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Truth and honesty is the best policy, which shows the importance of honesty. What are the benefits of honesty? If you are honest to _, they will be honest to you in return. When you are sad, they will comfort you. When you are
__ trouble, they will help you. Honesty is regarded as the traditional virtue of our Chinese nation.
__ is usually better to be honest than dishonest. Sometimes honesty may get you in trouble or hurt someone, but on the whole
_(tell) the truth is less harmful than lying. Dishonesty can result in guilty feelings,
_ (cause)distrust among people and even ruin your reputation. One of the
__(bad) things about lying is that it causes a guilty conscience(良心). As
_ result, people will not trust you any longer and you will lose your reputation and all your friends. Do you still remember the boy
__ cried wolf for several times so no one would trust him? At last all his sheep
__(eat) by the wolf. His dishonesty brought him shame as well as damage. So to sum up, honesty not only brings us honor and friendship, but
__ material gains. Honesty is the best policy we can take.
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.
Self-motivation is a great way for doing things better in life. Exercising not only helps you to stay fit, but also freshens up your body from within. Despite being aware of the benefits of exercise, people fail to put it in their lives, because their motivation is very limited.
An optimistic attitude will not only help you to try continuously, but also make sure you fight all possible difficulties easily. On the other hand, a pessimistic attitude will show you only the bad in what you want to do, stopping your will to try at the very beginning.
To be determined about something takes a lot of courage. It’s very easy to give up and everyone can do it. To continuously keep at it, putting in the same efforts all the time, takes courage. Be determined to lose weight. Tell yourself you have to do it.
If your role model has been in your mind, then you are very likely to follow him or her. So why not follow the path by which they have got an envious figure?
Always feel good about where you work out. This way you will be regular with your workout schedule, gradually noticing the positive effects it has on you. This makes sure that you think your surroundings positively in your mind and that your probability of visiting it increases.
Every time you lose a decided number of pounds, congratulate yourself, relax your muscles or shop for relaxation.
If you have a fast-paced lifestyle, you won’t even realize when time flies by. By exercising regularly, you’re adding more years to your life. A long life is the best motivation, isn’t it?
Apart from all these things, you must set a goal and encourage all your energy towards achieving it. Last but not least, it’s very important that you enjoy what you are doing, whether it’s working out at the gym, or practicing yoga at home.
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People can’t insist on exercising in their lives because they don’t have |
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●When you have an optimistic attitude, you can try continuously and have no difficulty ●To lose weight, you should put in the same efforts all the time and ●Choose a person who has got a perfect figure as your ●Feeling good about where you work out has some ●Once you have ●For a long term, exercising regularly ● |
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Since exercise has so many |
A tornado, _ is a rotating column of air from a thunderstorm to the ground usually
(occur) in the US , _
(affect) several US states greatly.
Hurricanes, which are strong tropical storms, usually _ (strike)the east coast of the US from Texas to Maine, the
(bad) one of which caused 6,000 _
(die), and
(destroy) 3,6o0 buildings.
Here is a story about the worst hurricane. Charles Coghlan, a famous Irish actor, moved to Canada, then New York, and finally Galveston, he died in 1899, a year before the hurricane came. In the hurricane , his cemetery was destroyed and his coffin ended up in the sea, which _
(carry) by the Gulf Stream to his home on Prince Edward Island in the east of Canada eight years _
(late).
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A young man, while traveling through a desert, came across a spring of clear water. ___water was sweet. He filled his leather container so that he could bring some back to an elder
_had been his teacher. After a four-day journey, the young man__
__ ( present ) the water to the old man. His teacher took a deep drink, smiled_
__ ( warm ), and thanked his student very much for the sweet water. The young man went home__
__a happy heart.
After the student left, the teacher let____student taste the water. He spit it out, _
__ (say) it was awful. Apparently, it was no longer fresh because of the old leather container. He asked his teacher, "Sir, the water was awful. Why did you pretend to like_
__?" The teacher replied," You tasted the water. I tasted the gift. The water was simply the container for an act of kindness and love. Nothing could be__
__ (sweet). "We understand this lesson best__
__we receive gifts of love from children. Whether it is a cheap pipe or a diamond necklace, the proper response is appreciation. We love the idea within the gift rather than the thing.
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Gandhi, an Indian national hero, was honored ______ the father of the Indian nation. He has been respected and beloved by the Indians. He was born in India in 1869. Following the local custom, he got
______（marry）at the age of 13. In 1888 he sailed to England,
_______ he studied law for three years and became a lawyer. On his return to India, he was sent to South Africa to work on a law case. In South Africa he was
_____ （surprise）to find that the problem of racial discrimination （种族歧视）was serious. There he formed an organization and started a magazine to fight
______equal rights. Gandhi returned to India in 1915,
______ India was controlled by the British. He led the Indians to fight for an end to the British rule and independence for his country. In the political movement many Indians
_________(include) Gandhi were put in prison.
_______, the struggles never stopped. The British government had to give
______and India won its independence in 1947.
______（fortunate）Gandhi was shot by an Indian who opposed his views and died on January 30th, 1948.
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