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Christmas is no fun when you're poor. Twenty years ago I was a young, （struggle）, substitute（替补） teacher whose calls into work had been few．Money was tight, bills were due
my wife and I couldn't even afford to get Christmas gifts for each other．The only gifts we could get for our children were a few soft toys that I had found
（sell）at half price in the supermarket．I opened the door and brought in the gifts I
（hide） in our old car's trunk．Then I handed
to my son and daughter．I watched with a sad smile as they did their best to tear off the wrapping paper．As they pulled out their toys, though, I noticed their faces lit up and
jumped up and down．My daughter
（happy） hugged her toy and then hugged her Mom and me as well．I laughed as I watched my children play with their toys
_ hours, and thanked God for the
（great） happiness I had ever been given．Till today I still treasure
gift of pure love that my son and daughter gave me that day．
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There was once a beautiful girl who hated herself because she was blind. She also hated everyone else, except her ___ (love) boyfriend who was considerate and was always there to help her. One day she told her boyfriend, “You _
(be) so kind to me and if I could only see the world, I should marry you.”
One day, someone donated a pair of eyes to her. Doctors spent several hours doing ____ (operate) for her and the boy accompanied her at the bedside all the time. When the bandages came off, she was able to see everything, her boyfriend _
__ (include), of course.
He asked her, “now ___ you can see the world, will you marry me？” The girl looked at her boyfriend and saw that he was blind, too.
The sight of ___ ugly closed eyelids shocked her and made her feel sick. She had not expected that, and __
__ thought of looking at them in the rest of her life led her to refuse to marry him.
Her boyfriend left ___ tears and a few days later sent a note to her， __
_ said，“Please take good care of your eyes, my dear, because before they are yours, they were _
__！”
After reading the words, the girl burst out crying, regretting what she had done to the boy.
Will money make kids pass exams? A new report says promising children money does not help exam grades．It could be a waste of money using cash to get kids to study more．________, taking kids on trip somewhere nice could encourage them to do better at school. ___
___10,000 pupils surveyed in the research，there has been an improvement in class work and homework，but this does not result in better test scores．
Lead researcher Dr．Burgess suggestsi the research doesn’t look______ the things __
___really get kids to increase their effort．He adds that clearly some kids believe that education is a way to achieve their dreams, but there are other kids who think one’s efforts make __
___difference. These kids ___
__ think exam success is because of genes and their family background．Education expert Dr．Collins holds the view that___
___ really matters is how students are taught．Good teachers are better _
_ rewards，especially for children from low-income families．
Have you ever noticed this phenomenon? Sometimes Chinese English teachers are puzzled by such questions, "Could you please give me some advicehow to improve my reading comprehension?"
Actually, many of the teachers can't give their students effective way to deal with reading. Anyway, they often simply say, "Readand practise more, and you will get more experience in reading comprehension. " Frankly, these teachers' good suggestions are only helpful to arouse (激起) students' interest in readingnot helpful to deal with the questions in the examinations of reading comprehension. Personally, think the skill for reading comprehension should be based on the knowledge of English writing.the English passages are written under some rules or principles, the science of reading and understanding may have a close relationship with writing. Reading comprehension can't be independent the knowledge of
writing. So to do better in reading comprehension ever, we should learn the knowledge of writing, study how questions are designed and the relationship between questions and the reading materials.
British families started going on holiday to the seaside around the middle of the 19th century. The （invent）of the railways made this possible. The first holidaymakers
(be) quite rich and went for their health and education. The seaside was a place to cure people of illness. And doctors recommended bathing in the sea and drinking sea water. At that time ordinary working people had very little time off work.
, in 1871, the government introduced for “Bank Holidays”, that is national holidays. This allowed people
(have) a day or two out now and then,
gave them a taste for leisure and seaside. At first, they went on a day trip, taking advantage
special trip tickets on the railways. By the 1880s,
(rise) incomes meant that many ordinary workers and their families could have holiday ant the seaside. Welfare was reduced and cheap hotels
(build) for them. Holidaymakers enjoy
(sit) on the beach, bathing in the sea and eating ice cream. Cheap entertainment was on offer and holidaymakers went to have fun. Today
English seaside remains popular with more than 18 million holidays taken there each year.
Two little children were sitting by the fire one cold winter’s night. Suddenly, they heard a knock at the door. “Who can it be?” they wondered. One ran (curious) to open it. There, outside in the cold and the darkness, stood a child
no shoes on his feet and dressed in old thin garments. He was trembling with cold,
he asked if he was allowed to come in and warm himself.
Yes, come, cried both the children. They drew the little stranger to their warm seat, (share) their supper with him, and gave him their bed, and they slept on a hard bench.
On the night, they (awake) by sweet music,
was played by a band of children in shining garments. Suddenly the stranger child stood in front of
: no longer cold and ragged, but dressed in silvery light. He said, I am the Christ Child,
(wander) through the world to bring peace and
(happy) to good children as you. As you have helped me so much, this tree will give rich fruit to you every year.
When he was saying that, he broke branch from the tree that grew near the door, planted it in the ground and disappeared. But the branch grew into a great tree, and every year it bore wonderful golden fruit for the kind children.
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