试题列表15-人物传记类阅读-高中英语-n多题

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One day a mime(哑剧演员) is visiting the zoo and wants to make some money as a street performer. As soon as he starts to draw a crowd, a zookeeper drags him int HOLLYWOOD(UPI)—Loni Anderson decided last year it was time to change her career around to play moms and comedy instead of pretty young girls.So far, most people A man and his family were in Europe. Once they needed to drive 3 days 36, day and night, to get to Germany. His little daughter had never 37at night without a Long long ago, there was a small village. This village had a 36 tradition. At the beginning of every year, any boy who had reached the age of majority (成年) w One day a heavy storm hit a village. Nothing was ____41____ but a rock fell from the nearby mountain. The rock rolled down from the mountain and __42_____ in t Christopher Columbus was born in Genoa, Italy. He was the oldest of five children in his family. His father was a wool weaver. He helped his father with the w Long long ago people made fires from lightning(闪电)。 But they had to keep the fire burning, for they couldn’t start it again if there was no lightning. Later People often say that the Englishman’s home is his castle. In this sense they mean that the home is very important and 21. Most people in Britain live in hous Charles Dickens (1812-1870), the great nineteenth century English novelist, was born near Portsmouth. His father ran heavily into debt and when he was twelve, h A school teacher decided to let her class play a game. The teacher told each child in the class to bring along a plastic bag containing a few 16. Each tomato w A student went to college(大学) after_41_ all his school examinations. There he put his name down for world geography. _42_after taking the first lecture on th Mr. Backer is a kind-hearted man. Once he gave some food to a poor woman . Mr White, the boss of the restaurant, found it and became angry. He often gave the Tracy Wong is a well-known Chinese-American writer. But her writing 41was something she picked up by herself. After her first 42, teaching disabled children, s Last year was the first year when I taught the fifth grade. Recently, I’ve been 1 by a “graduated ”student for the first time. I was really surprised when he Millions of girls grow up with the hope of becoming a famous singer. Some even win local talent competitions as children, but only a few such early successes an Mrs. Evens was home from work. She had just gone into the kitchen to make the afternoon tea _36_ she saw a mouse running around on the kitchen floor. She 37 a I worked for a short time as a cashier(出纳员) at a restaurant a few months ago. I also helped to clean up the tables when it was very busy. One night, just b Christmas Eve means a warm get-together with friends, a candlelight dinner, or perhaps a celebration at a pub(酒馆) for students. But, for Cai Yingjie, the nigh I saw the old man, with his untidy clothes and messy hair, as he dashed between the rows of the department store. He was trying to be ordinary but he was hard n A Swedish man was dug out alive after being snowed in his car on a forest track for two months with no food, police and local media reported on Saturday. The 45 I was shopping in the supermarket when I heard a young voice boom from across the aisle. “Mom, come here! There’s this lady here my size!”The mother rushed to Despite being tall, Michelle Obama is much smaller than she appears on television． And she seemed a little short by her surroundings in the great hall of Christc Terry was a middle-aged businessman. He was 36 in career and often complained that he had been fooled (欺骗) by others. One day he told his wife he was 37 disa A man once said how useless it was to put advertisements in the newspapers．“last week, ” said he, “my umbrella was stolen from a London church．As it was a presen When we read books we seem to enter a new world. This new world can be similar to the one we are living in, or it can be very 1. Some stories are told 2they we Susan Sontag (1933 ------ 2004) was one of the most noticeable figures in the world of literature. For more than 40 years she made it morally necessary to know Yesterday was my stepmother’s birthday. I haven’t been home for a long time, so I wanted to stop by the house to 36 her on this special day. I have been 37 o When Han Duan started her professional career at 16, China’s national women’s football team was defeated in the final of the World Cup by the US. While she wa When I first got an e-mail account ten years ago, I received communications only from family, friends, and colleagues. Now it seems that every time I check my e It was Saturday when the entire summer world was bright and fresh. Tom looked at the fence, which was long and high, feeling all enthusiasm leaving him. He dip Bill Robinson is on trial for murder（因谋杀而受审）．He grew up in a small town in Ohio and then went to Kent State University for one year．When he was nineteen ye I did very badly at school. My headmaster thought I was 1 and when I was 14 he said, “You’re never going to be 2 but a failure.”After five years of 3 jobs, I I was sitting in class one day when a new kid came in , He was called Christian and he was short and wore a pair of glasses, He walked up to the teacher and told Born into a poor family，two of the Durers' children still had a dream for art，but they knew their father could not afford to send either of them to the academ I was successful at my job. I worked very hard, but it 36 me and my family a fabulous (极好的) lifestyle. I’d worked for the same company for twenty years and Michael Jackson fans are coming a Chicago museum to see a 3,000 year old Egyptian statue which looks remarkably like the late king of pop. Staff have been rushe Water costs money．In some places water is hard16 ．What17 when a town has these problems？A small town in California found a happy18 ．Very 19 rain fell there．The t Billy and Bobby were small boys. They were brothers, and they often fought each other.Last Saturday their mother said to them, “I’m going to cook our lunch no My 4-year-old son now enjoys posting letters. He has formed the 36of drawing pictures, writing his name on them, and then 37the artwork in an envelope. He then One day, Wilson was walking quietly along the road when someone hit him hard on the back of his neck．He looked behind him, and saw a young man whom he had never When George was thirty-five, he bought a small plane and learned to fly it. He soon became very good and made his plane do all kinds of tricks (特技). George h “It's really cool to have a dad who flies fighter jets,”thought 11-year-old Casey as she was watching him fly overhead. Living on an Air Force base was not as I’d been proud that I’d never lost my cellphone until my husband Jack got a call one evening.We went to visit a friend in hospital last year. When Jack’s 36 I was 15. She looked like she was over 70. But on that day. I think she understood me more than anyone else.Walking into the church that Sunday was hard. I Andy loved the first grade. He loved his teacher，Mrs.Parks. He loved playing games on the playground. He loved learning about dinosaurs and the solar system Lee Humberg, district manager for the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, is the man in charge of figuring out how to Have you ever listened to young children talking in the playground? They are always boasting. They say things like, “My Dad’s car is bigger than your Dad’s,”Jack went to a barber's shop and had his hair cut, but when he came out, he was not happy with the result(结果). When his friend Bob saw him, he laughed and sa I noticed the woman when I entered the newsroom. My secretary told me she wanted to put an ad to 36a baby. So I suggested several 37lines for these ads to her:I shall never forget the day when the earthquake took place. It was about 5 o’clock in the afternoon and I was 26to my daughter’s school. Our plan was