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Six months ago, Xie Lei boarded a plane for London to complete an exchange programme. She
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Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson go on a camping trip. After a good dinner and a bottle of wine, they retire for the night, and go to sleep.
Some hours later, Holmes wakes up and asks his faithful friend. “Watson, look up at the sky and tell me
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Lesson 27: Late in the afternoon, the boys put
Lesson 28:Now he has put
Lesson 29: Since then, Captain Fawcett
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③Life-long commitment and, indeed, the survival of society itself rely on people seeing beauty
Physical beauty must also