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　　It's back-to-school time again. In the morning you wave goodbye, and that _____1_____ evening you're burning the late-night oil in sympathy（同情）. In the race to improve educational standards, _____2_____ are throwing the books at kids. _____3_____ primary school students are complaining of homework _____4_____ What's a well-meaning parent to do?

　　As hard as it may be, sit back and keep cool, experts _____5_____. Though you've got to get them to do it, by _____6_____ too much, or even examining _____7_____ too carefully, you may _____8_____ them from doing it by themselves. “I wouldn't advise a parent to check every _____9_____ exercise,” says psychologist（心理学家）John Rosemond, author of Ending The Tough Hamework. “There's a _____10_____ of understanding for trial and error（错误）. Let your children _____11_____ the grade they are worthy of..”

　　Many experts believe parents should gently look over the work of younger children and ask them to rethink about their _____12_____, but don't want them to feel it has to be _____13_____ That's not to say parents should pay no attention to _____14_____ ——first, they should monitor how much homework their kids _____15_____. Thirty minutes a day in the early elementary（基础） years and an hour in _____16_____ four, five, and six is standard. For junior-high students it should be no _____17_____ than an hour and a half, and two for high-school students. If your child _____18_____ has more homework than this, you may want to check with other _____19_____ and then talk to the teacher about _____20_____ homework.

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　　As you probably know from the appeals（呼吁）being made for funds to fight cancer, and from all the research that is being done _____1_____ this subject——cancer is a great threat to the health and life of mankind. We will only discuss cancer in general _____2_____, so you can have an idea of what _____3_____ in a body that has cancer.

　　A cancer is a continuous growth in the body which doesn't follow the normal growth _____4_____. The cells _____5_____ the cancer spread through the body to parts which may be _____6_____ the spot where the cancer begins. _____7_____ it is removed or destroyed the cancer can _____8_____ the death of the person.

　　Cells in the body are growing _____9_____. As they wear ____10_____ and disappear, their places are _____11_____ by new cells of exactly the same kind. But cancer cells look and act _____12_____ from normal body cells.

　　When these cancer cells divide and increase in _____13_____, they don't change into the fully grown form and then stop reproducing. _____14_____ they remain young cells and continue to reproduce in number until they are harmful.

　　As the cancer cells grow, they do not _____15_____ in one spot, but separate and move in _____16_____ the normal cells. They may become so _____17_____ that the normal cells in his part of the body cannot continue to work or even remain alive. When the cancer _____18_____ into the blood, it is carried to distant parts of the body. _____19_____ it may grow to form large masses which interfere（干扰）with the activities of the _____20_____cells.

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　　Tim Becker and his neighbors are doing something to make their neighborhood a trouble-free area.

　　When Tim Becker gets in his car to go shopping, he doesn't _____1_____ drive to a store and back home. He always looks _____2_____ up and down the streets of his neighborhood. He looks for anything _____3_____ such as strange cars, loud noises, _____4_____ windows, or people gathering on street corners.

　　Tim _____5_____ to a neighborhood watch group in Stoneville, Indiana, USA.The neighborhood watch group _____6_____ on the third Wednesday of every month. That's _____7_____ Tim gets together with about ten of his neighbors to discuss community _____8_____. Members of the neighborhood watch group want to help the police _____9_____ their homes, streets, and families safe.

　　Tina Stedman, president of _____10_____ neighborhood watch group, agrees with Tim. “People seem to think that crime（犯罪）happens to other people but not _____11_____ them. Well, it's never happened to me,” she said, “but I don't think anyone has the _____12_____ to steal from other people or to make them feel _____13_____ sitting in their own homes.”

　　Alex, a member of the group, says that all the neighbors _____14_____ out for one another. “We _____15_____ each other's homes. We keep watch on the neighborhood at night and on weekends. Usually a _____16_____ of four or five of us goes out together. If something doesn't look right, then we call the _____17_____. For example, if we notice a group of teenagers who seem to be looking for _____18_____ ,or someone destroying property（财产）,we report to the police.”

　　Alex feels the neighborhood watch groups _____19_____ a lot in keeping crime down. Her husband Jim agrees, “Police are good people, but they can't do _____20_____.”

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14, Woodman Road,

Two Bridges,

West Sussex.

25th February

Cosmo Books Ltd.

Hertford Estate,

Rickmansworth,

Middy,

Ref.GBS/SW/4CJ

Dear Sir,

　　Just over six months ago, I saw an advertisement in the Morning Mail for a set of the complete works of William Shakespeare.Your company, Cosmo Books Ltd._____1_____ this set (eight books of plays and two books of poetry) at _____2_____ was claimed to be a “remarkable” _____3_____ fifteen pounds and fifty pence, _____4_____ postage and packing.I had wanted a set of Shakespeare's plays and poems for some time, and these books in red imitation leather, looked particularly _____5_____ ; so I sent for them. Two weeks later, the books arrived, _____6_____ with a set of the complete works of Charles Dickens which I had not _____7_____. So I returned the Dickens' books to you, with a _____8_____ for fifteen pounds and fifty pence for the works of Shakespeare Two mom weeks passed.Then there _____9_____ on my door step a second set of the works of Shakespeare, the same set of novels by Dickens and a six-book set of the plays of Moliere, in French. Since I don't read French, these were of no use to me at all. _____10_____ ,I could not afford to post all these books back to you, so I wrote to you at the end of August of last year, instructing you to come and _____11_____ all the books that I did not want, and asking you not to send any other books until further _____12_____ . You did not reply to that letter. _____13_____, you sent me a bill for forty-two pounds, and a set of the plays of Schiller, in German. Since then, a new set of books has arrived every two _____14_____ the works of Goethe, the poems of Milton, the plays of Strindberg; I _____15_____ know what I have The books are still all in their boxes, in the garage, and my car has to _____16_____ in the rain outside