to go In 1961 Obama was born in Hawaii, US. His father was an African and his mother was a white American. He grew up in Indonesia and Hawaii.When Obama was 10 year Roberta appeared on the stage. She took a deep breath and began to 36. Now she was Portia, a strong–willed 37 in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice. The th Bill White’s father is a lawyer. In his 56time, he likes to get out in the country and take some57of animals. For a long time, Bill had wanted to go with his A young woman carrying a three-year-old child got on a bus. The conductor(售票员) hurried to give her a warm welcome and then kindly asked the other passengers Henry was a carpenter of our village. Once I asked him to make a table for my family. A week later, Henry sent us the table and the bill as well.My wife said Thomas Edison was one of ten said to be the greatest genius（天才） of his age. There are only a few men in all of the history, who have changed the lives of othe In 1957, Jane Goodall first met the famous anthropologist (人类学者) Dr Louis Leakey, who later played an important role in her life. With the 32 of gaining ins Mr. Brown worked in a factory of a small town. He had been there for twenty years before one day he was sent to the capital for important business. He was qui Wings of AngelI used to hate myself because I wasn't "normal". Everyone else could play on the monkey bars and ride on a bicycle, but not 36 . I had a sever Tom was taken to the police station and put in a room with another thief, an older man. The man looked at Tom and said, “Why have they brought you here, boy?” The friendship between us never fades. Mary Allen was my best friend—like a sister I never had. We did everything together: piano lessons, movies, swimming, ho Some teachers are unforgettable. They lead by example and never lose their smile. They change lives. Eileen Madden is one of them. Her students must think sh Churchill's full name was Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill. He was born in 1874. He was educated at Harrow School and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.I receive many letters from children and can’t answer them all – there wouldn’t be enough time in a day. I’ll try to answer some of the questions that are co Nancy had just got a job as a secretary in a company. Monday was the first day she went to work, so she was very 36and arrived early. She 37the door open and f Once there was a poor farmer and his farm belonged to(属于) a rich man. One day he brought a basket of apples to the rich man’s house. On the doorsteps, he me Jenny went to visit her friends in New York last weekend. Her friends met her at the airport on Friday afternoon and drove her to the hotel. They had dinner at Mr. and Mrs. Wu were fed up with their neighbor. He was always borrowing things from them. “It’s not right.” Mr. Wu said to his wife one evening. “At som Sarah Williams went to a boarding school. Here is one of theletters she wrote to her parents from the school. Wentworth Girls' SchoolBeachsideJuly 20thDearest It was the first snow of winter — an exciting day for every child but not for most teachers. Up until now, I had been able to dress myself for recess(课间休息),Brenda Bongos was a happy, artistic girl. She had one big ambition—to play the drums in a band. But one big problem lay in her way. To be good enough to play Who do you think was the most important woman of the past 100 years?Jane Addams (1860 - 1935) Addams helped the poor and worked for peace. She created shelters The first time I saw Carlos I would never have believed he was going to change my life．I had my arms full of books and I was rushing into the classroom when 1 ra “Where is the bus? Why is it always late?” I asked myself. I was going to be late ___36___ the manager wasn’t going to be pleased. “Thank God, here it is!” No one was left in the museum now, and John was walking round to see if everything was all right. Suddenly he saw a beautiful painting lying on the floor. John In 1989 an 8.2 earthquake almost flattened America, killing over 30,000 people in less than four minutes. A father rushed to the school where his son was suppo Mr.Gray traveled a lot on business. He sold machines of various kinds to famers, which he thought not really a very _36_ job, but he had always been interested According to an old story, a farmer once found that a bag of corn had been stolen from his house. He went to the judge and told him about his loss. The judge o One day when Jack was walking in the park, he saw a woman, who lived a few miles away, sitting on a bench with a dog beside her. The dog was looking up at the w Once a group of 17-year-old schoolboys decided to break the world basketball marathon（马拉松）record. They wanted to play for 90 hours ,breaking the record by ad Two thieves came to a house to steal something． They dug a hole in the wall of the house．There lived many mice in the house．The woman in the moonlight saw a mous Talk about a real-life hero! Ten-year-old Larry Champagne from St. Louis，Missouri, hit the brake (刹车) on a runaway school bus. He saved himself and 20 other Susan Sontag (1933----2004) was one of the most noticeable figures in the world of literature. For more than 40 years she made it morally necessary to know ever Early one morning the subinspector at a station at the other end of the town rang me. An elephant was damaging the town. Would I please come and do somet One dark stormy night, an elderly couple hurried into a hotel and asked whether they could be 36 for the night, “I’m very sorry,” the clerk on night shift said A young man was getting ready to graduate from college. For many months he had 16 a beautiful sports car in a dealer’s showroom, and 17his father could well 18 When I was growing up in America, I was ashamed of my mother’s Chinese English. Because of her English, she was often treated unfairly. People in department s My husband hasn’t stopped laughing about the thing that happened to me. It’s 26now but it wasn’t that time.Last Friday, after doing all the family shopping When I was six, Dad brought home a dog one day, who was called “Brownie”. My brothers and I all loved Brownie and did different things with her. One of us woul A little boy was visiting his grandparents on their farm. He was given a slingshot(弹弓）to 21in the woods. He practiced and practiced but could never 22the tar White was the owner of a private school in a town. Last year, he married one of his classmates.The beautiful woman spent much time in learning nothing during m A lawyer and a young lady were sitting next to each other on a long flight. The lawyer asked if she would like to play a fun game. The lady just wanted to take What kind of pets do people have in your country? Dogs? Cats? How about a duck, hippo(河马) or lion? Here are two cases of animal owners with unusual pets.B A dog has a horse. The horse was beautiful and also it had many good qualities. 61It especially wanted to become the most beautiful horse in the world.One day When Alice started to cycle home from Jenny’s house, she wasn’t nervous. She was certainly not afraid of the dark. 31, it was only a 15-minute ride home. Bu When most people turn 21, they spend too much time partying and having fun. But when Adele turned 21, she did something completely different.After going throug Once upon a time, a Japanese man wanted to rebuild his house. First he had to tear the walls open .Japanese houses 36 have hollow(空的)spaces between the woode Stephen Hawking was born in Oxford, England, on January 8, 1942. At the age of 17, he entered University College, Oxford. He wanted to study mathematics, but t A woman called Julia lived in the countryside, one year she decided to visit the capital city to see the sights. She stayed at a hotel near the central market.I had offered to watch my 3-year-old daughter, so that my wife could go out with a friend. I was getting some work done in my study while she ___36___ to be hav

