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　　Miss Lovely began to work in our office last year．She thought she was 　　1　　 and hardly talked with us．Her house was a little far from our company and she had to take a taxi 　　2　　．Of course she had to spend much 　　3　　 on it．She decided to have her own car, so she began to 　　4　　 to drive two months ago．Now she can drive and she has to 　　5　　 a license before she buys a car．It took her a week to 　　6　　 the traffic regulations(交通规则)．She was sure she would 　　7　　 the examinations．

　　It was time for her to take the examinations yesterday．Miss Lovely didn't come to work．We 　　8　　 she would drive her new car to our company this morning．But to our 　　9　　, she came here by taxi and didn't tell anybody about it．None of us asked her the 　　10　　 but her face clearly showed she had 　　11　　 in the exams．

　　This afternoon one of our workmates told us 　　12　　 had happened to the girl when she was 　　13　　．Yesterday the chief examiner asked her some questions, but she could answer 　　14　　．For example,“Will you run over a man or a dog if you see they are both in the middle of the 　　15　　?”

　　“Of course I'll run over the dog, sir．”Miss Lovely answered without 　　16　　“I'm sorry to tell you, Miss Lovely,”the examiner shook his 　　17　　 and said,“you have to take the examinations!”

　　“I don't think my answers were 　　18　　, sir,”the girl said in a hurry．“　　19　　 run over a man, you know!”

　　“I agree to your 　　20　　, Miss Lovely,”the chief examiner said with a smile．“but why not brake(刹车)your car?”

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　　With their shiny, grey bodies, dolphins(海豚)appear to be large fish．　　1　　, they are really warm-blooded mammals．Although they can stay under the water for up to 15 minutes 　　2　　, the dolphins must come up to breathe air through a hole on top of their heads．

　　Dolphins are social animals．Many of them even 　　3　　 around humans．In addition to being playful; they are helpful to men．For example 　　4　　 400 B．C．the Great poet Arion was saved from 　　5　　 by a dolphin．From then until now, dolphins have been helping swimmers, 　　6　　 in trouble．Swimmers, however, are not 　　7　　 humans they help．In some parts of the world, they help men 　　8　　 fish．

　　Dolphins are very clever．Its brain is even larger than a human's．Therefore, some people think a dolphin 　　9　　 smarter than a man, but 　　10　　, brain size is not the only measure of cleverness．Besides, measuring dolphin's cleverness in other ways is not possible 　　11　　 men cannot talk with them．But we can almost 　　12　　 that dolphins can talk with each other．They make different 　　13　　 which seem to be at least a form of language．Up to now men 　　14　　 able to find out how dolphins are talking．So no one really knows what they are thinking．If we could talk with them, perhaps they could teach us to be 　　15　　 they seem to be．

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　　Marlin was a poor man．Once he was out of work and was trying to find a 　　1　　．One day he read in the newspaper that a man was 　　2　　 to work in a zoo．He thought that it would be 　　3　　 to work in a zoo because he liked animals．He thought that 　　4　　 animals would be very interesting．So he was very glad and went to the 　　5　　 of the zoo and．asked for the job．

　　“You look 　　6　　 a smart boy,”said the manager．“You can start work tomorrow．”

　　Marlin said OK and went home 　　7　　．The next day he went to the manager and asked 　　8　　 he was to do．The manager told him that their monkey had just died and it would 　　9　　 two months before they could get 　　10　　 one, so they wanted him to 　　11　　 the monkey's place．

　　On hearing this, Marlin got angry and shouted：“You want me to take the place of a monkey!Take his place yourself．You look 　　12　　 like a monkey than I do．”

　　“Don't take it like that,”said the manager．“I know you don't look like a monkey, but we'll 　　13　　 you up．”

　　Marlin thought about it for a while．　　14　　 he did not like the idea, he had to make 　　15　　 after all．So he took the job in the end．

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　　In some parts of the United States, 　　1　　 is easy．But farming has always been 　　2　　 in the northeastern corner of the country, 　　3　　 is called New England．

　　New England has many trees and thin, rocky 　　4　　．Anyone who has wanted to start a new 　　5　　 has had to work very hard．The first job has been cutting down trees．The 　　6　　 job has been digging the stumps(树桩)of the trees 　　7　　 the soil．Then the farmer has had the difficult job of 　　8　　 stones from his land．

