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8. Where are the two speakers probably talking?

9. How will the two speakers make their school more beautiful?

10. What can we learn from the dialogue?

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22. —I don’t like the sleeping bag, Dad?

—What do you ________, Bob? It’s a camp, not a hotel.

23. The energy from the sun and wind is very cheap and it will never ________.

26. China grows plenty of cotton, ________ in the western areas.

27. —It’s clever ________ her to come up with ________ many good ideas.

—Never look down upon anyone!

28. The events in the Special Olympics are quite similar to ________ in the Olympics.

29. —The trees in the photo look so wonderful. Where ________ the photo ________?

—In my hometown. It is a place of natural beauty.

The passengers on the bus watched with sympathy (同情) as Susan made her way carefully up the steps. She paid the driver and then, using her hands to ________ the seats, sat in one of them.

She went blind a year ago. A sudden accident threw her into a world of darkness. Susan’s husband Mark tried ________ to help her.

Finally, Susan felt ready to return to her job, but ________ would she get there? She used to take the bus, but she was now too ________ to get around by herself. Mark ________ to ride the bus with Susan each morning and evening ________ she could manage it by herself.

For two weeks, Mark went with Susan to and from work each day. He taught her how to use her other ________ to decide where she was and how to get used to her new ________.

At last, Susan decided that she was ready to try the trip ________. Monday morning arrived. Before she left, she kissed her husband goodbye and, for the first time, they went their ________ ways. Each day went perfectly. She was ________ she could do it!

On Friday morning, Susan took the bus to work as usual. As she was getting ________ the bus, the driver said, “Miss, I sure envy (羡慕) you.” Surprised, Susan asked the driver why.

“You know, every morning for the ________ week, a fine-looking gentleman has been standing across the corner watching you until you enter your office building ________,” the bus driver said.

Her eyes got wet with happiness. She was so lucky. Her husband had given her a gift ________ powerful than sight. That’s the gift of love that can bring light where there is darkness.

“In this life, what did you miss?” The wife asked the husband when she was 25. The husband replied, “I missed a new job opportunity.” When the wife was 35, the husband angrily told her that he had just missed the bus. At 45, the husband said sadly, “I missed the opportunity to see my close relative before his last breath.” At 55, the husband said he missed a good chance to retire (退休). At 65, the husband complained, “I missed a dental appointment (牙科预约).” At 75, the wife did not ask the husband any more and the husband was kneeling in front of the very sick wife.

This time he asked the wife the same question. The wife, with a smile and peaceful look, replied, “In this life, I did not miss having you!” The husband’s eyes were full of tears. He always thought that they could be together forever. He was always so busy that he had never been thoughtful to his wife. The husband hugged the wife tightly. “How did I allow myself to miss your deep love for me for 50 years?” he asked himself.

In the busy city life, many people are always busy with work and neglect (忽视) the loved ones who care for them. But life is not permanent (永恒的), so always live in the moment. Express thanks to your loved ones in words. Show your care with actions. Treat every day as the last day of life. In this way, when your loved ones are gone, you will have nothing to feel sorry about.

Once you begin to eat potato chips, you may keep eating until the bag is empty. Have you ever experienced this? Why can’t you stop eating these salty chips? Scientists said it is due to a kind of neuron (神经元).

Scientists at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston have found that some neurons can make us want to eat salt.

The neurons take note of whether our bodies are lacking sodium (钠), a main part of salt. Then, they send signals (信号) to our brain to encourage us to eat more salt, according to the Daily Mail.

How do these neurons work?

Scientists did experiments on mice. They found that when mice lack sodium, their body gives off a kind of hormone (荷尔蒙) called aldosterone (醛固酮). This hormone then makes these neurons become active.

More research showed that adding salt to meals makes people enjoy their food more, Time magazine reported. This may cause people to continue eating even if they are full.

Scientists from Deakin University in Australia asked healthy people to eat the same food for lunch for four weeks. The amount of salt in the food was changed each week. At the same time, the scientists measured how much these people ate. They also asked the people how they felt about the meals; for example, if they felt happy or were still hungry after eating.

The results showed that salt made people eat 11 percent more food and calories. When eating low-salt meals, they could control (控制) over how much they ate. “But when we add salt to that food, all of a sudden those controls are gone,” researcher Russell Keast said to Time.

You may think you cannot live through summer without air conditioners (空调). But in ancient China, hand fans were almost the only help for people to drive the heat away.

Chinese people started to use hand fans over 2,000 years ago. The fans came in different shapes, such as round and square. They were also made from all kinds of materials (材料). Palm leaf (棕榈叶) fans were cheap and easy to make. Feather fans showed the owner’s high status (地位). Sandalwood (檀香) fans could send out a sweet smell.

Later, hand fans became far more than just something that could cool you down. They developed into artworks, in which tuanshan (round fans) and zheshan (folded fans) were the most common.

