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＄1 million top prize on the Indian TV game show Who Wants to be a Millionaire.
The w__89__ , Sushil Kumar, is 27 years old. He works as a computer operator in a
government office. He earns around only $120 every month. His house is almost broken down and he had a lot of loans (贷款) to be repaired. He e__90___ watched the TV game show at a neighbour?s house, because his family is too poor to afford a television set.
People are interested in how Kumar will use the prize. Kumar said that he was going to r__91___ his house and fulfill a few basic needs. He would also use part of the prize to study for the civil service(公务员)exams. “I love r___92___,” Kumar said in an interview after his win. “Before winning the prize, I couldn?t buy many books, but now, I will make a huge library.” 青浦一
India is a country rich in culture and tradition. And although India is changing, one thing remains the s (86) : the cow is sacred (神圣的). And men and women cover their heads and faces with cow urine (牛粪).
According to their tradition, the cow is not just a farm animal. These cows are like motherhood, and their milk feeds them. But it's not the milk these men and women are waiting for——it's the urine. As a precious g (87) from the cow, the urine is often placed in the house to protect their homeland. People think the urine can beautify their house and keep away b (88) luck. Men even put cow urine into their hair.
And this special form of worshipping (崇拜) has been around for centuries. Surprisingly, cow urine is even used by people as a kind of m (89) . Locals believe it can make sick people feel better. Believe it.
Some believers show their worshipping by making an offering of hair.
About 12,000 heads are shaved (剃头) every day. That means the city is always f (90) of hairless believers. Often waiting for 10 hours or more, believers f (91)
enter the shaving area. On average the temple's 1,600 barbers shave over 15 heads an hour. The temple then sells piles of hair to local wigmakers (假发店). The money is used to help the area's poor and make sure the a (92) hair temple of India keeps going. Believe it.
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According to experts, the word Hutong originated from Mongolian language meaning \井). In ancient times, people tended to gather and live around wells. So the original meaning of Hutong should be \a___86___ in Beijing during the Yuan Dynasty. The old city was completely destroyed during the war. First, they had to find a center, and then built a r___87___ square city. At that time, there was a clear definition for “Avenue, Street and Hutong”. A 37-metre-wide road was called an avenue, an 18-metre-wide one was called a street, and a 9-metre-wide lane was called a Hutong. Most of today's Hutong were formed during the Ming and Qing Dynasties that followed. Nobody knows e___88__ how many Hutongs there are in nowadays Beijing. But if we connected all the Hutongs together, their total l___89___ would even be longer than the famous Great wall, which is about 4000 miles.
Today you can find v___90___ Hutongs with different shapes, lengths or directions. The shortest one is only 40 centimeters wide. And some Hutongs have more than 20 turns. As we walk t___91___ the Hutongs, you may find most of them look almost the same with gray-colored walls and bricks. Actually inside those walls are the courtyard houses, where people live. In Chinese we call them \to surround, and \one built on each side facing into the center, is called a Siheyuan. When they were first built, usually one Siheyuan was o___92___ by only one family, but nowadays, with the growth of the population, most Siheyuans are shared by 4 to 10 families. 奉贤一
A thousand years ago, Hong Kong was covered by a thick forest. As more and
more people came to live in Hong Kong, these trees were cut down and burnt. Now there is no forest left, though there are still some small areas covered with trees. We call these “woods”.
Elephants, tigers and many o__86__ animals were living in the thick forest. When people came to live in Hong Kong, the animals began to die out. Early farmers grew rice and r__87__ pigs and chickens in the valleys. They cut down the trees and burnt them. They needed fire to keep t__88__ warm in winter, to cook their food and to drive away the dangerous animals. Elephants quickly d___89__because there was not enough food for them. So did most of the wolves and tigers.
You might think that there are no longer any animals in Hong Kong e__90__ in the zoos, but there are still about 36 different animals living there. One of the most lovely of Hong Kong?s animals is the barking deer. There are beautiful little animals w__91__ a rich brown coat and a white patch under the tail. They look like deer but they are much smaller. They are less than two feet high. They make a noise rather like a dog barking. In Hong Kong the barking deer has only one r__92__enemy- men. People hunt these little animals though it is illegal(犯法的). There are now not many barking deer left. So it is important for people to protect these wild animals. 虹口一
In the middle of the 1800s,France was considered the most important place in the world for art.One reason for that was the Academy,a government organization with some strict r__86____ about art.It decided what could and could not be art. In order to be accepted by the Academy,an artist had to be very talented.Artists also had to paint exactly the way the Academy wanted them to.A brave group of painters challenged(挑战)these ideas and changed art f_87___
Each year, the Academy had an exhibition of the art they had decided was the best.In 1864,a group of artists became a ___88____ because they didn?t get into the show.They felt that their paintings were not bad;the paintings were just different.After complaining to the government ,these artists were given their own show.
The Academy thought all art should look realistic(逼真).But these artists were more interested in trying to show movement and the bright colors of daylight.In their opinion,it was more real to show these than it was to paint a scene(场景)which was as s_89___as a photo.It was also more interesting to show all of the different colours when light hits an object like water.
By 1874,many different artists were painting in this new style,including Claude Monet.One of his paintings had the title,Impression:sunrise.A critic(评论家)h__90__these new artists. He used Monet?s title to make fun of these painters by calling them“Impressionists（印象派）”，meaning that they didn?t make real paintings.The critics who liked these artists thought the word was just right.They began to use it happily. They thought it was more important to paint h_91__they saw things instead of just what they saw. Other artists around the world felt that they could have this freedom as well.Because of the impressionists,the art w_92___was never the same. 普陀二
Wendy Martin is an ordinary university student who used to love surfing the Internet and chatting（聊天）with friends online. She often spent much of her free time talking with her family and making new friends online. Then something a__86 _happened. It completely changed Wendy?s feelings about the Internet.
One of Wendy?s favourite things to do online was to visit the chat rooms on music websites. Everyone there loved chatting about recent concerts and what the famous s__87 ___were going to do next. It was here that Wendy first met Anne. The two women liked each other immediately. Soon they exchanged e-mail addresses and were communicating online every day.
Wendy e____88___ talking to her new friend. They both liked the same music, the same clothes and the same films, but they also had the same worries about studying and the future. Anne had e-mailed her a picture of herself---she even looked s___89___ to Wendy. So, when Anne asked Wendy for her address and phone number, Wendy thought her new friend was a person she could trust.