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A jobless man applied for the position of “office boy”at Microsoft. The HR manager interviewed him and then watched him cleaning the floor as a test.“You are e I drove a school bus as a part-time job. Thirty-nine children all had stories to tell me about their summers. Charlie though __16__me. From the first day on C Watson entered Mr. Smith’s office. The Boss was a hard man. He fired people who didn’t do well without giving them a second chance.“Watson,” said Mr. Smit When Albert Einstein was young, he was a quiet child who spent much of his time alone. He was slow to talk and had difficulty in learning to read.When Albert w Yesterday I had a walk with a friend in the street. When we were passing by a house, I 36a BlackBerry cell phone. I picked it up and it still 37! I started che Jeffrey Bezos, founder, president and chairman of the board of Amazon.com, was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His mother’s ancestors were early settlers in When I was young, my father used to grow carnations(康乃馨) ----- a kind of flower which was red, pink and white. He took care of them with much love and devoti The old man walked slowly into the restaurant. With head tilted, and shoulders bent forward he leaned on his trusty stick with each unhurried step. His torn cl I had just finished high school when a disaster hit our family. It was October 1962, and 21was out of the question. So I found a job. In 1971, my employer ann John Smith was a writer, who wrote detective stories for magazines（杂志）, though he never dealt with criminals（罪犯）. One evening he could not finish an end for Hobbs was an orphan(孤儿). He worked in a factory and every day he got a little money. Hard work changed him thin and weak. He wanted to borrow a lot of money Mary was seven years old. Her parents recently moved to a new town, and so Mary was going to a 36 school, which was a few kilometers from the house they lived i Mike has loved flying since he was small. When he was three years old, his dad took him to an air show. Mike loved the sounds of the plane and he 31of becoming After the earthquake hit northeast Japan on March 11, 2011, many touching stories that I saw with my own eyes happened around me. I had to walk home since all t Have you ever wished you could solve complex math problems without thinking? What about learning to play the piano in just three days? Or mastering several for One man was to meet his wife downtown and spend some time shopping with her. He waited36 for 15 minutes. Then he waited impatiently for 15 minutes more. After It's fourteen years since I left the Philippines to live with my family in the USA. A month ago, while on summer vacation back in my motherland, I learned a le James Arruda Henry, a 98-year-old retired lobsterman, has written and published his first book, "In a Fisherman's Language", after learning to read at the inc Frank Woolworth was born in Rodman, New York, in 1852. His family were very poor farmers, and there was never enough to eat. Frank did not want to be a farmer.Hank Viscardi was born without legs．He had not legs but stumps（残肢）that could be fitted with a kind of special boots, People stared at him with cruel interest．C To this day,I still remember the first day of classes exactly 30 years ago. I _16_ in Dr Charles E. Offutt’s British literature class，listening to him _17_ w A year ago August, Dave Fuss lost his job driving a truck for a small company in west Michigan．His wife, Gerrie, was still working in the local school cafeteria,Justin Bieber used to be an ordinary Canadian boy, but his life totally changed in 2008. With his great musical talent, this 17-year-old boy has become a supers Mrs. Jones was over eighty, but she still drove her old car like a woman half her age. She loved driving very fast, and was 21 of the fact that she had never, On April 11 Lincoln, Mrs Lincoln and two friends were spending night in talk, when Lincoln suddenly began to discuss his dreams. “I had one the other night. Ab Billy is fourteen years old and in the ninth grade. He has a 36 job which gets him 37 at five o'clock every morning. He is a38 . Each morning, Billy leaves A small man went to a cinema, bought a ticket and went in. But after two or three minutes he came out, bought a second ticket and went in again. After a few mi One morning, Charley, a little green frog, was sitting in a pond(池塘) by the side of the road.Wanda, the neighborhood witch(女巫), was walking along the road.A group of travelers were having dinner in a restaurant .While they were eating fish, they began to tell stories about finding valuable stones inside fish .An Alia Sabur, from Northport, N. Y., US, went to college at age 10. And four years later, Sabur became a bachelor of science in. Applied Mathematics summa cum It was Monday. Mrs Smith’s dog was hungry, but there was not any meat in the house.Considering that there was no better way, Mrs. Smith took a piece of paper It was on a summer burning afternoon in Denver．The sky was blue and the wind was blowing slightly．A man from a big36 with a new wagon （马车） and a beautiful pair Two men, Alan and Henry, both seriously ill, shared a hospital room. Alan was allowed to sit up in his bed and his bed was next to the room’s only window. Hen Mark was walking home from school one day when he noticed a boy ahead of him. He had tripped (绊倒) and dropped all of the books he was carrying, along with som A poor boy , named Howard Kelly , was trying to pay his way through school by selling goods door to door . He was hungry , 36 he decided to beg something to eat Once a circle lost a piece of its own. The circle wanted to be whole, so it went around looking for its missing piece. But because it was incomplete（不完整的）,Girls are born to imagine, particularly those at the age of seventeen or eighteen. 16, I was one of them and sometimes I would go to extremes. That was exactly “Grandma, Grandma, tell us a story ! ”Four darling children sat by my feet, looking up at me expectantly． Suddenly, we were interrupted clapping．“Terrific, ” the Once in a village, the villagers built a new church building and people came from far and wide to see it. They admired its beauty! They said it was the most bea Peanuts to ThisProudly reading my words, I glanced around the room, only to find my classmates bearing big smiles on their faces and tears in their eyes． Confuse Marjorie Gestring Marjorie Gestring was a springboard（跳板） diver from the United States who won the gold medal in 3-meter springboard diving at the 1936 Summer Waller was a liked－by－all fellow full of fun who often went to coffee houses to tell people interesting stories, of which some even brought him some money. One Elizabeth Clay decided to go home and spend the holiday with her parents. The next day she drove her old car home along the road. 36she found she got a flat. When I was a baby, I entertained you and made you laugh. Whenever I was “bad”, you'd shake your finger at me and ask, “How could you?”--but then you'd give u I used to hate being called upon in class mainly because I didn’t like attention drawn to myself. And 36assigned（指定）a seat by the teacher, I always 37 to sit A young man was getting ready to graduate from college. For many months he had 1 a beautiful sports car in a dealer’s showroom, and 2his father could well 3it,I went to a local post office to send a gift to Florida yesterday afternoon. When I __1 _ the door, there were many people waiting there. A bit 2, I decided to 阅读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后从41-60各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。）I was on a bus one March evening. The driver didn’t 41to start the bus Once there was a king who never ate a meal unless there was a dish of fish with it, but one day there was a big storm and the fishermen were not able to go out A poor farmer had a friend who was famous for the wonderful apples he grew. One day, his friend ___36__ him a young apple tree and told him to take it home and 阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从41—60题各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。 