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One morning I sat on a bench in a park and watched a little boy (run) freely on the grass as his mother watched from a short distance away. The boy would fall to the grass, get up, and without looking back
his mother, run as fast as he could as if nothing had happened.
When the kid fell down, he didn't think of the fall as failure. Instead, he considered
a learning experience. He tried and tried again
he succeeded. I____
(touch) by the boy's strong mind and the way he ran. With each attempt, he looked so
(confidence) and natural. He only wanted to run freely and to do it as well as he could. He was just being a child—just being himself—being completely in the moment. He never __
__(give) up. Each time he fell, he got himself back up again, as if he knew that falling down was simply a part of life. He was not looking for others'
(smile), or worrying about whether someone was watching or not. He only wanted to run and to feel the experience of running fully and freely. I learned a lot from that experience, and have ___
____(success) brought that lesson with me in many parts of my life.
When I was seven years old, my family grew our first square watermelon. No one (see) a square watermelon before, so it became famous instantly. People visited our garden to see
unusual fruit. What’s so great about square watermelons? Well, besides their
(usual) shape, the melons pile nicely, fit in the refrigerator, and won’t roll off the table.
Whenever people ask
they can grow their own square watermelons, my dad tells them to “use square seeds”. Truthfully, though, my dad discovered the key square fruit by accident.
We have a small vegetable garden we plant watermelons every summer. The young melons were placed on cinder blocks (空心砖) to keep them from rotting on the wet ground. In 1996, we went to London for vacation. When we returned weeks later, we were surprised
(find) a young melon stuck in the centre of a cinder block. The watermelon had grown inside the block until
was squeezed too tightly to remove.
“We didn’t want to kill it, so we just left it there, ” my father remembers. “ (surprise), when we broke the cinder block at harvest time, we found a perfectly healthy melon–but it was also perfectly square.” Since that summer my family has been growing square watermelons on purpose because they are always well
(receive).
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Among the few scientists who have had a great effect on science and history, Albert Einstein is perhaps the ___ (great). An American university president once commented that Einstein had created _
_ new view of the universe. Now, more and more people agree that the universe is something more complicated than _
__ they have ever thought before.
Einstein ____ (bear) in Germany in 1879. In 1914, young Einstein, already internationally famous, became a professor at an institute in Berlin. However, _
__ peaceful life was soon broken by the First World War. Einstein hated violence. He was deeply affected by the war; he sat __
_ (happily) in his office doing nothing and __
_ (lose) interest in his research. Only when peace came in 1918 was he able to get back to work.
In the years ___ (follow) the First World War, people showered honor upon him. He became the head of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Theoretical Physics. In 1921 he won the Noble Prize __
__ Physics and was greatly honored and respected in Germany. However, the Second World War broke out and Einstein had to move to the US，__
_he lived until his death in 1955.
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Tim: Jeff, do you prefer working in a group or working ____?
Jeff: I’m good at ____(work) by myself because if I am doing something I like, I can get it ___
___(do) quickly. __
_, if I am working with a team where people all want to do a good job, I think __
_ team is fun.
Tim: Do you prefer working wearing a uniform or putting whatever you want?
Jeff: I think ___ you wear a uniform, sometimes you get respect.
Tim: So, how about a working schedule? Would you prefer a set time job?
Jeff: No. I think ___ is difficult to do a set time job. Last year, I _
__(produce) furniture in a factory. Every morning, I had to get up at six. When I got home after work, it was almost eight.
Tim: You __ be very tired. By the way, do you prefer being paid by the hour or do you prefer salary?
Jeff: I think salary may be a ____(good) way to go than being paid by the hour.
Eating habits are different in different countries. The Chinese have a (say) –Eat good things for breakfast, “eat a big meal for lunch, but eat
(little) at dinner. Many Americans agree that one should start the day with a good breakfast,
their ideas about lunch and dinner are
(difference).
Most Americans only give (they) a short time for lunch. So they eat a small lunch. After work they will have more time to eat a big dinner. Also a quiet dinner at home with all the family
(talk) about their day is a way to take
good rest after a long. hard day of work.
Eating at restaurants (be) also different. In China, people like to talk and laugh while eating. Very often you can hear people talking and laughing _
(loud), and they are just having a good time. In America it is not like this. They want a quiet place
they can eat a good meal far away from the noises of the outside world.
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Recently a new science behind incentives（激励）, _ （include） in education, has been discussed．For example, researcher Roland Fryer wanted to see what works best in motivating children
_ （do） better in school．__
_ some cases, he gave students incentives based on input（输入）, like reading certain books, while in
___, the incentives
（base） on output, like results on exams．His main __
_ （find） was that incentives increased achievement when based on input but had no effect when based on output．Fryer’s conclusion was that the incentives for inputs might be
____（effect） because students do not know how to do better on an exam, apart from general rules like “study harder”．Reading certain books, on the other hand, is a well-set task over
__ they have much more control．
As long as you have direct control over your goal, you have __ much higher chance of success．And it’s easier to start again
_ you fail, because you know exactly what you need to do．
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