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It’s nice to go out 1.a meal at a restaurant. But what makes it extra special — apart from the food — is to receive attentive service from the staff. Seeing a service charge 2.(add) in your bill can leave a bad taste in your mouth. You 3. (face) with the dilemma of deciding to pay it, and whether you should add a tip on top.

Putting your hand in your pocket to reward good service is a 4. (person) choice, but it also depends on where you are in the world. What is the norm in one city is not 5. (necessary) the norm in another. In some 6. (place) a tip is expected; but in 7., good service should be expected and ought to be included in the price.

In the UK, people tending to be too polite 8.(complain), the service charge might be paid despite the quiet complaint 9. the service they received was not up to the standard! In the US, however everybody 10. (offer) 20% more as a tip. Maybe we should fallow Japan’s approach, tipping under any circumstance may seem rude because good service is standard and expected.

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Why do you pull yourself out of bed every morning 1.(go) to work or school? Knowing what motivates, you can help you find meaning in your work and focus on your goals.

Experts have many ways of describing and differentiating motivations because people care about so many different things. Some motivations such as money and praise are external (外部的). Bosses 2.(usual) use them to encourage their employees to spare no efforts in their work. Other motivations, including fun, personal growth and feeling like one's work is important, 3.(come) from within the person doing the action.These are 4.(reliable) than external ones because they represent things that can never be taken away.

Since there are 5.large number of existing motivations, 6.is important to know which ones are persuasive to you. Trying to motivate yourself in a way that isn't 7.(attract) to you will make it difficult to convince yourself to work. When 8.(choose) a career, you should think about what motivates you and make some 9.(decision) accordingly. If you are motivated by overcoming challenges, look for a career 10.you can continually fight to get to a higher level.

When you know what motivates you, you will be able to motivate yourself to do the things necessary to succeed.

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I do something called homeschooling. It’s like going to a regular school, but you get1.（study） what you want to study, and you do your studying at home. But some basic subjects like math, history, and English2.（require）.

My home school friend’s mom and dad are writers. They love everything3.（relate）to reading and writing. Once, I wanted to please my friend’s dad on his birthday by4.（give）him a book which I thought he would love.

I wanted to bring it to a learning session at their home but I forgot it. When my father came to pick me up from class, he brought the book along with him！How thoughtful my dad5.（be）！I got all excited and left the book at my friend’s dad’s work table. What6.lucky chance that my friend’s dad wasn’t in his office at the time！

After that, my friend who I study with came to my house along with me and we played together. When my friend’s7.（parent）came to pick her up, her dad said “I don’t know who left a book, but I’d like to offer my thanks”. As my heart was filled8.joy, my friend’s mom and I winked at each other because she knew about my plan. After that9.（wonder）experience, I think that doing something10.makes other people happy, makes me happy, too！

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A hotel chain is employing human bed warmers to help guests get a good night’s sleep. 1. (dress) in special all-in-one sleeping suits, the walking electric blankets are sent to warm the beds of guests staying at the Holiday Inn 2. they get under the covers.

Dr Chris Idzikowski, 3. (direct) of the Edinburgh Sleep Centre, said the idea could help people get off to sleep. He 4. (explain) that “There’s plenty of scientific evidence to show that sleep starts at the beginning of the night 5. body temperature starts to drop. The drop occurs partly because the blood vessels (血管) 6. the hands, face and feet open up and release heat.” “A warm bed –approximately 20 to 24 degrees Celsuis –is 7. good way to start this process while a cold bed isn’t. It helps people sleep well especially as it’s taking much 8. (long) for them to warm up when they come in from the snow.”

Dr Chris Idzikowski and 9. (he) colleague Jane Bednall said the idea was like “having a giant hot water bottle in your bed”. The five-minute free bed warming sessions will be tried out in London and Manchester 10. the end of next month.

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We always knew our daughter Kendall was going to be a performer of some sort. She entertained people in our small town by 1. (put) on shows on our front porch when she was only three or four.

When Kendall was five, we began to notice that she was blinking a lot and clearing her throat 2. (frequent). We had her 3. (test) for allergies (过敏), but the doctor said she wasn’t allergic to anything at all. We took her to our local children’s hospital, in 4. she was diagnosed 5. Tourette’s Syndrome.

We took her from doctor to doctor, but all they did was give her medicine that just made it6. (bad), so we decided to go the natural route and luckily she got better. When Kendall was sixteen, we thought she was out of danger. But at a birthday party 7. accident happened and she was badly hurt. Her biggest concern wasn’t whether she would walk again, but whether she would be able to sing for American Idol.

She trained hard and willed 8. (her) to move again. At last Kendall walked into the stadium to sing for American Idol. And our 9. (tear) turned into shouts when she 10. (give) a golden ticket to Hollywood.