It was raining．I went into a café and asked for a coffee．A sobbing little girl stood near a small church from which she had been turned away because it “was too crowded.” “I can’t go to Sunday School,” she sobbed to China in the 21st century is making great progress in space technology. In 2003, the country sent up the manned spacecraft Shenzhou-V. Four years later, Chang’Bill Gates, the billionaire Microsoft chairman without a single earned university degree, is by his success raising new doubts about the worth of the business wo 阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。 At the 1924 Olympic Games in Paris, the favorite team in the four-man canoe race was t I'm feeling sad．My 19-year-old∞nleft home about a week ago to 36the Air Force, and my 23-year-old daughter left two days ago to marry in another state．I'm so Ray Travers sat back at the large desk, and looked around his plush（豪华的）office．He was tired．Ray's eyes stopped at a painting on the wall．It was a gift given As you probably know, J．Paul Getty was one of the richest and moat successful American industrialists in history．Quite ambitious from an early age, Getty made hi As a youngster, there was nothing I liked better than Sunday afternoons at my grandfather’s farm in western Pennsylvania. Surrounded by miles of winding stone DYou may picture firefighters holding a hose (水管) outside of a burning building, but the Golden Eagles Hotshots don’t fight fires quite that way. When they “Colour” and “color”, “favourite” and “favorite”···Have you ever wondered why Americans spell those words without a “u”? Is it because they are lazy?Of course Henry Ford was the first person to build cars which were cheap，strong and fast．He was able to sell millions of models because be could produce them in large num A man accused of failing to return more than 700 children’s books to five different libraries in the county was released from prison after a book publisher agre Michel is a young girl who works for the police 21a handwriting expert. She has helped22 many criminals by using her special talentsWhen she was fourteen, Miche In earliest times, men considered lightning to be one of the great mysteries of nature. Some ancient people believed that lightning and thunder were the weapons There was a king who loved art very much. One day a(n) 36came and said, "Please let me 37a picture on a wall." The king happened to have a big new hall 38.Rome had the Forum. London has Speaker's Corner. Now always–on–the-go. New Yorkers have Liz and Bill.Liz and Bill, two college graduates in their early 20s, I have recently completed my college degree. The last project was called “Smile”. The class was asked to go out to smile at three people and document their re In elementary school, Guadalupe Quintanilla was often referred to as a “slow learner” by her teachers. But she really wasn’t slow at all. She just didn’t und Imagine landing in a foreign country where you cannot speak the language, understand the culture and don’t know anybody. Wouldn’t it be nice to have a friend AMy friend Robert started a new job this week and he’s been in the training class for two days. The employer has a very strict dress code—dark blue shirts and You might say that Barack Obama was elected President of the US because he knows how to give a speech. In 2004, the little-known Obama gave a speech at the Demo An artist went to beautiful part of the country for a holiday, and stayed with a famer. Every day he went out with his paints and his brushes and painted from m Jenny，I often think if I am as important to you as you are to me.We had an unhappy time yesterday. I really felt sad after it and almost apologized (道歉) to A few years ago, I moved into a new house in Los Angeles. Soon after, a family moved in next door. It wasn’t the best of times for me. I had just divorced(离 “I don’t believe in Santa Claus!” Trogmire announced.Tremor looked shocked. “Why not?” he asked.“Because he never leaves me any gifts at all,” Trogmire grow A woman came out of her house and saw three old men sitting in her front yard. She said, "I don't think I know you, but you must be 36. Please come in and ha Here is a picture where we can see grass growing in stones strongly． This picture 36me of my father, a most determined man． He was born in a very 37black family The hotel was in a 31 street and seemed to agree with one who 32 a good sleep after a tiring trip. The woman manager 33 me to my room. When I asked her about d I was in a strange city I didn’t know at all, and what’s more, I could not speak a word of the language. On my second day I got on the first bus that passed, Once upon a time，two brothers who lived on neighboring farms fell into conflict(冲突)．It was the first serious one between them in 40 years of farming peacefull Most dog owners feel that their dogs are their best friends. Almost everyone likes dogs because they try hard to please their owners. One of my favorite storie A few months earlier I had been painting two portraits for each of my parents．I'd planned to give them the portraits as Christmas gifts．This would be a 36 for e It was an afternoon Truman would never forget．Rayburn and his friend were talking in the office before Truman arrived. The telephone rang. It was a call from t 阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。There was a boy who was walking home from school when he saw a large, tempting (attract Grandma Moses is among the most famous twentieth-century painters of the United States, yet she did not start painting until she was in her late seventies. As s 阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从1－15各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项。On Thursday afternoon Mrs Clarke locked the door and went to the women`s club as usua Once a man came to a wise man’s house and said, “ I have many bad habits. Which one of them should I 36first?” The wise man said, “Never tell lies 37always sp "Colour" and "color"，"favourite" and "favorite"... Have you ever wondered why Americans spell those words without a "u"? Is it because they are la Would you believe that the first outstanding deaf teacher in America was a Frenchman? His name was Laurent Clerc. He became a friend of Thomas Hopkins Gallaude Once a man came to a wise man’s house and said, “I have many bad habits. Which of them should I __46___first?” The wise man said, “Never tell lies __47___alw ABefore I started school, people felt that I was not going to be successful. At the age of four I started speech lessons because basically I could not speak we D Wilma was born on June 23, 1940 in St Bethlehem, Tennesse. By the time she was 6, Wilma Rudolph was given metal braces (支架) to aid her in walking. She sta We lived in a very quiet neighborhood. Earlier that evening my wife had asked me to go to the 1 to get some soft drinks. It seemed like this would be a good ti Two years after the First World War (1914-1918), a small group of soldiers left the army and returned to their hometown in France. Most of them lived well, but Carmen’s mother Maria had just survived a serious heart attack. But without a heart transplant her life was in constant 1.Both the mother and daughter knew th Today many people say that women have the same chance as men in society. But this was not always so. In the past, women all over the world had to fight to get My earliest bee experience took place at a summer camp. One day our teacher told us to head up the hill nearby. We all began to 31our destination. The girls t It was Monday. Mrs. Smith’s dog was hungry, but there was not any meat in the house. Considering that there was no better way, Mrs. Smith took a piece of pa Gary Locke, 61, who comes from a Chinese background and even looks Chinese, became the new US ambassador（大使）to China.“I can think of nobody who is more qualif

