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I attended a birthday party in 1991. My teacher was then 59 years old. ___1__ her fellow teacher said __2_we were celebrating her 39th birthday! We were all very____3_____ _____(surprise) and puzzled.
After the party I was told by the fellow teacher that American women have a special saying about ____4__ (birth). If a woman is ___5___40, or even if she is 80, her birthday is always the 39th. If she is in her thirties, her birthday will be the 29th. And in her
___6____(twenty), it’s the 19th. They usually have their “real” birthday ___7__they are under 20.
This shows that American women, ___8____(especial) elderly women, are very sensitive about their ages. But my teacher always s ays, “We want to be (9) ________(young). ” so about the age of Western women, my advice is that __10____ you don’t know it, don’t ask about it; if you really know it, don’t mention it.
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As is known to all, China is a large country ____1_agriculture. Science of farming was first ______2___(study) here.
Jia Si-xie, living ____3___ the 6th century AD, was one of the farming pioneers（先驱者）. ____4____he finished his work for the government, he spent his time _____5_______his research into agriculture. He studied ___6___ to keep seeds, how to improve soil conditions and so on.
During the years 533~544, he wrote a book ___7_(call) Qi Min Yao Shu ,__8_ is about both farming and gardening, __9__(include) advice on how to grow green vegetables, how to keep fish in lakes, and so on. It was considered to be ____ 10__________ important summary of farming knowledge.。