　　I have no _____17_____ for any more books, and even if I read from now on until the Last _____18_____, I should not finish reading all the books that you have sent me.

　　Please send no more books, send no more bills, send no more angry letters _____19_____ payment. Just send one large lorry and take all the books away, _____20_____ me only with the one set of the complete works of Shakespeare for which I have paid.

Yours faithfully,

SIMON ALKER

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　　One evening, sitting at the window reading, my mother called me, “Come here,“ she said,” ____1____ .”She held my head against her ____2____, and after a puzzled moment I felt a ____3____ foot drumming on my cheek.“You see?” she said, “It's alive.You can ____4____ it, can't you?” I accepted it, as I accepted everything, without ____5____. It was as good a place for the baby to be in as any other and I never ____6____ about why it got in or how it would finally get out.

　　A baby would come? I ____7____ noticed.That there were soon to be ____8____ of us would not make any difference to me.I had my place, starlike in my small universe.____9____, certainly not a baby, could _____10_____ that.

　　I was ____11____, however. I soon found that things had ____12____ a great deal. I had never been the ____13____. Now I was no longer the youngest. I was simply the one in the ____14___. My sister had certain ____15____ because she was the oldest, and my brother was the baby, the son, the much ____16____ boy. More than that, he had all sorts of things that never came to me.

　　As he grew, it became ____17____ that my brother had been the center of everything.People smiled when they saw him. He made them happy ____18____ by being there.And he had the sort of childish beauty that always draws a second ____19____. He was so charming that he was immediately loveable.Later he also turned out to be ____20____ although perhaps not quite as clever as I was.

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　　Electricity is such a part of our everyday life that we rarely think twice when we turn on the lights or TV. At night, roads are brightly ____1____, making people and traffic move ____2____. Colorful ____3____ have become part of the character of every modern city. In the home, many ____4____ saving objects are powered by electricity. Even when we turn off the beside ____5____ and are fast asleep, it is still working for us, driving our ____6____ ,or keeping our rooms at a normal temperature. Every day, trains take us to and from work, we rarely stop ____7____ how they run until something goes____8____.

　　In the summer of 1959, the power station that supplies New York with electricity was ____9____ order. Trains refused to move and the people in them sat in the dark, ____10____ to do anything. ____11____ stopped working. So that even if you were lucky enough not to be ____12____ between two floors, you had the tiring ____13____ of finding your way down hundreds of flights of stairs. People were afraid to leave homes, for they were just as ____14____ as anybody else, although the police had been ordered to ____15_____ by in case something unexpected should happen.

　　At the same time, ____16_____ disorder happened in the home, _____17______ rooms became stoves, fish and meat remained uncooked in the pots, and people sat ____18____ and frightened in the dark. One of the strangest things was that some fifty ____19____ people led many sighted workers home. When the electricity came on again, _____20_____ a person in the city can have turned on a switch without thinking how great a servant he had at his finger tips.

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　　Two men on a touring holiday were injured by an explosion in their motor van（面包车）yesterday.

　　Shoppers, traders and businessmen in Red Lion Street were ____1____ by a loud bang, and seconds later the two men jumped over from the van, which had stopped outside Barclays Bank. Several people rushed to give ____2____ and helped to put out the fire ____3____ the van. A light American truck changed the ____4____ to provide living accomodation room, ____5____ firemen arrived.

　　The men, Mr. Gary House, who was driving, and his ____6____ Mr. Charles Lynn——were taken to hospital with slight ____7____. They were allowed to leave after ____8____. “I heard this explosion. It was ____9____ loud. I thought it could have been ____10____,”said Mr. Leslie Webster, manager of the market, who was working in his office in Red Lion Street. “I looked out of the window and saw this lad jump from the van and ____11____ on the ground. Then another lad came out of the van. He seemed to be in a ____12____ state——parts of his trousers were hanging below his knees.”

　　“I came downstairs to get a fire extinguisher（灭火器）, but ___13___ the time I got outside someone from the bank was in the ____14____ with an extinguisher.”

　　Mr. Webster said both men were shocked. One was taken into the market's office to wait for a(n) ____15____.“The second man ____16____ going back into the van to see if everything was ____17____, and five minutes later he came out with a drawer that was burning,” he added._____18_____ inside the van was mainly superficial（表在的）, ____19____ a plastic window was blown out.

　　The two men have spent the last five months ____20____ At the time of the incident their wives were shopping in the city.

