用方框中所给单词的适当形式填空，使短文通顺、正确、连贯(每个单词限用一次)。
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instead, take, America, hate, clean, sign, invent, around, find, happy rich, paper
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What to children love and teachers _____? Chewing gum. People who work in schools say it _______ half an hour every day to take the gum off chairs and tables. People have chewed gum for a long time. Scientists in Sweden found a piece of chewing gum that is 9,000 years old. It had the tooth marks of a teenager on it ! but modern chewing gum was first made _____1870. Thomas Adams, an _____, got some liquid from a tree in Mexico. He wanted to make rubber, but ____ he found a way to make chewing gum. Adams’s gum was a big success. And soon other people began to make gum. In 1892, William Wrigley started to make gum. He sent pieces of gum to listed people in the US. phone books. People began to chew his gum, and he became one of _____ people in the USA. Today the Wrigley company makes one billion sticks of gum a year. ______ chew more than 90,000 tons of gum every year. Teenagers between 12 to 14 years old chew about 40 percent more of the gum than people in other states. Some people aren’t _____ about this much gum. People who worked at the Statue of Liberty thought there was too much gum ______ up, so they put in a trash can. The trash can had a sign over it. “ Put your gum here.” Many people put their gum on the ______!
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THE CHEAP HOUSE 6/22/2006 6:17 PM Qty. Item Price 1 shirt $ 27.00 3 bag $ 3.00 each 1 jacket $ 31.50 Subtotal $ 67.50 Tax $ 5.57 Discount: $ 1.07 Total $ 72.00 |
1. Mary bought a shirt on ____________.