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During the next several weeks I went completely to the wolves. I took a tiny tent and set it up on the shore of bay. The big telescope was set up in the mouth I have always wanted to share this story because it is one of the things that I will remember for my entire life. And I’m sure person feels the same.We had a When I was young, I went looking for gold in California. I never found enough to make a rich strike. But I did discover a beautiful part of the country called Cheerful Charlie was a very special boy. When he was still in his mother’s tummy, she had an accident, which meant that Charlie couldn’t walk. But that had nMark had been scolded before for touching his father’s equipment. But his curiosity was difficult to control and this new computer really puzzled him.It was aThe “Doorman”On a trip to California, my family stopped for lunch. As we walked toward the entrance to the restaurant, a man, with a beard and dirty hair, jumpeLast year, around Labor Day, I read a “Happy Ad” in our local newspaper. There was a lady in a local nursing home, who was celebrating her 90th birthday and her阅读下面短文,从短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。A lady and her husband stepped off the train in Bos“Well, we’re in our new house. Let’s get a new pet to go along with it,” Mrs. Brown said to her husband.“That sounds like a very good idea,” he answered. “A little girl lived in a simple and poor house on a hill. Usually she _____ play in the small garden. She could see over the garden fence and across the valleyIt was a cold, wet day on June 6th, 2007, when 14-year-old Wasana arrived at school. Waiting outside his classroom for his classmates to ,Wasana stared at the ,阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C、D)中,选出最佳选项,并在答题纸上将选项标号涂黑。On the night of my birthday, I went to the nearest drOne Sunday morning, when I was driving along a road, I saw something I couldn’t believe. A little girl, who was less than two years old, was pushing her strollNot long ago, a rock band called the Backstreet Boys made a big splash on the music scene. Young people everywhere loved their songs. One of the band’s bigges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,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 A daughter to her father about her life and how things were soJohn von Neumann was the oldest of 3 children of an banker, and his speed of learning new ideas and solving problems stood out early. At 17, his father tired toI'd been travelling for long hours on a lonely country road when I had a flat tire. So I had to stop and get the tools to the problem. It certainly wasn’t doAs the plane circled over the airport, everyone guessed that something was wrong. The plane was moving unsteadily (不稳定地) through the , and the passengers weIt was one of the hottest days of the dry season. We had not seen rain in almost a month. Every day, my husband would the process of trying to get water to theToday I’m known for my voice. No one believes that I used to stuttered (口吃) badly when I was young. It is Professor Crouch’s trick that my life completely.Many a young person tells me he wants to be a writer. I always encourage such people,but I also explain that there's a big difference between “being a writer”Looking out of the window, my son saw a tree whose branches were strongly swaying back and forth. “How does the tree move its branches like that?” He asked.WiI decided to go back to school in the fall of 2008 after not being happy with my current job and financial status. I obtained my Associate’s Degree in May 2002Regarded as one of the English language’s most gifted poets, John Keats wrote poetry that concentrated on imagery, human nature, and philosophy. Although KeatsOn my first visit to India with my husband, we met a really nice woman named Uma on the plane. Talking with her made the long flightmuch faster. When we arriveNursing at Beth Israel Hospital produces the best patient care. If we are to solve the nursing shortage. hospital administration and doctors everywhere would dEvery year, I tell my sons what I'd like for Mother's Day: a letter. Something written from the heart and offered freely rather than bought from a store and wIt was in my high school science class. I was doing a task in front of the classroom with my favorite shirt on.Acame, “Nice shirt,” I smiled from ear to ear. Something roared like thunder. The earth shook a little and we heard the rat-a-tat-tat of gunfire. "Father!" Hassan cried. We sprung to our feet and raced oOn Sundays my father always wore that gray apron(围裙)—the one with the race cars all over it. The ritual (老规矩) began. breakfast when Dad always announced, I remembered that when I was a little child, I used to look for Sunday of the week. Yes, I was so looking forward to an adventure.Now, I still have a strong afNot too long ago, our teacher, being a “tree-hugger” (as the kids call her), had us write an essay on an environmental issue . I was eager to start, but somethiIt was late in the afternoon. Several hundred villagers left their houses and gathered in the open air outside the village. They were staring __ __ at the moun Richard Wagner was a German musician has been a very controversial(有争议的) person, but he has gained great fame by writing opera, a form of performance combinA man was driving at 70 miles in a 40-mile zone, when a came behind him. Right away the man started thinking of to give.As the policeman came to him, he said, As a young social worker in a New York City psychiatric clinic, I was asked to see Roz, a 20-year-old woman who had been referred to us from another psychiatric 阅读下面短文,从短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C、D)中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。Once there was a poor little girl living near a forest. She had no family That year, in the local school, there was a new math teacher, as well as some new pupils. One of the new kids was the stupidest child that anyone had ever seen.A tall figure appeared from the dark door of the tent. It was a smoking young man about twenty three or four. He had an almost black face, though smooth. His It has taken 90 years since she was born in a poor house in County Limerick for a woman considered America’s oldest illegal immigrant to get her Irish passport.Twenty years ago, I drove a taxi for a living. One time I arrived in the middle of the night for a pickup at a building that was except for a single light in a I received a call today asking if I would be willing to bring food to a family in need. The mother was having a major operation and would be lying down for seveWhen a rather dirty, poorly dressed person kneels at your feet and puts out his hands to beg a few coins, do you hurry on, not what to do, or do you feel sad andI just finished the household chores for the night and was preparing to go to bed, when I heard a noise in the front of the house. I opened the door to the fronCarly Zalenski’s eyes were filled with tears as the dusty bus ran down a dirt road in southern Vietnam. She and her parents had travelled to Ho Chi Minh City bNearly a quarter-century after a German boy threw a message in a bottle off a ship in the Baltic Sea, he’s received an answer. A 13-year-old Russian, Daniil KoI spend a lot of time backpacking and hiking the outdoors and there are two pieces of equipment that are with me on each trip: an Adventure Medical Kits WeekendeInstead of a normal court hearing, the trial on Wednesday appeared more like a prepared drama. Hundreds of reporters waited outside the court, in the hope of le请认真阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。