Newspapers and websites are two major new medium in the world today,both of them can provide us with lots of news and information. But they're different in some way.

Newspapers enjoy a longer history and often come out daily with more reliable news and information. They can be carried and read almost somewhere you like. So many people like reading them. But they can only contain texts and photos.

On the other hand,websites are quite new and popular,specially among young people. Websites have not only texts with pictures but also audios and videos,they make stories more interested. What's more,they are updated from time to time. So late news is always seen on websites. And it is not quite convenient for people without a computer is connected to the Internet to get information from websites.

Three passions,simple 1 overwhelmingly strong,have governed my life: the longing 2 love,the search for knowledge,and unbearable pity for the 3       ( suffer) of mankind.

I have sought love,first,4       it brings ecstasy. I have sought it,next,because it relieves the terrible loneliness. I have sought it,finally,because in the union of love I have seen,in a mystic miniature (缩影) ，the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined. This is 5        I sought,and though it might seem too good for human life,this is what―at last―I have found.

6       equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway above the flux. A little of this,but not much,I have achieved.

Love and knowledge,so far as they were possible,led upward toward the heaven. But always it brought me 7        to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate (回响) in my heart. Children in famine,victims 8         (torture) by oppressors,helpless old people a hated burden to their sons,and the whole world of loneliness,poverty,and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate the evil,but I cannot,and I too suffer.

This has been my life. I have found it worth living,and would gladly live it again 9        the chance 10         (offer) me.

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Many of our problems come from within our own minds. They are not caused by events,bad luck,or other people. We cause them through our own poor mental habits. 1       Stop jumping to conclusions. 2       First,they assume that they know what is going to happen,so they stop paying attention and act on their assumption instead. Human beings are lousy fortunetellers. 3       That makes the action wrong too. The second aspect of this habit is playing the mindreader and assuming you know why people do what they do or what they're thinking. Wrong again,big time. More relationships are destroyed by this particular kind of stupidity than by any other.

4       A huge proportion of those " oughts" and ^u shoulds" that you carry around are most likely needless. All they do for you is to make you feel nervous or guilty. What's the point? When you use these imaginary rules on yourself,you clog your mind with petty restrictions and childish orders. And when you try to impose them on others,you make yourself into a bully,a boring nag,or a selfrighteous bigot (顽固者) .

Don't hang on to the past. 5       The more you turn them over in your mind,the worse you'll feel and the bigger they'll look. Don't try to fight misery. Let go and move on. Do that and you've removed just about all its power to hurt you.

   A. Making conclusion demands us paying much careful consideration.

   B. Most of what they assume is wrong.

   C. Maybe the past means a lot to you.

   D. Here are 3  habits you should set aside right away to free yourself from the problems.

   E. Don't invent rules.

   F. This habit increases people's difficulties in two ways.

   G. Most of the anger,frustration,misery,and despair in this world come from people clinging to past hurts and problems.

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Winter has gone,and spring is coming on. Watch the ice melting,I know the whole earth is being rejuvenated from the winter. A variety of flowers comes out to show their beautiful and bring us fragrance. It is a feast for our eyes and souls. The yellow grass suddenly turn green. The young leaves grow in the branches. The swallows fly back to home with the greet of spring.

Everything is coming life. Feeling the warm sunshine,enjoying the beautiful scenery,listening to the wonderful music,drinking the new tea,I am in perfect mood and I have nothing other to desire. Spring is the most fantastic season in the year. It means so many to the other three season.

Some herbs and spices may be gaining importance in modern medicine. They help to 1       (sharp) the taste of many foods because of their smell. Still others are used traditionally for health reasons.

Researchers from Purdue University reported about the effects of red pepper in the journal Physiology. They found that small changes in diet,like adding the pepper,may reduce the desire to eat.

The spice turmeric comes from a tropical plant common to India. Research 2       (involve) turmeric is not new. Scientists 3       ( study) its medical possibilities for many years. For example,researchers in Singapore completed one such study several years ago. The study 4       (base) on earlier evidence 5        turmeric has strong antioxidant and anti?inflammatory qualities. These qualities can help protect 6        damage to the body's tissues and other injuries.

The researchers said turmeric may reduce evidence of damage in the brains of patients 7        Alzheimer's disease. For this reason,the researchers designed a study that examined results from a mental performance test of older Asian adults. The study involved curry,8       contains turmeric.

The adults were sixty to ninetythree years old. None had severe memory losses. Those who sometimes ate curry did better on the tests 9        individuals who rarely or never ate curry. This was also true of those 10        ate it often or very often.

