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　　Football is an exciting sport. John 1 it. He greatly enjoys 2 a football match. So 3 most winter Saturday afternoons even if it looks like rain he puts on his raincoat and leaves his house at five past twelve 4 he can arrive in time for it. He goes by bus and soon gets off at the football ground. Although 5 raining hard, he finds thousands of people already waiting outside the gates. Sometimes it is raining hard for him to enjoy himself there. He watches it on TV instead of going out. He likes to spend Saturday evenings 6 about football matches on the back page of the newspaper.

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　　No one knows why parrots can talk. Most birds can't. Some people say that parrots can talk because they have big, thick tongues. But 3 birds that can talk do not have big, thick tongues, and some birds that cannot 4 have big, thick tongues.

　　Most parrots come from hot countries, but they can live anywhere.

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　　Can you imagine what life would be like if there were no telephone? You could not call your friends on the phone and talk to them. If fire 1 out in your house, you 2 call the fire department. If somebody were sick, you could not call a doctor.　　In our daily life, we 3 to communicate with one another. We do this mostly by speaking to other people and listening to what they say to us, and when we are 4 with them, we can do this very easily. However, our voices will not travel very far even when we 5 , and it is thanks to the

6 of the telephone that we are still able to communicate with each other and hold talks when we are apart. We can hear each other clearly as if we were in the same room.

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　　The first thing that a dictionary will tell you is the spelling of a word.

　　The third thing a dictionary will tell you is the meaning of words. You can look up a word in a dictionary and find out 5 . Many words have 6 than one meaning and a good dictionary gives all the meanings of the words in it.

　　These three things--spelling, pronunciation and meaning--are what you learn from dictionaries.

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　　The harbour 5 Sydney into north and south part. The harbour bridge connects two parts, 6 was built in 1930.

　　Sydney is welcomed by people all over the world, and if you want to go aboard, there is one of the world's most attractive cities--Sydney, Australia.

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　　To swim the English Channel takes at least nine hours, and it's hard work. To fly over the Channel takes only twenty minutes, but it's an 1 way to travel. You can travel by hovercraft 2 you don't mind the noise, and that takes forty minutes. Otherwise, you can go by boat if you 3 your sea-sickness pills. All these means of transport have their 4 , so some weary travelers often dream of being able to drive to 5 in their own cars. But now, if you want to visit Britain, you can do it without flying or taking a ferry, the Channel Tunnel 6 you to travel by train.

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　　Many people who work in London prefer to live outside it, and to go to their offices, factories or schools every day by train, car or bus, even though this means they have to get up earlier in the morning and reach 1 later in the evening.

　　One benefit of living outside London is that houses are 2 . Even a small flat in London without a garden cost quite a lot to hire. With the same money, one can get a little house in the country with a garden of 3 own.

　　Then, in the country one can be free from noise. 4 one has to get up earlier and spend more time in trains or buses, one can sleep better at night, and, during weekends and on summer evenings, one can enjoy the fresh clean air of the country.

　　Some people, however, take 5 in country things; for them, happiness lies in the town, with its cinemas and theatres, beautiful shops and busy streets, dance-halls and restaurants, such people would feel that their life was not worth living if they had to live outside London. A 6 in one of the parks and a visit to the sea every summer is all the country they want.

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　　Why do people need families? You know that all people have this 1 . Everyone needs food to eat and 2 to drink. Everyone needs clothes to wear and a place to live 3 .

　　Children can't get all the things they need by 4 . Mothers and fathers take good care of boys 5 girls.

　　Do people need people more than food to eat, clothes to wear and a place to live in?

　　People need people because they live in families. A family is a 6 of people. Because people need people, they live in groups.