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精选优质文档-倾情为你奉上蒃Unit 1螀A腿 A hobby is an interesting way of s 1 your free time. There are so many different hobbies for different people to c 2 . Some hobbies are very popular, w 3 others are quite unusual. You may choose one that you are i 4 in. You may enjoy c 5 肆things, such as stamps, foreign coins and so on. If you like work with your hands, you may enjoy model making and paper cutting, which both need great attention in detail. Or you may enjoy creative hobbies, like painting and writing. Many people p 6 outdoor activities to indoor activities. They get great p 7 from sailing and cycling and so on, which they can enjoy with others.袁 Wherever you live, there is always a hobby for you to choose. The hobby can help you r 8 葿after your daily work. The hobby can give you many hours of pleasure and make your spare time interesting and c 9 . The hobby can bring happiness, k 10 and friendship.艿芃1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 蚃芈6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 荿B蚄President Hu Calls For Sound Preparations For Expo肁Chinese president Hu Jintao called for sound preparations in the run-up to the Expo 2010 Shanghai China and hoped the success of the event would have positive e 1 on the global economy.芁“The Shanghai World Expo is the s 2 world pageant(庆典) in the country after the Beijing Olympics. Hosting the event s 3 is very important to promoting our exchanges and cooperation(交流与合作) with other c 4 and regions across the world,” said Hu on July 15th at an exhibition in Beijing on the Expo.蒈Hu made the remarks at an exhibition in Beijings Capital Museum, which i 5 arti-肅Facts, pictures and videos that recorded the 150-year-plus d 6 of the event.螃The exhibition also has a section that s 7 preparations for the Expo 2010, which features a 3-D animated short video of a t 8 of the site and the models of 60 pavilions.肀President Hu visited the exhibition along with other senior Chinese l 9 , They praised the preparations and expressed their t 10 to all the participants.蒈蒆1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 芁衿6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 薈袇羃Unit 2袂A蚈Today Newtown is a very clean place. Many years ago, h 1 , there were millions of rats in Newtown. They a 2 the cat and dogs. Sometimes a great n 3 of them knocked down a man or woman w 4 home at night. The rats were very large in a 5 and they hurt many people.羄The government ordered everyone to kill rats. Most people were lazy, so they did not kill many. Then the government p 6 to pay some money for each dead rat. It made the people very蚅h 7 . they k 8 thousands of rats every day. A government officer put the dead rats in a big pile. Sometimes a man b 9 hundreds in one day.蚁After two weeks there were not many rats in the city, but people s 10 brought many rats to the government office. The government officer thought that people were stealing dead rats from the pile. He ordered his men to dig a deep hole and put the rats in it. Soon there were no more rats, and the government did not pay any more money.螈莅1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 膂葿6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 袈螅B袄I was on my way to the Taiyetos mountains. The sun was going down when my car b 1 down near a f 2 village. I was thinking about my bad l 3 and didnt know where I was going to spend the night when the villagers came up to me, a 4 me to going to the houses of their o 5 as if I were their best guest. Finally I went into an old womans home. She lived alone in a little house. While I was having a rest, the villagers took my car with their cows to a n 6 car repair shop.膈I had noticed there were three hens walking in the garden that evening but only two was left a 7 later. One of them was on my dinner table in that evening. Other villagers brought me a lot of food to eat. Although I didnt know their language, we drank happily together till far into the night. The f 8 day the villagers brought back my car.羈When the t 9 came for me to say goodbye to my friends in the village, I wanted to give some money to the kind old woman, as I gave her so much trouble, she got a 10 and said she couldnt take the money.膆节1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 芁羈6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 莃肄Unit 3羀A肇Alfred Nobel, the great Swedish inventor and industrialist, was born in Stockholm on October 21th, 1833, but moved to Russia with his parents in 1842, where his father, Immanuel, made a strong position for h 1 in the engineering industry. Immanuel Nobel invented landmine and made a lot of money from the g 2 during the Crimean War, but went bankrupt soon after. Then , the family r 3 to Sweden in 1859, where Alfred began his own s 4 of explosive in his fathers lab. He had never been to school or university but had t 5 himself, and by the time he was twenty, he became a skillful chemist and e 6 linguist, speaking Swedish, Russian, German, French and English. He b 7 up over 80 companies in 20 different countries. He was always searching for a meaning to life. He spent much time and money working on how to e 8 the wars, and the peace between nations, until his death in Italy in 1896. His famous last will, in which he left money to p 9 prizes for outstanding work in physics, chemistry, physiology, medicine, literature and peace, is a memorial to his interests and ideas. And so, the man is r 10 and respected long after his death.