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The turning point of my life was my decision to give up a     1     business career and study music. My parents, though     2     and sharing my love of music,     3     of it as a     4    . This was     5     in view of the family background. My grandfather had taught music for nearly forty years at Springhill College and,     6     much beloved and respected in the     7    , earned     8     enough to provide for his large family.     9     a consequence of this example, my parents     10     upon college instead of a conservatory of music.

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The Amber Room, made of several tons of amber and  decorated    1    gold and jewels, has a(n)     2     history. At first, it    3    for the palace of Frederick I. Then in 1716 he gave it to Peter the Great, and later, the Czar made it serve as a small    4    hall.

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A footballer was     1     of taking money for deliberately not scoring goals so as to let the other team win We went to interview him. He     2     taking money but we were skeptical... It was a dilemma because the footballer could     3     demanded damages if we were wrong.

Remove clothing using scissors if necessary unless it is    4     to the burn… It is best to place burns under gently     5     water for about 10 minutes. (The cool water stops the burning process, prevents the pain becoming unbearable and reduces     6     .

During the Renaissance, new ideas and values gradually replaced     7     held in the Middle Ages. People began to concentrate     8     on religious themes and     9     a more humanistic attitude to life. …    10     coincidence, oil paints were also developed at this time, which made the colors used in paintings look richer and deeper.

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Part 1. I can well remember there was a time     1     a deep blue sky, the song of the birds, moonlight and flowers could never have kept me     2    . That’s changed since I came here. For example, one evening when it was so warm, I stayed awake     3     purpose until half past eleven in order to have a good look at the moon by myself. It was the first time in a year and a half that I     4     the night face to face.

Part 2. At first the English spoken in England between about AD 450 and 1150 was very different from     5     spoken today. It was based more on German than the English we speak at present. Then gradually between about AD 800 and 1150 English became     6     like German because those who ruled England spoke first Danish and later French.

Part 3. I am fond of my sister but she has one serious shortcoming. She can be very     7    . I know the proper way is always her way. My sister doesn’t care about details. So I told her that the source of the Mekong is in Qinghai Province. She gave me a     8     look. When I told her the air would be hard     9    , she said it would be     10     interesting experience.

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In Britain and the USA, the managing directors or presidents of big companies are often     1     of being “fat cats”, i.e. bosses whose salaries are often twenty-five times more than the company’s     2     worker. When times are hard and workers are     3     off, they     4     very little. Departing directors, on the other hand, get big golden     5    .

The United States is a     6     nation. Sports in America take a variety of forms. Most sports are     7    , so that what is happening in sports     8     upon the time of year. Some sports are called     9     sports, as the number of spectators greatly     10     the number playing in the game.

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In the 1400s and 1500s, Peru was the centre of the powerful ancient Inca Empire. The Inca    1     lived in the now-famous site Machu Picchu. Spain took control of Peru and ruled until 1821. It was for this reason that Spanish is the main     2     language of Peru.

After     3     your destination, you will have a day to explore and be     4     by this ancient city.     5     amazing is the Incas’ dry stone method of building.

My time here in China is going well. I love my new school and classmates. Over the October holiday, my parents and I are     6     to go to Xi’an to see the Terracotta Army. I’ve heard that it is an amazing sight, and I can’t wait to go. To me, the story of the Terracotta Army is almost     7    .

Finally, I stopped     8     myself with     9     and models and looking for things that were wrong with my face or body. Instead, I made a list of the things I liked about myself. By     10    positive about myself and my body, I became both happier and healthier.

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At the time they were created, the Impressionist paintings were    1    , but today they are accepted as the beginning of    2    we call “modern art’. This is because the Impressionists     3    artists to look at their environment in new ways. There are scores of modern art styles, but     4    the Impressionists, many of these painting styles might not exist. On the one hand, some modern art is abstract; that is, the painter doesn’t     5    to paint objects as we see them with our eyes,     6    instead concentrates on certain qualities of the object,     7    color, line and shape to represent them. On the    8    hand, some paintings of modern art are so     9     that they look photographs. These styles are so different. Who can    10    what painting styles there will be in the future?

8 . Directions：Read the following passage and fill in the blanks to complete the summary. No more than eight words for each blank.

The school that is changing American education

Two years ago, I visited a school in Brooklyn called P-TECH, the Pathways in Technology early college high school, which seemed very much like the future of education to me. It knitted together educators and job creators, giving kids not only a high school degree, but a two-year associate degree and a job guarantee at one of the country’s top blue-chip firms, IBM.

The latest great national leap forward in secondary education was during the post W.W. Ⅱ period, when state governments decided that high school education, previously optional, should be compulsory in order to ensure the kind of skilled workforce needed to compete in a new, higher tech industrial era. Now, many leaders---including the President, the education Secretary, scores of blue-chip CEOs and executives, and most top educators---believe we’re once again at such a turning point. When it comes to high school, an increasing number of them buy into the idea that not only should educators and job creators b e much more closely connected, but that as Stanley Litow, the IBM executive behind the program puts it,“six should be the new four.”The push for all American kids to have a post high school future, like Tennessee governor Haslam’s recent calls for two years of free community college for every student in the state, seems to come almost daily.

The statistics support it. A Four-year high school degree these days only guarantees a $15 an hour future. According to projections by the Center on Education and the Workforce at Georgetown University, the U.S. economy will create some 47-million job openings in the decade ending 2018, but nearly two-thirds will require some post secondary education. The Center projects that only 36% of American jobs will be filled by people with only a 4-year high school degree---half of what that number was in the 1970s. What’s more, the cost of not trading up educationally could be disastrous---workers with an associate degree will earn 73% more than those with only a high school diploma.

Many leaders maintain that children should     1     and that high schools should     2    . The idea is based on     3    . On one hand, more jobs will require     4    . On the other, an associate degree will ensure     5    .

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I am going to tell you an unbelievable thing     1    happened in my restaurant today.

This afternoon a poorly－dressed gentleman came into my restaurant. Nobody knew     2    he was. We wondered     3    he was so hungry. We were surprised     4    he finished two orders of food in a very limited time.We doubted     5    the man was able to pay the bill. The gentleman asked     6    we would mind waiting for just a few minutes. Then we were shocked to see    7    he took out of an envelope—a million pound bank note.

I asked Mr. Clements    8    it was genuine. Mr.Clements said it was true because two of this amount had been issued by the Bank of England this year. He thought     9    the gentleman showed them couldn’t be a fake.

    10    a gentleman with a million pound note was in rags and ate in our small restaurant was a big puzzle to all the people there. I really couldn’t describe how excited I was.

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    1    time I have been changed quite a lot from a     2    machine in 1642 to an analytical machine in 1800s. At first I could only     3    difficult sums but gradually I could be made to work as a “universal machine ” to solve any difficult    4     problems.