— Well, I have a lot of hobbies. Swimming is one of ______.

— Oh. That ______ be her. She has gone to Paris for vacation.

— Yes. It does surprise me!

— Yes, I heard the news just now.

— ____________ I haven't already played with it.

    Our yard doesn't have trees, so Robert and I made our clubhouse1the butterfly bush.

    "2 we need a 3," Robert said.

    I ran to the house and came back 4 a poster board and a box of crayons. I crawled (爬) under the lower branches and laid the material on our worm-proof tarp (防虫网).

    "Hand me Raspberry Red," I said.

    Robert 5through the sixty 6, pulling red ones. "Cherry Pie ... Bloody Nose ... Raspberry Red!" He 7 me a stub no longer than my pinky. "Wow, you used it a lot!"

    "It's my 8." I traced two crossed spoons, our secret signal. "Now I need Garbage Green."

    "Whacky Khaki ... Squished Toad ... Baby Caterpillar ... Garbage Green!"

    I ripped the whole paper from it and used its whole length to color the flag's background.

    I 9 up the flag. "There! How does it look?"

    "Looks great! Now where will we find red spoons? You know, for the signal."

"They don't really have to 10 red. My dog chewed up my silver crayon. He looked like he had fillings."

    Robert laughed. "It's lucky that he didn't chew on your Bloody Nose one. That would have been 11."

    My little sister Nancy peeked in our club house. "Why are you hiding under the bush? Eating cookies in 12?"

    "I AM NOT! Go play with your dolls and leave us 13."

    She crawled right 14, covering half the tarp with her fluffy (蓬松的) skirt, and breaking one of my crayons in the process.

    "Hey, watch it! You're sitting on my Tarantula (毒蜘蛛) Bl..."

    I didn't have time to say "Black." Nancy scampered (边跳边跑) to the house, screeching and brushing 15 skirt frantically (疯狂地) with both hands.

    I winked (眨眼) at Robert. "I think I'll keep my crayon box here to protect against intruders (入侵者)."

    Mark Twain, well known for his masterpieces like The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The adventures of Huckleberry Finn, in which he used his extraordinary writing techniques played a vital role in the history of American literature. He was regarded as a mirror of America not only because of the true and vivid description and representation in his pieces, but for his rich life experience including various people he had met on the steamboat and the things he had heard during his early life.

    From the steamboat on the Mississippi to the development of railway later, from the California Gold Rush (淘金热) to the Civil War, Mark Twain's life experience was connected with American society at the same period of time. As a young country, America witnessed several events powerful enough to leave a significant influence on the development of the country. Mark Twain got involved in them and created them in his books.

    Through various occupations, Mark Twain accumulated a rich knowledge of the society, which later vividly reappeared on the pages of his works. If it hadn't been for the abundant personal experience, there couldn't have been a perfect Mark Twain. Quite coincidently, Mo Yan, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature, also mentioned in his speech after the award ceremony that his childhood experience out of school had played an important part in his works.

    Besides the colorful experience of Mark Twain, the dual (双重的) character of him is also worth talking about, since the great master is famous for his humor and criticism. People may regard him as the same sort of person, with humor or sometimes with a bit of sarcasm (嘲讽). However, we may well understand it if we reflect the overview of his family — only three of his brothers and sisters survived tragedies (灾难), which would leave an unforgettable impression on Mark Twain.

    There was once a kind man whose name as Oliver Goldsmith. He was born in 1728 in Ireland. And he graduated from Trinity College in Dublin and studied medicine in Edinburgh. Oliver Goldsmith, was a famous British playwright in the 18^th century. He wrote many delightful books to sarcasm the current evil in his active time, some of which you will read when you are older.

    He had a gentle heart, who was always ready to help others and to share with them anything that he had. He gave away so much to the poor that he was always poor himself. He was sometimes called Doctor Goldsmith, for he had studied to be a physician.

    One day a poor woman asked Doctor Goldsmith to go and see her husband, who was sick and could not eat. Goldsmith did so. He found that the family was in great need. The man had not had work for a long time, and he was not sick, but in distress. And, as for eating, there was no food in the house.

    "Call at my room this evening," said Goldsmith to the woman, "and I will give you some medicine for your husband."

In the evening the woman called. Goldsmith gave her a little paper box that was extremely heavy. "Here is the medicine," he said. "Use it faithfully, and I think it'll do your husband a great deal of good. But don't open the box until you reach home."

    "What are the instructions for taking it?" asked the woman.

    "You'll find them inside of the box," he answered.

    When the woman reached her home, she sat down by her husband's side, and they opened the box. What do you think they found in it?

    It was full of pieces of money. And on the top, there were the instructions—

    "TO BE TAKEN AS OFTEN AS NECESSITY REQUIRES."

    Goldsmith had given them all the ready money that he had.

    Nowadays, the ERP system is a very common tool of the management system, which was invented in the late 1980s and the beginning of 1990s, by an American IT company based on computer information and the demand for supply chain management. It is widely used in companies of different industrials, such as manufacturing (制造业), chemical industry, biological industry, pharmaceutical industry, etc.

