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THE DREAM AND THE PLAN

My name is Wang Kun. Ever since middle school, my sister Wang Wei and I have dreamed about taking a great bike trip. Two years ago she bought an expensive mountain bike and then she     1     me to buy one. Last year, she visited our cousins, Dao Wei and Yu Hang at their college in Kunming. They are Dai and grew up in western Yunnan Province near the Lancang River, the Chinese part of the river that is called the Mekong River in other countries. Wang Wei soon got them interested     2         3     too. After graduating from college, we finally got the chance to take a bike trip. I asked my sister, “Where are we going?” It was my sister who first had the idea to cycle along the entire Mekong River from where it begins to where it ends. Now she is planning our     4     for the trip.

I am fond of my sister but she has one serious     5    . She can be really stubborn. Although she didn’t know the best way of getting to places, she insisted that she organize the trip     6    . Now, I know that the proper way is always her way. I kept asking her, “When are we leaving and when are we coming back?” I asked her whether she had looked at a map yet, Of course, she hadn’t; my sister doesn’t care about     7    . So I told her that the source of the Mekong is in Qinghai Province. She gave me a determined look—the kind that said she would not change her mind. When I told her that our journey would begin at an     8         9     more than 5.000 metres, she seemed to be excited about it. When I told her the air would be hard to     10     and it would be very cold, she said it would be an interesting experience. I know my sister well. Once she has made up her mind, nothing can change it. Finally, I had to give in.

2 . Fill in the blanks with words and phrases that are taken from your textbooks.
1. Fast food restaurants are now _________rapidly all over the country in the United States. Speed is a very important __________. People usually have a short ________ ________because they just do not want to _______ ______ ______ ______. Fast food restaurant are places that _________ ______ ______ hundreds of people in a short time. There is usually very _____ ______ and the food is always very cheap.
2. In Japan, ______ ______ ______is often held while people are drinking tea. The ceremony, usually held in a teahouse, ______ ______ ______ the sixteen century. Guests ______ ______ ________ set up then and the tea ______ is a powdered green tea. Though still ______ today, the tea ceremony may not be ______ ______ ______ it used to be. Young people tend to ______ other drinks.
3. In the seventeenth ______, Rives, blown heavily . ______ ______. His hands dropped helplessly. Danny thought it was his chance ---the boy was ______ ______ ______, he decided to _____ the deadly blow. But before he could do that, Rivera caught him off his ______ and hit him ______ ______ ______. Danny went down. When he ______ Rivera gave him another blow on the neck and jaw.

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The    1    between the two restaurants was on! A week later, Wang Peng’s restaurant was nearly full and he felt happier. Perhaps he would be able to earn his    2    after all and not have to close his restaurant. He did not look forward to    3    in debt because his restaurant was no longer popular. He smiled as he welcomed some customers     4     at the door but the smile left his face when he saw Yong Hui walking in. She did not look happy but     5     at him. “May I ask what you were doing in my restaurant the other day? I thought you were a new customer and now I know that you only came to     6    on me and my menu,”she shouted. “Please excuse me,” he calmly     7    , “I wanted to know     8     all my customers had gone last week. I followed one of them and found them in your restaurant. I don’t want to upset you, but I found your menu so    9    that I stopped worrying and started advertising the    10    of my food. Why don’t you sit down and try a meal?”

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③Life-long commitment and, indeed, the survival of society itself rely on people seeing beauty __________ __________ __________ __________ . The human race would soon die out if we could only see beauty (9) __________ __________ __________ __________ limited criteria.

Physical beauty must also __________ __________ __________ an attraction to something deeper within a person.

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②One afternoon, hundreds of unlucky passengers who had been expecting to __________ __________ __________ to New York were told it had been cancelled. One unfortunate counter agent was dealing with all the passengers when an angry man, who had been queuing for some time, __________ __________ __________ __________ the front.

When this happens, he smiles and nods, indicating that everything is fine. When the waiters are not looking, however, he __________ __________ __________ the raw meat anywhere he can reach—the sugar bowl, the tiny flower vase, inside a bun and under a plate.

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The Sundance Film Festival     1     boycotts all Hollywood films, and we don’t foresee ever including them. The initial idea for our festival was     2     back in l978. when it was known as the Utah/US Film Festival. However, it was not well known until 1981. It was then that Robert Redford became its     3     and changed the focus to independent films, often made on very modest     4     It was given its new name-the Sundance Film Festival-in 1991. Redford has acted in and directed many big Hollywood films, but wanted to     5     the public to films made outside of the Hollywood system

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Yet, some people are    1     They claim that surfing the Internet is a waste of time. They make the     2     that children spend too much time chatting and playing games instead of     3     on their school work. However, a recent survey conducted in the USA shows that 80 per cent of Internet users     4     it mostly to search for answers to questions. The second most common use of the Internet, for 79 per cent of Internet users, is to find out information about hobbies. These statistics prove that gathering information is the     5     use for the Internet.

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①With these severe restrictions on her communication, Helen’s behavior was __________ __________. She was stubborn and angry, and often broke things when she __________ __________.

Now that Helen understood __________ __________ __________ __________, she was very eager to learn more and use it as much as she could. Children who can see and hear learn language easily but for Helen, it was a __________ __________ __________ __________ process.

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After reading an article     1     “Cigarette Smoking and Your Health” I lit a cigarette to calm my nerves. I smoked with     2     and pleasure as I was sure that this would be my last cigarette. For a whole week I did not smoke at all and during this time, my wife suffered terribly. I had all the usual symptoms of someone     3    up smoking: a bad temper and an enormous appetite. My friends kept on offering me cigarettes and cigars. They made no effort to hide their amusement     4    I produced a packet of     5     from my pocket. After seven days of this I went to a party. Everybody around me was smoking and I felt     6     uncomfortable. When my old friend Brian urged me to accept a cigarette, it was more than I could bear. I took     7     guiltily, lit it and smoked     8     satisfaction. My wife was delighted that things had returned to normal once more.     9    , as Brian pointed out, it is the easiest thing in the world to give up smoking. He    10    has done it lots of times!

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The three men built a small boat and set sail. All of a sudden, two dinosaurs rose to the surface and began to fight each other. The small boat was almost     1    by the dinosaurs before they were able to get away

They sailed to shore and explored the forest. They came across huge insects and many strange creatures. As they were     2     around, they noticed a man sitting    3    a tree in the distance-he was at least four meters tall. The men became afraid, and ran back to the boat.

They set sail again, and saw what looked like an exit, but it was    4    by rocks which had fallen down from the ceiling. They made a bomb to blow up the rocks. After the bomb exploded, their boat rushed     5    forward into a large hole. The boat floated down with the water. It was too fast for them to escape, They could only hold on to the boat in terror.