Everyone needs friends. There is an old saying: Friends are God's way of taking care of us. But       do you find real friendship and keep it?"
The Care and Keeping of Friends       American author Sally Seamans tells young students some smart ways to find friends. 
Sally says finding friendship is just like     a tree. You plant the seed and take care of it to make it grow.
First, you should         a friend. What         a good friend? It is not       a person has money or good looks. A good friend should be          and patient. For example, if you have a bad day, a good friend should        your complaints (抱怨) and do their        to help. To make a friend, you cannot be too shy. You should make each other happy and        your lives.
But things cannot always be     .  Even the best friends have fights. What should you do when you have a      with your friend? You have to talk to them. When there is no one around, have an honest talk.
If he or she doesn't want to      , you could write a letter.
Sally says there are three steps to being        again: Tell him or her how you are ___  ; say what your friend has done wrong, and        why you did this or that. The book also has        on some small but        things like celebrating your friends' success.       you haven't had a real friend before, you will start to think of having one if you        this book. because the book tells that friendship is the most important thing in your life.

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The Voice of America began during the World WarⅡ. When Germany was broadcasting a radio program to get international       , American officials believed they should        the German broadcast with words that they thought were the facts of world events. The first VOA news report began with words in       . “The        may be good or bad, but we shall tell you the truth.” Within a week, other VOA        were broadcasting in Italian, French and English.
After the World WarⅡended in 1945, some Americans felt VOA’s        had to be changed,      the Soviet Union became enemy of America．They wanted to         Soviet listeners. Then VOA began broadcasting in Russian.
In the early years VOA began adding something new to its broadcast that was      “ Music USA”. Another new idea came along in 1959．VOA knew that many listeners did not know      English to completely understand its        English broadcast. So VOA        a simpler kind of English,        uses about 1,500 words and is spoken        of course, it is special English.
In the        of most VOA listeners, the most        program is the news report. News from around the world        into the VOA news rooms in Washington 24 hours a day. It comes from VOA reporters in        cities and also from other        like BBC．VOA writers and editors use these materials to        news reports, which are being broadcast in 43 languages.

German Prime Minister Otto Von Bismarck may be most famous for his         and diplomatic talent, but his contributions to the society include many of today’s social insurance programs. During the middle of the 19^th century, Germany,          other European nations,          an unusual outbreak of workplace deaths and accidents as a result of growing        .         in part by Christian sympathy for the helpless as well as a practical political impulse to get the          of the socialist labor movement, Bismarck         the world’s first worker’s compensation law in 1884.
By 1908, the United States was the          industrial nation in the world that lacked workers’ compensation insurance. American’s injured workers could seek          in a court of law, but they still faced a number of tough legal barriers.        , employees had to prove that their injuries directly          employer’s lack of care and they themselves were ignorant about potential danger in the workplace. The first state workers’ compensation law in this country passed in 1911, and the program soon          throughout the nation.
After World War II, benefit payments to American workers did not       the cost of living. In fact, real benefit levels were lower in the 1970s than they were in the 1940s, and in most states the maximum benefit was below the poverty level for a family of four. In 1970, President Richard Nixon set up a national          to study the problems workers’ compensation. Two years later, the committee issued 19 key recommendations,          one that called for increasing compensation benefit levels to 100 percent of the states’ average weekly wages.

Remains of ancient civilization are places which were designed and built as a lasting tribute(致敬）to some individuals or events. By visiting these ______ monuments, you are sure to be amazed by how ____ the ancient civilization that existed centuries before you was. Some of the facilities which could be dated back hundreds of years ago are still in use today. Besides, you will also ______ at the mysterious stories behind it. The Great Wall, _____, is probably the best-known monument of China, which consists of a network of walls and towers through which the attack warnings could be received within minutes. _____ then had enough time to prepare. Estimates (估算）of the total length of the monument ______, depending on which sections are included and how they are measured. One of the _____ mysteries is that, although some of the wall is _____ in special radar images taken by satellites, astronauts have confirmed that the existing wall is not several thousand years old, nor is it, as many people had _____ visible to the human eye form outer space.
Even older than the Great Wall of China is the Great Pyramid(金字塔）of Giza. Over a 20-year period, thousands of workers made the vision become ____ with numerous blocks, each weighing more than two tons. It’s still a(n) _____ to modern people how ancient men handled_____ of these giant stones in a time when cars or boats never existed some 4500 years ago. The pyramid served not only as a tomb for King Khufu, but also a place of _____ activity. The number of the God’s servants at that time showed the importance of such activities. After Khufu died, his body was carefully treated with various medicines and materials and was wrapped in order to be ____ for long. According to ancient Egyptian belief, the pyramid, where the mummy was placed, provided a place for the king to pass into the afterlife. Then his servants performed rituals(儀式）to bring _____ to the dead king’s soul, removing all the unrest and pain from his next life.

