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In 1897, eight-year-old Virginia wrote a short, inquisitive letter to the editor of New York's newspaper，The Sun, in which she sought confirmation of Santa Claus's existence.The paper's editor, Francis P. Church, soon replied to Virginia's letter by way of an editorial,titled“Is There a Santa Claus?",which in fact remains to this day, the most reprinted English-language editorial in history.
1.A letter to i ____ . about the existence of Santa Claus.
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FareShare has been running as an independent charity since 2004. It collects food from supermarkets，cafe chains，bakeries and other retailers that would otherwise be thrown away and distributes it to 2,020 charities across the country.Last year it redistributed 7,360 tons of food, providing 15.3m meals and saving the British voluntary sector an estimated
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2.FareShare's fighting against food w___.
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One way to get people to produce less garbage is to charge them for it.So-called pay-as-you-throw programs—-in which municipalities bill residents for their garbage--have been around for decades but are becoming more widespread.And they work. Now that (people) are aware that trash has a cost,they begin looking for alternatives to putting things in a trash can.
3.Putting a p____on trash.
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Drones are being used by tech-savvy farmers to monitor and spray crops, by researchers to measure environmental pollution and by Hollywood studios to capture action-packed footage for blockbuster movies. Drones are even saving lives, as first responders to coordinate operations and search for missing hikers.And of course, drones are being flown by hundreds of thousands of amateurs.
4. Drones are used in a variety of f___.
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lt stands to reason that countries with larger populations might enjoy long-run economic advantages.People are the raw material of economic growth,after all. The more there are, the greater the likelihood that one becomes a Gutenberg or a Watt. In a world without much international trade，populous countries offer the largest markets, and comparatively more opportunity to boost economic output through specialization and trade.
5.Population is a d___factor of economic growth.
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On paper，it looks as if San Francisco shouldn't have a homelessness problem. There are as many permanent housing beds as people who need them.The city spends hundreds of millions of dollars to help get people off the streets.Yet there are about 7,500 homeless in the city because of soaring rents and the difficulty of treating substance abuse, mental illness, and other health concerns.
6. Homelessness problem e___in San Francisco.
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When Ottessa Moshfegh published her debut novel,"Eileen,"last August,she did so without an online publicity apparatus. Vanity Fair noted that Ms.Moshfegh，7, was an anomaly because she had neither social media profiles nor a website. There wasn't much personal information floating around about her,either. Ms. Moshfegh had made herself (apart from her work) somewhat un-Googleable.
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The many different things a language can and must do are the subject of Are Some Languages Better than Others?, a book from 2016 by R.M.W. Dixon of James Cook University in Australia. Mr. Dixon dispels old colonialist prejudices that European languages are sophisticated and indigenous ones primitive.Indeed,many of the most nuanced discriminations are required not by French or German but among isolated traditional communities.
8.A book about whether some languages are s___ to others.Paragraph Nine
I wonder what life will be left for me in China in the future. I've long nursed vague plans of moving back to China to live for a few years, to get to know it better and solidify my place there. But with each year that passes in the U.S. ,such a move gets harder and harder to make.
9.The h___of a Chinese emigrant to the U.S.
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Academic economics recruits too few women. Also,many of those who do work in the profession say they are treated unfairly and that their talents are not fully realized. As a result,economics has fewer good ideas than it should and suffers from a skewed viewpoint. It is time for the dismal science to improve its dismal record on gender.
10.The p____against women in workplace.
