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　　Have you ever heard of a girl of 15, who has set up a company of her own? Wendy Wang is the girl. She started the business two years ago. She has already __1__ several successful computer games. They are so __2__ that over half a million games are sold every year. Now all of her family work in her business, and she is __3__ at school.

　　She gets up early in the morning, and then has a talk with her family about the __4__ over breakfast. Every day during weekdays, she goes to school in her own car with a 5, for she is not old enough.

　　She finished her homework in half an hour after her driver takes her home. After dinner, she goes to her office and ____9___ working on her computer, writing games until 2 a. m.. She does not need much ___10___ as other children.

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　　There was once a kind man whose name was Oliver Goldsmith. He wrote many interesting books, some of which you will read when you are older.

　　He had a gentle heart. He was always 1 and to share with them anything that he had. He gave away so much to the poor while he was always poor himself. He was sometimes called Doctor Goldsmith, for he had 2 to be a physician.

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　　Some animals are very brave and some are not brave at 1 . In fact, several of the wild animals fear that bigger animals will kill them. Lions and tigers are very brave, 2 they are strong and do not fear any other animal, 3 perhaps the elephant. Deer are very much 4 tigers, for tigers live on deer. But God has given the deer the power to run away from its enemies. The deer's body is made able to run 5 speed. Its body is not fat, but thin; not heavy, but light. Its legs are long and 6 to move very fast. A deer's speed in running is so greater than a tiger's speed that if it is attacked by a tiger it can always save 7 by running away.

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　　The United States, Great Britain took the war on Iraq in late March, 2003, 1 over twenty days American soldiers were in Baghdad, the 2 of Iraq. They ended the government of Saddam. 3 Iraqis died in the war. Saddam ran away. No one knows 4 he's dead or alive.

　　In some parts of the city there was no light because of the war. Some oil wells were set on fire. Now the Iraqis need food, water and 5 . Many soldiers and people who were hurt in the war need hospital care. People also need a way to feed their family members.

　　The reason for American soldiers taking the war is that they are 6

weapons of mass destruction. But by June 6, they hadn't found any at all.

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　　It's never easy to admit you are in the wrong. We all 1 to know the art of apology. Think how often you've done wrong. Then count how many 2 you've expressed clearly you were sad. You can't go to bed with an easy mind if you do 3 about it.

　　An apology can not only save a broken relationship, but also make it 6 . If you can think of someone who should be 7 an apology from you, do something about it right now.

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　　The world 1 many interesting sounds. In a single day you probably hear 2 sounds. All sounds are different. Some may be loud. Some sounds are high, 3 are low. Some sounds are useful. 4 sound we cannot talk or listen to each other.

　　Some sounds are harmful. When planes fly low over the land, the very loud sounds can damage the house. Very loud sound can even make people deaf.

　　We know sound travels about one kilometers in three 5 . In a thunderstorm you see the lightning first and then hear the thunder. This is because light travels 6 than sound.

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　　Farley worked for the Canadian government. One day, he was 1 to learn more about wolves. Do wolves kill lots of caribou (big animals)? Do they kill people?

　　They gave him lots of food and clothes and guns. Then they put him on a plane and took him to 2 . The plane put him down and went away. There were no houses or people in this place. But there were lots of animals-and lots of wolves.

　　People tell terrible stories about wolves. They say wolves like to kill and eat people. Farley remembered these stories, and he was 3 . He had his gun with him all the time.

　　Then one day, he saw a group of wolves. There was a mother wolf with four baby wolves. A father wolf and another young wolf lived with them.

　　Wolves do not eat people, and they do not eat many large animals, and he also learned bad things about men. It was men who killed many caribou and wolves.

　　Later, Farley wrote a book about wolves. he wanted people to 7 them and not to kill them.

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　　Smoking is bad for people's health. It can 1 many illnesses to people. Thousands of people in the world die of lung cancer every year. Most of them are smokers. When people smoke, poison is 2 off and the air around is polluted.

　　With the development of education, more and more people have come to know that smoking is 3 and have decided to give up. How to give up smoking is already a serious 4 . I think that it is certainly important to let everyone know that smoking is bad for their health and the government should make a rule that in 5 places, nobody is 6 to smoke, or he will be punished.

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　　Michel is a young girl who works for the police 1 a handwriting expert. She has helped catch many criminals by using her special talents.

　　When she was fourteen, Michel was already 2 interested in the differences in her friends'. 3 that she would spend hours studying them. After finishing college she went to France for a special two-year class in handwriting at the School of Police Science.

　　Michel says that it is 4 for people at hiding their handwriting. She can discover most of what she needs to know simply 5 looking at the writing with her own eyes, 6 she also has machines that help her make out different kinds of paper and ink. This knowledge is often of great help to the police.

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