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The “mad moments” in the first paragraph refers to when we_____.

Have you got a table for four, Waiter?（）

Practice 1Directions: You are asked to write in no less than 150 words about the title of Is It a Good Idea for Poor Students to Live Separately? And you should base your composition on the information given in English below:　　At the beginning of this new semester, a university in Jiangsu Province has found a visible way to help some of its poorer students: It has built some special dormitories for poor students. More than 100 of the school’s relatively poor students are now housed in these buildings. Besides simple facilities, the major difference between these and other dormitories is that the housing costs 500 yuan a year, but in other residence halls students have to pay 1200 yuan.　　1. Do you think this is a good idea to help the poorer students?　　2. Give at least two reasons to support you argument.　　3. Give some suggestions as to how to solve the problem.

Thank you ever so much for the book you gave me.（）

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When the railway is completed, we（）get to town much easily.

Tom, what did you do with my documents? I have never seen such a（）and disorder!

We had a（）journey.

Which of the following is chosen by Siegel as the symbolic animal?

I went to the beach and got plenty of rest.（） You looked tired last time I saw you.

I usually have breakfast（）about a quarter past seven.

（）the War of Independence, the United States was an English colony.

The table is（）for two people

National emergencies require that the interests of the communities _____ those of the individual citizen.

Tom（）more than twenty pounds on the novel.

Sometimes it's easier to talk to a stranger（）to an old friend or a relative.

— Has Mr. Smith had an accident? —（）

A:（）is the nearest chemist's? B: On the corner.

Could you help me with my physics, please？（）

The author says “... the public has no reason to panic” (Paragraph 5) because _____.

The refrigerator is（）we must buy some food.

Seventeen years ago Megan Still was chosen for rowing because _____.

The Empire Building is a(n) imposing structure in New York.

A child who has once been pleased with a tale likes, as a rule, to have it retold in almost the same words, but this should not lead parents to treat printed fairy stories as formal texts. It is always much better to tell a story than read it out of a book, and, if a parent can produce what, in the actual situation of the time and the child, is an improvement on the printed text, so much the better. A charge made against fairy tales is that they harm the child by frightening him or making him sad thinking. To prove the latter, one would have to show in a controlled experiment that children who have read fairy stories were more often sorry for cruelty than those who had not. As to fears, there are, I think, some cases of children being dangerously terrified by some fairy story. Often, however, this arises (出现) from the child having heard the story once. Familiarity with the story by repetition turns the pain of fear into the pleasure of a fear faced and mastered. There are also people who object to fairy stories on the grounds that they are not objectively true, that giants, witches, two-headed dragons, magic carpets, etc. do not exist; and that, instead of being fond of the strange side in fairy tales, the child should be taught to learn the reality by studying history. I find such people, I must say so peculiar (奇怪的) that I do not know how to argue with them. If their case were sound, the world should be full of mad men attempting to fly from New York to Philadelphia on a stick or covering a telephone with kisses in the belief that it was their beloved girl-friend. No fairy story ever declared to be a description of the real world and no clever child has ever believed that it was.One of the reasons why some people are not in favor of fairy tales is that （）.