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    Every culture in the world believes certain superstitions. Even societies that are very rational and scientific are sometimes a little superstitious. For example, Americans consider "13" an unlucky number. Some people in the US also believe that if Friday falls on the thirteenth day of the month, they will have bad luck.
Superstitions e in every culture.

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    Sending someone a voice message on WeChat usually tells them: "I'm obviously more important than you." It's almost always used in asymmetric relationships: when a boss is communicating a directive to a subordinate, for example. So, do not send voice messages in a professional situation unless the recipients really consider you to be their boss.
Be c when using voice message on WeChat.

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Just 54 per cent of students entering four-year colleges in 1997 had a degree six years later —and even fewer Hispanics and blacks did, according to some of the latest government figures. After borrowing for school but failing to graduate, many of those students may be worse off than if they had never attended college at all.

College （） face difficult financial situations.

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Health care workers in Senegal, Namibia, and other African nations usually walk miles over dusty roads to deliver food, medicine, and companionship to people with HIV/AIDS. But with the donation of 1,500 single-speed bicycles by Bike Town Africa, caregivers now visit as many as six times more people in need.
Care workers now help more people with （） bicycles.

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In recent decades most of North America has been experiencing more unusually hot days and nights, fewer unusually cold days and nights, and fewer frost days. Heavy downpours have become more frequent and intense. Droughts are becoming more severe in some regions.
（） in extreme weather patterns.

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Every summer thousands of Americans go to Europe. Some go for a change of air, some to improve their minds, some go there because they are tired of making money, others because they are tired of not making money, and still others simply for a vacation.
Europe is an ideal （） for many American tourists every summer.

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Dehydration limits a person’s ability to work and think. Experts say a reduction of only four or five percent in body water leads to a drop of twenty to thirty percent in work ability. The loss of salt through perspiration also reduces the amount of work that muscles can do.
（） between dehydration and person’s ability to work and think.

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There is too much monkey business in Hong Kong, and the government is determined to do something about it. Packs of wild monkeys are invading parks and neighborhoods in greater numbers, aggressively begging for food and sometimes snatching bags from frightened passersby.
Hong Kong （） are harassed by monkeys.

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Surveys show that the average office worker sends and receives 108 e-mails a day. Even when we manage to clear out the in-box and escape our desks, most of us are still reachable by cell phone or some other handheld device. These gadgets add convenience and fun to our lives, but there’s a price to be paid.
With new technologies work （）up more of people’s private time.

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Citizens who had formed a military group were the first real modern explorers of the valley. They were at war with the local Indians and came into the valley. The white soldiers called it Yosemites after the Indians.
White world’s （）of Yosemites.

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Many young Americans began to challenge some of the traditions of their parents and grandparents. For example, some young women began to experiment with new kinds of clothes. They no longer wore dresses that hid the shape of their bodies. Instead, they wore thinner dresses that uncovered part of their legs.
Youth defied traditional （） style.

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Strong earthquakes forced the bottom of the sea to rise above the water. After millions of years, it was pushed up into the air to form land and mountains. Meanwhile, hot liquid rock from deep in the Earth pushed to the surface. This liquid rock slowly cooled. The then cooling liquid formed a very hard rock known as granite.
Theory about （） of land and mountains. 

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     In the United States, not everyone is able to attend a four-year college or university. Many four-year colleges and universities are already too crowded. To give more people a chance to get a college education, many cities and towns have built junior community colleges that offer a two-year course of study in a wide range of subjects.
Junior colleges have been built to o more education opportunities.

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     Every summer thousands of Americans go to Europe. Some go for a change of air, some to improve their minds, some go there because they are tired of making money, others because they are tired of not making money, and still others simply for a vacation.
Europe is an ideal d for many American tourists every summer.

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     Excessive pressure from schoolwork is probably the most common problem in urban areas affecting Chinese children’s development. Giving children time to dabble in many fields is vital for their physical and mental development. In the process, they will gradually show a liking for particular activities. Parents can help their kids make choices.
“Less work, more p” is recommended for urban children.

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     Many of the modern world’s most famous discoveries and inventions were not made by scientists, but by non-professional inventors. Often, these inventors have such unusual ideas that they were laughed at. But people like these, working on their own, gave us many of the things that we use everyday in our life.
Many inventions were made by a inventors.

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     With the construction of Olympic venues, Beijing has experienced a major overhaul of its urban infrastructure. New subway lines have opened and others are currently being built. New transport facilities and the green environment around Olympic sites have helped real estate prices to skyrocket in these areas.
The “Olympic E” is evident in Beijing.

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     Every culture in the world believes certain superstitions. Even societies that are very rational and scientific are sometimes a little superstitious. For example, Americans consider “13” an unlucky number. Some people in the U.S. also believe that if Friday falls on the thirteenth day of the month, they will have bad luck.
It can be said that superstitions e in every society.

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     Beginning in the 1980s, higher incomes and greater job opportunities in China’s large cities have been enticing growing numbers of farmers into becoming migrant workers. Currently, the migrant population has reached an unprecedented level. About 200 million farmers have left their homes to earn a living in cities.
In China the population is drifting from r areas into cities.

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     Many banks are preparing “online branches”, which means that people will be able to take care of their banking business through their home computers. At these online branches, customers will be able to view their accounts, move money between their accounts, apply for a loan, and get current information on products such as credit.
What can be r at “online branches”.