A report has recently been published about what the earth might be like 20 years or so from now on. The report is a result of a three-year  46 .
According to the report, the picture of the earth in the year 2020 is not a  47 one. The world will be more  48 because the population will continue to grow. The population could be  49 9,000 million, almost 3,000 million more than that in 2009. More people would move into cities, especially cities in  50 countries. Cities in India and Thailand probably would  51 have a population of 20 million by then.
Food production will  52 , but not enough to feed all the people. Farmers will grow 90% more food than they did in 2009,  53 most of the increase would be in countries that  54 produce enough food for their people. Little increase is  55 in South Asia, Africa or the Middle East. Poor farming ways are  56 large areas of cropland, changing farms into deserts. More farmland is  57 as cities become larger and more houses are built.  58 will get worse as developed countries burn more coal and oil. Many of the world’s  59 could disappear as more and more trees are cut down. Energy will continue to be a serious problem. The experts say their  60  of the earth for the year 2020 may be wrong. They only   61  the situation as it is today. By changing the situation, by  62 the problems, the picture can be changed. There is  63 time for the nations of the world to  64 a plan of action. But they considered that  65 too long to make a decision would greatly reduce the chances of success

Xinxin, a 12-year-old student from Beijing, enjoyed his winter vacation with his father in Singapore. During their visit, he even had the chance to       some of Singapore's sights by himself       his father was busy with other things.
Xinxin’s first adventure       in Singapore was at a water park near their hotel. He enjoyed swimming and       into the water by himself, and then returned to the hotel before a time in the evening that was       by his father.
The boy also made a trip to Universal Studios Singapore       a guardian. He had already been to the park with his father two times during the trip. Xinxin volunteered to make his       trip by himself. His father gave him some pocket money to buy lunch, and then Xinxin rode the shuttle from their hotel to the studios. He spent a whole day there and had a       time.
In an interview with Beijing Evening News, Xinxin’s father said that       he was too busy to spend all his time with his son, he decided to give him the opportunity to develop a sense of      . Had Xinxin’s mother been there, she would not have let Xinxin out of her sight, the father commented.

Americans are        about an international sporting event now taking place in the United States. It is the biggest women's soccer       in the world, the World Cup. The game Americans call soccer, is known around the world as       . And more and more Americans are learning to     it. Only in the last 35 years, large numbers of young Americans have become      in soccer. Baseball and basketball are still popular professional sports,       American boys and girls love to play soccer.
The United States Soccer Federation is the major soccer      in the country. It says more than eighteen million people play soccer in the United States. This means that      Americans play soccer than any other sport.
      , more people in the United States are watching soccer, too. They are attending the 3rd Women's World Cup games that are       in several American cities. 460,000       have been sold for the three-week contest that will end July tenth.
Women's soccer teams from 16 nations are      . Americans are closely       the progress of the United States' Women's World Cup team. And the team is already setting       . On June 19, the American team       Denmark in the opening game. Almost 79,000 people watched the game at Giant Stadium near New York City. That is a world record.
One of the most popular players       the American team is 27-year-old Mia Hamm. She became well known in 1996 when the United States women won the soccer       medal at the Olympic Games, defeating other teams. Experts say Mia Hamm can play soccer better than       woman in the world. She has scored more goals than any man or woman ever to play international soccer. Mia Hamm is a       to many young American girls. Television       say that at present thousand million people around the world are watching the game on television.

Having said good-bye to his parents, Alvin, with his wife and one-year-old son, set off back home. Still    , Alvin and Clare talked and laughed happily. And even little Alex    from time to time. The family were     their trip.
But about three hours later things began to    . It was starting to snow. Alvin      up the car, hoping to arrive home before dark. But it was too dangerous to drive fast now, because it was snowing more and more heavily. So Alvin had to    down. The snow on the     was getting deeper and deeper until it was hard to     on it. Their car slipped (滑落) off the way and got stuck in the deep snow and the engine     to start again.
“The snow doesn’t seem to    . Shall we stay in the car waiting to be frozen to death or walk ahead through the snow?” Alvin asked. Clare said she     to walk. So they got out of the car with their son and began walking. But     was to come. Soon they lost their way and had to walk     on and on.
Night came. They were not afraid of the dark. But they     that poor Alex would die of cold. However, their faith to keep Alex     filled them with courage, warmth and strength. They __   and rested in turn and then continued their walk. They had     falls but each time true love encouraged them to rise to their feet again.
One, two, three … seven days passed. On the eighth day, help at last from Alvin’s    , the police and local people. But the young    had to have their feet cut off because of the bad frostbite (凍傷).      , there was nothing serious wrong with little Alex!

Most glasses help people see better, but a new invention from Japan may soon improve language skills and       language barriers instead.
High-tech Company NEC has       a device that it says will     users to communicate with people of different     .
Shaped like a pair of eyeglasses     without the lenses(鏡片), the computer-assisted Tele Scouter would     a picture-forming device to present almost real-time translations directly onto the     retina（視網(wǎng)膜）. The text, provided     through voice recognition and     programs, would effectively provide movie-like “subtitles” (字幕)during a conversation between two people     the glasses.
“You can keep the     flowing,” NEC market development official Takayuki Omino told reporters at Tokyo exposition     the device was on display. “This could also be used for talks     with secret information,” says Omino,      that there would be no need for translators.
Each user’s     words would be     by microphone, translated, and be instantly     for conversation partners in     visual texts and as audio delivered through headphones.
Users can still see their conversation partner’s face because the text is     onto only part of the retina—the first time such technology is used in a commercial product, according to NEC.
The company plans to put the Tele Scouter in Japan in November next year,       at the beginning without the translation mode.