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The world itself is becoming much smaller by using modern traffic and modern communication. Life today is much {#blank#}1{#/blank#} than it was hundreds of years ago, but it has brought new problems. One of the biggest is {#blank#}2{#/blank#} . To pollute means to make things dirty. Pollution comes in many ways. We see it, drink it and even hear it.
Man has been polluting the earth. The more people are, the more pollution is. Many years ago, the problem was not so {#blank#}3{#/blank#} because there were not so many people. When the land was {#blank#}4{#/blank#} up or the river was dirty in a place, men moved to another one. But this is no {#blank#}5{#/blank#} true. Man is now slowly pollution the {#blank#}6{#/blank#} world.
Air pollution is still the most serious. It's bad to all living things in the world, but it is not {#blank#}7{#/blank#} one kind of pollution. Water pollution {#blank#}8{#/blank#} our fish and pollutes our drinking water. Noise pollution makes us become angry more easily.
Many countries are making rules to {#blank#}9{#/blank#} pollution. They stop the people from burning coal in houses and factories in the city, and from blowing dirty smoke into the air. The pollution of SO2 is now the most dangerous problem of air pollution. It is caused by heavy traffic. It is certain that if there are fewer people driving, there will be {#blank#}10{#/blank#} air pollution.
The earth is our home. We must take care of it. That means {#blank#}11{#/blank#} the land, water and air clean.

    Mr. Smith {#blank#}1{#/blank#} in a police station for 42 years and he will retire this autumn. He tried to work hard in his life but he wasn't lucky enough {#blank#}2{#/blank#}even a thief.

    Last weekend, Mr. Smith {#blank#}3{#/blank#} to buy some sugar in a shop. When he got into the shop, he suddenly saw a young man get some money from a woman's bag and walk away. He ran to the thief and at the end of a blind alley(死胡同), the young thief {#blank#}4{#/blank#}by Mr. Smith.

    “Please give me a chance, sir,” said the thief. “I'll never do that again!”

    “But who can give me a chance?” said Mr. Smith. “I{#blank#}5{#/blank#} next month and this is the first time I've caught a thief!”

    Will Johnson has worked his way up the list of most popular stars in his country. In fact, it is not surprising that Will is so successful if we know about his early life. Some valuable lessons he learnt as a child have strongly influenced him {#blank#}1{#/blank#} his later life. One of them was from his father {#blank#}2{#/blank#}  was strict with him and his brother.

    Once, Will and his brother Harry {#blank#}3{#/blank#} given a job to rebuild a broken brick (砖) wall in the yard. The wall was fifty feet{#blank#}4{#/blank#} and around sixteen feet high. The boys had to mix concrete (水泥) and place only one brick at a time. They didn't know why their father gave them {#blank#}5{#/blank#}a huge job.

    {#blank#}6{#/blank#} , with the attitude (态度) of "one brick more", both Will and Harry rebuilt the wall in {#blank#}7{#/blank#} period of six months. Each time they were about to give up, their father {#blank#}8{#/blank#}them up patiently. Both brothers were so sad about the job at {#blank#}9{#/blank#} , but after completing the task, they felt a sense of pride, and so did their father. Even today when Will thinks that he won't be able to do something, he will look back to his experience and keep telling {#blank#}10{#/blank#}"one brick at a time".

    Helen{#blank#}1{#/blank#}a nurse since ten years ago.

    During the football game, the students "voices{#blank#}2{#/blank#}higher and higher with excitement.

    If you don't work harder, you will only{#blank#}3{#/blank#}progress.

    One of Shakespeare's masterpiece is{#blank#}4{#/blank#}Othello.