螄蒂1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 蝿膇6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 膅膄B螂 芇Venice is the “Queen” of the Adriatic Sea. Every year t 1 of people visit the city. w 2 do they go there? Because Venice is a beautiful city. There are no r 3 in the city so there arent any cars or buses. There are canals. There is one big canal and 177 small o 4 . People move up and down the canals in b 5 . But Venice is sinking and the w 6 is going up. In 2040 Venice will be u 7 water. The Adriatic sea will c 8 the city. The Venetians love their city and they want to stay there. They want to save Venice f 9 the sea. How can they do that? They can put some gates in the sea. The gates will close so Venice will not s 10 .薆蚂薁1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 莇羇6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 莃莀蒇Unit 4肃A袁 Today supermarkets are f 1 in most large cities, but it was only 69 years ago that a man c 2 肈Michael Cullen o 3 the first one in New York.薇 A supermarket is different from other stores in several ways. In a supermarket, goods are placed on open蒄s 4 . The customers help themselves to what they want to buy and take them to the check-out counter.薃This means f 5 workers are needed.膁 Another d 6 is that in front of the check-out counter are cheaper things like candies, chocolate,薇Magazines, ect. Why they put them there? Well, most customers buy from a shopping list. They pick up what they really need to buy. Yet when they come to the check-out counter, they are glad to get the shopping done and feel r 7 . At the counter, many may feel like b 8 something just for fun.袅 Besides all this, many shopping centers have a big p 9 space and they close late in the evening. This makes shopping e 10 for working mothers.羁袀1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 蚇芆6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 蚃B虿Men sometimes say, “We are better and cleverer than women. Women never invent things. We do.” It is t 1 that men have invented a lot of useful things: machines, radios and guns, too. But scientists now a 2 that women invented one very important thing. It has changed history. They invented agriculture. Before invention of agriculture, men were h 3 . They went out every day. Sometimes they killed animals, sometimes animals killed them. Life was difficult and d 4 . Women had to go out every day, too. They 螆c 5 corn, fruit and grasses. Then, one day more than 10,000 years ago, a woman d 6 some grass seeds near her home. They grew and the wheat was b 7 . The idea grew, too. Women planted corn and fruit trees. Then they could stay at home and look after the c 8 and the animals. Women like baby animals. Scientists think that women kept the f 9 domestic animals: pigs, cows and sheep. The idea grew, too. Then their husbands did not have to go hunting for meat. They stayed at home. They b 10 蚇villages and cities. Civilization began. Men began civilization after women invented agriculture.膁蚂1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 袆螄6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 虿Unit 5膇A蚂 I got an answering machine for my birthday and I soon realized what a u 1 machine this is. I am not at home m 2 of the day, so someone can leave a message and I can call them b 3 . They have no way to say they c 4 get in touch with me. S 5 when I am at home and have work to do, the phone never s 6 . Now I put the machine on. I am not troubled; I can do a lot m 7 work. There are some people I j 8 do not want to talk to. So I put the machine on and I dont have to s 9 to them. In conclusion, I really dont know how I lived w 10 this wonderful machine.羁莁1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 羆螂6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 莂螈螄B袂 It seems to be strange that there is a blind spot in the eye. Here is an interesting e 1 that can make something disappear when one eye is o 2 .螂 Make a card about the size of a postcard and write two English l 3 “L” and “R” on it. “L” is on the 蒀l 4 and “R” on the right. F 5 of all, hold the card about 80 cm away and you can see b 6 螇the letters. Then close your right eye and look at the letter “R” o 7 with your left eye. And now, as you move the card slowly towards you, youll find the letter “L” disappearing. But if you move the card n 8 羂to your face, the letter will be seen again. Now do the same experiment with your left eye closed, youll find the letter “R” disappearing.衿 Why do the letters disappear? It is because there is a blind spot in the e 9 . When the image of the letter f 10 on the blind spot, it wont be seen. Thats why one of the letters disappears.羈薆1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 肂芀6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 蚀莅莆蚁膈莈Unit 6蒅A肂 In some parts of the United States, farming is easy. But farming has always been h 1 in the northeastern corner of the country, which is called New England.袀 New England has many t 2 and thin rocky soil. Anyone who has wanted to start a new farm there has to work very hard. The first job is to cut down trees. The n 3 job is to dig the stumps of the trees out of the soil. Then the farmer has the difficult job of m 4 stones from his land.膇 The work of removing stones never really e 5 , because every winter more stones appear. They come up t 6 the thin soil from the rocks below. F 7 have to keep removing stones from the fields. Even today, farms which have been worked o 8 for 200 years keep producing more stones. That is why stone walls are used i 9 of fences around New England fields. The stone walls are not high, a man can easily climb over them. But they keep the farmers cows from j 10 his neighbours cows.薅蒃1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 芈袆6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 蚅蚀肀B蚅 One day when Nasreddin was having a bath, he began to s 1 . The bathroom was small with a stone floor. His song was very b 1 , he thought.