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Frederick William I, the king of Prussia, could never have imagined that his greatset gift to the Russian people would have __1____ an amazing history. This gift was the Amber Room,___2___ was given this name because several tons of amber were used _____3____(make) it. The amber which was selected ____4__(have) a beautiful
yellow-brown colour like honey.
The design of the room was in the fancy style popular in those days. It was also a treasure _____5_____(decorate) with gold and jewels, which took the country's best artists about ten years to make.
In fact,the room was not made _____6_____(be) a gift. It was designed for the palace of Frederick I. However,the next king of Prussia, Frederick William I,____7__ whom the amber room belonged, decided not to keep ___8___. In 1716 he gave it to Peter the Great. ___9___ return, the Czar sent him a troop of his best soldiers. So the Amber Room became part of the Czar's winter palace in Stpeterburg. About four metres long,the room served ___10___ a small reception hall for important visitors.
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Later,Catherine Ⅱhad the Amber Room ____1____(move) to a palace outside St Ptersburg where she spent her summers. She told her artists to add more details __2____ it. In 1770 the room was completed the way ___3___ she wanted. Almost six hundred of its mirrors and pictures shone like gold ._____4___(sad), although the Amber Room was considered one of the wonders of the world, it is now _____5_____(miss).
In St Pterburg 1941,the Nazi army was near St Peterburg. This was a time ____6___ the two countries were at war.___7____ the Nazis could get to the summer palace, the Russians were able to remove some furniture and small art objects from the Amber Room. However,some of the Nazis secretly stole the room itself. In less than two days 100,000 pieces were put inside twenty-seven wooden boxes.___8___ is no doubt that the boxes were then put on a train for Konigsberg, which was at that time a German city on the Baltic sea. After that, ___9____ happened to the Amber Room remains a mystery.
Recently,the Russians and Germans have built a new Amber Room at the summer palace. By studying old photos of the former Amber Room, they have made the new one look like the old
___10__. In 2003 it was ready for the people of St Petersburg when they celebrated the 300birthday of their city.
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Atlanta was a Greek princess. She was very beautiful and could run faster than ___1___ man in Greece. But she was not allowed to run and win glory for herself in the Olympic Games. She was ___2___ angry that she said to her father that she would not marry anyone ___3___ could not run faster than her. Her father said that she must marry, so Atlanta made a
bargain with him.
She said to him, \him. If he cannot run as fast as me,he ____4______(kill). No one will be pardoned.\
Many kings and princes wanted to marry Atlanta, but when ___5____ heard of her rules, they knew it was___6_____(hope). So many ofthem sadly went home, but ___7____ stayed to run the race. Therewas a man ____8___(call) Hippomenes who was amazed when he heard ofAtlanta's rules, \are these men so 9______(fool)?\he thought. \will they let themselves be killed because they cannot run as fast
as this princess?\
Atlanta come out of her house to run, Hippomenes changed 10______ mind. \will marry Atlanta - or die!\
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Over time I have been changed quite a lot. I began ___1___ a calculating machine in France in 1642. ___2____ I was young I could simplify difficult sums. I developed very slowly and it took nearly two hundred years ___3____ I was built as an analytical machine by Charles Babbage. After I was programmed by an operator___4___ used cards with holes, I could \logically and produce an answer quicker than any person. At that time it was considered a technological revolution and the start of my \Turing, wrote a book about ____5___ I could be made to work as a \any difficult mathematical problem. From then on, I grew rapidly both ___6___ size and in brainpower. By ___7___ 1940s I had grown as large as a room, and I wondered ____8___ I would grow any larger. However, this reality also worried my designers. ___9____ time went by, I was made ___10_____(small). First as a PC (personal computer) and then as a laptop, I have been used in offices and homes since the 1970s.
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These changes only became possible as my memory improved. First ___1___ was stored in tubes, then on transistors and later on very small chips. As a result I totally changed my shape. As I have grown older I have also grown smaller. Over time my memory has developed so much ____2___, like an elephant, I never forget anything I have been told! And my memory became so large that even I couldn't believe it! ____3___ I was always so lonely standing there by myself, ___4___ in the early 1960s they gave me a family ____5____(connect) by a network. I was able to share my knowledge with ____6____ through the World Wide Web.
___7____ the 1970s many new applications have been found for me. I have become very important in communication, finance and trade. I have also been put into robots and used to make mobile phones as well as help with medical operations. I have even been put into space rockets and sent to explore __8___ Moon and Mars. Anyhow, my goal is ___9______(provide) humans with a life of high quality. I am now ___10____(true) filled with happiness that I am a devoted friend and helper of the human race!
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Daisy had always longed to help endangered species of wildlife. One day she woke up and found a flying carpet by her bed. \immediately. \land ____2___ I can find the animal that gave fur to make this sweater. \At once the carpet ___3___(fly) away and took her to Tibet. There Daisy saw an antelope ____4___(look) sad. It said, \re being killed for the wool beneath our stomachs. Our fur is being used to make sweaters for people like you. As a result, we are now an endangered species. \cried, \carpet, please show me a place where there' s some wildlife protection. \
The flying carpet travelled so fast that next minute they were in Zimbabwe. Daisy turned around and found that she was being watched by an elephant. \you come to take my photo?\asked.___7____ relief Daisy burst into ____8____(laugh). \Don' t laugh,\said the elephant,\We used ___9____( be)an endangered species. Farmers hunted us without mercy. They said we destroyed their farms, and money from tourists only went to the large tour
companies. \a certain number of animals if they paid the farmers. Now the farmers are happy and our numbers are increasing. So good things are being done here to save local wildlife\
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As some of these actors could not sing well enough, they had to rely on 1_______ musicians to help them. So during the broadcasts they just pretended 2________( sing). Anyhow their performances were 3_______(humour)
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popular 4______ their fans formed clubs in order to get more familiar 5______ them. Each week on TV, the Monkees would play and sing songs 6_______(write) by other musicians. 7_________, after a year or so in which they became more serious about their work, the Monkees started to play and sing their own songs like a real band. Then they produced their own records and started touring and playing their own music. 8_____ the USA they became even more popular than the Beatles and sold even more records. The band 9________(break) up about 1970, but happily they reunited in 10______ mid-1980s. They produced a new record in 1996, with which they celebrated their former time as a real band.
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Not long after Freddy and the band became famous, they visited Britain on a brief tour. Fans showed their devotion 1_____waiting for hours to get tickets for their concerts. Freddy was now quite confident 2______ he went into a concert hall. He enjoyed singing and all the congratulations afterwards! His most exciting 3________(invite) was to perform on a TV programme 4______(call) \5______ give a performance to a TV camera. It felt very strange. But as soon as the programme was over, the telephones which were in the same room started ringing. Everybody was asking when they could see Freddy and his band again. They were 6_______(true_ stars.
Then things went wrong. Freddy and his band could not go out anywhere without 7___________( follow). Even when they 8________(wear) sunglasses or beards people recognized them. Fans found them even when they went into the toilet. They tried to hide in the reading rooms of libraries, but it was 9________(use). Someone was always there! Their personal life was regularly discussed by people who did not know them but talked as if they were close friends. At last feeling very upset and sensitive, Freddy and his band realized that
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