On a Friday, a poor young artist stood at the gate of the subwaComputer programmer David Jones earned£35,000 ayear designing new computer games, yet he cannot find a bank prepared to let him have a check card, he has been toI suddenly heard an elephant crying as though frightened. Looking down,I immediately recognized that something was wrong,and ran down to the edge of the near One day I visited an art museum while waiting for my husband to finish a business meeting. I was expecting a quietof the splendid artwork.A youngviewing the paTo celebrate the end of our exams, my friends and I went to a fast food restaurant. We ______ hamburgers and Coca Colar at the counter. When our ____ came, I sOn a stormy day last August, Tim heard some shouting. Looking out to the sea carefully, he saw a couple of kids in a rowboat w ere being pulled out to sea.Two Tracy Wong is a well-known Chinese-American writer. But her writing ____ was something she picked up by herself. After her first____, teaching disabled childreWhen I was 8, a gentleman came to my orphanage(孤儿院)and taught us how to do woodworking projects. I remember my first project—a small table. I was so of it t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,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。Years ago, I worked at the Ringling Brothers Barnum &aThis parable(寓言)is told of a farmer who owned an old mule(骡子). The mule fell into the farmer’s well. The farmer heard the mule praying for whatever mules On a freezing-cold February morning in Indiana, Jhaqueil Reagan,18, left home to walk to a job interview—ten miles away, over snow-covered roads.Reagan had beenIn a small village, there lived a potter(陶工) who had a donkey. Every day his donkey would carry soil from the ______ to his house. Since the field was quite Once upon a time, there was a lovely vegetable field, on which grew a very thick tree. Both the vegetables and the tree gave the place a wonderful appearance, wA strange thing happened to me last Sunday.It was such a beautiful day that I drove to go for a look in the country.On the way back, my car stopped.It was gas oMrs. Janes gave music lessons at a school.She had a good voice and enjoyed singing, except that some of her high tones sound like a gate that had forgotten to oBill White’s father is a lawyer. In his time, he likes to get out in the country and take some of animals. For a long time, Bill had wanted to go with his fat Lifeguard, sportscaster, movie star, governor, president——there wasn’t much Ronald Reagan didn’t do in life. “The world was a vast opportunity for him,” Lou It happened towards evening, when I was resting in a cafe. I a pair of newly bought white leather shoes, which were rather expensive. Thencame to me.He was inOne day, when I was in college, a dishonest-looking character approached me in the student union with a leather jacket he wanted to sell. It was a beauty: butteI was 14 when Mr. Ingram hired me as a farmhand. It was the first time I was actually for work. One day Mr. Ingram found an old truck that was in the soft,saLike any good mother,when Karen found out that another baby was on the way,she did what she could to help her 3-year-old son,Michael,prepare for a new baby.Day It was 20 years ago. I was driving home with my 4-year-old son. Traffic was light. I was singing quietly along the song playing on the radio. Iat the interseMy grandson, Daniel, and I have always been very close. When Daniel’s father remarried after a divorce, Daniel, who was eleven, and his little sister, Kristie,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,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。Bai Bingju was dressed up in front of a small mirror to prepareAlice’s mother died when she was five. Although her brothers and sisters were loving and caring, their love couldn’t take the place of a mother’s. In 1925 AThe following story took place long ago in Israel.One day when government officials were rebuilding barn(粮仓),they found a mouse hole in a corner and used to fRecently,I flew to Las Vegas to attend a meeting. As we were about to arrive,the pilot announced with apology that there would be a slight before setting downWhen the Farnsworth family moved to their new farm in 1919, eleven-year-old Philo was surprised to find it wired for electricity. This unusual circumstance contMy parents have certainly had their troubles, and as their child I’ll never know how they made it to 38 years of marriage. They loved each other, but they didnOne evening, long after most people had gone to bed, a friend of mine and I happily home through the street. We had been to a music-hall and about the people weOnce upon a time, there were two very good friends who lived together in the shade of a rock. Strange as it may seem, one was aand one was a tiger. They had mePeople think that writing short stories is easy because they are short. But in fact they are hard to write well. There are only a few writers of good short stoThe two teachers were sitting in the teacher’s room. For a moment there was . Then one of them, Miss Smith said “I’m afraid I’d have to him.” “Now, Alice,”One day a lawyer’s wife fell ill, and he went to get a doctor. The doctor willingly came to see the woman and to do what he could for her, but before he went ifriends come to visit us in the evening, they spend their time telling us they are in a hurry and looking at their watches. It isn’t that our friends are all vOne of my wonderful memories is about a Christmas gift. Unlike other gifts ,it came without wrap(包装). On September 11, 1958, mum gave birth to Richard. Afte阅读下面短文,从短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。A wealthy man and his son loved to collect rare worWhen Regina Mary' parents refused to let her get a horse ,the smart 15-year-olddidn’t sit in her room and complain. Instead she turned to a cow called Luna toJoseph Rudyard Kipling, who enjoyed early success with his poems, was born on 30 December 1865 in Bombay, India. Some of Kipling’s earliest and fondest memorieMichel is a young girl who works for the policea handwriting expert (专家). She has helped many criminals (罪犯) by using her special talents (天才).When she wEveryone wants some degree of success. Many people believe that they deserve success simply because they believe that they deserve success.But there is a widesA lesson of life " Everything happens for the best, " my mother said whenever I faced disappointment. "If you can carry on, one day somethingwill happen. An As a high school athletics coach, I gave a speech about football to students and parents, aiming at getting new team members :I talked about how"everyone can bMy nephew's 10-year-old son came for a visit one hot,July weekend. I persuaded him to inside and joined him in a game. After for an hour, I suggested that weShe may have lacked a home, but now this teen has top honors. A 17-year old student who spent much of high school living around homeless shelters and sometimes Back in the 15th century, in a tiny village in Germany, lived a family with eighteen children. Eighteen! In order to keep food on file table, the father, a golLike most people, I was brought up to look upon life as a process of getting. It was not until in my late thirties that I made this important: giving-away makesMy favorite English teacher could draw humor out of the driest material. It wasn’t forced on us either. He took Samuel Johnson’s dictionary, Addison’s essayAnna lived on the side of a valley.One summer, there was a very big , and a lot of houses down below Anna's were washed away.Anna's house was enough to escape thA mouse looked through a crack in the wall to see the farmer and his wife opening a package: What food might it contain? He was astonished to discover that it wBy the age of almost four, Elijah Edney has never had a haircut in his life. But now he can ' t wait to visit the barber's - for two reasons: losing his two -There was a boy who was sent by his parents to a boarding school (寄宿学校). ____ being sent away, this boy was the ____ student in his class. He was at the to
