Reading and Blank-filling

閱讀下面材料，在空白處填入適當的內容（1個單詞）或括號內單詞的正確形式。

A

A king had two sons and asked famous teachers to teach them. After a few 1________（year）， the king fell badly ill. He wanted to choose one of his sons as the next king. He thought it over 2________ a whole night. At last， he decided 3________（test） his sons.

One day， he gave a room to each of 4________（they）， “You must fill the room completely with anything you wish. But there should be no space left and you can't ask for advice from anyone！”

The next day the king 5________（visit） his elder sons room. The room was completely filled with grass. The king felt sorry about it. Then he went to 6________ other room， but it was closed. His 7________（young） son asked him to get in and closed the door again. It was dark everywhere， so the king shouted at him 8________（angry）. But suddenly the second son lighted a candle and the room was full of light. The king felt very 9________（excite） and hugged him proudly.

He realized： Wisdom （智慧）is more important than simple answers 10________ are easy to get.

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B

This is Tammels School， a primary school in Finland. The students are having a math class with their robot teacher. The “teacher” is 1________small， blue machine about 25 cm high， Reuters reported. Whenever students have problems， it helps them very 2________（patient） and never gets bored. “The robots can make students 3________（active） in class than usual. I see Elias as one of the 4________（tool） to get different kinds of practice and activities into the classroom，” a teacher told Reuters. So far， the school 5________（introduce） four robot teachers， one of 6________（who） is a language teacher that can speak 23 languages and dance to music. “It's necessary to encourage kids to come up 7________ new ways to make use of technology in school life，” the head of the school 8________（add） in the interview.

The robot teachers 9________（use） to help improve teaching. This doesn't mean that human teachers will lose their jobs. The robots can teach well， 10________ they are not able to keep class in order. The school still needs human teachers.

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C

Have you 1________（notice） that some people are not as healthy as before though life has improved a lot？ Nowadays some people eat more， so they are getting 2________（heavy） than before. This makes 3________ easy for people to get sick. Eating unhealthy food is another problem. It will 4________（sure） make people healthy to stay away from junk food and try to eat more 5________（kind） of food per day. To become healthier， people should still exercise more. Doing sports daily will make people keep6________ a good condition. Many people are quite busy studying and 7________（work） and they go to bed very late， even when they have to go to school 8________ to work early the next morning. If such situation 9________（keep） on for a long time， people will finally get sick. Doing sports is a good way to get 10________（relax）. It will do good to people health.

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D

Try reading the following sentences as fast 1________ you can： “She sells seashells by the seashore. The shells she sells are surely seashells. So if she sells shells on the seashore， I'm sure she sells seashore shells.”

Not very easy， was it？ What youve just read 2________（call） a tongue twister（繞口令）. It is 3________exercise made up of sounds that are hard to pronounce in order to help people pronounce words 4________（fast） and more correctly. Try the next example： “Peter Piper 5________（pick） a peck of （許多）pickled peppers （腌辣椒）. Did Peter Piper pick a peck of pickled peppers？ If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers， wheres the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked？”

Tongue twisters usually do not have much 6________（mean）. They are just used to improve peoples ability to pronounce words. Although they may be very difficult， these exercises are very 7________（importance） to people who are trying to speak English correctly. This is 8________tongue twisters help people tell the differences between similar sounds.

So if you wish 9________（pronounce） words more smoothly， you'd better try picking out some tongue twisters and 10________（practice） them.

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E

When I'm growing up， I don't hear “I love you” from my father. If your father never says them 1________ you when you are a child， it'll get harder and harder for him to say those words as he 2________（get） older. I can't remember when I last 3________（say） those words to him， either.

I decided 4________（make） the first move. In the next phone conversation I said， “Dad... I love you！” There was a silence at the other end and Dad was 5________（surprise） to answer， “Well， the same back to you！”

“Dad， I know you love me; you will say 6________ you want to say，” I cried.

Fifteen 7________（minute） later my mother called and asked 8________（nervous）， “Paul， is everything OK？” A few weeks later， my father said on the phone， “Paul， I love you.” I was at work and the tears 9________（run） in my eyes as I finally “heard” the love. As we both sat there in tears we knew that this special moment took our relationship to 10________ new way.

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