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What are the British like when it comes to learning languages? According to a survey published by the European Commission, the British are1.(office) the worst language learners in Europe —62 percent of them can’t speak any other language apart from2.(they) own.

Learning a foreign language is not a popular option at school in Britain; children start studying a foreign language3. 11 and many give up completely several years later. So why don’t young people continue with languages at school? A research suggests that students think it is more difficult to get good grades in languages than in other subjects, such as science or history. The government is now looking at different ways4.(improve) language learning. One idea is to start much younger and introduce foreign languages from the age of five. 5. idea is to give school children more6. (choose) and expand the range of languages7.(teach) to include Arabic, Mandarin and Urdu.

Mandarin Chinese is predicted to become the second most popular foreign language learned in UK schools. Brighton College headmaster Richard Cairns says, “One of my key tasks is to make sure pupils 8.(equip) for the realities of the 21st　 century. One of those realities is9.China has the fastest-growing economy in the world.” It may be an ambitious task to change the Brits’ attitude to 10.(learn) languages but the government is determined to try.

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Both the British and Americans like playing football．However，they play it quite　 1. (different)．For most Americans，British football，also 2.(know) as soccer is a bit dull and boring．

American football is not like soccer．The ball is not round．It is like a big egg．Each team 3.（make）up of eleven players．All the players can touch the ball with both 4.(foot) and hands．Players sometimes kick the ball 5. they often throw the ball and run with it．

If they can move it across the opposing team's goal line，they can get six points， 6. is called a touchdown．

7. is not easy to move the ball．Eleven men in the　 opposing team　 do all they can 8.(stop) the man with the ball．If he 9. (fail) to move the ball ten yards，his team will have to kick the ball to the opposing team．

In almost every big university in the USA，football is a popular sport．Whenever an important game is played，thousands of people come to watch it, 10. ( cheer) for their favorite teams．

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British and American English are different 1. many ways. The first and most obvious way is in the vocabulary. There are 2. (hundred) of different words which are not used on the other side of the Atlantic. For example, Americans use automobiles, freeways, gas, cabs and subways 3. the British use cars, motorways, petrol, taxis and undergrounds. Besides, sometimes 4. same word used by Americans and the British has a slightly different meaning, which can be 5.(confuse)．

There are a few 6.(differ) in grammar, too. In addition, the two varieties differ in spelling and pronunciation. American spelling seems 7.(simple): center, color and program instead of centre, colour and programme. Many factors 8. (influence) American pronunciation since the first settlers arrived four hundred years ago. But a Londoner doesn’t have much difficulty 9. (understand) a New Yorker.

The two varieties are moving closer. For more than a century, communications across the Atlantic have developed steadily, which has led to lots of American words and structures passing into British English. So, don’t worry. Users of English will all be able to understand each 10. — wherever they are.

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British people are working to an older age. 1.　　　　 number of working 70-74-year-olds has doubled in recent years. Around 10% of people in 2.　　　　 (they) early 70s now work. This is the 3.　　　　 (high) figure on record. An important reason4.　　 the British work in their old age is that retirement pensions are becoming more difficult to live on. 5.___________(consequence) many older people have to work in order to survive.

Britain6._______ (see) great changes in the labor market during the last decade, 7. _______far more people working beyond their retirement age. While there are plenty who enjoy remaining in work, many need to earn extra cash because they can not afford8._______(retire) early. Older people need decent(体面地) jobs and pensions so that they can make a proper 9.　　　　 (choose) about whether they remain in work. Now they are deciding on a career change later in life and are starting up their own businesses, 10.　　　　 (devote) to something they may have dreamed of doing for years.

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When you think of robots,what is the first thing that comes to your mind? Do you think of science fiction movies like Star Wars , 1. robots of all shapes and sizes are part of daily life?Robots were once just a product of fiction.The word itself comes from the play Rossum's Universal Robots, 2.(write)in 1920 by Karei Capek.

Today most robots don't look human.They appear in many forms and 3.(program)to perform a wide variety of things,from working in factories 4. exploring the surface of Mars.But there is a surprising problem in the world of robots:What humans find easy is 5.(extreme)complicated for a robot.For example,picking up clothes in a messy room is simple for humans, 6.it is difficult for robots to do that. 7.problem is programming a robot to pick up some objects of different shapes and sizes without damaging them.

It shows that one of the most difficult things 8.(improve)in robots is their flexibility.Exciting 9.（develop)in making human-like hands and legs are under way.But the biggest advancements are to teach robots to guess what they can do and 10. they help us with daily tasks.