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Dear Laura,

　　I just heard you told an old story of gift giving and unselfish love in your program. You doubted that such unselfish love would happen in today's world. Well, I'm here to give you ____1____.

　　I wanted to do something very ____2____ for my fifteen-year-old son, who has always been the perfect child. He ____3____ all summer to earn enough money to buy a used motorcycle．Then, he spent hours and hours on it ____4____ it looked almost new. I was so ____5____ of him that I bought him the shiniest helmet and a riding outfit.

　　I could ____6____ wait for him to open up his gift. In fact, I barely slept the night before. Upon awakening, I went to the kitchen to ____7____ the coffee, tea, and morning goodies. In the living room was a beautiful keyboard with a ____8____:“To my wonderful mother, all my love, your son.”

　　I was so ____9____. It had been a long-standing joke in our family that I wanted a piano so that I could ____10____ lessons. “Learn to play the piano, and I'll get you one.” was my husband's ____11____.

　　I stood there shocked, crying a river, asking myself how my son could ____12____ this expensive gift.

　　Of course, the ____13____ awoke, and my son was thrilled（激动）with my reaction. Many kisses were ____14____ , and I immediately wanted him to ____15____ my gift.

　　As he saw the helmet and outfit, the look on his face was not ____16____ what I was expecting. Then I ____17____ that he had sold the motorcycle to get me the keyboard.

　　Of course I was the proudest mother ____18____ on that day, and my feet never hit the ground for a month.

　　So I wanted you to know, that kind of love still ____19____ and lives even in the ever-changing world of me, me, me!

　　I thought you'd love to ____20____ this story.

Yours,

Hilary

　　P. S. The next day, my husband and I bought him a new “used”already shiny motorcycle.

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　　After finishing high school, Judy looked for a job at a store．Judy wanted to work as an assistant. The manager of the store ___1___ Judy. “We don't have any openings（空缺）for assistants now. But we have another job. Would you like to be a store detective?”Judy was very surprised,“But I'm ___2___ five feet two inches tall. And I only weigh 105 pounds.”The manager laughed,“You're just ___3___ for the job. You don't look like a detective. You look like a ___4___. That's what we want.”He went on to explain,“If you see a customer steal something, wait ___5___ he is outside the store. Then stop him. We'll call the police.”

　　Judy decided to ___6___ the job as a store detective. Each day she walked around the store, ___7___ customers. She remembered the manager's words：“Most shoplifters（进商店行窃者）are well-dressed．Many shoplifters are rich.”

　　The manager ___8___ right. One day Judy saw ___9___ who looked like a businessman standing ___10___ the jewelry counter（柜台）. The assistant showed the man gold watches. ___11___ the assistant turned to another customer. Right then, the man put two watches on his ___12___. He wore a coat so no one could find him out. He put two more watches on himself ___13___ the assistant turned back. “I ___14___ these watches.”said the man.

　　The man walked as ___15___ as possible out of the front door. Judy ___16___ him outside and then shouted, “___17___ ! I saw you steal four watches.”The man began to run, and Judy ran after him. She cried out,“Stop that ___18___ !”A policeman at the corner seized（抓住）the man and later, a police ___19___ took the thief away.

　　The manager of the store was proud of Judy. He said, “Good work, Judy. You are an excellent ___20___.”

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　　The criminal was now rushing towards the seats and the officer was getting up.

　　“Catch him?“Mrs Frobisher cried, standing up using her stick for ___1__. Her anger increased when she saw red blood on the officer's face. As the criminal reached the seat on her left, she pushed her stick __2___ him and he fell heavily to the ground with a loud cry.

　　A strange sound came from Mrs Frobisher's mouth. Her heart was making a terrible ___3___ in her ears. As the stick flew across the station, she ___4___ back on the seat. She closed her eyes for a moment.

　　When she opened them, the criminal was ___5___ to get up, but the police were beside him before he was on his feet. He had no ___6___ of escape, and was led outside by the police.

　　The officer __7___ up Mrs Frobisher's stick and took it back to her. “Yours, I think. Madam,”he said ___8__ heavily. Then he took out a ___9___. “May I have your name and address, please, Madam?”

　　“Oh, why?” said Mrs Frobisher in a weak voice. “I didn't really ___10___ him, did I?”

　　“You did very well indeed, Madam,”he said.“That man's a ___11___ robber, and we've been trying to catch him for weeks. We were __12___ that he was on that train from London, and so we___13____ for him here. He almost escaped, as you noticed, but your quick __14__ stopped that. We were delighted when we saw him on the ___15___.”

　　“Then why do you want my name and address?”she asked.

　　He pointed to the notice board on the right. “There's a notice over there,”he said.“It's too far away to ___16___ from here, but the Southern Bank has offered ___17___ to anyone who helps to catch this man. You helped a great deal. Madam, so, if you'll ___18___ give me your name and address, you'll no ___19___ receive the money in a short time.”

　　“I'm not as ___20___ as I used to think,”Mrs Frobisher told herself.

　　“Pardon, Madam?” the officer said.

　　“Never mind,”she said, and told him who she was.