I am a junior in high school. There is a lady at my school _______ job is to hand out call slips(借书单)and prevent students from leaving campus __
____ permission. Before today I had never seen her smile. The other day my friends and I were eating in the cafeteria and I saw her__
___ (walk) around. When she came _
___ (close) to us I could see that she was crying. She pulled out a tissue and quickly wiped her eyes. I thought to myself that this lady is so under-appreciated and needs recognizing for all her hard work. So I __
____（write） a note telling her that the students appreciated everything she did and __
___her contribution to our school made a difference in all of our lives. I signed it “some thankful students” and slipped it into _
____envelope. Then I realized I didn’t even know her name. I asked all of my professors but no one knew her name I finally went to ask the lady at student services and __
__ (tell) that her name was Kathy. I brought her a bunch of ___
___ (color) sunflowers and taped the envelope to it. I brought the flowers to school and left ___
___in her office. She came into my third period class shortly afterwards to deliver a call slip, and there it was a smile on her face！
There are various reasons why people compose(创作) poetry. Some poems tell a story or describe something in a way that ( 留下印象) the readers deeply, while others try to c
certain emotions. The first poems
(写) in English were nursery rhymes, which were used to delight small children. With their strong rhythm and a lot of repetition, they were easy to learn and to
(背诵).Cinquain is another form of poetry which
（包含）of five lines. People can describe a picture in just a few words with these poems.The Japanese form of poetry Haiku, made up of seventeen syllables, is not a traditional form of English poetry but p
with English speakers. In
（此外）, Tang poems are borrowed by English speakers, which are translated into English, making the English poetry more colorful.
Every evening, Blackie would be waiting for Alan to come back from school. He would greet Alan with a woa woa and a wagging tail. Blackie was a dog and Alan was his master. Blackie liked to play with Alan.
One evening when Alan returned from school, there was no woa woa and a wagging tail. Blackie was missing. Early the next morning, Alan and his brother went____ (look) for Blackie. They walked and searched from morning to evening, ___
__(shout) “Blackie, Blackie!”But there was no woa woa and a wagging tail. The children were very sad and tired.
One day, the children heard a woa woa coming from a house. It sounded like Blackie. The children ran to the house and ____(ring) the bell. A man opened the door. The children asked,“Uncle, have you seen a black dog?” The man replied,“No.”But the children still heard a woa woa coming from the house.
The children decided to climb a small hill that leads to the back of the house. It was not easy to climb the hill. They had to hold on to twines and pull___ (they) up the slope. When the children reached the top, they saw Blackie tied to a chain. Then the man realized that he could no longer hide the ___
__(true) from the children so he returned Blackie to them. Blackie looked __
__(happiness) and greeted the children with a woa woa and a wagging tail.
How do you know what is happening in the world every day? Do you watch news programmes on television? Or do you read a newspaper or listen to the radio ? There are _____ （组织）called news agencies that gather the news so that we read and hear about___
___（事件）quickly．
News agencies usually have a main office in a capital city and small offices in other capital cities around the world．Many journalists are____（雇佣）in each office and they gather information in the country，and in other countries nearby．
News agencies try to be quick，fair andt____ When they gather news stories．If the news is inaccurate，it will be worthless．And people like to know about important news stories, especiallyt__
_ with pictures．
The oldest news agency in the world is Reuters，which was___（成立）in 1851.Their work has changed a lot，especially since email and the Internet began to be used．They also provide news for people__
__on（飞行）on airplanes, so even in the air you can know what is happening many thousands of metresb
on the Earth!
One day, Nick invited his friends to supper. He was cooking some delicious food in the kitchen. Suddenly, he ______ (find) that he had run out of salt. So Nick called to his son, “Go to the village and buy some salt, but pay a fair price for it: neither too much nor too little.”
His son looked surprised. “I can understand why I shouldn’t pay too much, Father, but if I can pay less, why not save a bit of money?”
“That would be a very ______ (reason) thing to do in a big city, but it could destroy a small village like ours,” Nick said.
Nick’s guests, who had heard their conversation, asked why they should not buy salt more _______ (cheap) if they could. Nick replied, “The only reason a man would sell salt at a lower price would be because he was desperate for money. And anyone who took advantage of that situation would be showing a lack of respect for the sweat and struggle of the man who worked very hard to produce it.”
“But such a small thing couldn’t ____(possible) destroy a village.”
“In the beginning, there was only a very small amount of unfairness in the world, but everyone added a little, always _____ (think) that it was only small and not very important, and look where we have ended up today.”
The Olympic motto is "faster, higher, stronger." The ___( intend) meaning is that one's focus should be on bettering one's achievements, rather than on coming in first.
The motto ___ （be） with the Games from the
_ (found) of the International Olympic Committee in 1894. It was proposed by the father of the modern Olympic Games, Pierre de Coubertin, who got it from a speech given by a friend of his.
Eachof the five Olympic rings is a different color. Together, they represent the five inhabited continents, although no particular ring ___ (mean) to represent any specific continent. The rings are interconnected to represent the idea that the Olympics are universal, _
_ （bring）athletes from the entire world together.
The Olympic flag places the Olympic rings on a white background. As every national flag in the world contains at least one of the flag's six colors (black, blue, green, red, yellow, white), this further symbolizes the universality of the Olympics.
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