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David Katz was upset by all the plastic going into the ocean. To help solve the problem, he had a 1.（create）idea to treat plastic like money. Mr. Katz calls his idea the "plastic Bank". The goal of the Plastic Bank is to use plastic to help people solve the problems 2.(gradual）. The Plastic Bank adds a value to plastic waste by paying people to recycle it.

The program began in 2015 in Haiti, a poor island nation with many 3.（problem）of waste plastic. The Plastic Bank has 30 "markets" in Haiti. At the Plastic Bank markets, people can exchange the plastic they've collected for 4.they need. The Plastic Bank markets sell lots of things that local people need. The stores also allow plastic collectors to use the money they earn to pay 5.health care or school.

To make sure that the plastic 6.（recycle）, the Plastic Bank works with partners, who agree 7.（use）the plastic that is collected. When customers buy these products, which are labeled "Social Plastic", they know that they are both helping people in other parts of the world 8.keeping plastic out of the ocean. So far, the Plastic Bank 9.（keep） about 7 million pounds of plastic out of the ocean. It makes a great 10.（contribute）to the ocean.

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When Dad told me I was going to take a scuba diver training course, I was really excited. I thought I’d be like those people on TV, 1. (play) with fish.

In the pool, Rob, my instructor, demanded we do what he did. One of the drills 2. (be) to take our masks off at the bottom of the deep end, replace them, 3. clear them of water. I wasn’t doing that because I couldn’t open my eyes underwater or keep water out of my nose. I 4. (terrify) and made excuse after excuse about 5. I couldn’t do it. Rob walked over and said, “Alaya, you don’t have to do this if you don’t want to. Nobody is forcing you.” Though I said I wasn’t going to do it, my 6.(foot) carried me toward the pool.

With my eyes tightly 7. (close), I dived in and made my way to 8. other end. The water felt unnatural against my face. I 9. (quick) threw on my mask and started clearing it of water. Rob gave me thumbs up. I learned a big lesson: there is nothing to fear but fear 10.(it).

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Many people agree that going to a museum is a good way of learning about ancient treasures. However, others may find1.boring to spend hours there.2..how to make museums and their lifeless collections more appealing is a tough question worth3.(attach)importance to. Luckily, National Treasure, a TV program which began to air on Dec. 3, 2017, sheds light on ways to inspire interest in museums and their collections.

Aiming to make ancient relics(遗迹)to come 4.(live), the program presents treasures5.different artistic methods including dramatic performances and storytelling,6.fully explain the history behind each cultural relic, so that audiences can not only understand how to appreciate the beauty of cultural relics.7.also know the civilization and the spirit of Chinese culture. In fact, such programs that promote traditional ancient relics8.(become) popular in recent years. For example, a 2016 documentary featuring the Forbidden City's cultural relics and their restorers, urged lots of college students9.(apply) to work as volunteers there. It is10.(universal) accepted that National Treasure has been successful in encouraging more people to visit museums by touching their hearts.

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Why men wolf down their meals 　 1.　　 women take their time? Many a woman has watched in disbelief as their partners eat their food minutes after sitting down to dinner. Now Korean researchers have discovered why: men and women 　　 2.　 (actual) chew differently. Women chew each individual mouthful more times — taking longer to finish 　 3.　　 (eat) their meal.

The researchers hired 24 males and 24 females in South Korea. They recorded the size of people’s bites, total chewing time per mouthful of food, total number of chews and how long 4.　　 took the person to eat the entire meal. Men typically take 　　 5.　　 (large) bites with more “chewing power”, 　 6.　　 means they consume their meal more quickly than women.

Though women were watched 　　 7. (have) the same chewing pace as men, they chewed each mouthful more times, slowing down the total time it took them to eat their meal.

The study 8.　　 (publish) in the January issue of the Physiology and Behaviour Journal. But it flies in the face of an earlier result studied 　 9.　 researchers at Nippon Dental University in Tokyo, Japan, which found no 　 10.　　 (different) in how the sexes chewed gum.

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Face masks are reportedly selling out in cities across Asia because of the spread of a deadly new coronavirus. But will these masks stop people1.(catch) the virus thoroughly? We know the coronavirus is airborne (空气传播的),2.can spread easily among people. So it makes sense3.(cover) your nose and mouth.

Now two main types of face masks are being used to do that. One is a standard surgical mask. But these masks don't offer full protection4.airborne viruses. They don't fully seal off the nose and mouth, so very small particles can5.(simple) pass through the material of the masks. These masks also leave the wearers' eyes6.(expose)，through which the virus can infect them. The other type, the N95 mask, is7.(effective) than the surgical mask. They can prevent 95 percent of small particles entering the nose and mouth area. But they won't work8.they fit properly. And they aren't suitable for children or people with9.(face) hair.

There10.(be) other precautions (预防措施) people can take to avoid catching the virus, such as avoiding large public gatherings, staying at home and washing hands frequently.

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