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　　Switzerland is famous for its watches. However> this country didn't invent the watch. It was the British who did it. Here is a story of how the watch was 1.______ ( bring) to Switzerland.
　　Many years ago, 2.______ Englishman traveled to Italy and 3.______ his way he stopped in a small town 4.______ (call) Geneva in Switzerland. This Englishman traveled in a carriage, inside 5.______ there was a carriage watch. This was the 6.______ (early) kind of watch in the
world. A native shop assistant happened to see the watch. He 7.______ (wonder) what it was, he asked the Englishman about it. "It is a carriage watch” answered the man.“This machine can tell the time, but now it isn’t working.^{, ,} At once the shop assistant offered to try 8.______
(repair) it. So the 9.______ (travel) handed him the watch. The man was so clever that he managed to repair the watch. He even remembered how it was made. And later he made a watch of 10.______ (exact) the same type.

　　Our cities are 1.______ (crowd). Now cities are full of cars. Something will have to be 2.______ (do) to change it. What will the cars of tomorrow be like? Little cars may someday take the place of 3.______ (today) big cars. If everyone 4.______ _ (drive) little cars in the future, there will be less 5.______ (pollute) in the air. We can 6.______ ( breath) clean and fresh air. There will also be more space for 7.______ (park) cars in cities, and the 8.______ (street) will be less crowded. The space for a usual car 9.______ we use today is enough for little cars. The little cars will cost much less to own and be 10.______ (safe) to drive. What is more, these little cars can go about 65 kilometers per hour.

　　You must have read some stories about Thomas Edison. He was a great American 1.______ (invent). When he was a 2.______ (children), he was always asking questions and trying out new ideas. No matter 3.______ hard it was, he never gave up.
　　Young Thomas was in school for only three months. His teacher didn’t understand why he had so many strange questions. Most of 4.______ (they) were not about his lessons. The teacher didn’t want to teach Thomas any 5.______ (long). He asked his mother to take the boy home. His mother taught him to read and write, and she found him 6.______ good pupil. He learnt very fast and became very interested in science.
　　One day, Thomas saw a little boy 7.______ (play) on the railway tracks at a station. A train was coming near quickly, and the boy was too 8.______ (frighten) to move. Thomas rushed out and carried the boy to 9.______ (safe). The boy’s father was so 10.______ (thank) that he taught Thomas to send messages by telegraph.

　　When I was 1.______ (tidy) up my room yesterday, I found an old box of my father’s. He gave it to me two years ago. It was really 2. ______(interest) to discover something about my 3.______(father) life as a child. He once told me about his 4.______ (hobby) as a child. He wrote to people from all over the world, and they 5.______ (send) him letters back. As a result, he had a book of interesting stamps. People also gave him things from 6.______ (difference) countries, such 7.______ a silk fan from China, a little model car from Germany and a small model ship from Australia. My father even kept the ticket from his 8.______(one) football match. The box made me my hobby. I want 9.______keep my old picture books and magazines for a long time, 10.______.

　　Have you ever tried shopping online? What about 1.______ (talk) with strangers through the Internet? Of course, yes. With the 2.______ (develop) of society, the Internet is playing a more and more important part in our daily life； more and more people, 3.______(especial) teenagers show great interest in the Internet. If we teenagers are crazy 4.______playing games or chatting online, it will definitely have bad influence on our study 5.______ health.
　　Things is getting even 6.______(bad) ； it may make us 7.______ (get) tired of everything except surfing the net. We should spend more time 8. ______(read) good books, novels or news reports on the Internet. In 9. ______ word, the Internet makes our life convenient and colorful, we should still learn the way to make full use 10.______it properly.

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Who is the greatest teacher in Chinese history?Many people would think of Confucius,whose birthday was September 28.Although he lived over 2,000 years ago,people still remember and respect him for his contribution to the   (1)   (educate)today.
Confucius lived in the Lu State,which   (2)   (lie)in Shandong Province.He lived during the Spring and Autumn Period.He had a hard   (3)  (child).His father died when he was only three.His mother brought him up.As a child,he had to work to help his mother.But young Confucius didn't give   (4)   studying.He visited many   (5)   (fame)teachers and learned music,history,poetry and sports.
Later,he became a teacher and started the  (6)  (one)public school in Chinese history.At that time only children from rich   (7)   (family)could go to school.But Confucius believed   (8)   everyone should go to school if they wanted to learn.He had about 3,000 students in his lifetime.
Today,people still follow the teachings of Confucius.He told us that we all have something worthy to be   (9)   (learn).“When I am with three people,one of them must be   (10)   (good)than me in some areas.I choose their good qualities and follow them."