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| The popsicle
Not all new things are created by wise old scientists. Frank Epperson invented the popsicle, fruit ice cream without milk, in 1905 when he was only 11 years old. Frank ________LEAVE__________ his drink outside on the porch overnight with the stir stick in it.
That night the temperature dropped and froze things, ________INCLUDE__________ Frank's drink. That didn't stop him from tasting it.
18 years ________LATE__________ Frank started his business.
Just over 1 billion popsicles _________EAT_________ in the US each year. Out of the 30 flavors to choose from, orange has been the favorite for many years.
Mother's Day
We are a family of four: my mom, my dad, my brother and I. One morning my dad started ________COOK__________ breakfast.
Ben, my ________YOUNG__________ brother, asked him: "Why are you making Mommy breakfast? Is she sick?"
"No, dear," replied her father, "it's Mother's Day." Immediately the boy had another question. "Oh," he said, "then _______BE___________ every other day Father's Day?"
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| History of animated cartoons
Cartoon animation has a long history. A cartoon is made by drawing many pictures and showing them one after another so quickly that the pictures _______FINAL___________ seem to move. The most prominent of animated cartoons were made by Walt Disney.
Walt Disney, the ________CREATE__________ of Mickey Mouse, is a legend of the 20th century.
He invented the special camera which was used in his studios during the thirties and forties to create ________ORIGIN__________ animated pictures.
Through his work he brought joy, _________HAPPY_________, and a universal means of communication.
Walt Disney’s worldwide _________POPULAR_________ is based upon the ideas his name represents: imagination, optimism, and self-made success in the American tradition.
Today moving images are created with the help of computers. The first fully computer-animated feature film, “Toy Story”, was very ________SUCCESS__________ and since then almost all animated cartoon films have moved to computer graphics, including films such as the "Shrek" series.
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| Diana
Diana had been hoping to get away by 5:00, so she could be at the farm in time for dinner. She tried not to show her true feelings when at 4:37 her deputy, Phil Haskings, presented her with a complex twelve-page document that A22 ______ the signature of a director before it could be sent out to the client. Haskins didn’t hesitate to A23 ______ her that they had lost two similar contracts that week.
To A24 ______ the truth, it was always the same on a Friday. The phones would go quiet in the middle of the afternoon and then, just as she thought she could leave, a new document would land on her desk. Diana looked at the document and knew there would be no chance of escaping before 6:00.
Diana adored her children. At first A25 ______ she looked happy. The demands of being a single parent as well as a director of a small but thriving City company meant there were A26 ______ moments left in any day to relax. When it came to the one weekend in four that James and Caroline spent with her ex-husband, Diana would try to leave the office a little earlier than usual to avoid the weekend traffic.
She read through the first page slowly, aware that any mistake A27 ______ hastily on a Friday evening could be A28 ______ in the weeks to come. She glanced at the clock on her desk as the signed the final page of the document. It was just showing 5:51.
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| Does it ever snow in Brazil?
During winter and sometimes even autumn and spring it snows in some cities of southern Brazil. There are several cities _______KNOW________ for their snow, like Urupema and Urubici. These cities ________BE_________ all in high areas, but even places at sea level can have snow, although in small amounts and not every year. Brazil _____THINK_______ to be a “tropical paradise” which is very wrong. Foreigners who travel to southern Brazil during autumn or winter in search for some heat and beaches are often disappointed.
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| Brazil __________________ to be a “tropical paradise” which is very wrong. Foreigners who travel to southern Brazil during autumn or winter in search for some heat and beaches are often disappointed.
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| These cities __________________ all in high areas, but even places at sea level can have snow, although in small amounts and not every year.
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| Funny seagull thinks he is a cat
A seagull was adopted by June and Steve Grimwood, who found a soot-covered young bird in their fireplace and called him Mr. Pooh. The gull ________BRING__________ up with cats.
He slept in a cat’s basket, from which he acquired a taste for Whiskas. Since then, Mr. Pooh has learned the sound of the fridge door _________OPEN_________. He _________LEAVE_________ the family home, but he can’t resist returning three times a day for his favourite food, announcing his arrival by tapping on the door.
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| He slept in a cat’s basket, from which he acquired a taste for Whiskas. Since then, Mr. Pooh has learned the sound of the fridge door __________________.
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| The largest snowfall in decades
This week’s snowfall in Brazil is one of the largest in decades. As snow on the ground is not a very common landscape in a so-called tropical country, everybody ________FEEL__________ excited when they saw streets in snow. In the cities by the sea people are used to spending the summer sun bathing. They _________SURPRISE_________ very much when they saw snow covering the city. It ________NOT BE__________ long before social media became loaded with pictures of white fields and roads, and snowmen.
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| Difficult landing
One airline had a policy that required the first officer to stand at the door while the passengers exited. He smiled and thanked them for ________FLY__________ the airline. A pilot on this airline landed his plane into the runway really hard. He thought that passengers ________HAVE__________ angry comments. However, it seemed that all of _________THEY_________ were too shocked to say anything. Finally, everyone got off except for a little old lady. She said, ‘Can I ask you a question?’ ‘Yes, Madam,’ said the pilot. ‘What was it?’ the lady asked, ‘Did we land or were we shot down?’
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| The North Pole has melted again
Two weeks of warm weather in the high Arctic have caused a lake to begin forming. To be clear, the water _________SURROUND_________ the pole is not sea water from the ocean. It is _________MELT_________ ice water resting on a layer of ice below. “It’s a shallow lake. It’s a cold lake. But it is, actually, a lake,” writes William Wolfe of Canada.com. That lake started to form on July 13 during a month of abnormally warm weather – temperatures were 1-3 degrees Celsius higher than average in the Arctic Ocean this month. In addition, the weather is likely to get _________BAD_________ over the coming week. An Arctic cyclone will bring strong winds and rain.
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| Christmas trees
One Christmas Eve the trees in a wood were very unhappy. They wished very much to make Christmas stay, but they _________NOT KNOW_________ how to do so. ‘We are so bare,’ complained one tree. ‘If we only had our pretty green summer dresses,’ said other trees. ‘Hush, children, hush,’ whispered North Wind in a gentle voice, which was unusual for the _________BAD_________ of all winds. ‘Go to sleep.’ While they slept something happened. When the trees awoke they found that someone, perhaps North Wind, had cast over each of ________THEY__________ a lovely soft cloak of spotless feathery white.
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| What a story!
Daniel, aged 4, returned from Sunday school with a new amusing Christmas story about the Three Wise Men of the East. They _________BRING_________ gifts to the baby Jesus. Daniel was so excited he just had to tell his parents, “I learned in Sunday School all about the very _________ONE_________ Christmas. There wasn’t a Santa Claus then, so these three wise men on camels had to deliver all the toys. And Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer with his nose so bright ________NOT LEAD__________ the sleigh, so they had to follow the big star in the sky to find their way around”.
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| Growing old in England
Someone asked the other day, ‘What was your favourite fast food when you were growing up?’ ‘We ________NOT HAVE__________ fast food when I was growing up,’ I informed him. ‘All the food was slow.’ ‘Come on, you are not serious. Where did you eat?’ ‘In my childhood, it ________CALL__________ “at home,”’ I explained. ‘Mum cooked every day and when Dad got home from work, we ________SIT__________ down together at the dining room table, and if I didn’t like what she had put on my plate I was allowed to sit there until I did like it.’
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