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.
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The idea of reading online (take) on a whole new meaning lately as a lending library has opened on Line2 of Shanghai’s metro. This "underground" library allows subway riders to choose a book at one station and leave it at another station when they’ve finished reading it.
the service is free!
The idea is to encourage more people to read books and to make better use their time while they ride back and forth to work. So far, it’s been
great success with most people
(return) the books and also leaving a one Yuan donation which is used
charity.
Shanghai’s underground library is an example of "guerilla libraries" (流动图书馆) which have been springing up all over the world. (like) a traditional library, a guerilla library is usually set up by individuals
want to connect people of similar interests within a community. It may be a few shelves of books set up on the corner in a neighborhood, or just a book left in a coffee shop with
(instruct) inside to pass the book along after it’s read.
According to the guerilla library movement, e-books have taken the passion out of reading. They say people are losing out on the very emotion comes with holding a real book in their hands and also the satisfaction that comes with sharing a book with another person.
When I was seven years old, my family grew our first square watermelon. No one (see) a square watermelon before, so it became famous instantly. People visited our garden to see
unusual fruit. What’s so great about square watermelons? Well, besides their
(usual) shape, the melons pile nicely, fit in the refrigerator, and won’t roll off the table.
Whenever people ask
they can grow their own square watermelons, my dad tells them to “use square seeds”. Truthfully, though, my dad discovered the key square fruit by accident.
We have a small vegetable garden we plant watermelons every summer. The young melons were placed on cinder blocks (空心砖) to keep them from rotting on the wet ground. In 1996, we went to London for vacation. When we returned weeks later, we were surprised
(find) a young melon stuck in the centre of a cinder block. The watermelon had grown inside the block until
was squeezed too tightly to remove.
“We didn’t want to kill it, so we just left it there, ” my father remembers. “ (surprise), when we broke the cinder block at harvest time, we found a perfectly healthy melon–but it was also perfectly square.” Since that summer my family has been growing square watermelons on purpose because they are always well
(receive).
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Among the few scientists who have had a great effect on science and history, Albert Einstein is perhaps the ___ (great). An American university president once commented that Einstein had created _
_ new view of the universe. Now, more and more people agree that the universe is something more complicated than _
__ they have ever thought before.
Einstein ____ (bear) in Germany in 1879. In 1914, young Einstein, already internationally famous, became a professor at an institute in Berlin. However, _
__ peaceful life was soon broken by the First World War. Einstein hated violence. He was deeply affected by the war; he sat __
_ (happily) in his office doing nothing and __
_ (lose) interest in his research. Only when peace came in 1918 was he able to get back to work.
In the years ___ (follow) the First World War, people showered honor upon him. He became the head of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Theoretical Physics. In 1921 he won the Noble Prize __
__ Physics and was greatly honored and respected in Germany. However, the Second World War broke out and Einstein had to move to the US，__
_he lived until his death in 1955.
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Tim: Jeff, do you prefer working in a group or working ____?
Jeff: I’m good at ____(work) by myself because if I am doing something I like, I can get it ___
___(do) quickly. __
_, if I am working with a team where people all want to do a good job, I think __
_ team is fun.
Tim: Do you prefer working wearing a uniform or putting whatever you want?
Jeff: I think ___ you wear a uniform, sometimes you get respect.
Tim: So, how about a working schedule? Would you prefer a set time job?
Jeff: No. I think ___ is difficult to do a set time job. Last year, I _
__(produce) furniture in a factory. Every morning, I had to get up at six. When I got home after work, it was almost eight.
Tim: You __ be very tired. By the way, do you prefer being paid by the hour or do you prefer salary?
Jeff: I think salary may be a ____(good) way to go than being paid by the hour.
Eating habits are different in different countries. The Chinese have a (say) –Eat good things for breakfast, “eat a big meal for lunch, but eat
(little) at dinner. Many Americans agree that one should start the day with a good breakfast,
their ideas about lunch and dinner are
(difference).
Most Americans only give (they) a short time for lunch. So they eat a small lunch. After work they will have more time to eat a big dinner. Also a quiet dinner at home with all the family
(talk) about their day is a way to take
good rest after a long. hard day of work.
Eating at restaurants (be) also different. In China, people like to talk and laugh while eating. Very often you can hear people talking and laughing _
(loud), and they are just having a good time. In America it is not like this. They want a quiet place
they can eat a good meal far away from the noises of the outside world.
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