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　　During a recent holiday I visited Dusseldorf, a city in the former West Germany. The nine-day trip left a deep impression 1 me. I arrived at Dusseldorf airport at 7 p.m. It was already 2 outside. The first thing I needed to do was to find a place to 3 . I decided to telephone the youth hotel. But to use the phone I needed some 4 so l asked a lady for help. To my 5 she gave me three coins to use. But all the phones in the 6 needed phone cards. And phone cards could only be bought at post offices during the 7 . I was 8 I would not be able to call the hotel. An old gentleman helped me. He couldn't speak English 9 understand that I needed to 10 a phone call. He showed me where the phone was and inserted（插进） 11 phone card. I called the youth hotel and found a plaee to stay that night.

　　The 12 of the German people made me feel that I was not 13 , my first day in Germany wasn't as 14 as I expected.

　　Whenever I went, I asked people for 15 . It surprised me that 16 every young German could speak English fluently. Older Germans couldn't speak English very well, but they would try to help me 17 they could. One middle-aged man I asked for direction even 18 me to the place I was looking for.

　　My 19 in Germany totally changed my impression of Germans. Now I think the people couldn't be more 20 .

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　　When a person is curious about something, it means he is 1 in it and wishes to know more about it. There is 2 wrong with curiosity in itself. Whether it is good or bad depends on what people are curious about.

　　Curiosity is 3 silly or wrong. Some persons with nothing to do are full of curiosity about what their 4 are doing. They are 5 to know what they are eating or drinking, what they are 6 home or taking outside, or 7 they have come so early or late. To be interested in these things is 8 because they are 9 at all. It is none of their 10 to know what their neighbors do or are doing. Such curiosity is 11 not only 12 but also harmful. For most probably, it 13 to small talk which often brings harm, shame of disrespect to others, and thus 14 their feelings.

　　On the other hand, there is a 15 curiosity--the curiosity of wise men, who wonder at all the great things and try to 16 all they can about them. Columbus could never have found America if he had not been 17 . James Watt would not have made the steam engine 18 his curiosity about the raising of the kettle lid. All the discoveries in human history have been made 19 a result of curiosity, 20 , the curiosity is never about unimportant things which have few or nothing to do with the happiness of the public.

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　　Jenkins was a jeweller, who had made a large diamond ring worth $ 57,000 for the Silkstone Jewellery Shop. When it was ready, he made a copy of it which looked 1 like the first one but was worth only $ 2,000. This he took to the shop, which 2 it without a question.

　　Jenkins gave the much more 3 ring to his wife for her fortieth birthday. Then, the husband and wife 4 to Paris for a weekend. As to the 5 ring, the shop sold it for $ 60,000.

　　Six months later the buyer 6 it back to Silkstone's office. “It's a faulty diamond,” he said,“It isn't worth the high 7 I paid.” Then he told them the 8 . His wife's car had caught fire in an 9 . She had escaped, 10 the ring had fallen off and been damaged in the great 11 of the fire.

　　The shop had to 12 . They knew that no fire on earth can 13 damage a perfect diamond. Someone had taken the 14 diamond and put a faulty one in its place. The question was: who 15 it?

　　A picture of the ring appeared in the 16 . A reader thought he 17 the ring. The next day, another picture appeared in the papers which 18 a famous dancer walking out to a plane for Paris. Behind the dancer there was a woman 19 a large diamond ring. “Do you know the 20 with the lovely diamond ring?” the papers asked their readers. Several months later, Jenkins was sentenced to seven years in prison.

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　　Mr Smith is well-known in Washington because of his many social blunders (stupid mistakes). Recently he received an invitation 1 a dinner party. Although he did not know the hostess, he 2 the invitation.

　　At dinner, he was 3 beside a woman full of dignity（尊严）. The woman tried to be 4 even though she had never met Mr Smith before. She spoke 5 , whenever he spoke to her. Between the first and the second

6 of the meal, she turned to Mr Smith and said,“Do you 7 that gray-haired man at the end of the table? The one 8 glasses.”

　　“Ah, yes. Who is he?” asked Smith.

　　“He's the Secretary of the Interior!” she replied.

　　Mr Smith said, “So 9 is the Secretary of the Interior! I'm afraid that I find very little to 10 about him, although he is the Secretary.”

　　The woman sat still and did not reply. Smith continued in spite of her 11 .“I really can't see how he received his 12 , unless he is perhaps a relative of the President.”