　　This work of removing stones never really 　　9　　, because every winter more stones appear．They come up through the 　　10　　 soil from the rocks below．Farmers have to 　　11　　 removing stones from the fields．Even today, farms which have been worked on for 200 years keep 　　12　　 more stones．

　　That is why stone walls are used 　　13　　 fences around New England fields．The stone walls are not high; a man can easily 　　14　　．But they keep the farmer's cows 　　15　　 his neighbor's cows．

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　　Christmas was a quiet affair when I was growing up．There were just my parents and 　　1　　．I wished that someday I'd 　　2　　 and have six children, and at 　　3　　 my house would be full of 　　4　　 and love．

　　I found the 　　5　　 who shared my dream, but we had not 　　6　　 the possibility of infertility(不能生育)．So we asked for adoption(收养)and, within a year, he arrived．We called him our Christmas boy because he came to us during that season of joy, 　　7　　 he was just six days old．Then nature 　　8　　 us again．Within two years we 　　9　　 two biological children to the family－not as many as we had hoped for, 　　10　　 compared with quiet childhood, three made an entirely satisfactory 　　11　　．

　　　　12　　 our Christmas boy grew, he made it clear that only he had the special skill to select and decorate(装饰)the Christmas 　　13　　 each year．He started his Christmas gift list 　　14　　 before we'd finished the Thanksgiving turkey．He encouraged us to sing songs, using our froglike 　　15　　 comparing with his musical gift of perfect voice．

　　Our friends thought that adopted children were not the same and they were right．Our Christmas boy brought 　　16　　 into our lives with his good cheer, his wit(智慧)．He made us 　　17　　 and act better than we were．

　　Then on his 26th Christmas, he left us as 　　18　　 as he had come．He was killed in a car accident on an icy Denver street, on his way home to his young wife and daughter．But first he had 　　19　　 by our home to decorate our tree, as usual．His father and I sold our home, where memories remained in every room．We moved to California, leaving 　　20　　 our friends and church．

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　　The Canadian people are made up of different national races．The first known settlers of the country were the Indians．

　　It is believed that the Indians entered this continent 　　1　　 the Berlin Strait from eastern Asia at 　　2　　 10,000 years ago．When Europeans first 　　3　　 the country, Indians were living in 　　4　　 of the forested areas．There were only a few Indians in the provinces 　　5　　 the Atlantic Ocean．

　　The second 　　6　　 of people to enter Canada were the Eskimos．They 　　7　　 the Berlin Strait from Asia less than 3,000 years ago．There are few 　　8　　 of their early movements．

　　The first white settlers in Canada were the French．They came in greatest 　　9　　 to Quebec, but also to Nova Scotia, where they cleared(清除)farms 　　10　　 the southern side of the Bay of Fundy(芬迪湾，位于加拿大和美国之间)．

　　The French built their citadel(城堡)at Quebec City, and cleared farms out of the forests in the area．By the 　　11　　 of the British conquest(征服)in 1763, there were about 60,000 Frenchmen in Canada, living chiefly 　　12　　 Quebec and Montreal．

　　There were not many British people in Canada until American Revolution 　　13　　 large numbers northward．

　　Throughout the 19th century, thousands of British people came to Canada．The descendants(后代)of these peoples from England, Scotland and Ireland now 　　14　　 up about half of the population．Around the turn of the century, people came 　　15　　 increasing numbers from Europe and the largest numbers came from Central and Eastern－Germans, Czechs, Poles, Romanians and Ukrainians．

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　　Since mankind 　　1　　, people have looked to the stars, 　　2　　 them to be Gods．Some called them the“Wanderers”, and invested a complex mythology(神话)in them．Many 　　3　　 worshipped(敬神)them through song, praise, prayer(祈祷)．For thousands of years people thought the planets, moons and Sun 　　4　　 the Earth, and that the Earth was the 　　5　　 of the universe．When telescopes were 　　6　　 in the seventeenth century, people began to think that the Earth wasn't the center of the universe, and that the planets did not revolve around the Earth, but 　　7　　 the Sun．This concept was called heliocentrism．People started 　　8　　 of the planets as worlds very much like our own, and not the mythological Gods people thought they were．People started to think that other civilizations(文明)　　9　　 on other planets which were too far to see．As 　　10　　 were improved, more planets were found．Uranus, Neptune and Pluto．There may even be other planets 　　11　　 Pluto, but only time will 　　12　　 the answer to that question．

　　Our solar system has 9 planets that orbit a big star called the Sun．(An orbit is the path that a planet moves through．)All the planets orbit the Sun in elliptical(椭圆的)paths．

　　All the planets 　　13　　 different amounts of time to get all the way round the Sun．　　14　　 takes a year to make one complete orbit．In fact, that's how we decided 　　15　　 a year should be－it's the length of time it takes us to get all the way around the Sun!

