Mr. Jones had a nice, brown coat. He loved it very much, but his w________ didn't like it, because it was old. Mrs. Jones often said,“Give it to a poor man.”But Mr. Jones a________ said,“No, no. I like this coat.”Then, one day, a cigarette made a hole in it. So Mrs. Jones said,“Please don't wear it again.”Mr. Jones took it to a tailor's shop and said to the tailor,“Please make a________ coat like this one.”The tailor made the coat very c________ Then he lit a cigarette, and made a hole in it in the same p________.

I don’t think this coat _____ as much as the one your cousin has just ______.

A. costs; paid       B. spends; paid back       C costs; paid for     D. takes; spent

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My 14-year-old brother John and I saw the coat at the same time. The thick black woolen coat was soft, and it cost only ＄28. We looked at each other, saying n  1 , but John’s face was shining with joy. Dark woolen coats were p___2___ with boys just then, and could cost several hundred dollars. But this coat was even better and m  3 _  cheaper.?
John t  4 __ on the coat and bought it at once. John wore the coat to school the next day and came home with a big smile. “H_ 5__  did the kids like your coat?” I asked. “They loved it,” he said. I started c  6_  him “Lord (老爷) John”.
A few weeks later , something good h  7_  to John. He became more polite, more helpful and more pleasing. He was willing to lend his classmates his pens; he was willing to bring his father a cup of tea when he got home; he was willing to help a blind man c  8_  the road.
When my mother told this to one of his teachers, he said, “It must be his coat!” One day, in the library, my brother and I ran into a friend. “Could this be John?” he asked. John shook hands with him, l _ 9  a gentleman(绅士)!
I think John changed b__10___ of his own attitude(态度). If you think you are a gentleman or a lady, you can become a perfect one.

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Reading is an activity people enjoy a lot in their free time.
Some like reading newspapers and o__【小题1】_ enjoy books. My f_【小题2】___ books are those about the lives of great people. Reading them always gives me a lot of ideas on how to make my o__【小题3】_ life better.
Great people are famous not because they were handsome or beautiful, but because they did not give up w__【小题4】__ their life was difficult. They tried to use e__【小题5】__ chance to change their life and to make the world better.
One good example is Orville and Wilbur Wright, the two brothers who invented the airplane. The plane has m_【小题6】___ the world into a small village. Hard work, not good luck, was the r__【小题7】__ why the Wright Brothers could invent this machine and become great people. Today we will remember them when we see planes f__【小题8】__in the sky.
Whenever I read s__【小题9】_ about great people, I always learn a lot from them and they encourage me. This is w__【小题10】___ I enjoy reading great people's lives.