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When I walked into the house after school, the first thing I noticed was a box with items I recognized from my dad’s office.“What are you doing at home?” I asThere was a Greek shopkeeper in a small corner shop in London. She taught me about theof an act of kindness, which has motivated me to give. On the day I went Earning a black belt in martial arts and being issued a pilot’s license are both impressive accomplishments that take year of effort to achieve, but 30-year-oldDebbie Macomber decided to pursue her dream of becoming a writer. She rented a typewriter, put it on the ____ table and began typing each morning after the kidsSam Walton, the founder of Wal-Mart, was born in Kingfish, Oklahoma on March 29, 1918. He was raised in Missouri where he worked in his father’s store while atLinda Evans was my best friend –like the sister I never had ,We did everything together: piano lessons ,movies, swimming , horseback riding.When I was 13, my faAudrey Hepburn(奥黛丽·赫本)won an Academy Award as Best Actress for her first major American movie, Roman Holiday, which was released in 1953,But she is [1]Although known as an extraordinarily successful businessman, Warren Buffet comes off as a pretty ordinary person.[2]Looking back on his childhood, one can seWHEN John Gurdon was 15, he ranked last out of the 250 boys in his grade at biology. He also came in last for every other science subject. His teacher wrote inWhen two Bangs meet SHELDON Cooper is a scientific genius on the popular American TV show, The Big Bang Theory (《生活大爆炸》). He finally met his match last yeaI grew up in a small town and the main entertainment was Friday night high school football. It was just a sleepy little town where parents wanted to raise theirTwo traveling angels stopped to spend the night in the home of a wealthy family. The family was rude and refused to let the angels stay in the guest room. InstThe sun was just coming up when I headed out to work last May at 6 a.m. Not quite dark but dark enough to need my headlights. I turned onto one of the lonely I’m an operating engineer, running crane(起重机) in New York City. I was in the countryside, playing golf when we got the call that a plane had the World TradeThe worker I hired to repair my house had just finished a difficult first day on the job. A broken wheel made him an hour late; his ladder (梯子) fell down wheIt was my first year teaching in a special class, and I wasn’t sure what to expect at our yearly Special Olympics sports meeting. My had some challenges, from Harry Houdini was one of the greatest American entertainers in the theater this century. He was a man famous for his escapes from prison cells, from wooden boxeJasmine Harman,a famous TV presenter, was sunny and active. Nothing seemed to her down. But nearly a decade on, Jasmine spent the first years of her TV life a"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. "Four years ago my sweet mom went to be with God. She did it her way. I got the call at work, and I headed home quickly. Mom and Dad lived on a small farm thatWhen it is Tom’s turn for a cut, Mr. Smith places a wooden board covered with a piece of red leather across the arms of the chair, so that the barber doesn’t Many years ago in a small German town, a Jewish businessman had the misfortune of owing a large sum of money to the moneylender. The moneylender, who was old anMondays are usually pretty busy for me. On one of these Mondays, I got ready to go to work thinking about all the things I had to on that day and walked down toFormer National Football League player and children’s author Tim Green has added another book to his list of accomplishments: Unstoppable. The book tells the sAn Invisible SmileMr. Dawson was an old grouch, and everyone in town knew it. Kids knew not to go into his yard to pick a delicious apple. Old Dawson, they saI never got along with Dad. But when he was dying. I set off for Nebraska to be with him and my family. I stopped for the night at a hotel with a pool, hopingWilliam Butler Yeats, a most famous Irish writer, was born in Dublin on June 13, 1865. His childhood lacked the harmony(和睦)that was typical of a happy family.When I was in seventh grade, I volunteered at a local hospital during the summer. I spent most of the time there with Mr. Gillespie. He never had any , and noTwenty years ago, I drove a taxi for a living. One night I went to pick up a passenger at 2:30 am. When I arrived to collect, I found the building was dark excIt was a winter afternoon. Some friends and I were eating at a restaurant and talking. We talked and talked and soon became the topic. Suddenly I hit upon an The centenary(百年)of the birth of William Faulkner, one of the great modern novelists, was celebrated in September 1997. Faulkner wrote about the southern statOnce there was a man who liked to eat mangoes(芒果). One day he decided to get the sweetest mango from the very top of the tree. Mangoes which are exposed to tHenry Edwards Huntington was born in 1850 in Oneonta, New York. In 1872 he went to work for his uncle, one of the owners of the Central Pacific Railroad. Twent“It is never too late and you are never too old to start something new!” says Englishtown Ellen Rema. Ellen began to learn English at the age of 50, and in justFamily traditions were important in our house, and none was more appreciated than the perfect Christmas tree.“Dad, can we watch when you trim(修剪) the tree?” As our exams were over, my friends and I went to a fast food restaurant. We hamburgers and Coca Colar at the counter. When our came, I started walking towards One sunny day last September, Tim heard some shouting. Looking out to the sea carefully, he saw a couple of kids in a rowboat were being pulled out to sea. TwoThere is a small shop about 200 meters from where I live that sells meat and other basic necessities. About 10 years ago, there was a beggar who would go into tWhen 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 an imFamily traditions were important in our house, and none was more appreciated than the perfect Christmas tree."Dad, can we watch when you trim(修剪) the tree?"Mr. Glen is a millionaire. Years ago, after returning from abroad to his motherland, he his company. Speaking of success, Glen often tells us a story about hiYou have to log on to your school's online system to check your grades, but you find the system is kind of inconvenient.What do you do?When Daniel Brooks was aFifteen years spent in the field of education has provided me with many treasured moments. One of the most unforgettable when I was teaching second , 10 years aA programmer and an engineer are sitting next to each other on a long flight from Los Angeles