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Seventeen-year-old Rivertown teenager, John Janson, was honoured at the Lifesaver Awards last night for carrying out lifesaving first aid on his neighbour after On a warm Monday, Jenny Neilson bought a sandwich and parked her car under some trees. Rolling down the windows to 36 in fresh air, she settled back to enjoy he Life became hard when I was 14. My mother and I moved to New York to 36 my father, who’d moved there to find 37 work when I was three years old. He had a job Arthur Miller (1915—2005) is universally recognized as one of the greatest dramatists of the 20th century. Miller's father had moved to the USA from Austria Hu We were on tour a few summers ago, driving through Chicago, when right outside of the city, we got pulled over(被迫停车). A middle-aged policeman came up to the When I was 17，I read a quote that went something like：“If you live each day as if it were your last，someday you’ll most certainly be right” It made a deep 1 o "Everything happens for the best, "my mother said whenever I faced disappointment, "If you36on, something good will happen some day."Mother was right, as I “Fire! Fire!” What terrible words to hear when one wakes up in a strange house in the middle of the night! It was a large, old, wooden house and my room was on I was working on my usual Sunday afternoon shift at the bakery. The flow of 36rushed to finish weekend shopping in order to return home 37to prepare supper or w When I was a boy growing up in New Jersey in the 1960s, we had a milkman delivering milk to our doorstep. His name was Mr. Basille. He wore a white cap and dr I was doing some last-minute Christmas shopping in a toy store. A nicely dressed little girl was looking through the teddy bears beside her father 38she saw a l It was Christmas 1961. I was teaching in a small town in Ohio where my twenty seven third graders eagerly anticipated the great day of gift giving.Each day the One day，four lawyers were riding their horses along a country road. There had been a rain. Water was dripping (滴) from the trees，and the grass was wet. The Eighty-year-old retired tailor, James McKay, spent Saturday night in jail after 31 thirty-year-old Keith Smith over the head 32 his walking stick．McKay's wife, While we were riding the old German bus in Albania, a gypsy (吉普赛人) girl got on. She was about seven years old. Most gypsy children had a 36 look in their e Frank Woolworth was born in Rodman, New York, in 1852. His family were very poor farmers, and there was never enough to eat. Frank decided he did not want to b The Colors of FriendshipOnce upon a time the colors of the world started to quarrel. Green said, “Clearly I am the most important. I am the sign of life and ho When my grandfather died, my 83-year-old grandmother, once so full of life, slowly began to fade. No longer able to manage a home of her own, she moved in with We often see dogs always put their tongues(舌头)out in summer. But 1the dogs didn’t do so. Long long ago, the dog was very bad .He2did a good deed.One summe Mr. Knight was the manager of a hotel. One weekend all of the hotels in the city were full because there was a large meeting. On Friday, three men came into t Liu Xiang, athlete, born in 1983Liu Xiang made his name by winning the 110-meter hurdles gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. This was the first ti I was sitting at the counter having breakfast at a restaurant the other day．It' s a small place． A man walked in and sat next to me．On top of the milk-dispenser Robert Spring, a 19th century forger (伪造签字者), was as good at his profession that he was able to make his living for 15 years by selling false signatures of There was once a famous king whose name was Tamerlane. Like Alexander the Great, he _36__ to become the master of the whole world. So he raised a great _37__ a Billie Holiday was one of the greatest jazz(爵士音乐) singers in America. Her life was just a mixture of success and tragedy. Her singing expressed her experie A 12-year-old boy saw something in a shop window that set his heart racing. But the 1– five dollars was far beyond Reuben Earle’s money. Five dollars would 2a Son’s HelpMr. Lang worked in a factory. As a driver, he was busy but he was paid much. His wife was an able woman and did all the housework. When he came ba Some say every day miracles are predestined (注定的)---- All that’s necessary is readiness, the right circumstance for the appointed meeting. And it can happen “Experience may possibly be the best teacher, but it is not a particularly good teacher.” You might think that Winston Churchill or perhaps Mark Twain spoke th Several years ago I studied in a university in the biggest city in our country. It’s very beautiful, I could read lots of books there and I made lots of friend Mr. Lang worked in a factory. As a driver, he was busy. Sometimes, he brought some materials to the factory, and most of the time, he had to carry the goods t Mr. Harris used to work in Dover, but then he changed his work, and he and his wife moved to another town. They did not have many friends there at first, but t There are lots of funny stories in my childhood .The first one that 16 my mind is the story of my first camera. It happened 20 years ago . Just when I was rea 阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36～55各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。Once the King of India was ill and sent for his doctor. The doctor came, 36 Jonathan lived alone in a house，which he looked after carefully．One summer evening Jonathan returned home 1usual at 4：53．When he opened the front gate， he sudd Dr. Martinez put on a false smile (假笑) as she entered Janet Eslin’s hospital room. She couldn’t let Janet see that she was worried. Yet she had been searc In a land far away, once upon a time there was great poverty （贫困）,and only the rich could manage without great _36. Three of those rich men and their servants Mrs. White was a wealthy lady. She lived 36 in a large comfortable house where her children and grandchildren came to visit her frequently. However, she was37 Greg Woodburn, a student at the University of Southern California, spends a lot of time cleaning sneakers he collected. But soon the shoes will be sent to poor 完型填空（共20小题每小题1分，总分20分）从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。One sunny afternoon, a seven-year-old girl went for a walk. She crossed Mr Clarke works in a middle school. He likes reading and often 1some books from the library. He keeps 2to the radio every morning and reading 3after supper. S Victor’s hobby was collecting stamps. He had stamps from many countries, like England, Canada and China. On his birthday, can you guess what people gave him?A businessman lost his wallet. There was plenty of money in it. So he made a promise, "If someone finds my wallet and returns it to me, I'll give half the mo 通读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后在各题所给的A，B，C，D四个选项中，选出一个最佳答案。When I entered Berkeley, I hoped to earn a scholarship．Having been a Straight-A When Mr. David retired(退休), he bought a small house in a village near the sea. He liked it and hoped to live a quiet life in it. But to his surprise, many v Hilary Smith belonged to a good family．But by the age of twenty, he had spent all the money the good old family had．