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(1) Jane the book on the floor and put it on the desk.
(2) Three weeks later, she her new job.
(3)The man is hard-working. He is English .
(4) His mother be a football player.
(5) She when she heard the funny joke.
— No, sir. I music.
—The talk made me very just now.
Jasmine stood in the hall, seeming very calm.She thought she1ready for the English speech.She2 very hard at her speech during the last two weeks. She had memorized her words of the speech very well3she arrived at the hall. She had even stayed up the whole night 4 the speech by herself at home. However, as the English speech was about to begin, she became very5.She realized that she had forgotten6 her notecards already. She seemed 7.She didn't know8she could do well in the speech. Luckily she had practiced 9 well that she didn't use her notecards at all. Jasmine performed very well in the speech and gave an amazing speech.And she ended up10 first prize in the speech. Everyone was very happy.
Have you ever returned a book late to the library before? If so, you may pay a small fine(罚款). How much would you have to pay if the book is returned 65 years late?
A high school in Washington, US had to deal with such a problem recently. A copy of Gone with the Wind was finally returned to its library 65 years late.
However, the school said that it would not ask Wayne to pay the fine, though that would be about $ 475.
The book was borrowed out of the library of the high school in 1951, and disappeared until it was found in Maine, US by Wayne. Wayne found the book in his father s basement (地下室) and then offered to send it back to the school.
"I feel very sorry about that," Wayne said.
"We're very pleased to have the book back. Wayne did the right thing," Lori Wyborney, headmaster of the school said.
It's hard to avoid looking like a fool on April Fool's Day. On April 1st each year, people play tricks on each other. Classmates sometimes tie each other's shoelaces (鞋带) to their chairs. Teachers might hand out an impossibly difficult surprise test that makes students feel scared before they realize it's only a joke. Newspapers report on fake news (like "UFO" lands in New York City) and announce fake contests (such as" Win an elephant!").
One April Fool's Day, when I was in high school, a group of students in my class played a very clever and funny trick on the teachers. They bought some chickens and set them free in our school cafeteria(自助餐厅). The chickens ran all around the school, in and out of classrooms and under our feet. Feathers (羽毛) were flying everywhere. Teachers began running after the chickens, trying to catch them. Finally, they caught four of them. But the chickens were wearing numbered tags(标签) around their necks, and the teachers discovered that they had only caught chickens No. 1, 2, 3 and 5. Where was chicken No. 4? The teachers looked and looked. They couldn't find another chicken. After a few hours, they realized that the students had played another joke on them. There were only four chickens in the first place! They had been tricked by the numbers on the chickens. It's been a long time since I was in high school, but that April Fool's Day remains one of my favorite memories from those years.
When I first arrived in America, I was (惊奇的) by the honesty of my classmates. Over my first month at school, I didn't see (或者) hear anyone cheating. I found two (原因) for this.
First, if any student cheats, he or she will get (惩罚). My school has a rule (称作) the Honor Code. It asks students not to steal, lie or cheat. If someone goes (违反) the code, he or she will have to leave the school. (在……期间) my first year in the school, seven students left the school because of cheating.
Second, American students don't care about scores as much (与……一样) Chinese students do. They know that colleges will look at their all-round abilities (而不是) of only scores. So they have (更少的) reasons to cheat.
—Don't worry.We are sure to be at school _____.
Tom asked Lily she seen the film before.
—Yes. There are more buildings than before.
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Tom and I have been married for five months. During these months I was learning to let Max, Tom's seven-year-old son, come close to me on his own. But recently, I have had a (n) : If I moved too quickly, he ran away and even . But if I was patient, we often ended up playing and laughing.
One afternoon I made some for dinner. After that I was looking through my old photos in the dining room. Max up.
"Who's that?" he pointed to one photo. "My mom. I suppose she's your grandma." "Who's that?" "That was your grandpa. He wasn't . He died two months ago." "How did he die?" Max at me. "Oh, his death was ." "Hmm. Too bad."
Death is always a painful subject, especially for a seven-year-old child who'd lost his mother only two years before. I always put away the pictures of dead relatives but I ignored(忽视) this one. That made me feel a bit .
"Who's that to me?"
Under his finger I could see me in a traditional . I knew the answer to his simple question. But I said, "I'm your second mom. I'm sorry that your first mom died."
I think Max would our talk as usual. However, he asked, "What should I call you?"
"You can call me Mom or Betsy. Whatever feels OK for you."
"Sweet," he said, walking out of the room.