Joyce: What do you think of the lead teacher’s speech?
Caroline: I think it was ___ (interest).
Joyce: ___ do I. I hear Mike is likely to win all the prizes in the exams this year.
Caroline: Yes, his teacher says so. He ____ (work) hard at his lessons every evening for months. He wants to go to Oxford University next year.
Joyce: I hope he will realize his goal.
Caroline: I hope so. _ I think he works too hard. I hope he’ll go out and enjoy __
__ for a change. How about your son Carl?
Joyce: Don’t mention him. Carl never starts studying.
Caroline: You’re joking. I heard that Carl ___ (win) the composition prize.
Joyce: You have made ___ mistake. That is White Carl. My son is Brown Carl. The whites live in the same community __
__ we do. White Carl has always been so hard working. He wants to be a __
__ (write). My son likes going to the concert. He only likes singing.
Caroline: ___ he practices singing, he will become a singer in the future.
Joyce: Not all people can become a singer. I don’t think he has the talent.
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Perhaps you think you could easily add to your happiness with more money. Strange as it may seem, if you're unsatisfied, the issue is not a lack of _____(工具) to meet your desires but a lack of desires—not that you cannot satisfy your tastes b_
__ that you don't have enough tastes.
Your house of life ought to be a mansion, a royal ____(宫殿). Every new taste, every additional interest, every fresh enthusiasm adds___
__ room. Here are several rooms your house of life should have.
Art should be a desire for you to _____(培养) simply because the world is full of beautiful things. L__
___, classic literature, is a beautiful, richly furnished room ____
__ you might find many an hour of rest and refreshment. __
___like Mozart's and Bach's shouldn't be absent. Real____
__are of the spirit. Sports, without which you remain poor, m__
___ a lot in life.
Camels certainly like eating green grass, not dry grass. But (strange), camels always keep looking for dry grass
their stomachs are filled up.
A classmate of (I) whose home is on the edge of Turpan Basin in Xinjiang told me his home has two camels; he said you could imagine a camel’s appetite, for it can slowly swallow dozens of kilograms of hay (干草). I asked him
camels eat hay, not green grass. He said the camel is a kind of animal with
strong sense of suffering,
(fear) its master letting it travel through the desert the next day, and the hay in its stomach is more hunger-resistant
green grass.
The camel has the best tolerance. Unfortunately, many people can only see a camel’s outstanding performance, but few understand its (prepare) made for it.
Life, a camel traveling through the desert,
(need) the adequate accumulation, but not everyone can understand it.
One (rain) night I was driving along a lonely highway
I saw a man walking rapidly ahead of me along the side of the road. It was pouring rain and I slowed down to avoid
(splash) him as I went by.
He misunderstood, (think) I was offering a ride and ran towards my car. He was very tall, had a full beard and he scared me. I stepped on the gas pedal to leave
(quick), and I saw the look of total despair in his eyes.
Suddenly, all fear was (go) and I backed up and unlocked my car door, praying this was not the
(big) mistake in my life but somehow knowing it would be okay.
The man was a plumber（水暖工人）, truck had got stuck in the mud. He
(walk) for miles. No one would pick him up and his wife was in the hospital in labour（分娩） with their first child!
He had cried at the thought that he might not be there.
We (arrive) at the hospital moments before his son was born.
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Have you ever had problems in your life? Have you ever wondered how to be happy? If so, you will find the book “Being a Happy Teenager” （use）. In his book, Matthews tells us how to have a happy life and answers the questions of teenagers.
About problems with parents and friends, the book says we should stop （be） angry and forgive. The book tells us some skills such as how to put everything
we have learned from life into beautiful pictures.
Many teenagers think that （happy） comes from a good exam result or praise from
people. But you can still be happy
there are no such “good” things.
Success comes from good attitude. If you learn from problems, you
（have） success in the future.
Some school students have problems such as being too tall too short. But Matthews tells us that we should think about things
a positive way. This is Matthews’ most important lesson: you choose to be happy!
Thank you very much for your letter. Your trip sounds exciting! I can’t wait_______ hear what Africa is like.
Since my last letter to you, I had a little adventure _______ my own. Early this month, my mother and I took
______ flight to Dunhuang, in the north-west of China. The desert out there was really quite amazing—I had never seen so much sand in my life!
______ we were there, we arranged with a tour company to ride camels. I was very excited
_______ this was the first time I had seen one up close. We had hoped that we would get to see some other wildlife on our trip,
_______ sadly we didn’t.
Since you are going to the Sahara, I have some advice-----be sure to bring a large hat and a shirt with long sleeves,______you’ll need for protection. The sun can be
______brilliant that you’ll need to keep covered or you’ll get burnt-----my cheeks were so red for days after my trip. And another thing, you’ll need to keep a good supply of water with you, since it is so dry and hot.
I am sure you’ll have a nice trip. I look forward to receiving your postcards!
Best wishes
Aihua
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