He then had some trouble with the bank and wa I walked into the grocery store not particularly interested in buying something. The sorrow of 1 my husband of 37 years was still too painful. And this grocery Charlie Chaplin was one of the greatest and widely loved silent movie stars. From “Easy Street” (1917) to “Modern Times” (1936), he made many of the funniest an Eleven-year-olds are to learn Shakespeare using the approaches taken by actors, and English teachers will be encouraged to let pupils walk around the classroom r Short and shy, Ben Saunders was the last kid in his class picked for any sports team. "Football, tennis,cricket — anything with a round ball, I was useless."One day my 5-year-old daughter, Mini, ran to the window crying: "A Cabuliwallah(喀布尔商贩)!A Cabuliwallah!" In the street below was Rahmun,a Cabuliwallah pass One morning in Philadelphia, the sun shone bright through all the thick jungles and the tall churches. John, 6, wearing the worn-out clothes, walked from afar, In January 1986 I saw a show about cartooning called “Funny Business” on TV. I had always wanted to be a __36__but never knew how. So I wrote to the host of th Every time I passed boys who were playing basketball, I stopped to silently watch them. I really envied them. But as a girl, I once thought that I could 16 pla We arrived in Spain for the _36_ time a few weeks ago and I decided to buy a car because we had sold _37_ we had in England before leaving. Yesterday the _38_ o A king in Africa had a close friend with whom he had grown up. The friend had a habit of looking at every bad situation that occurred in his life and 1, “This i During Christmas break from college, a young man wanted to borrow his father's car to drive to a New Year's Eve __16__ to be held in Vermont. The father was _Goldie's SecretShe turned up at the doorstep of my house in Cornwall. No way could I have sent her away. No way, not me anyway. Maybe someone had kicked her Lena Horne was born in Brooklyn，New York in 1917.Her mother was away for much of her36.So her grandmother helped raise her.At the age of sixteen，Lena37work Microsoft founder Bill Gates said that he planned to give away almost all of his fortune(财富)，largely to the cause of global health，during the course of his l Lao Yang was born in a small town. He liked reading when he studied at school. He thought the writers were respected and could get a lot of money. He wrote a One day an old woman was traveling alone in the mountains. Suddenly she saw something shining（发光） in the stream. When she came close, she found it was a prec If you have ever been discouraged(受挫) because of failure(失败), please read on. Usually, achieving(实现) what you set out to do is not the important thing. L One sunny afternoon, a seven-year-old girl went for a walk. She crossed a large area of grassland into the woods 21she realized that she was lost.Sitting on a I did very badly at school. My headmaster thought I was 36and when I was 14 he said, “You’re never going to be 37but a failure.” After five years of 38jobs, I Many years ago there lived a young couple in a small town. The husband was out of job for a long time and the wife 36 make a living by sewing for others. They Louis Pasteur, one of the world's great scientists, was born in 1822, and died in 1895.While still a young boy, Louis Pasteur made his decision to become a sci Around twenty years ago I was going through hard times. I could not find a satisfying job. To my shame, I had to drive a school bus to make ends meet and lived There was a man who played the piano in a small bar. There were not too many36 , but because he was a good piano player, some people37 came in every night just On June 21, 1982, Prince (王子) William, the future King of England, was born. Since then, he has won all the hearts of the public. When he was very small, he It was a quiet village in which there was a military camp (军营). It was far from the towns and cities and there were some high mountains around. Of course it After the Summer Olympics are over, when all the athletes have gone home and the television audience has switched off, another group of athletes and fans will ar A Strange Greeting, a True Feeling. Last week I was invited to a doctor’s meeting at the Ruth hospital for incurables. Inoneof the wards a patient, an old man One day Marilla said, “Anne, your new teacher, Miss Stacy, spoke to me yesterday. She says you must study for the examinations for Queen’s College in two years One day Jack broke his mother’s mirror. When she saw the broken___41___ she cried. “Jack, you are too careless and because of that, father is going to punish Everyone in the village knew who Ugly was. Ugly was a_1_with many injuries. His left foot appeared to have been badly broken .Ugly only loved two things in th Nick was not the kind of boy I had expected to spend my summer with. I was hoping to have a relaxation the summer before my busy senior year, __36__ my mother a Philip was a nine-year-old boy in a Sunday school class of 8-year-old girls and boys. Sometimes the third graders didn’t welcome Philip into their group and us Once in Japan there lived two frogs, one of whom made his home near the town of Osaka, while the other lived in Kyoto. 36 , they didn’t know each other. Botho One evening I went out and left my 17-year-old son in charge of his 8-year-old brother and 4-year-old sister. On this occasion, the task was made less troubleso Long long ago, there was a small village. This village had a 36tradition. At the beginning of every year, any boy who had reached the age of 18 was given land Sarah came running in. She shouted happily, "Look what I ____36_____." She put a snake skin on the newspaper I was reading and it came so suddenly that it ca Richard’s father died when he was five. Later on he 36his mother. The poor boy had to 37on his own, so he went to work for a rich farmer, who paid him nothing Long ago there was a poor farmer in Russia. He had been very__1__with everything he had. However，when he found his elder brother was_2__than him，he felt disa This is a true story. Tristin Saghin enjoyed the movie Black Hawk Down very much，which is about the conflict in Somalia.The battle scenes and the exciting res Benjamin Franklin was born on January 17,1706 in Boston，America. In his life he built a successful printing and publishing business in Philadelphia；he conduct Linda British was an outstanding teacher who felt that if she had the time, she would like to create great art and poetry. When she was 28, however, she began t As a boy growing up in India，I had longed to travel abroad. I used to listen to the stories my father would tell me about his stay in Canada and tours to Europ A Brooklyn man who was quarreling with his girlfriend yesterday threw a dog off the balcony（阳台） of her 23rd-story apartment in TriBeCa, killing it, the police When other nine-year–old kids were playing games , she was working at a petrol station．When other teens were studying or going out , she struggled to find a plac One day I was doing a big clean-up when I 36a knotted handkerchief with an old dark brown coin inside. I took one look and immediately 37 an unforgettable time.Mr. Patrick was new to the school and to us. Even though he was a great teacher, he seemed rather like a character out of a horror movie. He didn’t look that One fine afternoon I was walking along the Fifth Avenue, when I remembered that it was necessary to buy a pair of socks．I 36the first sock shop that caught my ey Ron Meyer is the president and COO（首席运营官） of Universal Studios．As one of the most successful business leaders in Hollywood, he heads up Universal Pictures a Once a young man was in deep love with a girl. This man folded 1,000 pieces of paper cranes (纸鹤) as a gift to his girl. Although he was a small branch manage My name is Chelsea Chowderhead. A chowder is a kind of soup. I was laughed at because of my last name as soon as I started school. So when my family moved to As a child, I was told that a wise person is the one who learns from everyone. It is a great way to live by this 1 ----One begins to look at people very 2and he I became a gardener when I was twelve. My early 36of gardening may not have originated from my love for nature. It was to 37my parents. At that time, we had a Mr. Lang worked in a factory. As a driver, he was busy but he was paid much. His wife was an able woman and did all the housework. When he came back, she too One night this summer, on my way home from work I decided to see a movie. I knew the theatre would be air conditioned and I couldn’t face my 36 apartment

