After two days’ travel, the girls began to realize that Canada is quite empty. At school, they had learned that most Canadians live     1     a few hundred kilometers of the USA border, and    2     Canada’s population is only     3     over thirty million, but now they were     4     to see such an empty country. They went     5     a wheat-growing province and saw farms that     6     thousands of acres. After dinner, they were back in an     7     area, the busy port city of Thunder Bay at the top of the Great Lakes. The girls were surprised at the     8     that ocean ships can sail up the Great Lakes. Because of the Great Lakes, they learned, Canada has more    9     water than any other country in the world. In fact, it has one-third of the world’s total fresh water, and much of     10     is in the Great Lakes.

1)     1    with these physical changes,there come many psychological changes.Boys and girls     2    to be different in this     3    Many boys become risk-takers---they want to find their own limits and the limits of the world around them,but may not have the     4     to make good choices in their     5    .At the same time,girls often want someone-- anyone--to talk to,as they try to deal with their strong feelings.

2)Some people in Dover also say that they saw aliens that night."It's happened to me!'said Mrs.Mavis Wood."The aliens took me     6    the UFO so that they could do research on me. Luckily,they returned me home without any     7    The whole experience was terrible! I haven't been sleeping well since I returned home.I think Justin was taken away by them,too. When asked about the     8    that Justin was taken by aliens,Detective Sam Peterson, who has taken charge of the case,told joumnalists,'Sometimes people make up such amazing stories. There's really no hard     9    that aliens took him.So,     10    we have not dismissed the idea,we are looking into other......

(1). The amber which    1     had a beautiful yellow-brown color like honey. The design of the room was in the     2     popular in those days. It was also a treasure     3     gold and jewels, which took the country’s best artists about ten years to make.

(2). I have become very important in communication,     4     and trade. I have also been put into robots and used to make mobile phones     5     help with medical operations....Anyhow, my     6     is to provide humans with a life of high quality…

(3). “What are you doing?” asked Daisy. “I’m protecting myself     7     mosquitoes,” it replied. When I find a millipede insect, I rub it over my body. It     8     a powerful drug which     9     mosquitoes. You should pay more attention to the rainforest where I live and     10     how the animals live together. No rainforest, no animals, no drugs.”

In Britain and the USA, the managing directors     1     presidents of big companies are often     2     of being ‘fat cats’, i.e. bosses     3     salaries are often twenty-five times more than the company’s     4     worker. When times are hard and workers are     5     off, they receive very little. Departing directors, on the other hand, get big golden    6    .     7     contrast, in Japan the ratio between the     8     and lowest paid is normally a more modest seven or eight to one. In     9    , large Japanese companies have the     10    of taking care of all their employees, and the concept of a ‘job for life’ is still, by and large, true.

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.

I     1     my sister but she has one serious shortcoming. She can be really     2    . Although she didn’t know the best way of getting to places, she insisted that she     3     the trip properly. I asked her whether she had looked at a map yet. Of course she hadn’t; my sister doesn’t     4     details. So I told her that the source of the Mekong is in Qinghai Province. She gave me a     5     look-- the kind that said she would not     6    . When I told her that our journey would begin at an     7     of more than 5,000 metres, she seemed to be excited about it.

I wonder if it’s because I haven’t been able to be     1     for so long     2     I’ve grown so crazy about everything to do with nature. I can well remember that there was a time     3     a deep blue sky, the song of the birds, moonlight and flowers could never have kept me spellbound. That’s changed a lot since I came here.

English now is also    4     as a foreign or second language in South Asia. For example, India has a very large number of     5     English speakers because Britain ruled India from 1765 to 1947. During that time English became the language for    6     and education. English is now also spoken in Singapore and Malaysia and countries in Africa     7     South Africa.

I am fond of my sister but she has one serious shortcoming. She can be really     8    . Although she didn’t know the best way    9    getting to places, she insisted that she     10     the trip properly.

He immediately asked     1     number of nearby people for bandages, but when nobody could put their     2     on any, his father got some tea towels and tape from their house. John used these to treat the most severe injuries     3     Ms Slade’s hands. He slowed the bleeding by     4     pressure to the wounds until the police and     5     arrived.

Lesson 32: … A detective recently watched a     1     woman who always went into a large store on Monday mornings. One Monday, there were fewer people in the shop than usual when the woman came in, so it was     2     for the detective to watch her. …

Lesson 33: Nearly a week passed before the girl was able to explain what had happened to her. One afternoon she     3     from the coast in a small boat and was caught in a storm. Towards evening, the boat     4     a rock and the girl jumped into the sea. …On     5     at the shore, the girl struggled up the cliff towards the light she had seen. …

Lesson 34: Ted Robinson has been worried all the week. Last Tuesday he       6     a letter from the local police. … Ted was     7     surprised when he heard the news. He was amused too, because he never expected the bicycle to be found. It was     8     twenty years ago when Ted was a boy of fifteen.

Lesson 35: Roy Trenton     9     drive a taxi. …When he was driving along Catford Street recently, he saw two     10     rush out of a shop and run towards a waiting car. …

In western cultures,     1     eye contact in conversation is necessary. As a matter of fact, a westerner might consider a lack of eye contact as a lack of interest. In Spain, Italy and Greece, where people stand close together talking to each other, eye contact is more frequent and lasts longer.

In many Asian cultures, people avoid eye contact to show respect. It is done when talking with anyone in     2     or with anyone older.

Habits like this can cause problems when people do not understand them. For example, an Asian person might close his or her eyes in     3     or look down while listening to a speaker. A Western speaker might thing the person is not interested.

Eye contact is a     4     thing. A lack of eye contact may be considered impolite. But if you stare at others, it is also considered rude and should be avoided.