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2. A friend of mine was fond of drawing horses. He drew horses ABAAB

3. A guide dog is a dog especially trained to guide a blind AABAB

4. A pretty, well-dressed young lady stopped a taxi in a ABAAA

5. A public house which was recently bought by Mr. James is up for ABBBB

6. A story is told about a soldier who was finally coming home after having ABAAB

7. A young man who lived in London was in love with BABBB

8. After having lived for over twenty years in the same district, BBAAB

9. After retiring from 30 years of teaching, Ethell Pepper AABAB

10. Agnes Miller was one of the earliest leaders of the women's ABBAA

11. Albert Einstein had a great effect on science and history, greater ABBAB

12. All over the world people enjoy sports. Sports help BABAA

13. Americans are big tippers（给小费者）. Generally ABAAB

14. Americans enjoy sports. The three national sports are AABBB

15. Americans often declare their intention to protect their AABBA

16. Americans, like many people elsewhere in the world, like ABAAB

17. An English traveler found himself in Norway with only enough AABBA

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19. Americans with small families own a small car or a large one. ABABA

B.20. Babies sleep about eighteen hours a day ABABA

21. Background music may seem harmless, but it can have a powerful AABBB

22. Before you go to another country it is a great help if you know the ABABB

C.23. Can trees talk? Yes, but not in words. Scientists have reason to believe ABAAB

24. Chess must be one of the oldest games in the world. An Arab ABABB

25. China's former volleyball star Lang Ping has been ABABB

26. Clowns（小丑）like to make people laugh. They paint ABAAB

27. Computers are very important to modern life. Many people AAABB

28. Computers can injure you. Most other injuries happen suddenly. ABAAB

29. Computers are useful machines. They can help people a lot in AABAB

30. “Cool” is a word with many meanings. Its old meaning is

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32. Do you still get free plastic bags from the supermarkets? AAABB

33. Do you want to know something about the history of weather? ABABA

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35. Dreams may be more important than sleep. We all ABABB

E.36. Elvis Aron Preslay ABABA

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39. Everyone knows what a needle is. Of course there BAABA

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41. For several years，Americans have enjoyed teleshopping－watching BABBA

42. Foulsham House is a fine，large house of the l790s. It stands ABABA

G.43. Grandma Moses is among the most famous twentieth-century AABBB

44. Grandma was a wonderful story-teller, and she had a set of ABAAB

45. Great changes have been made in family life because of AABBA

46. Gladys Holm was a secretary (秘书) BBAAB

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48. Have you ever listened to young children talking in the AABBA

49. Here is a story told about an American general who BAAAB

50. Herman had worked for the bank of BAABA

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53. Homesick is a compound word (复合词) made up of “home” BBAAA

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57. In 1801, Thomas Jefferson was the first president to ABBAA

58. In 1920, barely out of his teens, Alfred Hitchcock ABBAA

59. In 1933 an unknown American called Clarence Nash went to see AABBA

60. In November 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt and some AABBA