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We often hear people talking 104 _a________ a generation gap. The name is new, but the idea is old. Young people and their parents don’t 105_u__________ each other. The world keeps changing. It has always kept changing. There has always been a gap between generations, but more people talk about it now. Old Mr. Ellis thinks he understands what has __106_h_____. “When I was a boy, I thought the world was a beautiful place. My life was very _107 p________. But when I was older, I learned that some people were living a very poor life. They didn’t have _108 e______ to eat.. I wanted to help them. Then I met a girl. She wanted to help them, too. We got married. We went to meetings and talked a lot. We wanted to make things better. But we couldn’t make things change much. Our children grew up in a world at war. They didn’t know when the fighting would stop. They wanted their children to have nice clothes and food. They didn’t want to _109_ t_________ about the future. They thought nothing could be done about it. Now I have grandchildren, and they have their own __110 i_____. They are trying to make the world better. They are _111 t_____ to help other people. They are making people listen to them. I am proud of their generation.” 104. about 105. understand 106. happened 107. pleasant 108. enough 109. talk 110. ideas 111. trying It was almost 9:00 p.m. , when Mia Johnson left her office to go home . It was _1___. She started her car and she _2__ down the dark road that led to her house in the country .She _3__the radio and sang songs while she was driving . The heater(暖气机) wasn’t working , and singing helped to keep her __4__. The snow was heavy . Then Mia went across a small _5__. The bridge was covered with ice and the car went out of the control (失去控制) . Mia hit her head on the steering while and lost consciousness(知觉) . When she _6___, her head was bleeding (流血) ,and she was shaking from the cold . She didn’t know _7__ she was . Mia opened the car door and