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A We Are Able to Live LongerTo live forever was the dream of many em-perors in ancient China.People were orderedto call them Wansui,which means10,000years,but no human could live that     

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1It was late in a spring afternoon. I was sitting at a fruit stand beside the Beihai Lake looking at the shinning ripple (波纹), which awoke me to a full sense of life.     

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I arrived in the classroom, ready to share my knowledge and experience with 76 students who would be my English literature class. Having taught in the US for 17 years, I had no doubt about my ability to hold their attention and to impress on them my admiration for the literature of my mother tongue.     

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A The carpenter I hired to help me rebuild an old farmhouse had just finished a rough first day on the job.A flat tire made him lose an hour of work,his electric saw didn't work, and now his ancient pickup truck refused to start.While I drove him home,he sat in stony silence.     

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A Banker Wins Nobel Peace Prize Muhammad Yunus and the bank he found- ed are honored for their work to help the world’s poor. Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank he founded were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday. They won the award for their efforts to help bring millions     

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A I heard the story about a king in Africa who had a close friend with whom he had grown up. The friend had a habit of looking at every situation that occurred in his life (posi- tive or negative) and remarking( 评论), “This is good! ” One day the king …     

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AOnce upon a time, there were two sheep.One was a small sheep, so small. It has a softvoice—baa! The other was a big sheep, sobig. It has a loud voice—BAA! The twosheep are brothers.Every day, Big Sheep and Small Sheepwould go out to the fields to play together and     

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正A The battle for the leadership of Britain’s Labor Party ended on September 25.Five candidates competed for the top job,but it turned out to be a tale of two brothers.Victory went to Ed Miliband,40,with his elder brother David,45,coming a close second.Ed Miliband’s job will now be to try to lead his party back into power and oppose Prime Minister David Cameron.     

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阅读下列短文,然后根据短文内容选择最佳答案。ASteven Jobs,the designer(设计师)ofApple Computer,was not clever when hewas in school.At that time,he was not agood student and he always made troubleswith his schoolmates.When he went intocollege,he didn’t change a lot.Then hedropped out(辍学).But he was full of newideas.After he left college,Steven Jobsworked as a video game designer.Heworked there for only several months andthen he went to India.He hoped that thetrip would give him some new id…     

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A W hy,you m ay wonder,should spiders (蜘蛛)be our friends?Because they destroy so m any insects, including som e of the greatest enem ies of the hum an race.Insects would m ake it im possible for us to live in the world;they w ould devour(吞食)all our crops and kill our cattle,if it were not for the protection w e get from insect-eating anim als. W e ow e a lot to the birds and beasts who eat insects,but all of them put together kill only a very sm all am ount of the num ber destroyed by spid…     

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(A )Efforts by two east African countries to get more children into school have been backed by the UK government with ￡87 mil-lion worth of funding.The Departm ent for International D evelopment (DFID )announced last week that itwould give ￡85 million to the Tanzanian governm ent to support the country’spoverty reduction strategy, which focuses on education and health. The move follows a 45% rise in the number of children attending school since 2001,w hen school fees were abolished.The D FID said around 95%...     

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AOslo and London are the world’s mostexpensive cities, while Zurich and Genevaresidents have the highest buying power,according to a report released last Wednes-day.Europe dominates the list of 71 citiesanalyzed by Swiss bankUBS, while Asian cities—incl…     

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A How to Go Through High School Without a Best Friend Not having a best friend in high school can be tough. But there are ways to be happy, and even build quality connections to others during those years.     

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A The Memory KeepersFor some kids,old photos and baby pictures are embarrassing.For others,they are cherished keepsakes.But for thousands of children living in orphanages(孤儿院)world-wide,     

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A Two traveling angels stopped to spend the night in the home of a wealthy family.The family was rude and refused to let the angels stay in the guest room.Instead the angels were given a space in the cold basement.As they made their bed on the hard floor,the older angel saw a hole in the wall and re-     

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A Liu Xiang Will Resume Training Athens Olympic 110m hurdle champion Liu Xiang felt so relieved to return to race-track after getting out of the great number of social activities.     

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1 I was part of a crew that was sent on a task into outer space. The task was carried out successfully and I was on my way back to earth with my friends.     

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A “S.H .E.is going to sing at the CCTV an- nual Spring Festival Evening Party, is that true?” cried out Peng W eiye,a Senior 2 girl in Shanghai and die-hard(铁杆的)S.H .E.fan. A fter checking it on the Internet, Peng quickly phoned friends to spread the news.For fans like her,S.H .E.’s perform ance is perhaps the only part of the old fashioned evening to get excited about. The Taiw anese band is m ade up of Seli- na, H ebe and E lla. Their nam e com es from the first letter of each of the singers’ E nglish nam...     

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、劝了A’As you make a study of musie，you’11 find it familiar(熟悉)to you.Musie ean tell you of famous Persons，interesting Plaees and exeit一ing things.It exPresses feelings and ideas of the PeoPle，whieh seem your own·If you are deeP in listening，you will feel PeoPle at Work，at Play orin the army，in the field，and you may find musie exPressing the love of nature，of hometown，and of our nations. Music 15 also an exPression of theeom一poser(作曲家).As an artist，the compose:ex- Pr…     

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Food Fear Are you noticing fewer snacks in your cupboards? Smaller portions on your dinner plates? Are your lunch boxes missing an extra treat or two? If so,you aren’t the only one.According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture