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Gift giving （送礼）in different countries is different. In Japan, people sometimes give special ____________ 1___ . But they are not ___2 ____ . Later, the same gift may be __3___away to someone else. Lots of people have enough things and don't want too ___4__ gifts themselves. In Canada, a lot of people will not give big gifts to someone _ 5 ___ .They will ___ 6 __ for a park bench （椅子）or a tree to help remember a person. In the USA, some people ask __7___ family and friends to give money to charity （慈善团体） __ 8__ than buy them gifts. In Sweden（瑞典）,__9__ something for someone is the best gift. People don'tneed to spend too much money. __10 ___ , making a meal is enough.
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Some teenagers want to be independent 独（立的）from their parents as quickly ________________________________________________________ 1__ possible. Some teenagers, however, like to stay with their parents. They don't want to grow up （长大）.1 think that teenagersshould be 2 _____________________ to be independent. ___3 should allow their kids to have their own hobbies instead of
（而不是）___4___ them. Teenagers who are more independent are more likely to （更可能）become ___5__ in the future. Teenagers who don't want to be independent probably （或许）__6__ from one-child families. They enjoy being loved （被爱）and don'tneed __7__ worry about their future. They believe that ___8__ parents will prepare everything for them . Teenagerswho want to be independent believe that being independent is a good 9__ to get life skills （技能）and learn 10 to solve （解决）their problems.
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James Dyson is a famous British invento（r 英国发明家）. One of his well-known inventions is the bagless vacuum cleane真空吸尘器）.He __1 __ it in 1978. Today Dyson still __2 __ that day. “ .......... I was the only man in the world with a bagless vacuum cleaner !”he said.
Dyson wasn'tan engineer at first. When he studied at the Royal College of Art in Lo n d o n （伦敦皇家艺术学院）, he __3__ to show an interest in design. There he inven ted his first product （产品）,the Sea Truck. It was a boat for carry ing anything _4 __ islands （岛）.Then he started his first company （公司）to make and sell another invention, the Ballbarrow, a kind of vehicle（交通工具）.But later Dyson
__5___his company . He didn't __6___ with his parents.
After that Dyson began to improve on the vacuum cleaner. In 1985, Dyson took his product to Japan and allow the __7___ to sell it. However , he didn't make much money. Several years later, Dyson __8 ___ to make and sell the machine （机器）himself. By January 1993, his machine was ready for the users. By 2005, Dyson con trolled （控制）both the Europea n and America n _ 9 ____ .
Along the way , Dyson discovered the __10__ of success: People buy product if they are better.
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Did you know that tea, the most popular __1___ in the world （ after water） , was invented by accident （偶然地）? Although tea wasn't brought to the Western world （西方）____ 2__ 1610, this beverage （饮料）was __3 _ over three thousand years before that. ___ 4 __ to an an cie nt Chin ese lege nd （—个古老的传说）the emperor Shen Nong （神农氏）discovered tea _5 __ he was boiling water over an open fire. Some leaves __6__ a nearby bush fell into the water__7__ remained there
