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| Life gets noisier every day and very 1 people can be free from noise of some kind or another. Whether you live 2 the center of a modern city or a village far away---the chances that you will 3 by planes, cars, radios, etc, are almost everywhere. We seem 4 be used to noise, too. Some people feel quite lonely without background music while they are working. Tests have shown that total silence can be very frightening experiences. 5 , some people enjoy 6 to pop music which is very loud, and this can do harm to their ears. The noise level in some places is far above the usual safety level for heavy industrial areas. One recent report about 7 said that although 8 people say that any noise disturbs their attention, only a sudden change in the level of noise really affects people's attention. It goes on to say that a background noise, which doesn't change too much. Music, for example, may even help people to pay attention. People are testing ways to make 9 noise. There are even laws controlling noise. We cannot return to the "good old days" of peace and quiet. But we can make less noise---if we shout 10 about it. | ||||
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| Miss Joan was a kindergarten (幼儿园) teacher who taught in a small village school. She always worked long hours to prepare interesting 1 for her students. She also helped the other teachers, giving them many good 2 to help them teach better. She loved her students and they loved her, too. Yes, in many ways she was nearly perfect. 3 , she did have two small shortcomings (缺点). First, she would always 4 snacks in her desk. Sometimes the food attracted mice and other unwanted guests. Her the other shortcoming was that she was 5 afraid of snakes. She would not allow anyone in her class to 6 pictures of snakes or even say the word. She was even afraid when her kids were 7 about words that start with the letter S. One day these two things came 8 . A teacher 9 knew about Miss Joan's two shortcomings decided to make fun of her. He bought a toy snake in a shop. When Miss Joan wasn't in the classroom, he took away some of her snacks and put the toy snake 10 her desk instead. When Miss Joan took out the snack to eat, she saw a toy snake. She was too frightened to move, and from then on she never hide snacks in her desk. | ||||
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| American people have the habit of saying "Thank you" when something kind is done for them or something polite is said to them, no matter how easy the thing is. This habit is learned by people of many 1 countries. You should say "Thank you" when someone 2 you the salt on the table, when someone steps aside to let you 3 in a corridor (走廊), when someone 4 ahead of you keeps the door open 5 you, when someone says your work is well 6 or you have bought a nice thing, or your city is very beautiful. "Thank you" is 7 not only between strangers or new friends, but also between old friends, parents and children, brothers and sisters, husbands and wives. Parents often tell 8 children that they should say "Thank you" in answering to a kind word or act when they are only four 9 five years old. Perhaps that's 10 almost everyone has got this habit. | ||||
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| When I was a teenager growing up in France, I wanted to leave school and have my own life. The only way I could do this was to work in the local paper factory in my town, or get married. I was very nervous then I told my 1 I wanted to leave school. I thought he would say, " 2 ! You are going to college." I was very 3 when he said, "OK. Let's go to the paper factory." Two days later, he took me to the factory. I imagined everyone to be friends 4 together and having fun. I even imagined there would be music and singing. I guess I had watched too many movies as a teenager. When we 5 the factory gate, my father spoke to the guard and one minute later we were 6 . I walked around the factory looking at the building, the workers, and listening to the noise. It was 7 . I ran back to my father and said, "I want to go home." He asked me,"What do you think of the factory?" "Too bad," I answered. "And marriage is even 8 !" he said. I went back to school the next day thinking about studying hard 9 I could get into a good college. I 10 studying English, so I decided to major in languages at college. Thanks to my father and our trip to the paper factory, I now work at the United Nations and my father is very proud of me. I married a very good man and my life is much better than it would have been working in the factory! | ||||
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