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A new dish is 1. (usual) given the name of its inventor. The sandwich gets its name from the 4th Earl of Sandwich, John Montague(1718—1792). He spent long hours 2. (work) and didn’t wish to stop for a meal. He had his servants put meat between two slices of bread to eat while he worked. His friends began to ask for similar snacks(小吃), and 3. name “sandwich” came into common use.
The Chinese dish Kung Pao Chicken 4. (create) in Sichuan Province was very popular when its inventor Ding Baozhen was the governor of the province from 1876 5. 1886. After Ding died, people named the dish after 6. (he).
More than just 7. (food) take people’s names. Many enjoy riding on a Ferris wheel (摩天轮), 8. was named after engineer George W.G.Ferris. He 9. (design) the first one for the World’s Columbian Exposition in 1893 in Chicago.
Illnesses, sports terms(术语) 10. places around the world use people’s names. They are everywhere.
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Recently some American scientists have given 1. useful piece of advice to people in industrialized countries. They say people should eat more of the same kind of food 2. (eat) by humans living more than 10, 000 years ago.
The scientists say that human life has changed 3. (great). Our bodies have not been able to deal with these changes in lifestyle,4. has led to new kinds of sicknesses. They were not known in ancient times. Nowadays they 5. (call) “diseases of civilization”. Many cancers and diseases of the blood system are examples of such diseases.
The scientists note a change in food is one of the main 6. (different) between life in ancient times and life today. Stone Age people 7. (hunt) wild animals for their meat that had much less fat than domestic (驯养的) ones. They ate a lot of fresh wild vegetables and fruits. But today, we eat a large amount of high-fat food. 8. addition, we eat six times more salt than ancient people did and we eat more sugar as well.
People today probably don’t want to live like ancient people. But the scientists say that we would be much 9. (healthy) if we eat much the same way as the ancient people did, 10. (cut) the amount of fatty, salty and sweet food.
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The day after Christmas, December 26, is called Boxing Day in the UK. It’s when we get another day off before heading back to work. There’re more reasons though.
Boxing Day is a national bank holiday, a chance to eat your leftovers 1. watch TV. The actual traditions go back much further and are steeped in history.
There are plenty of 2. (theory) behind the name, so we’ve broken them down. The 3. (early) mention was in the 1830s when a “Christmas Box” was the name for a Christmas present. It also relates to giving to the poor. Traditionally there 4. (be) a box to collect money for the poor placed in churches on Christmas Day and 5. (open) the
next day—Boxing Day aka St. Stephen’s Day.
The Victorians were the ones 6. made Boxing Day a bank holiday in 1871. Around the same time the tradition of giving servants time off 7. (visit) the family was growing. Boxing Day was 8. (traditional) a day off for servants; their masters would give them a box to take with them. It was used to hold gifts, a bonus and sometimes leftovers.
Sailing ships when setting sail 9. (have) a sealed box containing money on board for good luck. If the voyage succeeded, 10. box would be given to a priest, opened at Christmas and the contents then were given to the poor.
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An Internet organization is trying to persuade people to take part in the International Internet-Free Day, 1. will be held every year on the last weekend in January. The idea is that people will leave the virtual world and go out into the real world. One 2. (suppor
t) of the idea said, “The Internet can be like addictive junk food: food you can never get enough of but which you don’t 3. (actual) want.”
A spokesman for the Internet-Free Day team 4. (explain), “It’s so easy to get 5. (addict) to a half-life in a virtual world, and lose touch 6. your family, friends and neighbours. Human beings need contact with the real world. E-mail and the Internet are just not enough.”
So, put down your mouse and turn off your computer. The real worldenable的名词形式 is open all day and every day and 7. (welcome) visitors. It offers you the chance 8. (feel) human again. The Internet-Free Day will give you back your real life.
Imagine your perfect day, suggest the idea to some friends and find an 9. (excite) event to take part in. Then go out into the world outside your window, and make your perfect day 10. reality!
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An Internet organization is trying to persuade people to take part in the International Internet-Free Day, 1. will be held every year on the last weekend in January. The idea is that people will leave the virtual world and go out into the real world. One 2. (support) of the idea said, “The Internet can be like addictive junk food: food you can never get enough of but which you don’t 3. (actual) want.”
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