　　“It hardly 13 whether you like the Secretary or not,” she said. “He was 14 because the President thought he was the man for the 15 . If he does the job well, you should have no complaint（抱怨）.”

　　“That's just it,” said Smith.“No one 16 the things he does, unless he is a complete 17 !”

　　“Sir!” said the woman in all her 18 . “Do you know who I am?”

“No,” replied Smith.

　　“I am the Secretary's wife,” she said coldly.

　　Mr Smith was 19 , but he went on in spite of his embarrassment（困窘）,“Madam, do you know who I am?”

　　“No, I don't,” the woman replied.

　　“ 20 !” cried Mr Smith, as he quickly left the table.

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　　Joan of Arc died trying to drive the English from her country. She gave _____1____ the safety of her life as a farm girl to follow an ideal. In modern times John Brown also followed _____2_____ ideal when he led his attack on Harper's Ferry. John Brown believed in God. When he was young, he ____3_____ taken a young run-away slave into his home. He hated _____4_____ and felt it was against God's will. During the battle over Kansas, Brown and his sons fought _____5_____. In 1859 he came to the East to fight ____6___ slavery. With him, in a farmhouse outside the town of Harper's Ferry, Virginia, were twenty-one followers, five of them black men. Harper's Ferry lay ___7_____ the Shenandoah and the Potomac Rivers. It was on the border of Pennsylvania, a ____8_____ state. Brown felt that the ____9_____ he would easily free would easily go to the“free”land. Behind Harper's Ferry lay hilly country, where Brown and his men could hide out if the attack _____10_____.

　　As Brown and his men made their way forward, he told them,“Word will soon ____11____ throughout the countryside. Slaves will take up hatches, guns and knives. They _____12_____ join us. ”But Brown didn't succeed. His men ____13_____ take over（占领）the Rifle House and the Engine House. And Brown took a number of hostages（人质）as the ____14_____ spread. But word of the attack reached the Charles Town militia（民兵）, who. surrounded Brown the next day. The militia ____15____ fighting when Brown ____16____ a man with an offer of stopping fighting he was shot down. The next day Colonel Robert E. Lee and a group of US soldiers drew up before the Engine House. During the entire time of the attack, no slave had ____17___ Brown. Brown asked to be allowed to escape with his____18___. Lee____19___. Very soon it was allover. Most of Brown's men were _____20_____. Two soldiers were killed. Brown was badly wounded. Thirty-seven days later, he was hanged.

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　　Icebergs（冰山）start on land and slide off into the ocean. Little icebergs are as big as a school bus. Big ones are longer than a freight train and as _____1____ as a skyscraper（摩天大楼）.

　　The big block of ice that floats _____2_____ the water is only a small part of the _____3_____ iceberg. Most of this floating giant is underwater and ______4_____ show.

　　Icebergs also melt and ______5_____. They melt when they float away from _____6____ waters to warmer waters under a hot sun.

　　Some icebergs look like giant wedding（婚礼）cakes, ____7____ others look like shinning white castles（城堡）. When they catch the red and gold _____8___ of the sunset, they all look like giant flames. But these same beautiful icebergs are very dangerous ____9____ they float, big and silent, into the _____10___ of a ship. Many ships used to be wretched _____11_____ they hit an iceberg ____12_____ in the ocean．Today this hardly ever _____13____, because there is a special fleet of small ships, ____14______ the International Ice Patrol. These small _____15______ do nothing but ____16_____ icebergs that other ships might run ___17_____ when one of the patrol ships, sights an iceberg, _____18______ radios a warning to all the ships in____19_____waters. Sometimes iceberg patrol _____20_____ break up an especially dangerous iceberg with explosives（爆炸）.

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　　Located in Shaanxi Province, Xi'an is an important ___1___ of science and technology, culture, education, trade and finance as ___2___ as modern processing（加工）base. ___3___ a population of more than 7 million, Xi'an takes ___4___ an area of 10,108 square kilometers. ___5___ Chang' an in Chinese history, Xi'an was once the capital of 13 dynasties and ____6__ a similar honor as other famous historical cities in the world ___7___ Rome and Athens.

　　The ___8___ Silk Road started there 2,100 years ago, and ___9__ the city into a trade center that connected China with ___10___ countries.

　　The splendid history has blessed the city with numerous valuable relics ___11___ the Qin Terracotta Warriors and Horses and the ancient city walls from the Ming Dynasty.

　　Together with gorgeous natural scenery, those historic sites ___12__ a powerful boost（促进）to the tourism Industry in Xi'an, which ___13___ an important part in the local economy.

