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Have you complained your family, your boss, or even your life? Maybe everyone has, but after reading this story, you may change your view and treat the world with another attitude.
An ass (驴), (belong) to an herb-seller who gave him too little food and too much work, could not bear the life any longer. So he made a petition (请求) to God, to be released from his present service and provided with
master. After warning him
he would regret doing it, God made him to be sold to a tile-maker. Shortly afterwards, the ass found that he had
(heavy) loads to carry and harder work in the brick-field, and asked for another change again. God, telling him that it would be
last time that he could satisfy his request, made him sold to a tanner (皮革工). The ass found that he
(fall) into worse hands. Knowing his new master’s occupation, he said, “It would have been better for me either to have been starved by the first owner
to have been overworked by the second. But now I have already been bought by my present owner,
will peel off my skin even after I am dead, and make me useful .”
We can see that people with dissatisfaction in a place are not (like) to find happiness in another.
A group of robbers dug their way into to basement of a bank in Paris and emptied almost 200 private safes. They entered the Credit Lyonnais branch using building ____ (equip) to dig holes and destroy walls __
__ Saturday night. They tied up a security guard and spent the next nine hours__
__ (rob) the bank.
One investigator described the robbery___ a “professional job”. The robbers came in at about 22:00 on Saturday and _
__ (leave) at 7:00 on Sunday. They entered through the basements of the neighboring building, digging through a series of tunnels and making a hole into a wall of 80cm thick to get into the bank, __
__ was having building works at the time.
When they left, the robbers set the place on fire to remove any trace of evidence, ____ (switch) on the anti-fire system and flooding the building. __
__ (fortune), the guard escaped unharmed. __
_ is difficult to estimate the total value of what __
_ (steal) as only the bank’s clients know the content of their private safes.
Old age may not sound_______ (excite).But recent findings provide good news for older people and for people
_______ (worry) about getting older.
The findings came from ______ survey of more than 340,000 adults in the United States. The Gallup Organization questioned
______ by telephone in 2008.At that time, the people were between the ages of eighteen and eighty-five.
The researchers asked questions about emotions like happiness, ________(sad) and worry. They also asked about mental or emotional stress. The research team found that levels of stress were
________ (high) among adults between the ages of twenty-two and twenty-five. Stress levels dropped
_______ (sharp) after people reached their fifties.
Happiness_______ highest among the youngest adults and those
_______ their early seventies. The study also showed that men and women have similar emotional patterns as they grow older.
______ , woman at all ages reported more sadness, stress and worry than men.
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With the (develop) of industry, air pollution is getting more and more serious. In Beijing, many people suffer different kinds of illnesses because of air pollution.
Air pollution is caused by the (follow) reasons. It is
(main) caused by vehicles. There are more and more cars, buses on the roads and they give off
(poison) gases. About 25% of air pollution is caused by factories. Another factor is the smoking,
not only does harm to smokers’ health but also to others’.
these, about 10% of air pollution is caused by other reasons.
We should take some measures ( fight) against pollution. New fuel can be used to take
place of gas. We can plant more trees. If everyone realizes the importance of environment
does something to stop pollution, the problem will
(solve).
Have you ever asked yourself why children go to school? You will (probable) say that they go to school to learn languages, arithmetic, history, science and some other knowledge. That is quite true, but
do they learn these things?
We send our children to school (prepare) them for the time when they will be big and will have to work for themselves. Nearly everything they study at school has some practical use in their life. But is that
only reason why they go to school?
There is more in education than just (learn) facts. We go to school to learn how to learn, so that when we have left school we can continue to learn. A man
really knows how to learn will always be successful, because when he has to do something new, he will not only be able to do it well himself, he will but also be able to teach
how to do it in the best way. The
(educate) person, on the other hand, is either unable to do something new, or just
it badly. The purpose of schools, therefore, is
(teach) languages, arithmetic, history science, etc., but to teach pupils the way to learn.
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Are you facing a situation that looks impossible to fix?
In 1969, the pollution was terrible along the Cuyahoga River near Cleveland, Ohio. It (be) unimaginable that it could ever be cleaned up. The river was so polluted that it
(actual) caught fire and burned. Now, years later, this river is one of
most outstanding examples of environmental cleanup.
the river wasn’t changed in a few days or even a few months. It took years of work
(reduce) the industrial pollution and clean the water. Finally, that hard work paid off and now the water in the river is
(clean) than ever.
Maybe you are facing an impossible situation. Maybe you have a habit is driving your family crazy. Possibly you drink too much or don’t know how to control your credit card use. When you face such an impossible situation, don’t you want a quick fix and something to change immediately?
While there are (amaze) stories of instant transformation, for most of us the
(change) are gradual and require a lot of effort and work, like cleaning up a polluted river. Just be
(patience).
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