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A Japanese toy maker declares that they have developed a gadget that translates dog barks into human language and plans to begin selling the gadget——under the na Can dogs and cats live in perfect harmony in the same home? People who are thinking about adopting a dog as a friend for their cat are worried that they will fi A couple of years ago, I went to a lady's house to buy some vitamins. Upon entering the house, I 16that there was an electronic keyboard on a stand, leaning 17 The young boy saw me, or rather, he saw the car and quickly ran up to me, eager to sell his Hunches (串) of bananas and bags of peanuts．Though he appeared to be The young boy and his father sat quietly watching the snow fall on a snowy Saturday afternoon.“Dad, my friend told me that every snowflake is 36 . But they loo It’s impossible to determine how many people would have lost their lives without the contribution of African-American inventor Dr Charles Drew. Charles Drew wa Several years ago, while attending a communication course, I experienced a most unusual process. The instructor asked us to list __16__ in our past that we felt “It was all his own idea, ” says Pat Peters, the 38-year-old wife of Palo Alto, California high school . Bob had just drawn up a “motherhood contract” ----- a d When I was young, I belonged to a club that did community service work. There was one specific__16_ that was unusual for me. I spent three or four hours handin After forty-three years I have forgotten the name of the old lady, who was a 16on the newspaper route in my hometown when I was a twelve-year-old boy. Yet it re My sisters and I have dreamt of a home in the city, but when the Alcott family found itself in a small house at the South End without a tree in sight, only a bac I don’t remember her name and would not recognize her if I were to pass her on the street. But I do__36__the kindness given by a stranger and the difference it One day at the day care centre（日间托儿所）I watched a mother try to pick up her daughter. The girl wanted to go to McDonald’s. The mother replied, “Susie, not Prison Break is a huge hit thanks to its handsome star, Wentworth Miller. His character, Michael Scofield, is the engine that drives the show. Having committed Charles R. Drew was a medical student at Columbia University in New York. Before he graduated, he wrote an article __36___ blood bank, that is, the storing of Early one morning, I witnessed romance at one the least-expected places in the world—a room in a rest home. At the time, my father 36 a room with three other ge Mary Buendia once spent a day in an airplane, looking for a cat. She didn't find it that day. The plane flew around all over the world for three weeks with th Mr. Cronin has a clock shop in the center of the town. He tries his best to36 it well. He often receives the customers(顾客) 37 and people like to buy 38 in h Michael Joseph Jackson was born on August 29,1958 in Gary, Indiana. Being the seventh child in his family, Michael was often physically abused (虐待) by his fat "Get out of the plane!" Justin shouted. Teddy and he dropped to the ground…When Kathy and Victor reached the edge of the meadow, flames of the fire were shoot Alfred Alder, a famous psychiatrist, had an interesting experience. When he was a small boy he got off to a poor start in arithmetic. His teacher got the idea Two men, both seriously ill, occupied the same hospital room. 36man was allowed to sit up in his bed for an hour each afternoon. His bed was next to the room'I was a publishing director and was looking forward to embracing a new day of work, as always，that morning．I would always turn to the crossword, but that day it A policeman was questioning 3 blondes who were training to become detectives． To test their skills in recognizing a suspect, he shows the first blonde a picture "When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all． It was, of course, a miserable childhood． The happy childhood is hardly worth your while． "Wo I woke up late and had breakfast in a hurry. I had never been late and didn’t want my boss to be unsatisfied.However, it seemed that the day wasn’t a lucky o I've spent most of my career as a traveling salesman, and so I know that 36is an occupational disease．But one year, my 37gave me the cure for my homesickness．It Sudha Chandran, a classical dancer from India, had to have her right leg cut after a car accident. She was also 46on her career road.Though the accident brough Napoleon stayed in a small inn (小旅馆). The next morning, he went to thank the innkeeper. “You have served me well,” said Napoleon. “I wish to reward you. T Last weekend, my kids along with a few other kids from the neighborhood volunteered to help me wash my car．My 10-year-old daughter came up with the idea of 1 oth Mo Yan, the winner of this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature, said he is not sure about whether he is happy after winning the prize. In an interview with China A very little boy was spending his Saturday morning playing in his sandbox. He had with him a plastic pail (桶) and a shiny, red plastic shovel (铲). In the1of For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A,B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the conte Streit was an experienced safecracker who never used force — either against people or safes. He was a real11of his trade and it took him only 19 minutes to open If I raised the question, “What would be the last thing you would expect to happen while watching your son’s flag football game?” you probably still couldn’t There was once a boy who was very rich and clever but nothing could make him feel happy. He had almost everything a boy could ever want, so he was only _36_ in A year ago, at the annual pre-Grammy party, Whitney Houston, the great star, walked on stage and closed the evening with a brilliant performance．Last Saturday, H When I was in medical college, I went camping with some of my friends. The season was summer; therefore, we chose to go to the seaside. After arriving there, Monty Roberts owns a horse ranch（牧马场） in San Ysidro. He told us his story. As a senior, he was asked to write a 36about what he wanted to be and do when he This is a part from US President Barack Obama’s speech on May 14 at Bamard College in New York. … My last piece of advice – this is simple, but perhaps most im Cheating happens a lot in our city. It can be hard to know who is really in 1and who is trying to take advantage of other people's 2.Recently, I was finishing My First JobJay Leno is a very famous TV host in NBC．He started his talk show titled The Jay Lena Show in September 2009．It was a very popular TV programm in Ame Lightning flashed through the darkness over Donald Lubeck’s bedroom skylight. The 80-year-old retired worker was shaken by a blast of thunder. It was 11 p.m.Cameron thought of himself as merely organized. He certainly did not consider that he took great pains over anything, he did just enough to get it right. Exact I became lame（瘸的）in both legs in my childhood. I can’t stand 36the support of two sticks. Only in my wheelchair can I “ 37”.I still remember the first day One dark stormy night an elderly couple hurried into a hotel and asked whether they could be 36for the night." I’m very sorry,” the clerk on night shift said An amazing teacherYears ago a John Hopkins professor gave a group of graduate students this task: Go to the slums（贫民窟）. Took 200 boys, between the ages of 12 Two years ago my grandmother was going to turn 75. My family discussed what the best way to celebrate was. Should we throw her a party? Should we take her on Years ago I had the opportunity to meet a girl who strengthened my understanding of the power of belief. She was __36___ the most powerful individual I had ever “Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge.” I saw this wonderful old saying again in a book recently. It got me thinking about all the times that I have been 31to f When I was twelve years old, my father took me to see Zig Zigler. I remember sitting in that dark hall listening to Mr. Zigler 41 everyone’s spirits up to the “Can I see my baby?” asked the happy new mother. The bundle (a collection of things wrapped or boxed together) was placed in her arms and when she moved the fo Greg Woodburn, a student at the University of Southern California, spends a lot of time cleaning sneakers he collected．