　　The city has 56 hotels rated in the tourist-star system which ___14___ foreigners and 174 travel agencies open today.

　　Besides tourism, the time-honoured city has also made ___15___ progress in terms of local economy, ___16___ research and city construction advancement in the past 50 years.

　　With a (n) ___17___ of 13 percent in the gross domestic product (CDP) for 10 continuous years, Xi'an ___18___ a comprehensive industrial system of its own.

　　There are now 43 colleges and more than 660 scientific institutions in Xi'an. Each year it turns ___19___ about 3,000 research achievements or patents（专利）. The city's comprehensive technological power ranks ___20__ in China, next to Beijing and Shanghai.

　　The cold weather of the last week has had a surprising result. Forty thousand Russian red-necked ducks have ___1___ in Britain where the weather, just below freezing, is like spring to them.

　　The Russian red-necked ducks manage perfectly well at temperatures down to thirty degrees ___2___ zero. They wouldn't think of ___3___ home at minus forty. But, as the weather gets colder, if it docs, they make a quick ___4___ to take off together all with a single thought ____5___,“Go somewhere ____6____”.

　　Last Tuesday the small ___7___ near my house was invaded by about three hundred Russian red-necked ducks, a noisy lot, though I must say they were not troublesome. Our local birds were at first quite ___8___ by these ___9___ from far away, and there were some obvious language difficulties too. At nine o'clock I went down ___10___ to the edge of the lake, with a little bread and milk ___11___ our own birds. I saw them standing up, __12___ the foreigners to eat up everything. But my worry proved ___13__：the red-necked birds didn't like the bread at all. Many of them ___14___ a mouthful, and threw up. In fact they pushed and fought to get away from the food, ___15___ own birds looked at them ___16___.

　　My wife had ___17___ me down the path with a hopeless cake she had made on Monday evening. She had forgotten to turn off the electricity in time, and the cake got ___18___ Now that, funnily enough, the Russian birds ___19__, though our birds wouldn't touch it. We realized then the visitors were used to ___20___ bread probably, and my wife agreed to make some for them.

　　Building a house costs quite a lot of money. ___1___ you plan to build a house. Your first ___2___ will be to find a right piece of land. Your choice will depend on many different things. You will probably try to ___3___ a sunny place, with ___4___ surroundings, near shops and bus stops, not too far from your friends and the place where you work.

　　Next you will find an excellent ___5___, and together with the builder you will work out a ___6___. The builder will draw the plan. It will ___7___ the number of rooms, their position and size, and other parts which must be noticed, ___8___ windows, doors and electric outlets. The builder will work out ___9___ is needed to ___10__ your house. He will ___11___ the cost of the wood, bricks, the glass, and ___12___ else that must be used in building the house, later on, when he starts to build, this estimate（预算）must be corrected and revised. His estimate is based onexisting___13___, but prices of such things may ___14___, and many other things may happen ___15___ the time when he makes the estimate and the time when he builds the house.

　　When the builder gives his estimate, you may wish to ___16__ your plan. (You may also wish to change your builder, if his estimate is too __17__!) You may find that some of the features you wanted at first ___18___ too much, or that you can spend a little more and ___19___. something to your plan. The builder's estimate depends on the plan, ___20___ the final plan depends on the builder's estimate.

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　　As she walked round the large shop, Edith realized how difficult it was to choose a suitable Christmas ___1___ for her father.

　　She ___2___ that he were as easy to please as her mother, who was ___3___ satisfied with perfume（香水） ___4___, shopping at this time of the year was a most ___5___ job. People ___6___ on your feet, pushed you with their shoulders and ___7___ you over in their hurry in order to ___8___ something cheap ahead of you.

　　Partly to have a rest, Edith paused in front of a counter, where some beautiful ties were on ___9___“They are ___10___ silk,” the shop assistant told her with a smile, trying to ___11___ her to buy one. But Edith knew from past ___12___ that her choice of ties hardly ever pleased her father.

　　She moved on slowly and then, quite by chance, ___13___ where a small crowd of men had gathered round a counter. She found some fine pipes on sale and the ___14___ were very beautiful. Edith did not hesitate for long, although her father ___15___ smoked a pipe once in a while, she believed this was ___16___ to please him.

　　When she got home, with her small but ___17___ present hidden in her handbag, it was time for supper and her parents were already ___18___ table. Her mother was in great ___19___“Your father has at last decided to stop smoking,”she told her daughter happily. Edith was so ___20___ that she could not say a single word.