One day, an old man wants to go to London to see his daughter. He gets up early and reaches（到达） the small station at 9∶00 o'clock in the morning. Because this is his first trip to London, he doesn't know the train time. He is worried. At that moment, he sees a little boy running to him. He stops the boy and asks him what time the train will get to the station and when the train will leave for London.

　　The boy looks at the man and says “tu; tu; tu; tu; tu;” just like firing a gun（枪）. Then he runs away. The old man is very surprised（惊奇的） and gets angry. He sits on a chair and thinks the boy's words. Then he begins to smile. He can not help（禁不住）crying out:

　　“What a clever boy! He tells me the time in such（这样的） a way.”

We shall leave for America 　  　　 this year. 

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A． in the end of　　　　　B． by the end of

C． at the end of　　　　　D． between

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　　In the last 500 years nothing about people－not their clothes, ideas, or languages has changed as much as w 1 they eat. Chocolate drink was first made from of the seeds of the cacao by South America Indians. The Spanish introduced it to the r 2 of the world during the 1500s. And although it was expensive, it q 3 became popular. In London, shops where chocolate drinks were served became important places. Some still exist today. The potato is a 4 from the New World. Around 1600, the Spanish brought it from Peru to Europe, where it soon was widely g 5 . Ireland became so dependent on it that thousands of Irish(爱尔兰的) people starved w 6 the crop failed during the year of 1845-1846, and thousands more were forced to leave for America.

　　There are many other foods t 7 have traveled from South America to the Old World. But some others went in the opposite direction. Brazil(巴西) is now the world's largest grower of coffee, a 8 coffee is an important crop in other South America countries. But it is native to Ethiopia(埃塞俄比亚). It was first made i 9 a drink by Arabs during the 1400s. According to an Arabic story, coffee was discovered when a goat keeper named Lakdi noticed that his goats were eating red fruits on a coffee tree. He t 10 one and experienced the “wide-awake(彻底清醒的)” feeling that one third of the world's population now starts the day with.

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