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A spokeswoman for Mr. Smith yesterday made it clear that he had been unhappy at his exclusion.
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We saw a lot of commercial buildings in Chicago.
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She came across three children sleeping under a bridge.
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The scientists are exploring the area in hopes of finding new stores of underground oil,which can serve as an outlet for the energy crisis.
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The index is the government’s chief gauge of future economic activity.
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Heat and Health
Extremely hot weather is common in many parts of the world. Although hot weather just makes most people hot, it can cause medical problems — and death.
Health experts say that since the year 1900，extremely hot weather has killed more people in the United States than any other natural event. One year — the unusually hot summer of 1980 — heat caused about 1，700 deaths in the United States. In 1995，more than 600 people died in a similar heat wave in one city — Chicago.
To measure extreme heat, government weather experts have developed the Mean Heat Index. It measures the average of how hot it is felt all day on an extremely hot day. Experts say it is the total heat of a hot day or several hot days that can affect health. Several hot days are considered a heat wave. Experts say heat waves often become deadly when the nighttime temperature does not drop much from the highest daytime temperature.
The most common medical problem caused by hot weather is heat stress. Usually, it also is the least severe. For most people, the only result of heat stress is muscle pain. The pain is a warning that the body is becoming too hot. Doctors say drinking water will help the pain disappear after the body again has the right amounts of water and salt. For some people, however, the result is much more serious.
For example, doctors say some people face a greatly increased danger from heat stress. These people have a weak or damaged heart, high blood pressure, or other problems of the blood system. Severe heat can help cause a heart attack or stroke. Health experts say this is the most common cause of death linked to hot weather.
How many people died from heat in Chicago in 1995?
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Many factory workers find their jobs tiresome.
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Have you ever called Mr. Smith and told him about the contract?
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People all over the country have made the greatest possible endeavor to help the people in the flood-stricken area.
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The bridge had been wrecked by the explosion.
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Joe came to the window as the crowd chanted，“Joe，Joe!”
He may not be so clever as Peter,but he is as industrious as can be.
The Empire State Building was conceived on a grander scale than previous skyscrapers.
Good Table Manners
Manners play an important part in making a favorable impression at the dinner table. Here are some general rules ：
Napkin (餐巾）use
The meal begins when the host unfolds his or her napkin. This is your signal to do the same, so place your napkin on your lap. Unfold it completely if it is a small napkin, or in half, lengthwise (纵向地），if it is a large dinner napkin.
If you need to leave the table during the meal，place your napkin on your chair as a signal to your server that you will be returning. Once the meal is over, place your napkin neatly on the table to the right of your dinner plate. Do not refold it.
Use a napkin only for your mouth. Never use it for your nose, face or forehead.
Use of utensils (餐具）
Start with the knife, fork or spoon furthest from your plate, and work your way in, using one utensil for each course.
If soup is served, remember to spoon away from yourself. This helps stop the drips. Do not put the entire soup spoon in your mouth. Instead, fill a soup spoon about 75 per cent with soup, and sip (曝饮）it from the side noiselessly.
After finishing dinner, place the knife and fork parallel to one another across the plate with the knife blade facing inward toward the plate.
Using your fingers
Here，s a list of finger foods： sandwiches, cookies, small fruits or berries with stems, French fries and potato chips, and hamburgers.
Chew with your mouth closed and don，t make noise ； don’t talk with your mouth full.
Bread must be broken with your hands. It is never cut with a knife.
Don’t pick something out of your teeth. Instead, excuse yourself to the bathroom.
If possible, try not to cough at the table.
Do not put your elbows (M) on the table. In France, it is essential to have both hands above the table at the same time.
Do not put bones or anything else on the table. Things that are not eaten should be put on your plate.
Which of the following shows good table manners?
The soldiers scattered them and chased them off the field.
It was very thoughtful of you to make all the necessary arrangements for us.
Farmers，Markets
Charlotte Hollins knows she faces a battle. The 23-year-old British farmer and her 21 -year-old brother Ben are fighting to save the farm from developers that their father worked on since he was 14. _(46)
“You don’t often get a day off. Supermarkets put a lot of pressure on farmers to keep prices down. With fewer people working on farms it can be isolating，，，she said. “There is a high rate of suicide and farming will never make you rich! ”
Oliver Robinson, 25，grew up on a farm in Yorkshire. _(47) “I’m sure
dad hoped l，d stay，，，he said. “I guess it，s a nice, straightforward life, but it doesnl appeal. For young, ambitious people, farm life would be a hard world.” For Robinson, farming doesn’t offer much “ in terms of money or lifestyle. ” Hollins agrees that economics stops people from pursuing farming rewards ： “ providing for a vital human need，while working outdoors with nature. ”
Farming is a big political issue in the UK. _(48) The 2001 foot and mouth crisis closed thousands of farms, stopped meat exports, and raised public consciousness of troubles in UK farming.
Jamie Oliver’s 2005 campaign to get children to eat healthily also highlighted the issue. This national concern spells (带来）hope for farmers competing with powerful supermarkets. _(49)“ I started going to Farmers，Markets in direct defiance (蔑视)of the big supermarkets._ (50) It’s terrible,” said Londoner Michael Samson.
New secretaries came and went with monotonous regularity.
I found the formality of the occasion irritating.
Techniques to harness such energy are yet to be developed.
