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I met Kumkum at a children’s home in Delhi. It is a home 1. children who are sick are provided treatment and care before 2. (send) to some other orphanage. Kumkum was 7 years old, and a very brave soul. Despite suffering from tuberculosis(肺结核), I never saw 3. crying. She had lost her parents and was struggling herself through this terrible disease. Upon meeting, we took an instant liking 4. each other. Every Saturday I would visit Kumkum and play with her. She would love to sit on my lap. It was one such moment that the child felt like 5. (kiss) me... and I suddenly remembered that she was suffering from tuberculosis which is a communicable(传染性的）disease. I tried to stop her 6. she really wanted to show her affection for me, so I overcame my fear and let her place the 7. gentle and sweet kiss on my cheek that I ever had. Although I overcame my fear at that moment, I 8. (not forgive) myself ever since for refusing her 9. (initial). Although the child kissed me, I think she sensed my hesitation 10. she has never kissed me again. I will never forget that the most beautiful thing in this world is a child’s kiss... so full of love and innocence.
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A new campaign to ban smoking in taxis is part of a wider push to clean up the city’s image before the 2010 World Expo(2010年世界博览会). The Shanghai Dazhong Taxi, a taxi company, said drivers _1._(find) smoking in their cabs could “possibly” be fined or even temporarily banned __2._ working. Signs __3.(place) in all of the taxi company’s 9,100 strong fleet (车队) saying “No Smoking in Taxis. Welcome to Shanghai World Expo”． “We hope the sanitation(卫生环境) of cabs in the city will be improved through our no-smoking campaign，__4._ is a mutual benefit for __5._ drivers and passengers. ” Dazhong said it would __6._(close) monitor the campaign’s progress. Drivers caught smoking will undergo the company’s training and inspection program. “Cabs found to have cigarette smell will be called back”， Zhao said. Many taxi drivers smoke __7._(relax) from working long hours. The official admitted __8._ would not be an easy task to achieve a total smoke ban in a short time. “Promoting non-smoking taxis in the whole city is _9.__ long journey，” Zhao said. “_10.__ having a long way to go, we are confident of fulfilling our ‘smoke-free taxi’ program in the city through our diligence.”
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At one point along an open highway，I came to a crossroads with a traffic light. I was alone on the road by now, but _1.__ I drove up to the light，it turned red，and I braked to a halt. I looked left, right，and behind me. Nothing，_2.__a car，no suggestion of headlights, but there I sat，_3._(wait) the light to change，the only human being for at least a mile in any direction. I started wondering _4._I refused to run the light. I was not afraid of __5._(catch) by the police, because there was obviously no cop anywhere around and _6. certainly would have been no danger in going __7._ it. Much later that night，the __8._ question of why I’d stopped for that light came back to me. I think I stopped because it’s part of a contract(合同) we all have with each other. It’s not only the law, but it’s an agreement we have，and we trust each other to honor _9.__：We don’t go through red lights. Like most of us, I’m more ready to be stopped from doing something bad by the social agreement that disapproves of it __10._ by any law against it.
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Long before, there was a large mountainside, where rested an eagle's nest with four large eagle eggs. One day 1. earthquake rocked the mountain, causing one of the eggs to roll down the mountain to a chicken farm 2. (locate) in the valley below. The chickens were kind enough to care for the eagle's egg, and an old hen volunteered to nurture (哺育) and raise the large egg. One day, the egg hatched and a beautiful eagle was born. Sadly, 3. , the eagle was raised to be a chicken. Soon, the eagle believed he was nothing more 4. a chicken. The eagle loved his present family, but his spirit cried out 5. more. While playing on the farm one day, the eagle happened to notice a group of mighty eagles soaring in the skies. "Oh," the eagle cried, "I wish I could soar like those birds." The chickens roared with 6. (laugh), “You cannot soar with those birds. You are a chicken and chickens do not soar." The eagle continued staring at his real family up above, 7. (dream) that he could be with them. Each time the eagle would let his dreams 8. (know), he was told it couldn't be done. That is 9. the eagle learned to believe. The eagle, after time, stopped dreaming and continued to live like a chicken. Finally, after a long life as a chicken, the eagle passed away. You become what you believe you are. So, if you ever dream of becoming an eagle, follow 10. dreams... not the words of a chicken.
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For many times in the past years I went to the hospital for some minor __1.__(treat) during my travel in other cities. It was the _2.__(sad) moment of my life, I think，because nobody would come to the hospital to visit me. _3.__ patients had family or friends to visit them during the visiting hours. I felt really alone. __4.__ is it possible that out of a whole world full of people，__5._ would come to visit me for just an hour? The answer in my case was simple. With a bit of medication (药物治疗), I was back in the stream of life again. But I_6.__(leave) with a deep thought for all the people and the elderly. __7._ knows how many others that lie in the hospital with nobody _8.__(visit) them or give a kind word of comfort? I had this wonderful idea of forming _9._ organization in cities around the world，getting to hospitals to visit the patients who never get a visit and someone local could drop _10.__ with a smile and a kind word. Wouldn’t it be nice and relatively easy to do?
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