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    Every day Tim gets up at five thirty and then goes to take a shower．After that，he makes breakfast for him and his wife (妻子)Betty．For breakfast．Tim has milk and bread and Betty has an egg and some salad．After breakfast，Tim goes to work．He is a train driver(列车司机)and he loves his job．

    Tim starts working at seven o'clock and drives trains on the London Underground．He usually works from Monday to Friday,but he sometimes works on weekends，too．At about one o'clock he has lunch．He eats sandwiches(三明治)．After lunch he works to four o'clock and then he goes home．

    In the evening Tim watches TV with Betty and plays games with his baby son，Ben．At ten he goes to bed．He usually reads books for haIf an hour in bed．He thinks reading is a good habit．

根据材料内容简要回答下列问题。

    Friendship is one of the greatest pleasures that people can enjoy. {#blank#}1{#/blank#}A true friend does indeed find pleasure in our joy and share sorrow in our grief. In time of trial, he or she is always at our side to give us his or her help and comfort.

    {#blank#}2{#/blank#}We must choose someone who has a good character, whose activities are good and who shows kindness of heart. {#blank#}3{#/blank#}

    {#blank#}4{#/blank#}If you tell a friend your secrets, he or she won't tell anyone else. Friends share each other's joys and sorrows. They help each other when they are in trouble and cheer each other up when they are sad.{#blank#}5{#/blank#} In conclusion, when you have made a good friend, don't forget him or her.

A. Knowing how valuable friendship is, we should be very careful in our choice of a friend.

B. It is very difficult to find a better definition of friendship.

C. A true friend can always be trusted, loved and respected.

D. The most important thing is that a friend always understands you.

E. We should avoid these shallow people who are easily changed by adversities or misfortune.

    Not enough American students want to be engineers, mathematicians, or scientists. The US government wants to change that. The government will spend three billion dollars on the education of young Americans in science, technology, engineering, and maths. {#blank#}1{#/blank#}.

    Many jobs in the STEM fields will open in the coming years. The purpose of the government's investment（投资）is to increase the number of Americans who can take those jobs. {#blank#}2{#/blank#} than boys. Only 25 percent of STEM students are girls.

    Camsic McAdams is at the US Education Department. She says girls simply do not feel welcomed in STEM subjects, Debbie Sterling is an engineer. She invented a toy for girls. The name of the toy is "Goldie Blox". To interest girls, Sterling create the character"（Goldie". {#blank#}3{#/blank#} . Goldie tells stories, solves difficult problems and builds new worlds.

    Mia is a seven-year-old girl who likes science. In her room, she has no fashion dolls. Instead, she received a set of（Goldie Blox from her grandmother. {#blank#}4{#/blank#} Experts say parents should do more than just buy toys to interest their girls in STEM subjects. {#blank#}5{#/blank#}.

    At school, girls should take part in projects that require teamwork and creative thinking.

     {#blank#}1{#/blank#} It has around 3 billion fans — nearly half the world's population! And about 300 million people play this game. That's 4 percent of the world's population!
    {#blank#}2{#/blank#} Many people in old days played early forms of this modern game. Cuju (蹴鞠)，a ball-kicking game in China, was reported as early as 2,500 B.C. Around the same time in Greece, people were also playing a similar ball game with any part of the body except hands.
    But modern soccer didn't become official(官方的) until 1863. An Englishman called Cobb Morley introduced the idea of a soccer association(联盟). {#blank#}3{#/blank#} From then on, other associations in the countries were set up. They came together to build up the FIFA, which organizes the World Cup.
It's not easy to tell what makes soccer so popular. {#blank#}4{#/blank#}Soccer needs only two feet and a ball. This makes it a sport that developing countries can easily play. Some of the sport's best players come from these poor nations.
    {#blank#}5{#/blank#} The sport's no-hands rule makes beautiful dance — like movements on the field. What's more, this sport excites the heart. Teams might score only a few times each match, so matches can turn around suddenly.
    No one knows who will win at the next World Cup. But one thing is certain: The world will be watching.

    A man stopped at a flower shop. He wanted to order some flowers for his mother for her birthday.

    As he got out of his car and walked to the shop, he saw a little girl sitting in the corner. The girl looked quite sad. He asked her what was wrong. The girl said, “I want to buy a red rose for my mother, but I don't have much money. A red rose is two dollars.”

    The man said, "Come with me. I'll pay for the rose. "He bought the little girl a red rose and also ordered his mother some flowers. Then the girl told the man where she would go. It's a cemetery(墓地). Her mother died 20 days ago.

    Later that day, the man took his flowers and drove a long way to his mother's house. He wanted to give the flowers to his mother in person.

    Ms. Lauren, a school head teacher, has asked the students to put down notes of what they have learned based on their own experiences. Here is some of what she's got.