When the gardener did that, the tree and the vegetables really felt how
__ ____ they were. There seemed to be no ways to solve the problem, but one of the vegetables, a small pumpkin
__ __what was going on, and decided to deal with it.
there was little water and it was too hot, the little pumpkin did all he could to grow...
_ _____he grew very big, the gardener noticed that and started watering the field again because he wanted to win the beautiful big pumpkin competition. At the same time, the tree and the vegetables grew better. They realized that it was better to help each other than to
____ _。
From then on, they worked together and lived in harmony with these around them.
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