Cloze 1 The government has awarded $5 million to three different local nonprofit organizations. The money will 1 (distribute) over a four-year period and is aimed at helping approximately 1,000 homeless people in the county of Arvada. One agency, 2 (base) in Woodbridge, is expected 3 (receive) $1.5 million. The agency director says that they will focus their resources on 4 (educate) the homeless. "We will probably build another school-home with this money," he said. A school-home is exactly 5 it sounds like. It is a school and a home. We have already built four school-homes throughout the county. We get the homeless off the street, 6 we educate them so they don't have to return to the street. We teach them how to be gardeners, painters, carpenters, bricklayers, electricians, and air-conditioning repairmen. "You wouldn't believe 7 success that we have had. In fact, a couple of weeks ago, our office air-conditioning went off. My secretary called a repairman. To our surprise, the repairman 8 (be) one of our first homeless students. He now owns his own air-conditioning business, plus two houses, two cars and a boat! He has a dozen employees. He's doing better than I am. He fixed our air-conditioning 9 free. I think I might sign up for the air-conditioning class 10 (I)." Cloze 2 German and Kurdish researchers have discovered an ancient city by the Tigris River. The city 1 (uncover) when the levels of the Mosul reservoir(水库)decreased earlier this year due to the extreme drought in Iraq. 2 (prevent) crops from drying out, a large amount of water has been drawn down from the reservoir, Iraq's most important water 3 (store). This led to the reappearance of the city that 4_____(sink) decades before without any prior investigations. The unforeseen event made researchers excavate(挖掘)and document at least parts of this city as quickly as possible 5 it sank again. A team for rescue excavations was put together within days. They were 6 great time pressure because it was not clear when the water in the reservoir would rise again, and the 7 (expose)walls of large buildings in the old city would disappear. 8 (fortunate), the researchers succeeded in largely mapping the city. In addition to a palace, other large buildings emerged from the reservoir—fortifications(防御工事)with walls and towers and 9_____ industrial site. The research team was shocked by the well-preserved state of the walls 10 were made of sun-dried mud bricks and had been under water for more than 40 years. Cloze 3 Prihardinni, from the Indonesian city of Surabaya, is amazed at how traditional Chinese medicine(TCM) 1 (continue) to develop since she began studying it a year ago. The 20-year-old arrived in China in 2019 and initially studied Chinese in the eastern Chinese city of Wuxi. She is 2 (current) a freshman at the Gansu University of Chinese ... ...
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