Not many years ago, a wealthy and rather strange old man named Johnson lived alone in a village in the south of England. He had made a lot of money in trading with foreign countries. When he was seventy-five, he gave ~ 1200 to the village school to buy land and equipment for a children′ s playground. As a result of his kindness, many people came to visit him. Among them was a newspaperman. During their talk, Johnson remarked that he was seventy-five and expected to live to be a hundred. The newspaperman asked him how he managed to be healthy at seventy-five. Johnson had a sense of humour (幽默). He liked whisky (威士忌酒) and drank some each day. "I have an injection(注射) in my neck each evening," he told the newspaperman, thinking of his evening glass of whisky. The newspaperman did not understand what Johnson meant. In his newspaper he reported that Johnson was seventy-five and had a daily injection in his neck. Within a week Johnson received thou- sands of letters from all over Britain, asking him for the secret of his daily injection. The gift of money to the school suggests that Johnson .

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They _ once at a wedding many years ago

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Jack described his father,who_______a brave boy many years ago,as a strong-willed man．

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资料：“Our cars are for people who want something different.”This has been the slogan for over 50 years of Suprema Cars, a manufacturer of an English sports car. The car is mostly handmade in the companys factory in northern England. Suprema Car produces approximately 500 cars a year. About 5 years ago, the company began to lose sales and market share, and in the last two years, it has made a loss.Recently, there have been problems with the labor force. The factory workers have demand higher wages

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Great Wall, first built 2000 years ago, is a____ miracle.

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ce of string,because there was no room for them to lie down.People didnt have fridges until the 1 920s.They kept fresh food cold by storing it on windowsills（窗台板）,blocks of ice, or even burying it in the garden.Some children had to start work at the age of seven or eight to earn money for their parents. If you had lived 1 00 years ago , you might well be selling matchsticks（火柴杆）(a job done by many children)or working with your dad by now. Life was not easy for many children living 100 years ago.

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