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1、 Every Thanksgiving my family and I, along with others,prepare and serve Thanksgiving meals for the people in our small mountain community. My husband and I also bring
①__________(meal) to shut-ins. We left to pass out boxed meals to ②__________senior housing apartment building. After ③__________(deliver) to some individual apartments, we went to the dining room. We put the boxes ④__________(fill) with turkey, ham, stuffing, yams, mashed potatoes, gravy ⑤__________green bean casserole at the places at the tables. People invited ⑥__________(we) to stay,and thanked us,but we had other deliveries and had to leave. We started to exit and I turned around and saw them all ⑦__________(watch) us. Impulsively, I asked,w Would anybody like a hug?” They lined up. There was so much ⑧__________(warm) in each hug. My eyes filled with tears and my heart with love. I now visit ⑨__________(occasional) to chat and, of course, hug. This year at my Thanksgiving delivery, when they line up
⑩__________their hugs, I am going to have them turn around and hug each other. These people have no family at Thanksgiving—what could be better for them than hugs!
2、 To this day, Kevin Hart still recalls the exact moment he learned this lifelong lesson, ①__________ he says came about one afternoon while he was under the care of his after-school babysitter, ②__________kind, grandmotherly woman named Miss Davis.
③__________(typical), Han helped Miss Davis with housework after school. One day. however, Han skipped the housework and joined some friends ④__________a “game’’of throwing rocks at passing cars.
As it went, one of the ⑤__________(stone) Hart threw broke a car window. On seeing this, Hart and his friends ⑥__________(flee) from the scene. The car stopped and the driver stepped out to find who did it. Eventually,his friends all pointed to Hart. “They threw me under the bus so fast!\
News of the incident quickly made ⑦__________(it) way to Miss Davis.
He spent the rest of the day in panic,fearing what ⑧__________(happen)when Davis told his mother.
Yet, Miss Davis never told. Her act gave Hart an important lesson about trust. “You’ve got to give trust ⑨__________(get) trust,” he says. He was so ⑩__________(thank) that he never got into trouble as a teenager from then onfall because of Miss Davis.
3、 It’s almost a common belief that the best food you can find in a place is not in the fancy restaurants, ①__________in the backstreets. These spots are usually away from popular tourist attractions,which means that to find them you’ll need the spirit of an explorer. That’s ②__________I came across roujiamo when I was exploring Beijing. I
found ③__________restaurant that sold dishes from Xi’an when I explored the area around ④__________(I) office one day. I decided to try it out.
My roujiamo ⑤__________(make) fresh, so the bread was still warm. It was soft when I bit into it, and the meat inside was delicious and tender. In fact, I enjoyed it so much that I ordered more to take home with me. Though it’s just a snack, it’s Still quite filling and can ⑥__________(easy) satisfy your appetite.
There are a ⑦__________(various) of things you can put inside the “mo”, as the bread is called. For example, in certain areas in Xi’an, the meat ⑧__________(use) is usually beef, but in Gansu Province, lamb is more common. And the first roujiamo that I tried was made
⑨__________pork. However it’s made, it’s still a tasty snack And for an American like me who grew up ⑩__________(eat) hamburgers, it’s a perfect combination of East and West.
4、阅读下面短文,在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
Earth Day is an event ①__________(annual) celebrated on April 22. ②__________(found) by Senator Gaylord Nelson, an American politician and environmentalist, it was originally aimed at helping the public to know the current situation of air and water pollution and ③ __________(get) people to care about the earth.
In 1962, Rachel Carson’s bestselling book “Silent Spring” created an ④__________(aware) of the dangerous effects pf pesticides(农药). Then, a fire, ⑤__________broke out in 1969 on Cleveland’s Guyahoga River, shed light on the problem of chemical pollution in water. Senator Gaylord Nelson dreamed of ⑥__________similar large event that would get people to take
environmental issues seriously. In 1969, he was inspired by protests against the Vietnam War and came up with the idea for Earth Day.
In the fall of 1969, Nelson announced it and appealed to the entire country to get involved. Consequently, telegrams, letters and telephone calls ⑦__________all over the country poured in. Since 1970, Earth Day celebration have grown. Later, Nelson ⑧__________(award) the Presidential Medal of Freedom in recognition of his work.
Today, Earth Day is celebrated around the world every April 22. Sometimes numerous communities celebrate Earth Week, an entire week of ⑨__________(Activity) focused on the environmental issues. In 2017, the March for Science ⑩__________(occur) on Earth Day (April 22, 2017) and was followed by the People’s Climate Mobilization (April 29, 2017).
5、 No matter where you are,humans are constantly measuring and checking time. Some of us are good at it—planning and doing things ahead of time, ①__________ others are always trying to beat the clock and do things at the eleventh hour.
Tardiness(拖拉) can be serious. If you ②__________(be)one minute late for work, would you resign? It may sound extreme, but that is exactly ③__________occurred in the UK upper chamber of parliament, the House of Lords,in January 2024. International development minister Lord Bates arrived one minute late,and,as a result, was unable to answer a
④__________( schedule) question. Instead of trying ⑤__________(make) up for lost time,as many might do, he resigned on ⑥__________ spot. He apologized for his discourtesy(无礼)and stated that he was ashamed. His resignation, though, ⑦__________( reject) by the UK prime minister.
So, how late is too late? Many cultures take punctuality very seriously. In contrast, others seem to view tardiness ⑧__________just the normal way of things. What is considered acceptable is based on culture. That is, if you don’t mind waiting, it might be best to attend your ⑨__________(appoint)in good time. And if the worst comes to the worst, remember the old English proverb, \⑩__________(well) late than never.”
6、 A toy animal might not matter much to the average person, but for a child, it could mean the world. When 10-year-old Leon Ashworth’s mom couldn’t afford ①__________(buy) him a toy