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 Can a boy have a MAMA and not a MOTHER? Tex Clark did. He didn’t have a r___1 home. His father and mother were dead, He had to work from an early a___2. Then one day a circus(马戏团)found him and let him j___3 it. He was luckier than many children without p___4. The only place for him to sleep was an elephant’s pen(棚), There Tex found the elephant named Mama, Mama seemed f___5 to him and liked after him.

Tex had to work hard. At night he was always very t___6. He would return to the pen. And Mama would cover him with hay(干草)and touch his face with her trunk(象鼻). Tex felt better, Mama c___7! 

Tex left the circus after a while, He was asked to work at a zoo in Kansas city. He was very good with a___8. And very soon he became the t___9 man. Tex made the zoo one of the best in the country.

The children of Kansas city liked the zoo, And they liked the man who brought them such a nice place to e___10 themselves.

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Catherine and Martin met in England before they came to Australia, At that time, Martin was a minister(牧师)in a church, and it was three v___1 away form Catherine’s, One evening , they happened to have dinner t___2 in a restaurant. They e___3 their talk and laughed a lot. The young man soon won Catherine’s h___4, so she asked him whether he would marry her in church. The minister was very surprised and said that her q___5 came quite unexpected. Catherine realized that he had not under- stood her c___6, so she laughed and said , “what I m___7 is , when I get married in church, will you be the minister who marries me and my husband ?” They both laughed, and they had a nice evening.

However, their talk that evening put an idea into Martin’s head, He realized that he had a___8 fallen in love with Catherine and he wanted to marry her. So a few days later, he visited her and asked her to marry him. Catherine felt proud and pleased, and a___9 it, Soon after they were married, they m___10 to Australia. 

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 Jerry and Carla were asked to choose a person for class president. As they looked through the list of k___1 in the room, they stopped at Tina’s name, Tina had lots of ideas, and she never said unkind things about other people.

“I really like Tina, and most of the classmates will accept her. I i___2” said Carla, “but she looks t___3! She puts on too much makeup(化妆品) 

and she wears strange and u___4 clothes. Sometimes she wears things that don’t even f___5 her.” “Do you think we could get her to use l___6 makeup and never wear decent(讲究的)clothes?” Carla asked.

 “We couldn’t, It would make us and her not feel c___7.” replied Jerry, “She goes around with high school girls, and she must know by now how she looks, my mother says it is wrong for eighth graders to look those m___8 stars!”

“Yes,” Carla a___9,”and what will the teachers think if we s___10 Tian?”

 9

 “What are you busy with yourself, Mom?” the girl of six years old asked her mother.

 “Making dinner for the neighbor aunt.”

  “Why?”

  “Because the other day the aunt l___1 her dear daughter in the earthquake and is so sad now, We must take g___2 care of her these days.”

  “Why n___3 our care?”

   “Because from then on the aunt can’t do what she liked to along with her daughter, Making dinner and doing housework are also becoming so d___4, I don’t know what to do, My dear, can you come up with an i___5 to make the aunt feel better?”

   All of a sudden, the girl went to the neighbors house and k___6 at the door.

   “What can I do for you?” asked the neighbor.

   “I h___7 my mother say you’re very sad without your daughter…” The girl handed the hand-aid(创可贴)tightly h___8 in her hand to the neighbor.

   Tears ran down from the neighbor’s eyes, She took the girl in her a___9 and said, “Thank you, your hand-aid will h___10.”