But soon the shoes will be sent to poor ch In early 2007 I had bought tickets to a Christian concert for myself and two other family members, but later I decided to 36my 4-year-old son along.I couldn't Zoe Chambers was a successful PR(Public Relations) consultant and life was going well — she had a great job, beautiful flat and a busy social life in London. Th A little boy had the job of coming to school early each day to start the fire and warm the room before his teacher and his classmates arrived. One 1they arrived Tom was a poor boy. He made a living by cleaning leather shoes for others in the street. Tom was also a clever boy. One day, a very rich man with the name Mis My name is Amanda LaMunyon. I have Asperger’s syndrome, a form of autism (自闭症). I don’t see myself as a person with a disability. I share who I am when I When I began planning to move to Auckland to study, my mother was worried about a lack of jobs and cultural differences. Ignoring these 1I got there in July 201 Dear Sir/Madam, I am writing to 36about the fat body of a(n) 37I found in my ‘Vegetable Surprise’ last Thursday. It was 38a surprise to me! A bad one, though.Tom was a middle-aged leather trader (皮货商) whose repeated failure in career made him a depressed man, often __21_ that he had been cheated by others. One day I was shopping at my local supermarket, as I normally have for years. One particular day, I had done about 2 weeks worth of shopping and 31 toward the register Mr. Harris used to work in Dover, but then he changed his work, and he and his wife moved to another town. They did not have many friends there, but they soon I was working as a consultant in a beer company, helping the president and senior vice-presidents form and carry out their new planning projects. It was really A man was driving at 70 miles in a 40-mile zone, when a 36came behind him. Right away the man started thinking of 37to give. As the policeman came to him, he s Saturday, June 16thIn the morning, we went camping along a path in Green Natural Park. We were happy because it was a sunny day. We were expecting an enjoyable It was a cloudy Saturday afternoon. A group of birds were having a great time 36food and playing on the main road. All of a sudden, a big truck sped through… A An expensive car speeding down the main street of a small town was soon caught up with by a young motorcycle policeman. As he started to make out the ticket, th Birthdays often involve surprises. But this year's surprise on the birthday of the great British playwright William Shakespeare is surely one of the most drama When I was young, my father used to grow carnations — a kind of flower that was red, pink or white. He took care of them with much love and devotion. Every day One of Mark Twain’s classic novels is The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. It is 36in a small American town in the 19th century. The people in this town are very tra Christmas rosesIt was the afternoon of December 24, the day before Christmas, and as the newest doctor in our office, I 36 to wok. The only thing that brightene When middle-aged Alex quit his job and made up his mind to become a self-employed writer， no one could tell for sure whether he would succeed or not. He found When my twin sons, Chad and Brad, were born, I was concerned about everything. Five years later, our little girl, Becky 1 our family. I wanted everybody to be When I was twelve years old. I went with my dad to his work—a car showroom. I was 21around carelessly and saw a poor woman with a child beside her 22outside th An old farmer lived on a farm with his young grandson. Each morning Grandpa was up early to read his Bhagavat Geeta. His grandson wanted to be just like him an 12-year-old John Thomas Robertson is a born train fan. "I’ve liked trains probably from the day I was born," he told Good Morning America. "When I was very Jean is a bright young lady who comes from a rich and famous family. She goes to a good university and has everything that money can buy. Well, almost everythi I first met Annie Mae, a maid (女仆), at my parents-in-laws’ in 1959. She prepared and36meals in her quiet, gentle way and then returned to the kitchen to read Mark was walking home from school one day when he noticed that the boy ahead of him had tripped and dropped all the books he was carrying, along with two sweater “ Just sign here, sir,” the deliveryman said as he handed Oscar Reyna a packet.The package consisted of a long, narrow box 36wrapped in brown paper. 37the box,Mr. Glen is a millionaire. Five years ago, after returning from abroad to his motherland, he ___36___his small company. Speaking of success, Glen often tells A well-dressed man entered a famous jewelry shop. He explained that he wished to buy a pearl for his wife’ s birthday. The price didn’t matter, since busines Arthur Miller (1915—2005) is universally recognized as one of the greatest dramatists of the 20th century. Miller's father had moved to the USA from Austria-Hu French novelist Jules Verne (1828—1905) is often called the father of science fiction. Although he was not a great traveler himself, his characters travelled to When Dave was eighteen, he bought a secondhand car for ＄200 so that he could travel to and from work more__36__ than by bus. It worked quite well for a few year When Mr. David retired（退休）,he bought a small house in a village near the sea. He liked it and hoped to live a quiet life in it.But to his great surprise, ma While Nick was on the bus, reading his newspaper, the man sitting next to him suddenly pushed a large envelope into his hands. “Here, take this!” the man said, My brother，Mark，died in a traffic accident four years ago. He was my big brother and 36looked after me. I am 37today for all of the special times we had as r The story goes that some time ago, a man punished his 3-year-old daughter for wasting a roll of gold wrapping paper．Money was tight and he became infuriated（愤怒 One very cold and rainy night in the winter of 2012, my husband and I were in a fast food restaurant. We were about to begin our meal 36a man walked in. He was A butcher watching over his shop was really surprised when he saw a dog coming inside the shop. He went over to the dog and noticed it had a note in its mouth.A young man once went to town and bought himself a pair of trousers. When he got home, he went to his room and put them on. He found that they were about two i Smith was a landlord（地主）. He loved money very much and never gave anything to anybody. Soon he became rich. One day the weather was fine. There wasn't a c Steven Jobs, the designer of Apple Computer, was not clever when he was in school. At that time, he was not a good student and he always made troubles with his Once there was an island where all the feelings lived: Happiness, Sadness, Knowledge, and all of the others, including Love. One day it was said that the island All police officers should be made to take a fitness test every year，with a pay cut for those who repeatedly fail，a review said. In the Metropolitan Police，m Long ago there was a poor farmer in Russia. He had been very 1 with everything he had. However, when he found his elder brother was 2 than him, he felt disappo Animal moms are great moms. You might be surprised at some of these moms.Octopuses (章鱼) The mother octopus lays about 50,000 eggs. For about 300 days, she s Little Robby, our neighbour’s nephew, carefully drew some water into a bowl and started for the door. How I hated this water rationing (定量供应). We were for