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School gardening 1. now very popular. Parents and teachers all like these hands - on lessons very much. Students are 2. about the gardening lessons too. The lessons give them a new way of 3. and help them relax.
The children don't have to sit at 4. desks all day. The gardening lessons teach them something that they can't learn in the classroom. Also, they have a chance 5. outside and get their hands dirty. Teachers ask students to take gardening 6. . In gardens, students watch carefully with a purpose. They can see the 7. , the middle and the end of the project. However, some schools don't have enough space for a garden, so the lessons can be 8. in the community gardens or parks.
"Gardening is an 9. subject," a teacher says. "It not only lets students 10. where our food comes from, but also makes them have more love for the earth. Gardening is not just a hobby. It's a life skill."

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When I was a child, I loved to visit my grandparents' farm. There was always something new to do, 1. (see) and to enjoy.
One day, I, together with my brothers and sisters, went to my grandparents' farm to celebrate my birthday. We all liked eating strawberries, so we went to pick 2. (they). We each took a basket. But I was lazy. I took the 3. (small) basket. While the others were picking strawberries, I had a rest. Before we 4. (return), I put a lot of grass in my basket and then I put a few strawberries on top. The basket looked full. My grandfather said he was 5. (pride) of my hard work.
The next morning my grandmother made many 6. (pie). There was a big pie which 7. (make) just for me. It looked nice! But when I began to eat it, I found there was nothing but grass under the top strawberries! You can guess how 8. (surprise) I was.
My grandfather looked at me 9. (calm) and said, "When you cheat others, you cheat yourself." He didn't need 10. (say) more, but he taught me a good lesson.

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"Birds of a feather flock together." is a popular sentence in English. It usually describes how people of similar 1. ____ (mind) like to fall into the same group. In the Chinese language, it means "Wu Yi Lei Ju" or "things of a kind come together".
During the Warring States Period, King Xuan of the Qi State loved 2. ____ (get) many talented scholars around. One day, the king asked a famous talent 3. ____ (call) Chun Yukun 4. ____ (introduce) more talented people to the state. The next morning, he 5. ____ (bring) seven talents to see the king. Being happy and surprised to see 6. ____ (they) in such a short time, the king asked Chun right away, "Someone would be very 7. ____ (luck) to find one talent in every 1,000 square kilometres or find one sage(圣贤) every 100 years. How could you find seven great persons for me so 8. ____ (easy)?" Chun answered, "Dear king, it takes millions of years 9. ____ (find) dry crops in a wet and low - lying(低洼的) field, while you can find plenty of them in a highland. Animals of the same kind often move around in a team, and birds of the same types often fly together. You asked me to search for talented people of my kind, so it is as easy as 10. ____ (take) water from a big river."
Since then, "Wu Yi Lei Ju" has found its way into Chinese as a popular idiom.

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