A hot dog is one of the most popular American foods.It was named after frankfurter, a German food.
You may hear“hot dog” 1 in other ways.People sometimes say“hot dog”to express 2 .For example, a friend may ask 3 you would like to go to the cinema.You might say“Great!I would love to go.”Or, you could say,“ 4 !I would love to go.”
People 5 use the expression to describe(描写)someone who is a“show-off”,who tries to show everyone else how 6 he is.You often hear such 7 called a“hot dog”.He may be a baseball player, for example, who 8 the ball with one hand, making a(n) 9 catch seem more difficult.You know he is a hot dog because when he makes such a catch, he bows(鞠躬)to the crowd, hoping to win their 10 .
Did you watch NBA 55'h All-Star Game(全明星赛)?If you watched it, you wouldn't 1 Shaquille O'Neal's(沙奎尔·奥尼尔)wonderful play.
Shaquille O'Neal is in Miami Heat(迈阿密热队)now.He was born on March 6th, 1972.He is 2.16 meters tall.When he was young, he was very 2 .His strong hands gave him a good start of life.Shaquille liked playing 3 .But when he was a high school student in Grade Two, he wasn't good at basketball yet.Just at that time, he 4 his good coach(教练), Dale Brown.Then he began his hard practice.In 1992, he joined NBA, 5 for Magic Team, then Lakers, and later Miami Heat in 2004.He had a great 6 .He has joined All-Star Game ten times, won NBA Finals MVP(最有价值的球员)three times, 7 got the gold medals for the USA in the Olympic Games.He was named one of the fifty 8 players in NBA history.
Shaquille O'Neal is strong and tall.People call him "Large Shark"(大鲨鱼).But he is good at 9 , too.He has already had six CDs.It's really one of the happiest things in the world to listen to his CDs while 10 him play basketball.
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remember
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forget
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see
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thin
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sick
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strong
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basketball
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soccer
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volleyball
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missed
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met
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left
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playing
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singing
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dancing
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idea
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success
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party
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and
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although
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worst
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slowest
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greatest
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music
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history
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math
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making
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helping
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watching
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Martin Henfield talks about some of his experiences(经历) as a twin:"When we were small,my mother dressed us 1 the same clothes.That was bad enough and we didn't like it.But when we went on our first camping(野营) trip with the Scouts(童子军),it
was even 2 ndline.We were only ten year8 01d,and while 3 went into their sleeping bags for the night,we were not happy to snuggle inside a double sleeping bag my mother made for us."
At school our classmates 4 us Henfield One and Henfield Two,so people couldn't even see our difference according to our initials (姓名的开头字母) because 5 of us were M.H.It was only when I went to college and began to have my own friends that I started to feel my own freedom of identity(身份).
Before I went to college(大学),during my last secondary school 6 ndline,I got a job on a building site.My twin brother,Mike Henfield,didn't work.He was resting.One day I said to the foremail(工头),"Can I have a week off?" "Certainly,"he said,"but you won't have the job when you 7 back." I didn't want to 8 the job.So on Monday morning,Mike went to the building site in my jeans(牛仔裤),jacket and hat and he worked for me for one week.9 of them knew the difference.
Now I am growing old and I feel very different 10 my twin brother.And he'll tell you the same.We have really worked towards that for forty years.