In the shape of a full moon, tuanshan was usually made of silk. They had beautiful embroidery (刺绣) of birds and flowers on them. Women, especially those in the imperial palace (皇宫), liked to use them. Poets in ancient China often compared a woman’s abandoned fate (被抛弃的命运) to tuanshan. Nalan Xingde wrote during the Qing Dynasty, “If only life were as beautiful as when we first met, why should the autumn wind bother to pity deserted painted fans? (人生若只如初见，何事秋风悲画扇？)”

However, men, especially the literati (文人), used zheshan, or folded fans. The literati liked them because zheshan were usually made of paper and they could paint and write poems on them. It was a way for them to show off their talents in literature, painting and calligraphy (书法). Almost anything can be painted on zheshan, but the most popular ones usually featured landscapes (以风景画为特色).

Today, Chinese people still use these fans, only not many write or paint on them any more. So the next time you use a fan, you may think of the stories behind it.

a. Zheshan were made for the literati.        b. Most zheshan were made of paper.

c. People could write and paint on them.   d. The literati could paint nothing but landscapes on them.

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There was a young woman who took great pride in her flower garden. She was raised by her grandmother who taught her to love and care for flowers.     66    

One day, while she was looking through a flower list she often ordered from, a picture of a plant caught her eyes.     67    

“I have to have it,” she said to herself, and she ordered it at once.

When it arrived, she already had a place prepared to plant it. She planted it at the back of her yard. It grew well, with beautiful green leaves all over it, but there were no blooms. Day after day she continued to water it, feed it, and she even talked to it trying to make it bloom.     68    

One morning weeks later, when standing before the vine, she felt very sad that her plant had not bloomed.     69    

It was at this point that her neighbor, whose yard joined hers, called over to her. “Thank you so much! You can’t imagine how much I have enjoyed the blooms of that vine you planted.” The young woman walked through the gate into her neighbor’s yard, and sure enough, she saw that on the other side of the wall the vine was filled with blooms.

    70     The vine had grown through the crevices (缝隙) and it had not flowered on her side of the wall, but it had flowered on the other side.

Sometimes one may not see the good result of his effort, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t successful.

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Perhaps your childhood piano lessons made you never want to play the piano again. Perhaps a piano is too expensive for you to a    81    . Now, thanks to a program in Sydney called “Play Me, I’m yours”, people are able to play the piano in p    82     places for free. They share beautiful music, and the program also helps them communicate with each other.

Thirty pianos have been placed in d    83     parts of the city, i    84     in several parks, at a bus stop and on some streets. The pianos have the logo “Play Me, I’m yours” on them.

People are i    85     to play music or sing songs with the pianos, no matter what level of ability they have. Lots of people have been attracted to the program and stopped to watch or play the pianos.

“Play Me, I’m yours” is a part of the Sydney Festival. It is a project of the British artist, Luck Jerram. He wants to help people in the city connect with each other. He thinks that so many people are sitting in front of computers and b    86     with their work all hours and they a    87     have no chance to enjoy music. So the p    88     of the project is to help them relax and make new friends.

The program “Play Me, I’m yours” has also reached England and Brazil before. It was warmly welcomed t    89    . But its greatest s    90     seems to come at the Sydney Festival.

“It’s a chance for people to be creative, connect with strangers and just have some fun,” Jerram said.

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You may have seen such a photo: with a long white beard (胡须) and wearing a bamboo hat, an old fisherman sits on a boat. Huang Quande looked like this when tourists took photos with him on the Lijiang River in Guilin, Guangxi. He became so famous online that many believed the fisherman on the back of the 20-yuan renminbi banknote (纸币) was based on him. Sadly, Huang died at the age of 94 on Feb 1, 2023.

Huang gave up fishing and became a photo model in 2008. He showed the true spirit (精神) of Lijiang River—being positive and friendly. In his 90s, Huang could still move his boat with speed.

The image of the fisherman on the back of the 20-yuan banknote is not just about one man. Instead, it is a cultural symbol of Guilin landscape (风景) commented Guangming Daily.

In fact, the different backsides of the fifth series of renminbi banknotes show the most iconic (标志性的) landscapes in China. Each of them carries its own cultural value. For example on the back of the 5-yuan banknote is Mount Tai in Shandong. In ancient times many emperors would go there and pray (祈祷) for the country. On the back of the 1-yuan banknote are the Three Pools Mirroring the Moon (三潭映月) in West Lake, Zhejiang. It is a great place for moon watchers during the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Because of the renminbi pictures, these places have attracted more tourists than before. Following the banknotes from 1 yuan to 100, Pan Jinyu from Chongqing had a “banknote tour” when he was 21. “I want to finish a ceremonial (有仪式感的) journey and feel the beauty of our country” Pan told Chongqing Economic Times.

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