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Everyone has a dream． Catherine's is to own a bakery（蛋糕店）．
The 14﹣year﹣old American girl became fond（喜爱） of baking and decorating（装饰） cakes when her mother first（1） her how to do it． Her parents found that she is talented （2）
making cakes． She made her first cake for her sister's birthday． "I had never （3） done anything like it before，" she said． "It was pretty good and I actually realized how much I liked cake decorating．" After making her sister's birthday cake， Catherine tried making the （4） one for herself．
Catherine had thought about starting （5） own business years ago， but she didn't start receiving orders until she put pictures of her cake designs on Facebook．
A few hours later， somebody saw Catherine's cake designs and called to order a cake for ＄15． That was her first （6） cake． It proved to be a （7） experience．
Realizing the public's interest in Catherine's designs， her family decided to create a business for her． She has made about 35 cakes （8） she started， including birthday cakes and wedding cakes． And she made her cakes without （9） sketch（草稿） first．
Catherine's（10） were surprised that she could create such impressive（印象深刻的） designs at such a young age．
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Journey to the West is ___（1）___ traditional Chinese book. The monkey king or Sun Wukong is one of the main characters in the book. The monkey king, who is loved by ___（2）___ (China) children, is not just a normal monkey. He can make 72 changes to ___（3）___ (he) shape and size, turning himself into different ___（4）___ (animal) and objects. The monkey king uses a magic stick to fight bad people ___（5）___ (brave). Sometimes, he can make the stick ___（6）___ small that he can keep it in his ear. And as soon as the TV programme ___（7）___ (come) out more than 30 years ago, children became interested ___（8）___ reading this story.
The monkey king is ___（9）___ (smart) than others. He keeps fighting ____（10）____ (help) the weak and never gives up.
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Wind power is a very clean source of energy. This is how wind power works. Wind makes windmills spin(旋转). When the windmills spin, they make electricity. Then we can use the electricity.
A lot of people think that wind power is new, but that’s not true. For thousands of years, people have used wind to sail boats and move water. We still do those things today, but these days we mostly use wind power to make electricity.
Wind power is a very popular source of energy. Most people think that we should use it more and more. First of all, it’s clean. Wind mills don’t pollute the environment at all. Second, we can use wind power forever. After all, we will always have wind. Also, wind power is cheap, and it’s getting even cheaper.
A lot of people don’t understand wind power very well. They believe that there are problems with wind power, but many of those problems are not real. For example, some people say that windmills are dangerous for birds. That used to be true, but it isn’t true anymore. Old windmills killed birds because they spun very fast. New windmills spin slowly, and they aren’t dangerous for birds.
However, there are real problems with windmills. One problem is that many people think windmills are very ugly. This is a problem for some people because windmills are often in very pretty areas. Also, wind doesn’t blow all the time, so we can’t use wind power all the time. Finally, windmills are noisy.
Wind power is becoming more and more common. Right now, more than 80 countries use wind power. About 2.5 percent of the world’s power comes from the wind. For some countries, that number is a lot higher. Wind power gives Denmark more than 25 percent of its electricity.
（1）Wind power can be turned into __________ when windmills spin.
（2）People have used wind to __________ and move water for a long time.
（3）New windmills don’t __________ because they spin at a slow speed.
（4）One of the real problems with windmills is that they __________.
（5）This passage mainly introduces a kind of clean, __________ energy to us.
Reading Expression
In China, more and more people have realized the seriousness of climate（气候） change. Many young people have been living a low-carbon（低碳） life.
Zheng Xiyu is one of them. She has been trying to reduce her carbon footprint. Every morning, she takes a bus to her office and it takes her about 40 minutes. But Zheng has been thinking of changing this. She wants to try a different means（方式） of transport—cycling. Riding a bicycle to work, the lady says, takes about the same amount of time as taking a bus. “However, it’s better for the environment and my health.” she says.
Professor Li Lin has also been leading a low-carbon lifestyle. Her office uses energy-saving lights. These lights go off themselves when they are not needed. This has saved a large amount of electricity. Another way to save energy is to double-print the paper. Professor Li says small actions like these are important for protecting the environment. “Let’s say you have saved one ton of paper. That’s about two and a half tons of CO2.” Professor Li says.
Lin Hui always chooses products with a longer life when he shops. He says this helps to reduce waste. Two years ago, Lin and his friends set up an environment website, where he wanted to give some advice on saving energy and protecting the environment.
It’s easy to change to a low-carbon lifestyle. Everybody can do this and make a difference.
Use words with proper meanings and grammatical rules to fill in the blanks.
(Only one word for one blank.)
（1）In China, more and more people have realized climate ________ is becoming ________ .
（2）Zheng Xiyu prefers ________ to taking a bus to ________ her carbon footprint.
（3）Professor Li Lin says doing ________ things is ________ for protecting the environment.
（4）Lin and his friends set up an environment website ________ ________ some advice on saving energy and protecting the environment.
（5）It is not ________ for everyone to change to a low-carbon ________ if he or she takes action.
Fill in each blank with a proper form of the word given or a proper word.
Zhang Guimei, ____（1）____ is the headmaster of Huaping High School for Girls, has been given the title（称号） “Role Model of the Times” for ____（2）____ (help) girls from poor families.
She moved to Lijiang to teach in the middle school in Huaping county ____（3）____ the age of 17. Once, she got badly ill but had no money. The local people raised money ____（4）____ helped her. “From then on, I told myself that I must do something for those people who helped me.” Zhang said.
She was sad when she saw her ____（5）____ (student) couldn’t afford to go to school. ____（6）____ (slow), a dream appeared in her heart. In 2008, she managed ____（7）____ (found) the Huaping High School. This is ____（8）____ free school for girls from poor families. When people asked why she worked so hard, she just said, “I hope these girls can live a ____（9）____ (happy) life than me.”
With her great efforts, she _____（10）_____ (send) more than 1, 800 students to universities so far.
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Beep! Beep! Beep! The barcode（条形码）technology makes it faster and easier to buy things in stores. You have probably seen the black-and-white barcode on ___（1）___ (product) packaging（外包装）. In 2022, the great invention is 51 years old.
In 1971, an IBM engineer named George Laurer ___（2）___ (come) up with a code（代码）that could be printed on food packages. Then, a complete code system（系统）, the barcode was formed later. The system was used by many ___（3）___ (company) from 1973. Before this, shopkeepers had to ___（4）___ (record) prices by hand which took much time and energy.
Actually, a barcode is ___（5）___ (real) a simple idea: show each product’s information in different numbers（just like the ID card number）, then ___（6）___ (include) these numbers into a code and print it for computers to read. Today, barcodes are scanned（扫描）over six billion times every day and used by two ___（7）___ (million) companies.
What information does a barcode carry? Where the product comes from, ___（8）___ (it) price, production date…It can also help stores always ___（9）___ (know) about their products. For example, if there are 10 boxes of milk and a customer buys one, it will be recorded so that the store owner knows there are nine boxes _____（10）_____ (leave) on the shelf. In the 1980s, libraries started to use barcodes to follow their books in this way.
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