to New York.The programmer leans over to the engineer and asks if hThe HealingJim and his wife, Connie, were shocked by the loss of their four-month-old son—Joshua, whose life was taken by SIDS—sudden infant death syndrome.ThirI lost my sight when I was four by falling off a box car in a freight(货物)yard in Atlantic City. Now I am thirty two. I can slightly remember what color red iSomething roared like thunder. The earth shook a little and we heard the rat-a-tat-tat of gunfire. ‘‘Father!” Hassan cried. We sprung to our feet and raced My dream is to become an orthodontist, fly to new heights, and impact the world. Ever since the day I got braces(牙箍), I have thought about howit would be for Mr. Peter Johnson, aged twenty-three, battled for half an hour to escape from his trapped car yesterday when it landed upside down in three feet of water. He tOur bedroom has no full-length mirror. There is one at the canteen entrance. I always cherish a secret desire to take a glance before it at myself in a beautifMy husband and I had just opened up a pet sitting business earlier that year. Our customers had slowly risen from three to thirty a month. We were busy throughMy mother has been a true inspiration to me and changed the way I look at life. Since my birth she has made it evident that I would become ______ and that I wouWe have so many first days in our lives. First days are milestones(里程碑) in our lives. Theythe beginning of a new experience or journey and they are also filThe grandfather of Nell Trent owns a shop of odds and ends. He wants to make sure his grandfather is provided for when he dies. His memory of his daughter’s s On a Friday night ,a poor young violinist was playing his violin at the entrance of the subway station .The music was so great that people down to listen and pHalf a year before graduation from college, my son began to seek a job.the financial crisis, fewer companies would like to new staff. My son targeted a companyEach time I see a balloon, my mind flies back to a memory of when I was a six-year-old girl. It was a rainy Sunday and my father had recently died. I asked my When I was 12, a story happening to me told me what true forgiveness meant. One Saturday afternoon I was playing, throwing little stones, with several boys of mOn a Friday night, a poor young artist stood at the gate of a New York subway station, playing his violin. Many of passers-by slowed down their paces and put so阅读下面短文,从短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。I have a friend who had a stammer (口吃) in his chiFannie Cratty wasn’t really my aunt. I only referred to her as “My Aunt Fannie” because the name always made my father laugh and gave my mother cause to look aWhen Marilynne Robinson published her first novel, Housekeeping, in 1980, she was unknown in the literary world. But an early review in The New York Times ensurI was doing a big clean-up and my kids were helping. One of my sons came across a handkerchief of mine with a coin inside. I took one look and was immediatelytIn side their one-storey, metal-roofed house on Vancouver Island’s west coast,Janet Schwartz and her domesticated(驯养的) deer, Bimbo,are returning to their nHow often do you let other people’s nonsense change your mood? Do you let a bad driver, impolite waiter,rude boss,or an insensitive employee your day? One dWhen I was seven, my parents gave me a doll, a doll’s house and a book. The Arabian Nights, came wrapped in red paper. I was just ready to read when my motherThere was a king who loved art very much. One day a(n) came and said, "Please let me a picture on a wall." The king happened to have a big new hall . So he I learned how our attitudes made a big difference in our everyday lives from my friend Mary.She doesn’t have any pets. I happened to see her outside on a -30 When two Bangs meet Sheldon Cooper is a scientific genius on the popular American TV show, The Big Bang Theory (《生活大爆炸》). He finally met his match last yeaSomeone telephoned me today asking if I would be willing to bring food to a family in need. The mother was having a major operation and would be lying down for At the age of five, Shizuka Arakawa started to take skating lessons. Her motivation was :wearing pretty outfits! Very quickly, shea passion for skating, and she“How did Norman know, Sister Emma?”“He overheard you and Aryan arguing. I suspect that he purposely overheard on you. Norman knew or concluded what profession阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出最佳选项。Mrs. White lost her dog. After searching place after place, she placed a “Lost DoAn atheist was taking a walk through the woods, admiring all that the “accident of evolution” had created.“What majestic trees! What powerful rivers! What beautMaricel Apatan,22,stands in the kitchen of the Edsa Shangri—La Hotel in Manila,preparing to decorate a cheesecake. It would seem to be a(n)____ task for a paA man died and was on his way to another world,either the Heaven or the hell. He saw an extremely magnificent palace half way and the of the palace asked him Farmer John and Farmer Bob were neighbors. For more than 30 years, they had been getting along very well.Then their good relationship broke. It began with a BIG things were happening in my life the summer after I turned 13. In the middle of that summer, my parents my entire world when they told me they were getting My husband has been ill in hospital for two months and I have learned to make do with very little (凑合过日子).One Sunday afternoon, I went to buy a for my daugHow often do you let other people’s nonsense change your mood? Do you let a bad driver, impolite waiter,rude boss, or an insensitive employee your day?SixteeThe artist Grandma Moses became famous for her simple, bright, cheerful paintings of American farm life.Her full name was Anna Mary Robertson Moses.But she was kI still remember my first day in the U.S. very clearly. My friend was waiting for me when my plane landed at Kennedy Airport at three o’clock in the afternooEver so long ago ,two young men , Edmund and Oswald, appeared in court.Edmund said to the: “I gave Oswald , who Iwas my best friend, a costly gold ring and I asI decided to have dinner in the hotel, for I arrived late one night on a business trip. As I was finishing my meal, an elderly couple came in to dine. They werIt was terribly cold and nearly dark on the last evening of the old year, and the snow was falling fast. In the cold and the darkness, a poor little girl, with My husband and I arrived in a new country just a month ago. We were a bit _ __about what was waiting for us. However, when we _ ___at the airport, a tall man wThere was once a professor of medicine, who was very strict with the students. Whenever he took the chair on the exam committee, the students would be in fear, One spring, when I was 10, during one of my father’s layoffs, I could tell my mother was unhappy. I decided to cheer her up by buying her a special Mother’s DMy daughter Alisa was born blind in her right eye and was bullied (欺侮) pretty severely in school. So I quitted my job as a babysitter and then schooled my dauWhen he was just 19, Michael Dell started the company that would dominate the industry.At the time, IBM personal computers sold in stores for about $3,000. AftA man hired a taxi outside the airfield. The cab had a woolen carpet with 26lace edges. On the glass partition that 27the driver's seat was a copy of a famousOne day I visited an art museum while waiting for my husband to finish a