螅 “Oh”, he said, “I sing very well. I will sing to o 1 people, too, and maybe Ill be a famous s 1 ,肁and most people will want to hear me.”蒇 Soon after his bath Nasreddin went up onto the roof of the house and began to sing his song very l 1 .蚈 A man was w 1 in front of the house and he h 1 Nasreddin, he said, “What are you doing? You are m 1 a terrible noise. Nobody wants to hear it.”螅 “oh, you think so, dont you?” answered Nasreddin, “Well, I r 1 sing very beautifully. Come to my bathroom and youll hear h 1 beautifully I can sing.”蒁腿1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 蒆袅6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 袂蚇芅羅罿Unit 7荿A羄 Lenin learned some English at school. B 1 when he got to England, he met with such d 2 that he could not make himself u 3 and he couldnt understand the Englishmen, e 4 .later he found he wasnt sure of s 5 English and his friends gave him some advice o 6 how to i 7 it. He decided to learn English by always. He went on l 8 English for several months. Finally he learned it so well that he was able to express himself freely. He was praised b 9 his friends f 10 his great progress in English.肄莀1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 袇肇6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 膄螁B蕿 One day a pig went to the stable to see his good friend, an old horse, and was going to stay there for the n 1 . Night came and it was time for sleep. The pig went into the straw heap and lay comfortably. A long time p 2 , but the horse was s 3 standing there and didnt move. So the pig asked the horse w 4 he didnt go to sleep. “Standing like this is the b 5 of sleeping.” Answered the horse. The pig found it h 6 to believe and said, “how can you stand there s 7 ? It is not comfortable at a 8 .” The horse answered, “Comfort is your habit. A 9 horses we have the habit of r 10 quickly. So we are always ready to run quickly even if we are asleep.”螆芄膂1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 羇薅6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 莄薃虿蚈莄蚀蒀莇蒄肀袈膅薄蒁Unit 8薀A羄 Mark Twain was a 1 one day if he could remember the first money he earned. He thought a long time before a 2 and then said, “Yes, it was at school. There was a rule in our school that anybody w 3 damaged his desk with a pencil or a knife would be b 4 in front of the whole school o 5 would have to pay five dollars. One day I damaged my desk in some way. I had to tell my father I had b 6 the rule, and had to pay five dollars, or be beaten before the whole school. He agreed to pay. But before g 7 me the money he took me upstairs and gave me a b 8 . Now as I had had one beating and got used to it. I decided I would take a 9 beating at school and k 10 the five dollars. So that is what I did. That was the first money I ever earned.”蚄袂1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 肈羇6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 螃聿B螀 A young officer was at a railway station. He was on his w 1 to visit his mother in another town, and he wanted to c 2 her to tell her the time of his train, so that she could m 3 him at the station. He looked in all his pockets, but f 4 that he didnt have the exact money for the telephone call.螆 So he went outside and looked around for someone to h 5 him. At last, an old soldier came by, and the young officer s 6 him and said, “Have you got change for ten pence?”袃 “Wait a moment,” the old soldier answered, beginning to put his hand into his p 7 . “Ill see if I can help you.” “Dont you know h 8 to speak to an officer?” the young man said a 9 .蒀“Now lets start again. Have you got change for ten pence?”芈 “No, sir,” the old soldier answered very p 10 .蒅羃1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 袁羀6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 薈羃节膃肃衿荿袅螁衿Unit 9薅A芃 Once there lived an old hunter in a mountain village. He often went hunting along the mountains. He was not afraid of any wild animals, even a t .肂 One night, someone saw a tiger come into the village, and s two sheep away. And the next night the tiger came again. The villagers asked the old hunter to catch i so that they could have a safe life. When the old man heard about the tiger, he wondered w the tiger came at night twice but only stole the sheep. The next night he walked about outside the village. Suddenly he saw the tiger c . He quickly threw himself on the ground. To his s , the tiger didnt come at him at all but went away. He followed it quietly and he found it was running on two of its f just like a man. Then everything was c .蒁 On the f day, when it got dark, the hunter took some animal skins with him and h himself behind a big tree near the village. As soon as the “tiger” came near the tree, the old hunter jumped out,莈c the “tiger” by the “leg” and said, “dont be afraid. I do not mean to hurt you. You know who I am, dont you?” The tiger said “yes” and took o the tigers skin. “Youre poor. But you mustnt steal anything from others. Here are some animal skins for you. You may s them at the market. With the money, you can buy food and clothes for your f . They are waiting for you.” With t in his eyes, the poor man thanked the kind-hearted old hunter and walked home.蒇肅1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 薀蝿6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 羅袄11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 蚀B膀 An old writer w several workmates into his sitting room and then took out two plates. All the e 蚇of the guests were f together on the plate with the well carved outer l of a cabbage on it. But after some praises, they all r out their hands for the fruit on the plate.薃 The delicious fruit was e
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