Great inventions change the world. They help people live a __________ life. The wheel is perhaps the greatest invention in history. After its invention, travlling became faster and more ___________ . Without the wheel, we would not have ________, trains and cars. In 1867, on e of the first __________ telephones was invented. _________ then , people have been able to ____________ each other over long __________ . Mobile phones allow people to keep in ________ with each other__________, anywhere. Thomas Edison developed the first _________ light bulb in 1879 . With light bulbs, people can do as many things in the evenings as they can in the _______.
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In the 1940s, the first computers were bigger than cars. Now they are becoming samller and __________ . Computers can calculate at a fast ________ and almost never give wrong answers. We can also _________ and draw things with them. In ________, computers can do a lot of important jobs like _____________railways and flying planes and_____________. But they are not _________than people, because humans can produce ___________. However , one day computers may be _________ to do a better job than human beings. They may ________ our lives, but will they make them better?
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Do you have a good __________? memory A great way to help you remember something is to mind imagine __________ a picture of it in your __________. A picture is _________ a thousand words. A good worth spelling way to remember the ___________ of a word is to make a short sentence with each___________ letter of the word. For example , if you make a sentence like “Big elephants can always understand small elephants”, you can remember easily the spelling of the word “because” _________. You will forget something very quickly unless _________ you understand it well. So whatever you want to remember, try to understand it well improve __________. These are the ways to ___________ your memory. Are they helpful?
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A group of ___________students from Woodpark School in London are visiting Xinhua Junior High School in Beijing on an ___________ . They spend the _________studying with Chinese students, and at the __________ they _________ around Beijing and visit places of interest with their ______ families. They have also learnt a ________ of t’ai chi and a lot about chinese __________ and history. They have made many new friends.to the UK for the second _________ of the exchange next month. They will see ______ __________ in London.
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a wise old man to a ___________ game. The king ___________ to give the old man any_________ he won. The old man asked for one ________ of rice for the first square of the chessboard, two ofr the second, four for the third and then________ the amount for each of the _______ of the squares. Finally , the old man won. The king tried to do as the old man asked, but he soon __________ that even with all the rice in the country he would not have __________ rice to put on all the squares.
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Last week students at Rosie Bridge School worked hard for their English Week. They had fair , many activities, such as an English book _____ treasure hunt, and English play , a singing a _________ competition speaking competition. ____________and also a ___________ The winner of the speaking competition _________ advised us that we had better speak clearly and confidently if we want to be good __________ public ____________ speakers. On the last day, the head teacher told us communicatein English with our we should _____________ whenever friends___________we can . We should read magazines and watch English English books and _________, television programmes. Above all, we should enjoy _____________ English.
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The name of the painting if The __________ Supper. The painting shows Jesus and his followers having a ________together the day before he was killed. It was painted by Leonardo da Vinci. He also __________ the Mona Lisa. Leonardo is _________ _____ his paintings and he was also a ________ . He _________ many things.
At midnight, a group of Greek soldiers quietly _________ _______ the secret door on the side of __________ horse. They opened the main gates of the city to let the Greek ___________in . The Greeks couldn’t capture the city by fighting for ten years, but they _____________ in capturing it in one night ___________ a clever __________.