business meeting . I was expecting a quiet 21 of the splendid artwork.A young 22 viewiLinda Evans was my best friend-like the sister I never had, We did everything together:piano lessons, movies, swimming , horseback riding.When I was 13, my famiWhenever we hear about “the homeless”, most of us think of the Developing world. But the 31is that homelessness is everywhere. For example, how many of us woulEvery night,I watched for Miss Ellen's lights to go off. She lives next door and we are best friends,____I'm young and she's old. We both like dogs,cats Chuck,unlike other frogs,didn't like catching flies himself. But he did love eating them.Some frogs thought Chuck was lazy. Some believed he must think he Imagine someone has crossed the seas joining five continents by swimming. It is a major success for anyone. But it is an even greater success for Philippe CroiHenry's job was to examine people who crossed the frontier (边境) to make sure that they were not smuggling (走私) anything into the country. Every evening excOn a Friday night, a poor young artist stood at the gate of the subway station, playing his violin. Many people put some money into the of the young man.The ne
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Proudly reading my words, I glanced around the room, only to find my classmates with big smiles on their faces and tears in their eyes. Confused, I glanced towaThe telephone rang in the police station at Richmond, California, US. “station? A train for Santa Fe collided (相撞) aat the McDonald Street Crossing. Please With the average home in the capital selling for 19,548 yuan a meter in November, a tiny mobile home built by a 24-year-old office worker is creating a stir(震动In the past two years, his wife, Merlie, and their seven children have said “goodbye” to him four times, most recently last month. Each time it has been unnecesAlthough the Garden God had made him the most beautiful place that there could ever be, Adam was lonely. Adam needed some. So God reached into the ground againI was riding my special motorbike this past weekend and stopped at a store. As I was getting my wheelchair off the back, a man watched me from his car and I notA strong wind was blowing hard, thunder could be heard, and lightning flashedthe dark sky. Rain was pouring down;it lookedheaven had been broken open. Gleams I arrived late one night on a business trip, so I decided to have dinner in the hotel I stayed in. As I was finishing my meal, an elderly couple came in. They The day that I met my best friend for the first time, I was full of anxiety. I was trying to do some ______ for an important oral exam in the local library, butThere was great excitement on the planet of Venus (金星) . Venusian scientists managed to land a satellite on the planet Earth, and it has been sending back sigA few days ago, I bought some ink for my printer at my favorite $1 Supermarket, which sold everything from fresh produce to birthday cards at one dollar. Then lGrowing up, I knew I was different. My father had left and he never came back. As I later discovered, the abandonment triggered my anxiety attacks. I feared bOne 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 meala man walked in. He was coOnce a great boxer (拳击家), Tom Brown, went to a restaurant(饭馆)for dinner. He put his bag near the door, but he was afraid that someone would take it. So heMichel is a young girl who works for the police ____ a handwriting expert. She has helped ____ many criminals (罪犯) by using her special talents. When she wasThe week after Jane's birthday, Barbara and Mary were away. Jane decided to have a late birthday party. She telephoned several friends. She asked some to briA Leap (跳跃) to HonorLeaping on a narrow balance beam (平衡木) is not easy. But Lola Walter, a 13-year-old gymnast, is an expert at it. To perfect her skills,The morning had been a disaster. My tooth was aching, and I’d been in an argument with a friend. Her words still hurt:“The trouble with you is that you won’tBefore our marriage, my wife and I had had dogs separately. Her dog was named Zack, and mine Sam.After we got married, the dogs lived with us. The first day wTo make new friends, the first thing you need to do is to meet up with new people, this should be quite , as your neighborhood should have a club, school or some At 21,Ricardo Semler became boss of his father's business in Brazil,Semco,which sold parts for ships. Semler Junior worked like a mad man,from 7:30 am,unHe is talent and charm(魅力) have made him the No.1 Chinese classical artist in the world. He played in the grand Beijing Olympic opening ceremony last summer,When I was a law professor, a student reported that I made an error in grading his exam by giving him too many points. He was ______ and after thanking him for As we all know, getting benched in sports is usually a bad thing. But at one school in Florida, a girl has taken a bench and turned it into something entirely dAt the beginning of my 8:00 a.m.class one Monday at University of Nevada,Las Vegas(UNLV),I cheerfully asked my studentstheir weekend had been.“Not been very gooLast Friday, I was coming home late after spending time with friends and thought I’d go down to the $99 cent pizza place. On the way, I saw a man sitting on thMy friend Michelle is blind, but you’d never know it. She makes such good use of her other , including her “sixth sense”, she rarely gives the impression she’Hank Viscardi was born without legs. He had not legs but stumps (残肢) that could he fitted with a kind of special boots, People stared at him with cruel intereIt was the golden season. I could see the yellow leaves falling with the cool wind. For others, it is a/an season, while for me, it is an annoying season. TirFeeling exhausted and hopeless, I began walking to my car. Every step seemed tiring, and every step was another to survive. As I looked up into the sky I thougIt was silent in Mom’s hospital room. Only the sound of her heart monitor interrupted the moments of what seemed to be a peaceful sleep. It had been several hWe live in College Station, Texas and we were on our way home from Houston, Texas around the Weston Lakes area one Saturday or Sunday morning. And when I say moWe always try to include some kind of Smile Card activity during my monthly with my daughter Rachel. The other hot night, after dinner we went to an ice cream sMy little angel, you are teaching me how selfless real love is! My wife called, “How long will you be with that ? Will you come here and make your darling daughAlbert was an ordinary worker in an oil company in America. His workmates gave a nickname(绰号) “Four dollars a bucket (桶)” to him, for he was always used to lShe is a cute, quiet girl. As a daughter, she has no secrets from her mother, who is very pleased with her. But recently she has become somewhat mysterious, noFor a few years,I have been wearing a ring on my right hand.It’s not always the same ring,but it's always a ring that has on it so that when I look at it,I'One spring,when 1 was 1 0,during one of my father’s layoffs,I could tell my mother was unhappy.I decided to cheer her up by buying her a special Mother’s DaAlexi s Vaughan,17,sat tiredly in the passenger seat of her dad’s car.The early Saturday morning run with her father,Michael,was part of the punishment.She This was our time,our senior year. My best friend Beth and I had big dreams…But in my world of “big dreams” this one small freshman did not appear on my radar(It was my first day of high school, and I was late. My next class, Spanish, scared me. I just could not speak that language. As the bell rang, I ran to the clJoanne was stuck in a traffic jam in central Birmingham at 5:30 and at 6:30 she was expected to be chairing a meeting of the tennis club.At last,the traffic was阅读下面短文,掌握其大意, 然后从各题所给的四个选项中,选出最佳选项。