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    You probably know many of the things that you can do with the hundreds of different muscles（肌肉） in your body. But have you ever thought about how the muscles in an animal's body are different from yours? An animal's muscles are made to do the things that are the most important for its life.

    Lions are hunters. They depend on their ability to catch other animals. Lions must be fast in order to catch their prey(猎物). The powerful muscles in their back legs allow them to run at speeds of more than 30 miles per hour. They can also jump a distance of more than 35 feet. The strong muscles in their front legs help them catch their prey.

    Snakes also use their muscles for hunting prey and for movement, but their muscles work in very different ways than lion's do. Because snakes do not have any legs, they use their muscles to push against the ground or other objects to move themselves forward. Their muscles also allow them to eat things that seem much too large. For example, a snake may eat an egg that is larger than the width of its body. How does this happen? The snake's strong neck muscles work together to push the egg down the mouth.

    The elephant's long nose has a lot of muscles. Scientist believe that the nose alone has more than 100, 000 muscles! This is because the elephant uses its nose much in the same way that people use their hands and fingers. Even though the nose is large, it can perform surprisingly tasks. For example, an elephant can pick up a tree by its roots or even to lift a baby elephant.

    The great muscles of these animals seem pretty unbelievable. But the muscles in your body work exactly the way you need them to. After all, it might be fun to be able to jump a distance of 30 feet, but as a human being, there is just not much need for it.

    How much sleep do we need? We are all different. Some people need only three hours of sleep a night. Others need ten hours of sleep a night. Most Americans sleep an average(平均) of seven to eight hours a night. After the age of fifty, the average sleeping time goes down to 6.5 hours a night.

    Most people have a bad night when they cannot fall asleep(睡着). The name of this problem is called insomnia.

    This isn't a new problem .Many famous people in history had insomnia .Some of these people had special ideas to make them sleep .Benjamin Franklin, the famous inventor had four beds. He moved from one to another to fall asleep .King Louis XIV(国王路易十四)of France had four hundred and thirteen beds and hoped to fall asleep in one of them .Mark Twain, the famous American writer, had a different way. He lay on his side across the end of his bed.

    My name is Felix Black. I am from America. I am twelve years old. And I am a student at No. 2 Middle School in Suzhou, Mrs Zhao is our Chinese teacher. My friend is also a student here. Her name is Maria Smith. She is from England. She is thirteen years old. Maria and I are new students at No. 2 Middle School. We like our Chinese class.

要点：1.是谁帮助了你？2.她/他是如何帮助你的？3.这件事情对你的影响是什么？

要求：1.文中不得出现考生的真实姓名和学校名称；2.词数100左右。

How long will it take to learn a new language?  One year， two years or ten years?  
According to Chris Lonsdale， a 1 ， you don't need to spend such a long time. 2 ， all you need is just six months. Is that 3 ?  Believe it or not， thеscientist himself has used his special ways tо learn more than five languages， each in about half a 4 ！ Here are the ways for language learners：

Listen a lot—it doesn't matter if you 5 or not. Focus on （注意） getting the meaning first. Body language and facial expressions can 6 .

Get creative and use what you have learnt. 

Focus on the most commonly used words， and use them to learn 7 words. Get a language partner to help you. Copy the face—watch 8 how people's mouth moves when they are speaking. 

Connect words with pictures in your 9 . Will these ways be helpful?  If you keep 10 them for about six months， I'm sure you will be surprised by the results！

A husband and wife moved to a new apartment. The apartment had a beautiful view(景色) of the neighboring building. Every 1 , the wife would look out of the window to see what was happening in the neighborhood.

 One morning, as the wife was 2 the window, she saw a neighboring woman hanging out her clothes to dry. "Look at her 3 clothes," she said to her husband.

4 , he went on reading the newspaper and didn't pay any attention to her words. "Perhaps her soap is bad or she does not know how to 5 . I will go to tea ch her someday!" the wife said to herself, shaking 6 head. "I can't believe she is 7 those clothes in public(在公开场合)."

A few mornings later, the 8 was still not clear about the woman's washing habits. Every time the neighboring woman hung out her clothes, the wife would be 9 at how dirty they looked. She couldn't understand why she could 10 wash them clean. "Maybe she has no taste for being beautiful. That is 11 the colours of her clothes on the drying line hardly match(相配)," she said to her husband, with a 12 in his hand again.

 Then, one day, after she looked out of the window as usual, she shouted 13 , "Oh! Look, her clothes are clean today. The 14 woman has finally learned how to wash clothes!"

 To this, her husband answered quietly, "15 . Today I just woke up a little bit earlier and washed the window."