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      Once upon a time, there lived a rich man. He had a servant (仆人). He and the servant loved wine（酒）and good food very much. Each time the rich man left his home, the servant would drink the wine and eat up all the nice food in the house. The rich man knew what his servant did, but he had never caught his servant doing that.

      One morning, when he left home, he said to the servant, “Here are two bottles of poison (毒药) and some nice food in the house. You must take care of them.” With these words, he went out.

      But the servant knew that the rich man had said was untrue. After the rich man was away from his home, he enjoyed a nice meal. Because he drank too much, he was drunk and fell to the ground. When the rich man came back, he couldn't find his food and his wine. He became very angry. He woke the servant up. But the servant told his story very well. He said a cat had eaten up everything. He was afraid to be punished（惩罚）, so he drank the poison to kill himself.

Clothes are important in our life. Different people wear 1 clothes. Now let's 2 some people talking about clothes.

Hello, my name is Betty. I started working this year, so I'm able to get new clothes more often 3before. There are different people in my working place every day. If someone sees me in 4once, I don't like to go out in it again. I like to wear bright colors and always dress up when I go to parties. I buy all kinds of clothes and I try to follow the latest way of 5.

Hi, I'm Jack. I don't have much to say about clothes. Shopping 6 clothes isn't really the way of life I'm interested in. Since I'm still at college, I don't really mind 7 I wear. I have two jackets and I often wear 8. I know little about the way of dressing. I don't like the serious look.

My name is Alice. I'd like to say that my clothes have to be comfortable and make me 9 easy as soon as I put them on. Sometimes I buy clothes in some small markets—they're less expensive there. I go shopping for clothes about once a month. If I see 10 and fit for me, I would maybe go for it there.

    Do you want to travel on your own? Being exchange student is good way. Exchange students can live in a foreign country and learn (it) language and culture. Students go to a local (当地的) school live with a host family, often for six (month) to a year. These programmes (be) very: good for students. They can learn a lot about a (difference) culture. They can also learn to be more independent and (feel) more confident (自信的). Being an exchange student helps you (make) friends with different people. Besides, it can help improve your (understand) of the world. Exchange students share their own culture with people in the new country as well.

In England, Christmas is the most important of all the holidays in the year. Two important things help to set this holiday apart from all others: the custom of giving gifts and the habit of spending it with the family.

In the present highly commercialized(商业化的) age, we are reminded of Christmas many weeks before the event. In the shops the special Christmas displays appear. In the shopping centres of very large towns decorations are put up in the streets. Thousands of people flock into the centre of the town to see the decorations. The advertisements in all the newspapers keep reminding us that there are “Only × more shopping days to Christmas". The Post Office vans(厢式货车) are covered with brightly coloured posters urging us to “Post Early for Christmas” for hundreds of millions of Christmas cards and millions of parcels are sent every year. Everywhere one turns, one is made aware that Christmas, which comes “but once a year, is coming once again.

Many people deplore(谴责) what they consider the over commercialization of a sacred holiday, but under all the business activities, a great deal of true Christmas spirit is to be found. The custom of giving presents to one's family and friends is a very pleasant one so long as one remembers that it is the spirit behind the gift that matters most and not the gift itself. And how good it is at Christmas to return to the family home and meet parents, grandparents and as many aunts, uncles and cousins as can be accommodated(容纳). Without twentieth and 21st century means of transport, many families would be denied the Christmas reunion.

On Christmas Eve, the traditional custom of hanging up a stocking at the foot of the bed is performed by millions of excited children. During the day the Christmas tree will have been dressed. All is now ready for the great morning, which comes round soon enough. Many of the young children stay awake until Santa Claus (or Father Christmas, as some call him) steals in to deliver the presents they have asked him for.

Christmas Day is spent quietly at home. The excitement of all the presents is hardly over before it is time for the traditional Christmas dinner.

— Yes. He didn't allow us ____________ in it.

—     . He always stays at home and never says anything about himself.

— There are around one (百万).