My father brought home a sailboat when I was ten, and almost each Sunday in summers we would“A good book for children should simply be a good book in its own right” says Mollie Hunter. Born and brought up near Edinburgh,Mollie has devoted her talents My father brought home a sailboat when I was ten, and almost each Sunday in summers we would go sailing. Dad was quite skilled in sailing, but not good at __. When Pat Jones finished college, she decided to travel around the world and see as many foreign places as she could while she was young. Pat wanted to visit LatOn a flight from Johannesburg, a middle-aged rich white South African lady had found herself sitting next to a black man. She called the cabin crew attendant ovBowen was grown-up, and for his birthday that year his father gave him awithout any pictures in it!Bowen’s father found he was notabout it, and told him, “Son, My day began on a definitely sour note when I saw my six-year-old wrestling with a limb of my azalea(杜鹃花)bush. By the time I got outside, he’d broken it. “ Last weekend I was out walking with my dog. She loves wandering around and seeingwe meet, so it becomes a social walk rather than an exercise. Then we0ur neigVivi Mac, an amazing artist from France, can use nearly any kind of food to create detailed celebrity portraits(名人肖像).Although she has yet to display her shoThat morning, I stepped into the classroom, ready to share my knowledge and experience with seventy-five students who would be my English Literature class. HaviA black car rushed around the busy street corner, towards the courthouse. The dark window rolled down and a semi-automaticstuck out. Pauly Gillespie, a governmSometimes your biggest weakness can become your biggest strength.the story of this boy for example.He decided to study judo(柔道)he had lost his leftin a car accSince I was a child, I called my father my Kong, after King Kong. I believed that he was just as strong as the giant ape(猿猴). As he faced death, I did my bes阅读下面短文,从短文后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,并从答题卡上将该选项涂黑。Each time I was feeling disappointed, my mother wI was fat kid who grew into an overweight adult. I waslaughed at for being heavier than the other kids,me feeling shy. I tried several diets, butworked, and IgToday, as I was relaxing at the beach, I couldn't help but eavesdrop(窃听,偷听) on a conversation four high school kids were having on the beach blanket next tThe moon had gone behind a cloud and there weren’t many stars in the sky. I saw a flame (火焰) in my neighbour’s . I thought he was having a midnight fast foOnce upon a time, a Japanese man wanted to rebuild his house. First he had to tear the walls open. Japanese houses have empty spaces between the wooden walls. Many winters ago I was working at a college when a homeless woman came in wearing only thin clothes. She startedas she sat down on a sofa in the student public Robert is a boss who hires me as a helper. He has lost his home and now has to live back at home, with his mother, at 46. We had a job in Fort Bending. RoberHave you ever been sad because of failure? Please remember, for often. achieving what you set out to do is not the most important thing.A boy decided to dig aOne determined student stepped off the traditional job for blind people in China, and now challenges a new life at university in Britain. Being a message therapThere was once a group of young people searching everywhere for happiness but what they got was only annoyance, grief and misery.So they Socrates for advice on It was 9:00 am already! Richard had to leave for work! Before leaving he hurriedly looked at the newspaper and stood still! Is he seeing it right? He rubbed hisIt was an early morning in summer. In the streets, sleepy-eyed people were moving quickly, heading towards their. This was the beginning of another day in New In 1982, Steven Callahan was crossing the Atlantic alone in his sailboat when it struck something and sank. He got into a life boat, but his supplies were. HisSteve Nash enjoys team success far more than personal success, and always wants to share the glory and the joy with teammates. He is a self-effacing (不爱出风头In December 2012.my parents asked me what I wanted for Christmas. I told them I would get back t0 them once I thought of.At chat point .I had tie fullof askiI was assigned to take care of this patient a couple of weeks ago and began to grow closer to her. Communicating with her wasbecause everything she wanted to saNorman Cousins was a businessman from the United States who often traveled around the world on business. He enjoyed his and traveling.Then, after returning to Davey wanted to play baseball. But fifty years ago, in his small town, he couldn’t find enough players for two full teams or an empty lot big enough for a fielTess was a precocious(早熟) eight-year-old girl when she heard her Mom and Dad taling about her little brother,Andrew.____ __she knw was that he was very sick aTwelve years ago, when I was 50,I wondered what 60 or 70 would be like? I looked around and saw only one style of living. It’s not fair, I thought. Young peo阅读下面短文,从短文后各题的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出适合填入对应空白处的最佳选项, 并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。My job was to make classroom observations and encouMy 9-year-old daughterAnd I were flying from our home in Carolina to spendA week with my husband in Florida.We were___About the trip because we hadn't seen him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、D)中,选出最佳选项,并在答题纸上将该选项标号涂黑。It was unusually quiet in the emergency roomJerry was a unique manager because he had several waiters who had followed him around from restaurant to restaurant. The reason the waiters followed Jerry was bI walked into the grocery store, not really wanting to buy anything. I just wanted to stay there quietly — the pain of losing my was still too great. And this A man was walking along the street when he saw a woman struggling with a large package(包裹). It was half in and half out of her car.He was a kind of man so he阅读下面短文,按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求,在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空。