题目内容
DIY, which means Do It Yourself, is quite popular in the UK. Lots of stores and supermarkets sell DIY things. TV programs show people how to DIY.
English people like DIY. If there is anything that needs fixing (修理) around their homes, such as p 1. the walls or putting in a new shower, they will do the jobs themselves. They share DIY e 2. with their friends. More and more people are fond of DIY and have d 3. the joy of DIY. Sometimes people also DIY for saving money. At present, many people can’t a 4. a big house. They are looking at how they can make their houses better without spending a lot of money. It is not surprising that DIY is so popular.
DIY can be difficult. There is a large market for DIY furniture (家具) which needs to be got together by people themselves w 5. a few tools. However, people often find it not easy to build a piece of furniture because they can’t understand the instructions (指令). Sometimes the instructions are simple and clear, but the furniture i 6. is difficult to build. DIY can also be dangerous if you are not careful enough. It is r 7. that in just one year over 230,000 people were hurt while doing DIY in the UK, including 41,000 who fell off ladders.
DIY can bring us a lot of f 8. and can help us save some money, but it is not always as easy as it is t 9. to be if we do something that is too hard. Maybe factories should make products that are easier and s 10. for us to DIY.
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This story took place more than 2,000 years ago. There was a young farmer. His family had been farmers for generations（世代）. Year a 1. year and generation after generation,farmers used to plant in spring and h2. in autumn, beginning to work at sunrise and finishing work at s 3. . In good harvest years,they could only have enough food to eat and enough clothing to w 4. .If there was a famine（饥荒） due to(由于) crop failure, they had to go hungry. This young farmer wanted to i 5. his life. Being lazy and cowardly over everything,he often dreamed of having unexpected result. A strange thing t 6. place at last. One day in late autumn, two groups of people were hunting nearby while he was ploughing in the field. As shoutings were rising one after a 7. ,scared hares（野兔） were running desperately. Suddenly,a hare clashed(撞) itself against the stump of a dead tree in his field and died. That day, he ate his fill. From that day on,he no longer went in for farming a8. . From morning till n 9. ,he stayed by that stump, waiting for miracles(奇迹) to take place again.
Later people often use the set phrase "staying by a stump waiting for more hares to come and clash t 10. against it to show trusting to chance and wind falls or dreaming to reap（收获） without planting. It is also used to show adhering（依附，坚持） to narrow experiences and not being able to be flexible（灵活的）.
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DIY, which means Do It Y 1. , is quite popular in UK. Lots of stores and supermarkets sell DIY things. TV programs show people how to DIY. Lots of people s 2. their holidays making their homes beautiful. If there is anything that needs fixing around their homes, such as p 3. the walls or putting in a new shower, they will do the jobs themselves. They share DIY experience(经历) w 4. their friends. More and more people have discovered the joy of DIY.
DIY can be difficult. There is a big market for DIY furniture,however, people often find it not easy to build a p 5. of furniture because they can’t understand the instructions. Sometimes the i 6. are simple and clear, but the furniture itself is difficult to build. DIY can also be dangerous. For e 7. , anything electrical（带电的） should be done by a professional（专业的） worker. Unluckily, many people don’t c 8. about this warning（警告） and put themselves in danger. It is reported that in just one year o 9. 230,000 people were hurt while doing DIY in UK, including 41,000 who f 10. off ladders.
Swimming is very popular in summer. People like swimming in summer because water 1.m______ people feel cool. If you like swimming and swim in a wrong place, it may not be safe(安全的). Last summer, more than ten people died 2.w______ they were 3.e_______ themselves in the water, and 4.m______ of them were students. But some people are 5.s_____ not careful in swimming. They often think they swim so well that6.n_____ can happen to them in water. Summer is here again , if you go swimming in summer, don’t forget that better swimmers have died in 7.w______. They 8.d______ only because they were not 9.c______, not because they could not swim. So don’t get into water when you go swimming 10.y______, go with your teachers or your parents. If there are “No 11.S______” sign, don’t get into water, either. If you 12.r______ these, swimming will be safer.
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and more people have discovered the joy of DIY.