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　　Mark Twain, 　　1　　 quite a lot, often 　　2　　 circumstances, usually financial circumstances(经济状况)forced him to．He was born in Floridian Missouri in 1835, and 　　3　　 to Hannibal, Missouri with his family when he was about 　　4　　 old．Most people think he was born in Hannibal, but that isn't true．After his father 　　5　　 when he was about twelve, Twain worked in Hannibal for a while and then left．　　6　　 he could earn more money．He worked for a while as a typesetter 　　7　　 various newspapers, and then got a job as a river pilot on the Mississippi．

　　Twain loved this job, and many of his books show it．The river job 　　8　　 however, because of the outbreak of the civil war．Twain was in the federate army for just two weeks, and then he and his whole company(同伴)went west, 　　9　　 from the war and the army．

　　In Nevada in California, Twain prospected(寻找)for sister and gold 　　10　　 luck, but did succeed as a writer．　　11　　 that happened, Twain traveled around the country giving lectures and 　　12　　 enough money to go to Europe．Twain didn't travel much the last ten years of his life, and he didn't publish much 　　13　　．

　　Somehow his travel, ever when forced, inspired his writings．　　14　　 many other popular writers, Twain derived(得到)much of the materials for his writing 　　15　　 the wealth and diversity(多样性)of his own experience．

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　　Many of our traditional medicines come from plants that grow wild throughout the world．Folk medicine keeps the health of the body by using medicines taken from surrounding plants since 　　1　　 for making medicine can be 　　2　　 everywhere, one can 　　3　　 folk medicine in any place of the world．They provide the basic ingredients(成分)that were used in the preparation of medicines and remedies(治疗方法)．

　　The practice of folk medicine 　　4　　 all the way back to the time of early man when both man and animal used plants in order to 　　5　　 healthy．It is not 　　6　　, for example, to see an animal suck the sap of some plant after being 　　7　　 by a poisonous snake．　　8　　 animals seem to have their 　　9　　 gift for knowing which plant will 　　10　　 what illness, man probably learned how to 　　11　　 for himself by animal watching．

　　Man 　　12　　 learned other things from animals．He observed that wild animals when sick remained quiet and rest, depending upon nature's remedies(治疗方法)for 　　13　　 well－the medicine in plants and pure air．He saw that an animal with a 　　14　　 could often be 　　15　　 resting in a cool place, eating nothing and often drinking a lot until the fever was gone．

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　　As Christmas is coming, there are presents to be bought, cards to be sent, and rooms to be cleaned．Parents are trying to hide presents from curious young children．If the gifts are large, this is sometimes a real 　　1　　 On Christmas Eve, young children find the excitement almost unbearable(不能忍受的)．They are torn between the wish to go to bed early so that Father Christmas will bring their presents quickly and the wish to 　　2　　 late so that they will not 　　3　　 the fun．The wish for gifts usually proves stronger．But though children go to bed early, they often lie 　　4　　 for a long time, hoping to see Father Christmas．

　　Last Christmas, my wife and I 　　5　　 hid a few large presents in the storeroom．I 　　6　　 the moment when my son, Jimmy, would ask me where that new bike had come from, but 　　7　　 he did not see it．

　　On Christmas Eve, 　　8　　 took the children hours to go to sleep．It must have been nearly 　　9　　 when my wife and I went quietly into their room and began 　　10　　 stockings．Then I pushed in the 　　11　　 I bought for Jimmy and left it beside the Christmas tree．We knew we would not get much sleep that night, for the children were 　　12　　 to get up early．At about five o'clock the next morning, we were 　　13　　 by loud sounds coming from the children's room．　　14　　 I had time to get out of bed, young Jimmy came riding into the room on his new bike, and his sister, Mary, 　　15　　 close behind pushing her new baby carriage．Then came the baby, moving on his hands and knees with a large balloon behind him．Suddenly it burst．That woke us up completely．The day had really begun with a band(巨响)！

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