Everyone had a childhood. And childhood experienceThree men were travelling across the desert when their car broke down. There were no other traffics, so their only hope was to walk.Before they set off, they lNelson Mandela is respected and admired across the world. And to South Africans he is a superstar. He is a hero who shocked the world by fighting for peace bet“Where is the bus? Why is it always late?” I asked myself. I was going to be late the manager wasn’t going to be pleased. “Thank God, here it is!” The bus cI was telling my boy Sonny the story of the hare and the tortoise. At the end I said, “ Son, remember: Be slow and steady, and that will win the race. Don’t yThe story I’m going to tell truly happened in my life.The other day, I met a man outside the gym who a movie star. He was handsome and smiling. His upper bodEven though it was only October,my students were already whispering about Christmas plans. With each passing day everyone became more____ waiting for the finalArtie Shaw was born in New York City in 1910. His name was Arthur Arshawsky. His parents were poor immigrants who had come to the United States from Eastern EuOne young person, who was well educated, went for a job as a manager in a big company. The president did the final . He discovered the youth was and felt satisMy Garden-----by Nelson Mandela In early 1977, the authorities (当局) announced the physical labour and arranged some kind of work for us to do in the courtyard.Twenty years ago, Mark Thatcher, the son of Mrs. Thatcher, was reported missing in the Sahara Desert while competing in the Grand Prix Motor race from Paris to Suzie goes to her art class on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons. She always looks forward to those days when she can dothings all afternoon. What Suzie likes beLouis Pasteur, the famous French chemist and bacteriologist(微生物学家), invented “pasteurization”. In 1854 Pasteur was made head of the department of science aThe clock struck eleven at night. The whole house was quiet. Everyone was in bed except me. Under the strong light, I looked sadly before me at a huge pile of阅读下面短文,从短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选项。Most of us lose life’s tough battles by starting an unexpected attack—when a touch of humoOne day, a poor boy who was trying to pay his way through school by selling goods from door to door found that he had only one dime left. He was hungry so he deMusic to My EarsRobby was 10 for his first piano lesson in my class. Much as he tried, he ____ even the basic rhythm. However, he dutifully reviewed the piecesIn our discussion with people on how education can help them succeed in life, a woman remembered the first meeting of an introductory____course about 20 years agI lost my sight when I was four years old by falling off a car and landing on my head. Now I am thirty-two. I can vaguely remember the brightness of _____ and
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It was the summer of 1965. Deluca, then 17, visited Peter Buck, a family friend. Buck asked Deluca about his plan for the future. “I'm going to college, but My father was a St. Bernard (圣伯纳犬), and my mother was a collie (科利牧羊犬). This was what my mother had told me. I did not know these nice differences myNelson Mandela was a figure of international fame, and many details of his life and career were public knowledge. But here are four things you may not have knowThe dayI was 3 years old the beginning of my dream. On that day, after seeing the Capital Dancing Company performance, I, “Mama, when I grow up, I’m going to bMany years ago ,l was working at my job at a community college when a homeless woman came in. She began as she lay on one of the sofas in the student rest room.More Than I Had Dreamed OfFrom the time I was seven, I had a dream of becoming a member of the Students Union. I always my school leaders for taking responsibilWhile I was on my way into Wal-Mart, I was greeted by a woman working at the door. Before I wanted to buy what I wanted, I had a(n)to make, and I was stopped byOn August 16, 1977, Elvis Presley saved me.The previous afternoon, I played with my six-year-old peers in Heather Peters’ backyard. I was enjoying my cake, whI moved to Chicago ten years ago. As I was new to the area, I had friends and seldom went out to parties. But a month later, I was invited to a party and thereThe pen is more powerful than the sword. There have been many writers who use their pens to write things that were wrong. Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe was one o“Get yourself up and make something of yourself,buddy!”Though my mother has passed away,her words are as clear in my head today as when I was a boy.“Christ!”I Matthew Ames returned to Brisbane from Melbourne at the weekend after experiencing one of many rounds of surgery,becoming Australia’s first bionic(仿生学的)manA Lesson in Caring It was a cold evening. My daughter and I were walking up Broadway. I didn’t notice a guy sitting inside a cardboard box. But Nora . She wHercule Poirot looked over the small gate which gave admission to Pine Crest. It was a modern nicely-built house. It was on a hill top, and the hill top was plYesterday was my stepmother’s birthday. I haven’t been home for a long time, so I wanted to stop by the house to see her on this special day.I have been struFor several years, we lived at the end of a long Texas country road. Every evening when I was away from home on business, my little boy would ask permission of “It is a dreadful thing to be poor a fortnight before Christmas, ” said Clorinda, with the mournful sigh of seventeen years.Aunt Emmy smiled. Aunt Emmy was sixAs I held my father’s hands one night, I couldn’t help but notice their calluses(老茧)and roughness. His hands tell the story of his life as a , including allMr Parker was born in a small village. His father was so poor that he couldn’t send him to school. The boy had to help his parents to do some farming and lear“Hi, Mom, happy fiftieth birthday!” I heard my son, Brian, say as as if he were sitting next to me.he wasn’t.Brian was on the USS Kitty Hawk on maneuvers (大规The Great Fire of London started in the very early hours of 2 September 1666 .In four days it destroyed more than three-quarters of the old city , where most of My wife passed away seven and a half years ago, and I went through a huge depression (消沉), the worst time in my life. I even wanted to end my life. I continuTina was afraid of the dark. She always went to bed with the light on. She was afraid thatthe would come and eat her. Her daddy always her closet(壁橱) and unBarack Obama was born on August 4, 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii. His father came to America from Kenya, which is a country in Africa. His parents, Ann and Barack, One day, a poor boy who was trying to pay his way through school by selling goods door to door found that he only had one dime (一角硬币) left. He was hungry soI was told just now in the hospital that I was having a Bell's palsy attack, a condition in which the face muscles tighten because of stress. During the long cNick was not the kind of boy I had expected to spend my summer with.I was hoping to have a ____ summer before my busy senior year,but my mother asked me to do After spending a year in Brazil on a student exchange program,her mother recalled,Marie Colvin returned home to find that her classmates had narrowed down theiA man and his girlfriend were married.All of their friends and family came to partake in the festivities and celebrations.In the ceremony,everyone could tell John and Bobby joined a wholesale company together just after graduation from college the same year.Both worked very ____.After several years, however,the bos(2013·江西九校高三联考)One fine afternoon I was walking along Fifth Avenue,____ I remembered that it was necessary to buy a pair of socks. Why I wish to buy onShirley Chisholm was best known as the first black woman elected to the United States Congress and the first black woman to run for president of the United StateAs King Parveez and Queen Shireen were sitting in their palace one day,a fisherman who was selling beautiful fish was brought in front of them. King Parveez deAs I held my father's hands one night,I couldn't help but notice their calluses(老茧) and roughness.His hands tell the story of his life as a ____,includingWe have been driving in fog all morning,but the fog is lifting now.The little seaside villages are ____,one by one.