    The full name of ERP is Enterprise Resource Planning. Originally, it was just a thought of management. But later, it was built into software forms that can help a lot of companies in the arrangement of resources. 

    ERP software is just an integration of IT technology and management ideas. The core purpose of its system is to achieve effective management of the whole supply chain, and it is an advanced management idea to help enterprises to achieve their management goals somehow. Besides, it can help the managers to effectively monitor the performance of their employees as well. The ERP system is real-time, and it is exactly of importance of management. Therefore, it also helps to build connections between different departments.

    As the ERP system becomes popular and popular, the disadvantages are clear. We cannot use the ERP system to make sure everything is under control when It can only quantify a part of the control objectives of the enterprise. This requires the coordination of information means and traditional means, to achieve comprehensive and effective internal control. The sizes and structures of companies are constantly changing. So, it is necessary to update the ERP system in time, which apparently increases the expenses.

    All in all, the ERP system helps a lot in our work and development, but we should use it wisely. In the future, I think, the cost of the ERP system gradually goes down as the technology becomes much better.

    For all my life, everyone knew me as being a mother's girl. All the time, my mother and I were inseparable, we went everywhere together. People would talk about how I looked just like her because we're alike in many ways. My mother made me feel safe whenever I turned to her for help. I didn't know that soon in my life when I turned 16 that the bond I had with my mother would all change forever.

    It was the beginning of a weekend in May 2011, and it was just another day for me. Saturday had finally arrived after a long busy school week. I planned to hang out with my friends for the day. The day went on just like any other normal Saturdays for me. My mother's action was presented normally throughout the day. We got up and ate two bowls of cereal (麦片)

    My boyfriend was living next door. So I spent the whole day with him, watching movies and playing games. And that Saturday went by fast as I always thought it did. Around 11:30 pm, I got a text from my mom. So I looked down at my phone and it read, "Alyssa, time to come home." Instead, the message I received was the beginning of our relationship in the stage of catastrophe. When I was texting to my mother, I just got another new message from her, "Find somewhere else to stay tonight. I'll not be coming home. I am leaving now."

My mouth dropped with a stunned expression printed all over my face. My boyfriend stared at me waiting for an explanation for my reaction to the text. Paralyzed with fear, I sat there in uncontrolled shock and didn't know what to do or say. I handed my phone to my boyfriend. Having read the text, he was looking at me with the same shocked expression. I can't believe the text. I quickly grabbed my phone back to dial my mother as fast as I could. But there was no answer. I hung up and sat there thinking to myself, "Is this real?"

    I insanely ran out of my boyfriend's house. As I approached the back door of my house, I observed that the lights were off and the door was locked. I quickly unlocked the door and barged in.

    The noise was mute through the entire house. I was in alarm mode and I ran to my mother's room and turned on the light. It looked normal to me but I knew something went wrong. I opened the closet and drawers. To my surprise, many things were gone. I didn't even know if she was ok, and that killed me inside. The rest of the day went on with the same blue feelings running through my veins. I didn't eat or sleep because I just didn't feel like it.

    Since that day my mother came back to the house, she did nothing but take a few things she owned. I saw her running off with some man with whom no one is acquainted. I never thought my mother would do anything like this, no one did. My mother took everyone for a surprise, but I honestly felt it had the most impact on me out of anyone else.

    I learned that it was hard to have to take on an independent age of adulthood that a normal person would start to do when they were 18. However, I was only 16, with the limitation of the law, which made some things very difficult. To this day, I've never known why she left.

    She missed out on my senior year, my school performances, and my scholarship, which truly made me disappointed. Though I am stronger now and I know I must rely on myself to reach the goals in my life.

    Suddenly, old-fashioned road trips are in style again. Websites, newspapers, magazines and even        (book) are featuring road trips, even though they are actually        long-standing American tradition in pop culture, from the 1950s Beat Generation literary classic "On the Road" to the 1983 comedy movie "National Lampoon's Vacation".

    In some ways, the comeback of this 20^th-cetury-style vacation        (be) surprising in an age when "time has become far more        (value) than money", writes Richard Ratay in his coming book, "Don't Make Me Pull Over!: An Informal History of the Family Road Trip". In other words, why do you spend 18 hours driving 1,200 miles when you        (can) get there in two hours by plane?

    Here is why: flying is expensive, and the more people taking the trip, the cheaper is to pile every one of your group in        car. Flying is also unpleasant. Getting to the airport, allowing time for security checks and dealing        delays and baggage can easily turn a two-hour flight into a trip that takes up most of your day and all of your soul. For some travelers, it is more appealing to get up early, hit the road and spend all day        (drive). At least you can bring more than one bag without        (pay) extra. And you can stop wherever you want and        (when) you want.

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    Nowadays, many movies were adapted from the original works, like Journey to the West. But which do you prefer, the original work or the movie from the work? I prefer …