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When I was little,my mother began selling food at Camden Market. She couldn't leave me at home on my own,so I had to go to the market with her.
36 I just sat there. When I got older,I gave my mum a hand,and I really enjoyed it.
Then,one year,my uncle gave me a,book for Christmas. 37 I was fourteen,and I didn't have to go to the market anymore. I spent my free time making candles of all different shapes and sizes.
One day,my mother was ill so I had to go to the market on my own. 38 They were sold out in twenty minutes!The next week,my mum gave me some money to buy wax (蠟) to make more candles. Again,they sold out really quickly.
Six months later,we decided to stop doing the food. 39 Luckily,some of my school friends started to help us. I paid them one pound for every eandle,and we used to sell them for four or five times that.
When I left school,my uncle lent us some money and I opened my first shop. 40 In the first store,we only sold candles,but now we sell everything from designer furniture to silver jewellery.
A. Since then,T ve never looked back.
B. I often talk about how the business began.
C. To begin with,I didn't have to do anything.
D. It was all about making candles and I loved it.
E. With the opening of this new store,I now have 25 stores.
F. My mum and I couldn’t make enough candles during the week.
G. I decided to take some candles with me and see if!could sell them.
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English is always changing. The English that people used 500 years ago is very 1to the English we use now. 2in the last fifty years,English has changed.3words are entering our language all the time. The words internet,email and mobile phone are only twenty years old. The word website is even
4. We only started using it fifteen years ago. But what 5languages to change? And is language change a positive or a negative thing?
There are many reasons that 6 change. One reason is that technology changes. We use new7. for new types of technology. Thirty years ago,we only used the word in English to 8.an animal. Today,the word mouse9. I means the object you use to contipl a computer. Another important reason for language change is 10 between different countries and cultures. For example,English uses words like sugar from Arabic,and yoghurt from Turkish. Languages also change because young people create their own way of 11 that is different from their parents. 12 often use new slang ——informal words and phrases — to talk to their friends. Some slang gets 13 , but other slang words become part of everyday language. Words like bus and rock music 14 as slang,but now they are in the dictionary and everyone 15 them.
But is language change a good thing or a bad thing? Some people think that we should stop languages from 16 . They think that they need to 17 their language or it will die. 18,other people believe that language change is a natural thing and shouldn't be 19 . They think that it is 20 that languages change over time. They think that languages need to change to stay modem and interesting.
1. A. important B. valuable
C. close D. different
2. A. Only B. Even C. Once D. Then
3. A. New B. Funny C. Spoken D. Foreign
4. A. easier B. younger
C. better D. luckier
5. A. expects B. requires
C. causes D. teaches
6. A. languages B. technologies
C. cultures D. people
7. A. ideas B. websites
C. computers D. words
8. A. control B. learn
C. describe D. remember
9. A. still B. also C. soon D. again
10. A. disagreement B. comparison
C. competition D. communication
11. A. talking B. thinking
C. working D. organizing
12. A. Parents B. Teachers
C. Teenagers D. Writers
13. A. loved B. finished
C. discovered D. forgotten
14. . A. stayed B. started
C. proved D. waited
15. A. uses B. lists
C. corrects D. introduces
16. A. happening B. changing
C. spreading D. losing
17. A. understand B. improve
C. protect D. study
18. A. However B. Therefore
C. In addition D. In return
19. A. completed B. affected
C. considered D. stopped
20. A. true B. necessary
C. normal D. interesting
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3. My uncle lives in an area where there are a lot of mountains.
My uncle lives in a(n) area.
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