“There is my grandmother's house,” I say(2013·山东卷)Sparrow is a fast-food chain with 200 restaurants.Some years ago,the group to which Sparrow belonged was taken over by another company.Although S(2013·鲁西南名校联考卷)Recently divorced and unemployed,I was on my way downtown to do the rounds of the employment offices.I had no umbrella,for my old one hOn June 15th,2012,millions of people watched as 33­year­old Nik Wallenda walked across one of the world's greatest waterfalls on a tightrope(钢丝).WA nameless British millionaire is currently putting people to the test by handing out £1,000 to those he randomly meets in the street.All he'd ask is that theThe breaking news of Mo Yan's Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday evening soon aroused public curiosity of the 57­year­old Chinese writer: Why was i(2013·高考北京卷,B)Two dolphins race around in a big pool in the Ocean Park.The smaller dolphin,Grace,shows off a few of her tricks,turning around and wavin(2013·高考重庆卷,A)The morning had been a disaster.My tooth was aching,and I’d been in an argument with a friend.Her words still hurt:“The trouble with you (2013·高考山东卷,A)Jimmy is an automotive mechanic,but he lost his job a few months ago.He has a good heart,but always feared applying for a new job.One day(2013·高考浙江卷,D)In 1974,after filling out fifty applications,going through four interviews,and winning one offer,I took what I could get—a teaching job a(2013·高考广东卷,C)One day,when I was working as a psychologist in England,an adolescent boy showed up in my office.It was David.He kept walking up and down(2013·高考重庆卷,D)Not all bodies of water are so evidently alive as the Atlantic Ocean,an S­shaped body of water covering 33 million square miles.The At(2013·高考山东卷,D)Sparrow is a fast­food chain with 200 restaurants.Some years ago,the group to which Sparrow belonged was taken over by another company(2013·高考福建卷,A)When I was 12,all I wanted was a signet (图章) ring.They were the “in” thing and it seemed every girl except me had one.On my 13th birthda(2013·高考湖北卷,B)Mothers and daughters go through so much-yet when was the last time a mother and daughter sat down to write a book together about it all? Pe(2013·高考四川卷,B)On a sunny day last August,Tim heard some shouting.Looking out to the sea carefully,he saw a couple of kids in a rowboat were being pulled(2013·高考江西卷,A)The light from the campfire brightened the darkness,but it could not prevent the damp cold of Dennis’s Swamp (沼泽地) creeping into their b(2013·高考陕西卷,D)About 30 years ago,I left Cuba for the United States with my son.After getting settled finally in Brunswick,New Jersey,I enrolled(注册) m (2013·高考新课标全国卷Ⅱ)Michael Greenberg is a very popular New Yorker.He is not famous in sports or the arts.But people in the streets___him,especially thos(2013·高考北京卷)Leaping on a narrow balance beam(平衡木) is not easy.But Lola Walter,a 13­year­old gymnast,is an expert at it.To perfect her skill(2013·高考重庆卷,A)When Joe was about to start school,all signs pointed to success.Yet things turned out to be quite___.The fourth grade even found him at th(2013·高考福建卷)We have been driving in fog all morning,but the fog is lifting now.The little seaside villages are ____ ,one by one.“There is my grandmother(2013·高考江苏卷)I used to believe in the American Dream,which meant a job,a mortgage (按揭),credit cards,success.I wanted it and worked toward it like ever (2013·高考辽宁卷)A little girl lived in a simple and poor house on a hill.Usually she ____ play in the small garden.She could see over the garden fence and ac(2013·高考湖北卷)Zigfried,a little mouse,blew his breath on the frosty window of the farmhouse and rubbed it to see the outside.Still nobody came.Maybe today(2013·高考江西卷)Diane Ray was completely self­centred and very spoilt.Her parents gave her____she wanted,knowing that she would throw a temper tantrum(耍(2013·高考陕西卷)To celebrate the end of our exams,my friends and I went to a fast food restaurant.We____hamburgers and Coca Cola at the counter.When our____c(2013·高考新课标全国卷Ⅰ)I went to a group activity,“Sensitivity Sunday”,which was to make us more ____ the problems faced by disabled people.We were asked to“(2013·高考四川卷)“Look,it’s Baldy!”A boy shouted in my direction across the playground.Even though I was used to regular insults(侮辱) because of the___on my (2013·高考山东卷)I used to be a very self­centered person,but in the past two years I have really changed.I have started to think about other people ____ China is a land of bicycles.At least it was back in 1992 when I traveled the country.Back then everyone seemed to be riding a bicycle.Millions of them,all blSome years ago,writing in my diary used to be a usual activity.I would return from school and spend the expected half hour recording the day’s events,feelingWhen 19­year­old Sophia Giorgi said she was thinking of volunteering to help the Make­A­Wish Foundation (基金会),nobody understood what she Doctors are known to be terrible pilots.They don’t listen because they already know it all.I was lucky:Ⅰ became a pilot in 1970,almost ten years before I graGoing green seems to be a fad(时尚)for a lot of people these days.Whether that is good or bad,we can’t really say,but for the two of us,going green is not aIn my living room,there is a plaque (匾) that advises me to“Bloom (开花) where you are planted.” It reminds me of Dorothy.I got to know Dorothy in the early 1Argentina in the late nineteenth century was an exciting place.Around 1870,it was experiencing an economic(经济的)boom,and the capital,Buenos Aires,attracteMark Twain has been called the inventor of the American novel.And he surely deserves additional praise:the man who popularized the clever literary attack on racA little boy was learning to play the piano in a musical school.One day,Paderewski,who was a very famous ____in Poland,was holding a piano concert in his citA mouse looked through a crack(裂缝) in the wall to see the farmer and his wife opening a package. “What food might this contain?”The mouse____.He was alarmed One cold afternoon a postman was slowly pushing his mail cart (邮车)____the hill that led out of the small town of lane.He was walking very____because there wasSteven Jobs was born on February 24,1955,in San Francisco,California,and was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs.In 1961 the family moved to Mountain View, CalifoWhen Mary Moore began her high school in 1951, her mother told her, “Be sure and take a typing course so when this show business thing doesn’t work out, you’llI can still remember it as it was yesterday. I was a college freshman and had _______ up most of the night, laughing and talking with friends. Now just before That summer an army of crickets(蟋蟀) started a war with my father. Dad cared for insects no more than Mamma, but he could tolerate a few living in the basementA few months ago, I was picking up the children at school. Emily, another mother that I knew well, rushed up to me. She was full of ____.“Do you know ____ youA Leap to HonorLeaping on a narrow balance beam(平衡木) is not easy. But Lola Walter, a 13-year-old gymnast, is an expert at it.To perfect her skills, Lola forHe must have been completely lost in something he was reading because I had to tap on the windscreen to get his attention. “Is your taxi____?” I asked when he Actress Hayden Panettiere recently got into trouble with Japanese fishermen as she tried to stop them from killing dolphins. The 18-year-old star with some otheNick Petrels is a doctor in Montreal. He works 60 hours a week. 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