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1.The reason for this is__________ seven out of ten of today’s purchases are

decided in the store, __________ the shoppers tend to buy on impulse(冲动). 2.Psychologists discover that shoppers prefer to choose a package that fascinates

them. __________ it is now more usual for manufacturers to focus on the package designs.

3.Her father said she must marry and asked her __________ she wanted to marry a

king or prince. But Atlanta replied, “I will only be married to a man who can run faster than me. “I will marry Atlanta ---- __________ die!” he said.

4.__________ children believe they can succeed, they will never become totally

independent.

5.The word “addiction” usually makes you think of alcohol or drugs, __________

in modern society ,we are seeing some new kinds of addictions.

6.For example you can see different skills of the villagers. You can learn

__________ they make clothes from bark（树皮；茎皮）and how they climb very tall trees with their bare feet or see what kind of wedding ceremonies they have.

7.“American Idol”is an American TV show, based on the British original “Pop

Idol”. Auditions are held in key cities around the country, with judges removing the competitors who give a poor performance, __________ there are only 30 left.

8.Actually, chances exist in the daily details. For the same matter, a more successful

person sees more and farther__________ he can find out an opportunity and catch it to realize his aim.

9.That story brings a smile, __________ it makes fun of a common type of

self-defeatist thinking. __________ often have you heard yourself say, “Nothing ever goes the way I planned” or “I’ll never make that deadline”?

10.Actually__________ the strong-willed farmer did believe is that he could

survive; but he did not know that __________ the first two farmers got out of the cave, they were trapped in the passage and died after a short time as there was not enough air around.

11.I don’t wish to be young again. I am a far more valuable person today than I was

15 years ago, or 5 year ago, or 30, 20 or even 10. I have learnt so much

__________ I was 70.”

12.Buck understood that life isn’t meant to be lived on bell curve（钟形曲线）. We

don’t go up for a while and then, after a certain age, begin a downhill slide.

__________ , we are to continue our upward trend.

13.So the rule about anything _________ works by electricity is : if necessary,

switch electrical equipment off before you touch it and don’t pretend you know ___________ you actually don’t.

14.Lots of people face far more significant limitations ____________ you do. They

may be missing limbs or are born into poverty. But ______________ the limitation, you will always find people who have overcome it.

15.Of course, many older people marched for these causes ____________ many

young people stayed at home and watched the marchers on TV.