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    Scientists are {#blank#}7{#/blank#}that one day an even bigger earthquake will hit the part around San Francisco. They call it “The Big One”. However，people today are still building more {#blank#}8{#/blank#}The population in and around San Francisco is {#blank#}9{#/blank#}ten times more than it was in 1906. This means that {#blank#}10{#/blank#}there is another earthquake，a great many houses and buildings will be destroyed.

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Jordan was once kicked off his high school basketball team. He {#blank#}7{#/blank#}hundreds of games and thousands of shots during his career. But he said, "I have failed over and over again in my life. But that's why I{#blank#}8{#/blank#}."

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    There is a park near my house. In the park, there are some bushes(树丛). I{#blank#}1{#/blank#}enjoy doing some reading on the bench (长凳) beside the bushes, but now I always tell myself{#blank#}2{#/blank#}the bushes.

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