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Getting rid of dirt,in the opinion of most people,is a good thing. 1       In the early 16th century,people thought that dirt on the skin was a means to block out disease,as medical opinion had it that washing off dirt with hot water could open up the skin and let ills in. A particular danger was thought to lie in public baths. By 1538,the French king had closed the bath houses in his kingdom. 2       Since then,even the rich in Europe lived with dirt in a friendly way. 3       Upon learning that a nobleman had taken a bath,the king ordered that,to avoid the attack of disease,the nobleman should not go out.

4       Scientifically speaking,cleaning away dirt is good to health. Clean water supply and hand washing are practical means of preventing disease. Yet,it seems that standards of cleanliness have moved beyond science since World War H. Advertisements repeatedly sell the idea: clothes need to be whiter than white,cloths ever softer,surfaces to shine. Has the hate for dirt,however,gone too far?

5       Many firsttime parents nervously try to warn their children not to touch dirt,which might be responsible for the spread of disease. On the contrary,Mary Ruebush,an American immunologist (免疫学家) ，encourages children to play in the dirt to build up a strong immune system. And the latter position is gaining some ground.

   A. So did the king of England in 1546.

   B. The rich and noble man lived an elegant life.

   C. Though the belief in the merit of dirt was longlived,dirt has no longer been regarded as a nice neighbor ever since the 18th century.

   D. However,there is nothing fixed about attitudes to dirt.

   E. So how to get rid of dirt has been under heated discussion.

   F. Henry IV,King of France,was famously dirty.

   G. Attitudes to dirt still differ hugely nowadays.

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In our parents' generation,there were less people have the eyesight problem,because the digital products were not so developing at that time. But nowadays,as the development of these products,more and more people have the problem of shortsightedness. When I look around to my classmates,I find few students doesn't wear glasses. People's bad reading behavior makes their eyesight weaker,it's not too late for them to do the right things to correct it. First,we should not read in the dark. Many students like to read in the dark before they go to bed,it hurts their eyes so many. Second,we should not stare at the book,the TV or computer in a long time. We need to take a rest every 40 minutes. Look at the distance or the green color will ease our eyes. Eyes are the window of our soul,we need to protect them.

As soon as I walked outside,I    1         (greet) with the shimmering white blanket of cold. 2       the chill overwhelming my skin,inside I was warm. I felt as though I could be giving off heat. I had the desire to stay out in this freeze for hours. It was the type of day 3      

speaks to you through its elements. I took a deep breath to hear more snow was coming.

As I walked I looked up,trying to realize 4        made this day so beautiful,so serene. It was as if time 5       (put) temporarily on hold and I along with it. Or maybe I was the only one not paused... Either way,the solitude was comforting,and I sensed myself floating away. I sat down on the edge of a curb and listened. All there was to hear was the wind 6       (rush) over the top of my head and circling some old,cracking leaves some yards 7       . To me it was the 8         (reassure) sound of nature,trying not to be forgotten.

It did start to snow. None of those are little flurries,but big,fat flakes which clung immediately 9        their surface.

Then it was time to go and my reverie (幻想) had to end. As I began walking again,I 10         (drift) back into this time frame,calm and cleared.

Now if only I could remember where I was going.

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Reading is very important to help you learn English. 1       This book provides not only different kinds of English but also a good way to check your reading ability. There are four parts in the book：

Part 1 is Messages. In this part the writer wants to send information on writing to somebody else. There is a test on timetables and a test on text messages.

Part 2 is people. In this part all the tests are about people. 2       There is formal English in biography. There is a job application as a model to help with your writing,as well as testing your reading.

Part 3 is Places. 3       There is the informal English of a holiday postcard. There is also the formal English in a letter of complaint.

Part 4 is Things. 4       There are descriptions of clothes and of a computer.

You can do these tests in any order you like,or you can do all the tests with a formal or informal text.

I enjoyed writing this book 5       .

   A. To learn as much as you can from reading,you need to read different kinds of English.

   B. And reading can broaden your eyesight.

   C. and I hope you enjoy using it

   D. In this part,many different kinds of English are shown,too,some informal and some formal.

   E. For example,there is an informal letter between friends.

   F. There are more different kinds of books you can learn from.

   G. You will find some descriptive writing in this part.

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Although all people share some of the same characteristics,there are enough differences to make us unique. Some of us are tall than others. We can have different color eyes,blue eyes,brown eyes,grey eyes,or black eyes. Some people never seem to get sick when other people catch colds easily. Characteristics such as freckles,skin color and hair color also different between people. Some of us have crooked (歪的) noses. We can have long thin fingers or short thick fingers.

The characteristics that we have are determined by our genes which carry important informations about us. We all have two sets of genes that we inherit from our parents,one from our mother and other from our father.

Many characteristics such as eye color is determined only by our genes. Other characteristics are affect by other things too. For example,our genes help determine how tall we will grow,but have enough healthy food when we are children will also have influence in our growth.