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{#blank#}2{#/blank#} Mary wonders what she _________ as when she grows up.
{#blank#}3{#/blank#} — Amy, I called you yesterday evening, but nobody answered the phone.— Oh, I ________ a walk with my mother at that time.
{#blank#}4{#/blank#} —________ you ________ a letter to your mother recently?—Yes, I wrote one last Sunday.
{#blank#}5{#/blank#} We are told that sound ___________ through air at a speed of about 340 metres per second.

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    China has{#blank#}1{#/blank#}smokers in the world. Each year, about one million Chinese die from smoking-related illness. Official statistics(统计) in 2007 {#blank#}2{#/blank#}China has 300 million smokers, with another 540 million people forced to breathe in. China began {#blank#}3{#/blank#}the world Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control(《烟草控制框架公约》）in 2006. Governments at different levels have{#blank#}4{#/blank#}tobacco control in the last few years. Beijing ,Shanghai and Hangzhou have tobacco-control {#blank#}5{#/blank#}. Half of China's public health institutions have been non-smoking spaces since 2011. Smoking in some indoor public spaces and special {#blank#}6{#/blank#} work spaces has not been allowed since January 2011.

    Selling tobacco to anyone {#blank#}7{#/blank#}  than 18 is not allowed. The seller should ask the buyer to show his or her ID card if the seller can not see {#blank#}8{#/blank#} old the buyer is . Now at least 23 countries use pictures on the packages to warn more people of the danger of {#blank#}9{#/blank#}. The picture warnings now are printed in bigger characters, and the use of colors of makes the warning clearer. 

    For others and for yourself, please{#blank#}10{#/blank#}smoking.

    My grandpa is seventy-six years old. He often tells me about his old days when he is {#blank#}1{#/blank#}. Grandpa often says, " {#blank#}2{#/blank#}is much better today. Now you have lights, but when I was a child, we  {#blank#}3{#/blank#}candles. Travelling used to be very difficult, but now it's much easier." My grandpa was born in a poor {#blank#}4{#/blank#} so he didn't get much {#blank#}5{#/blank#}However, he never stopped {#blank#}6{#/blank#}.As a child, Grandpa hardly ever played games with other children. Instead, he read {#blank#}7{#/blank#}to increase his knowledge. When Grandpa was eighteen years old, he {#blank#}8{#/blank#} a job as a postman. No matter it was in {#blank#}9{#/blank#}or in summer, Grandpa worked ten hours a day. He loved his job very much. In Grandpa's {#blank#}10{#/blank#} knowledge is wealth. He often encourages me to read a lot.