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一Every day I see____________ in the newspaper and on the buses
_______that it is easy to learn English._____________ these advertisements, with very little effort._______________, he will be able to speak the language fluently in three months or even ten days. There is often a___________ Shakespeare or Charles Dickens to encourage him even more. When I see advertisements like this, I don’t know_________________. If it were as easy to learn English as they say, I would have to look for another job, because very few ________teachers would be needed. But a large number of people must believe these_______________, or else the advertisements would not appear.
_______________for students to be attracted to methods that will teach them as quickly and_________ and __________as possible. But it is difficult for anyone to explain in simple language why one method is better than another, and _________________that anyone has discovered a perfect way of teaching English in every possible situation. Some experts even argue that there are many good ________of teaching a language as there are good teachers, because every teacher is an ____________with his own______________._______________ this is true______________________, but it is not very helpful to students。

二My parents __________ Vermont when I was still an_______. A ___________man。

my father_________ quietly_____ his medical practice in a small town called Enosburg. Soon the local people _______him as one of their own.__________________ small Vermont towns. They know good people when they meet them. Around town the neighbors_________ my father as "Doc Eppley. " And I soon learned that __________I lived in Enosburg I would always be known as "Doctor Eppley's son".
That night was New Year's Eve, and my family attended a small party with friends to ___________the beginning of another year. When midnight_________, people _______and greeted each other. Across the room I saw my father. I _______________ him . My father and I _________ hug. But _________ the day's events , I _______my arms around his__________. And I spoke his real name for the first time in years. I said, "Thank you, Dad. Happy New Year."
三_____________makes people interesting._________________ if everyone had the same personality. ___________________,some personalities are more pleasing than others .What about you ?Are you _________________with your personality ?Or is there something—even a small quality—that you would like to change? Most people have ___________some personality ___________they would like to make.
_____________is a time for personality development ,and personality is developing right along with everything else.
For young university students,______________________ as you want
it to be may be easier now than later, for you are __________ while you are ________.______________the personality ______that you ________.Just as an athlete builds skills, you can build the personality you want to have, but only if you
_____________________so.
四 When my grandfather died, my 83-year-old grandmother, once so full of life, slowly______________. ___________________ manage a home of her own,
she____________ with my mother, where she was visited often by other members of her large, loving family (two children, eight grandchildren,
22 great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren). Although
she still had her good days, it was often hard to __________________.
And perhaps she wasn’t saying that just to be kind._____________________, we had_________ to produce a __________of
the doll she remembered. But as I watched my eight-year-old daughter and
her great-grandmother __________the doll together, I thought of a
________explanation. What GG really___________, perhaps, was the love
that__________ the gift. And love,_____________________ , always looks
the same.
六People ____________from the street until many customers__________. The walls shook as hands and feet____________ to the Christmas_______.
The __________evening in a ______restaurant ended up being the very best Christmas Eve we ____ever__________ just because of a young ______who
had Christmas spirit in his soul. He ________the love and joy that
____________________us by anger and disappointment. He gave us Christmas.。