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In the Renaissance（文艺复兴） Period（1500～1650）, people became interested in higher education. They wanted to learn the a1. languages such as Greek and Lat in languages that were used in the old times, and study mathematics, science, and so on. Many universities were set up during the 16th century.

University education was a privilege（特权）of the rich. Girls were not allowed to attend and poor people could not a2. to go. A member of a wealthy family could attend university at the age of ten. He might study in different universities and since the teaching was all d3. in Latin, it didn’t matter which country he studied in. It was not unusual for a young boy to study one year in Italy and another in France with out speaking either French or Italian.

It was p4. in the 16th century to complete university without learning how to read or write. Since books were handwritten, there was not enough to give o5. to each student. Often, only the teacher had book. He would read to students who would memorize what he said. Tests were oral, not written. In fact, many students finished school without ever writing a word

For the not so wealthy, grammar schools were built in towns. They learned basic grammar and mathematics, and took part in Bible study. At home, girls learned washing, cooking, dancing, and the basics of taking care of a household. Poor children r6. attended school.

The Renaissance was a time when learners did not simply accept what they were told. They did scientific experiments themselves to search for a7. to the mysteries of the space. Copernicus calculated that the Earth turned around the sun but was afraid to publish his works for fear that the Church would punish him. Galileo later supported this. The watch, the telescope and some others were some inventions of this period.

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David Beckham was b1. in 1975 in London, at a place called Leytonstone. When he was a young boy, his greatest interest was playing football. He played it whenever he had the c2.. Sometimes he would go and watch a game with his friends. When David Beckham was 12 years old, he w3. the Bobby Charlton Soccer Skills award. This was an important step forward for this young boy, and it l4. him to go for a visit to a football training camp in Spain. As a boy he played for schools of Essex and also for his county（郡）team.

In 1991, he became a trainee with Manchester United. This meant that he could practice football as much as he wanted to and play for the highly successful Manchester United Youth Cup team and Under-21 team. In April, 1995, he played his first football league game a5. the team Leeds United. During 1995 and 1996, David became regular（正式的）member of the team and Manchester United won in b6. football seasons, with David scoring many goals（进球得分）.

His goals made him well k7.. In the first game of the 1996 to 1997 season, seeing the goalkeeper（守门员）a little way out of his goal, he scored a surprising goal from beyond（超过）the halfway line. Beckham became famous suddenly and quickly. He continued to score surprising goals, especially from free-kicks. The speed of one of his shots（射门）was timed at 157 kph. He also had the ability to make the ball go from left to right, or right to left, whenever he chose.

Goalkeepers were never sure where the ball was going, and it regularly ended up in the goal.

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Many people like animals and take them as their pets. Nowadays pet hospitals are very busy. K1. persons who love animals are needed to work in busy animal hospitals.

Scientists think that pets will p2. be much smaller because people in the future will live in much smaller spaces. Scientists have been already working on making very small farm animals. The same things might be d3.to make cats and dogs smaller.

It’s said that some day you might o4. a lion as a pet. Scientists might have to start turning wild animals into pets. This might be the only way to save them from dying out.

What a5. a robot for a pet？ This may sound silly, but it could become true. Robot dogs have been made to bark like real dogs. These “pets” might become more and more p6. in the future, After all robots don’t lost hair or chew on things as real pets do.

Lots of people miss their pets while they are on holiday. One hotel in Minnesota has solved this problem. They lend cats to their guests. It is very possible that in the future you will be able to order a pet as well as room s7. at a hotel

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Many American presidents in the 19th century were born in poor families. They spent their childhood in little wooden rooms. They got little e1.. Washington and Lincoln, for example, never went to school and they taught themselves. Lincoln even did j2. of a worker, shopkeeper and post officer in his early years.

A large number of US presidents experienced in the army. The two best known were Ulysses Grant and Dwight D. Eisenhower. Grant was a general in the American Civil War and Eisenhower was a hero in the Second World War. It happened that they g3. from the same school — West Point Military Academy. One may be surprised to learn that both of them did not do well in the school. Eisenhower, for example, was o4. fined because he broke the rules of the school.

The jobs of US presidents are t5.. He must keep an eye on anything important which happens both at home and a6.. Every day, a lot of work is there for him to do, and he has to make many important decisions. When Franklin Roosevelt was a child, he was b7. to visit President Taft. The old president said to him, “When you grow up, you should not be president. It’s a boring job.”

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When you laugh, you will open your mouth and show your teeth. The healthier those teeth are, the h1. you look. Why is that?

It's because your teeth are important in many ways. If you take care of them, they'll help to take care of you. Strong, healthy teeth help you eat the right food to help you g2.. They also help you speak clearly.

You can take care of your teeth by doing like these:

Brush your teeth t3. a day—after breakfast and before bedtime. If you can, brush after l4. or after eating sweet cakes.

Brush all of your teeth, not just the front ones. Spend some time on the teeth along the sides and in the back.

Take your time while brushing. Spend at l5. 3 minutes each time you brush.

Be sure your toothbrush is soft. Ask your parent to help you get a new one every three months.

Learn how to floss（用牙签清理）your teeth, which is a very important way to keep them healthy. It feels strange when you do it at first, but soon you'll be u6. to doing it. The floss gets rid of food that's hidden between your teeth.

Brushing and flossing keep your teeth healthy. You also need to care about w7. you eat and drink. Eat a lot of fruit and vegetables and drink water instead of drinks.

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Music is an international language. Popular music in America is what every student likes. Students carry small radios with earphone and listen to music b1. class, after class and at lunch. Students with cars buy large speakers and play music l2.as they drive on the street. Adult drivers listen to music on the car radio as they drive to work. They also listen to the n3. about sports, the weather, and activities of American people. Most of the radio programs are music.

Pop or popular music singers make much money. They make CDs or tapes which radio starts to use in every state. Once the popular singer is heard all over the country, young people buy his or her tapes. Some of the m4.from these tapes comes to the singer. Wherever the singer goes, all the young people want to meet him or her. Now the singer has become a national s5..

There are o6. kinds of music that are important to Americans. One is called folk music. It has stories about the common life of Americans. Another is called western or country music. This was done by cowboys who would sing at night to the cows they were watching. Today, a7. music about country life and the love between a country boy and his girl is called western or country music. Serious music for the concert halls is called classical music. Music for instruments is called orchestra music, such as the symphonies of Beethoven.

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Like many lovers of books, Mary and her husband, Richard Goldman, s1. walked past a bookstore without stopping to look inside. They often talked of opening their own store one day.

In o2. to realize their wish, they started by talking to bookstore owners and researching（调查） the industry. One figure caught their attention: they’d read some- where that roughly 20 percent of books sold were mysteries（推理小说）, and many buyers spent more than 300 a year on books. Mary and Richard were t3. mystery readers and owned a big collection of such books.

On Halloween 1992, they opened the Mystery Lovers Bookshop and Cafe near their home. With three children in college it was i4. for the couple to spend all the family’s money to start a shop. To cover the whole $100, 000 cost, they drew some of their savings, borrowed from relatives and from a bank.

The store broke even in its first year, with only $120,000 in sales. But Mary was always coming up with new ways to a5. customers. The shop had a coffee bar and it offered gifts to mystery lovers and served dinners for book clubs that met in the store. She also invited dozens of writers to d6. their stories. Today Mystery Lovers make sales of about 420,000 a year. After paying taxes, business costs and the six part-time sales clerks, Richard and Mary together earn about $34,000.

“The job you love may not go hand in hand with a million-dollar income,” says Richard. “This has always been about an e7. life for ourselves, not about making a lot of money.

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Follow that trash（垃圾）

People don't like to talk about trash. Trash is smelly, dirty, ugly, broken, useless stuff. That's w1. we throw it out. But everyone knows that trash affects our environment. It can pollute our land, water and air. So it's important to recycle our trash as much as possible.

Some Americans were very interested in recycling and they were curious（好奇的）about what r2. happened to their trash. So, what did they do? They became d3. and decided to "Follow that trash!"

They took some items out of their recycling bin and puts e4. tags（标签）on them. Signals would be s5. to a computer by tags so the people could follow their trash on its journey. They found that some trash only travelling a few kilometres but some trash travelled hundreds of kilometres. Some trash was recycled, b6. much of it went into landfills.

Waste management companies in America think this detective work will be helpful to them. Getting rid of waste is very expensive and this "trash tracking" will help them to become more efficient. It will save them time and money.

However, the trash detectives say it's a7. important to reduce the amount of trash we produce. After all, if we produce less waste, we won't have to worry about where it goes.

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Teenagers can have problems with their minds. Some become worried b1. they have to study very hard. Others have trouble getting on well w2. people like their parents and classmates.

Liu Wei, a Junior 2 student from Hefei could not understand his teacher and was doing badly in his lesson. He became so worried about it that he started to cut his finger with a k3..

14-year-old Yan Fang from Guangzhou was a4. of exams. She got very worried when she looked at the exam paper. She couldn’t think of a5. to write.

A recent report from Jiefang Daily says about 18％ of Shanghai teenagers have mental（心理的） problems. Their troubles include being worried and very unhappy, and having p6. in learning and getting on with people. Many teenagers who have problems won’t go to see a doctor. Others don’t want to talk about their secret.

Liang Yuezhu, an expert（专家） on teenagers from Beijing Anding Hospital, has the following advice for teenagers:

* Talk to your parents or teachers often.

* T7. part in group activities and play sports.

*Go to see a doctor if you feel unhappy or unwell.

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Each Indian tribe（部落） had different language. Many Indians never learned any language e1. their own. Do you know how Indians from different tribes talked to each other？They had two ways to talk without sound. One way was by sign language; the other was by signals.

Sign language is way talking by signs. Indians used it when they met strangers. In this way, they could find out w2. the stranger was a friend or an enemy. Indians usually used signals when they wanted to send messages to someone far away. To make signals, an Indian might use a pony（小马）. He might use a blanket. Or he might use smoke, a mirror or fire arrows.

To signal that he had seen many animals, an Indian r3. his pony in a large circle. Sometimes the Indian gave a signal like this and then went away to hide. This meant that there was danger.

The blanket signal was visible from far away. An Indian held two c4. of a blanket in his hands. Then he began to swing the blanket from side to side in front of him. An Indian could send many different signals with his blanket.

He could also send many signals with a mirror to w5. someone of danger or to get the attention of a person far away. But he also used it to send message in code. Of course, mirrors could be used o6. when the sun was shining. At night, Indians use fire arrows for signaling.

An Indian also sent signals with smoke. He made a small fire of dry wood. Then he put grass or green branches on it. He held a blanket over the fire for a minute. When her r7.　 the blanket from the fire, there was a cloud of smoke. The number of clouds of smoke told his message in code.

Now you can see that Indians didn’t need to learn each other’s language. They could talk to one another by using signals or sign language.

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