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What is clone? The noun “clone” and the verb “to clone” are not used consistently. In biology a clone is a cell or an organism, which is 1. (genetic) the same as another cell or organism. Many simple organisms such as bacteria reproduce themselves by 2. (copy) their DNA and splitting (分裂) in half. The verb “to clone” refers 3. the process of creating cloned cells or organisms. The process differs, 4. (depend) on the kinds of cells used in the cloning procedure and the desired result. Usually, 5. scientists clone an animal, they take the nucleus (核) of a cell and place it into an egg cell from 6. the nucleus has been removed. The egg cell then divides to produce 7. embryo that develops an animal if the procedures work as 8. (plan). Different from other cloning cases, Dolly was created from a specialized adult cell, 9. from a very early embryonic cell in which no specialized 10. (tissue) begin to develop.

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Children are the apple of their parents’ eyes, but what will parents do if their children make mistakes?

Most kids like candies. The same is true of a little girl, 1. mother is very strict and makes it a rule that she can’t take any candies without her 2. (permit).

One day, when the mother was out, the girl decided to get some candies 3. (secret). Since she was not tall enough 4. (get) the candy box in the cupboard, she got a chair to stand on. The girl opened the box and took out 5. handful of candies. On hearing her mother opening the door, so nervous 6. (be) the girl that she fell down to the ground, with candies around.

Rather than comfort her crying daughter, the mother ordered her to stand up and clear the ground 7. (she). She said to her daughter seriously, “Today, 8. is because you’ve made a mistake that I punish you. If 9. (catch) doing this again, you’ll have no candies at all. I would rather you 10. (remember) my words.”

What do you think of the mother’s way of dealing with her daughter? Indeed, loving children doesn't mean spoiling them.

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What are the benefits of laughter? Laughter 1. (use) as a signal for being part of a group —it signals acceptance and positive interactions with others. In fact, laughter is important, and has been shown to have many 2. (benefit) effects on the human body in different ways. Just check out these health benefits of laughter.

Boosts (增强) your immune system.3. (study) have shown that laughter boosts the immune system, increasing the number of antibody-producing T cells. This then makes us less likely 4. (catch) coughs and colds. It also lowers the levels of at least four hormones (激素) which are connected with stress. So, after a good laugh you should be far less anxious.

Improves your breathing. Laugh more and more, because laughter empties your lungs of the air 5. it takes in, resulting in a cleansing effect - similar 6. deep breathing. This is 7. (especial) helpful for people who are suffering from asthma (哮喘).

Protects your heart. Your heart is a muscle and, like any muscle in your body, it gets 8. (strong) and functions better when exercised. Regular laughter is like 9. (get) a gym membership for your heart The study said that 15 minutes of laughter a day is as important for your heart 10. 30 minutes of exercise 3 times a week.

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“What are you busy with yourself, Mother?” The girl of less than six years old asked her mother　 _1.　 (curiosity). “ __ 2._　 (make) dinner for the neighbor’s aunt.”

“ Why?” “　 3.　 the other day the aunt 　 4.　　 (lose) her daughter and is so sad now. We must take good care of her these days.”“ Why need our care?” “ Because　 _ 5.　 then on the aunt can’t do 　 6.　 they like to along with her daughter. She is very pitiful. In her distress, making dinners and doing chores are also becoming so difficult. My dear, can you help Mother hit an idea to help the aunt in other ways?” At her mother’s proposal, the girl thought for a long while. All of 　　 7.　　 sudden, she went to the neighbor and knocked at the door.

The neighbor with a look of 　 8.　　 (tired) opened the door. “What can I do for you?” asked the neighbor. “I 　 9.　 (hear) my mother say you’re very distressed for losing your daughter...” The girl timidly handed the band-aid tightly 10.　 (hold) in her hand to the neighbor.

The neighbor suddenly choked with sobs, her tears gushing from her eyes. She hugged the girl and said, “ Thank you. This band-aid will cure my wound.”

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When you are in England you must be very　　 1.　　 (care) in the streets because the traffic drives on the left. Before you cross a street you must look to the right first _____2.____ then the left. In the morning and in the evening when people go to 3.　　　 come from work, the streets are very busy. Traffic is most ____4.___ (danger) then.

When you go by bus in England, you have to be careful, ___5.____. Always remember the traffic moves on the left. So you must be careful. _____6.____ (have) a look first, or you will go ___7.____ wrong way.

In many English cities, there are big buses __8._____ two floors. You can sit on the ___9.____ (two) floor. From ____10.____ you can see the city very well. It’s very interesting.

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