If there has been a strong man than Louis St. Cyr, we don't know about

(1)________

Him. St. Cyr wasn't tall. He was more than 6 feet tall, but he

(2)________

weighed nearly 368 pounds. He had a 70-inches chest. His legs and

(3)________

upper arms muscles were huge. He was a farm boy from St. Cyprien,

(4)________

Quebec, Canada. He could lift a full barrel of cement(水泥) with one

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arm. Once, 18 men, with a total weight of 1724 pounds, standing on

(6)________

a platform. Louis St. Cyr lifted a platform. Once again, he lifted

(7)________

721 pounds on the floor-with one finger! His most amazing

(8)________

show of strength, however, took place in December 20th, 1891.

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Four large horses pulled him from opposite direction, but they could

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not move him. He proved that he was the strongest man in the world.

　Who doesn't love sitting beside fire on a

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winter night? Fire is one of the man's 

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greatest friend, but also one of the greatest 

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enemies．Many big fires are cause by

4．______

careless, which is common in our daily life．

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Fires have destroyed whole cities．At the 

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17th century a small fire nearby burnt down

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the all of London．Moscow was set on fire

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while the war against Napoleon．The fire

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went on burn for seven days and destroyed a 

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good many buildings．

　　The village was always very quiet. The people lived there

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were busy in working in their fields during the day, and

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went to bed early at night, tiring after a long day's hard

3．________

work . All of them had lived in a village for all their

4．________

life and had never left for more than one day at time .

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On these days they left, they got up early in the morning.

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They filled their carts with fruit and vegetables and sheeps,

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and went on the market in the town beyond their valley.

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They come back in the evening with some money and perhaps

9．________

a present for their children . That was their life - hard yet

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simple, but not unhappy.

　It was fine in April 8, 1994. That day all the

1． ________

students in our class go to the suburb (郊区) of

2． ________

our city to plant trees.

　On arrive at the planting place at 8 o'clock,

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the teacher asked every of us to plant 5 trees

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at least.Then we set out digging, planting

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and watering. All of us were going all out finish

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our task, afraid of fallen behind. Among us, our

7． ________

monitor set us a good example. He finished his

8． ________

task ahead of the time. Looking at the lines of

9． ________

young trees, we smiled happily, forgot our tiredness.

10． ________

　　Helen lived with her sister Mary. All of them were about

(1)________

seventy - five years old, neither of them had ever married. They

(2)________

had a small, old car, and when they wanted to go to somewhere,

(3)________

which they did very rarely, Mary always drove, Because of her

(4)________

eyes was better. One weekend they drove to a large town to look

(5)________

at some things which they had read about on the newspaper.

(6)________

Neither of them has been to that town before . They were driving

(7)________

along in a lot of traffic when they turned right into a street

(8)________

where cars were not allowed to go into. There was a policeman

(9)________

there, and he blew his whistle, but Mary did not stop, so he got off

(10)________

his motor - cycle and followed them.

　　After he stopped them and said. “Didn't you hear me blow my

whistle?”“Yes, we did, ”said Mary politely, ”but Mummy told us not to

stop when men whistle at us .

　I like fishing and I often fish for hour

1．______

without catch anything．But this does not

2．______

worried me．Some fishermen are unlucky．

3．______

Instead catching fish, they catch old shoes

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or other waste things．I'm even more lucky．

5．______

I never catch anything, not ever old shoes．

6．______

I spend all morning, but always go to home

7．______

with an empty bag．My friends advise me give

8．______

up fish．But they don't know one important

9．______

thing:I just like sitting in a boat and do nothing at all．

10．______

　Once there was an old farmer, with a horse whom was 

1． ________

almost so old as himself. He set out one morning with his

2． ________

young son, to sell the horse after it died. Father and son 

3． ________

walked, for they didn't want the horse to be too tired.

4． ________

They met two men. One says, “Why are you walking? You 

5． ________

have horse. It's a long way to the market.” The farmer 

6． ________

knew that this was true, so he riden on while his son walked.

7． ________

Then they met two old lady. “What are you doing up there? 

8． ________

Can't you see how tired your son?” The farmer then got 

9． ________

down and let his son rode instead. Next, they were stopped 

10． ________

by three old men who said it was hot and he should also ride on.

　　Dear Dick,

　　How are the things with you? Have you

1．________

had a good summer? Where do you go for your

2．________

summer holidays? What have you and Pat been doing? I

miss both you a lot. My French course

3．________

was coming to a close. My French teacher is

4．________

very friendly. She's so patient with every

5．________

of us. She not only teaches our French. She

6．________

also takes us out and shows us around. I've

7．________

gone to the Arcade Triomphe and the Louvre.

8．________

I've never seen so splendid collections of works

9．________

of art .You must come to Paris one of these day.

10．________

　　See you in London in September.

Yours

Jim

　　My dog, hero, isn't afraid of most things. But he is afraid of the vacuum cleaner (真空吸尘器). He

 always

hide himself when Mum cleans the house.

1．________

　　A few weeks ago, Mum took my new baby

2．________

sister to home. Her name is Barbie. She has

a room of her own. Hero seems to know this.

　　Last Saturday, Mum began to clean the living -

room, there Hero was. Barbie was sleeping

4．________

in her room. Hero jumped out from under

5．________

a chair and ran toward Barbie's room. He sat down at the

door. Mum went on the work. She came closer

6．________

and closer Hero. But he didn't move at all.

7．________

Then Mum ran the cleaner right up to her

8．________

front foot. Hero shook all over. But he didn't

9．________

let Mum to get by.“You can't take the

10．________

cleaner into Barbie's room,”he seemed to say.