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| Alex Harley was born in the northeast of New York in 1921,but he spent most of his early life with his mother's family in southern Tennessee. His grandmother told him stories about their family. 1 He was a slave(奴隶) from Africa and his name was Kunta. Alex Harley went to school and then to college. In 1939,he joined the US coastguard. As he was a black,his job was to wait tables and wash dishes. 2 He served in the coastguard for 20 years. After he retired. he put all his time into writing. Alex Harley remembered the stories his grandmor.her had told him. He began to study his family history. After a lot of research,Harley decided that Toby was probably Kunta Kinte of the West African Mandingo people,who was caught near the village of Juffure on the Gambia River. He was sold as a slave in Annapolis, Maryland in 1767.Then Harley made a trip to Gambia. 3 The African historian made his research stronger. Alex Harley wanted to tell the experiences of the black people in 18th and 19th century of America. He spent 10 years researching. 4 It was published in 1976. After that,it won a special prize. A few years later, a film series (连续剧)based on Harley's book was shown on American television.
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| Jenny, an ll-year-old American girl, spent the Spring Festival with her parents in China. Her 1 planned a good old-fashioned (老式的) Spring Festival celebration:a dinner of Peking duck 2 by watching Spring Festival Gala (春节联欢晚会) of CCTV. Jenny's father,Robert,a businessman in an Internet company, 3 his first Spring Festival in China in 1994,making dumplings at a friend's house. Robert noticed 4 the Chinese character (汉字) "fu"was turned upside down (颠倒) on the wall. He 5 the "mistake" to his friends. But they laughed 6 his puzzle. In China, people believe that the tuming upside down of the character "fu" is the coming of good fortune 7 their same pronunciation " fu dao". Here, " dao" 8 “come " . For the past week,workers have been busy decorating the streets. "Chinese believe that the beginning of the New Year will bring 9 happiness and success," Robert said. On his holiday table at home,Robert 10 the traditional Chinese wine" er guo tou" to his friends. They enjoyed the traditional Chinese culture. | ||||
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| On Mother's Day, a man stopped at a flower shop to order some flowers to be mailed to his mother who lived two hundred miles away. As he got out of his car he 1 a young girl crying. He asked her what was wrong and she answered,"I want to buy a red rose for my mother,but I only have seventy-five cents,and a rose 2 two dollars. "The man smiled and said," Come on in with me. I'll buy you a rose. " He bought the little girl her rose and ordered his 3 mother's flowers. As they were leaving he 4 the girl a ride home. She said,"Yes, please. You can take me to my mother. " She directed him to a cemetery (墓地) ,where she placed the rose on a grave (坟墓). The man went 5 to the flower shop, canceled (取消 ) the mail order, picked up the flowers and drove two hundred miles to his mother's house. |
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| Every Sunday Mrs Clinton goes to the shops. Three Weeks ___l____ she did the shopping and started to walk towards the bus stop. Her bag was very ___2___, and she had to have a short rest by a new bright red car. As she stood there,she saw a policeman ___3___ towards her. "Excuse me,madam," he said,"I want to ___4___ you some questions. What is your name?" "Jane Clinton," she answered, " but I do not understand ___5___ you are asking this question. " "Can you ___6__ that sign over there,madam?"asked the policeman. " No Parking ! " "That's right,madam. So why have you parked your car here?" " But this isn't my car ! " "Isn't it?" said the policeman, and his face was as red as the car. "I'm very sorry. But I shall still __7__ stick a parking ticket on the car. "And he really did so. Just then another woman __8___ .She said, " Hello,dear. Happy birthday! I've got a __9___ for you. I've brought you your birthday present. " "Thank you, dear," said the policeman " But where is it?" His wife __10__ at the car. "Here it is,"she said. "But you must drive it away now. There's a 'No Parking sign over there. " |
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| Jose is a student at a medical college. He is going to work in a hospital as a 1 . Jose lives at home with his parents, a disabled (残疾的) elder sister and two younger brothers. Both his parents have full-time jobs and Jose has a/an 2 job in a restaurant to help the family after class. Several weeks ago Jose's father didn't feel 3 . When he went to a doctor. he was told that there was something wrong with his heart and he needed to be operated on (做手术) and would have to give up his 4 for at least one year. Faced with the large medical expenses (医疗费) and loss of almost two thirds of the family's income for the next year, Jose's mother wanted him to drop out of 5 and do more work to help the 6 . Jose loves his family very much and 7 the sacrifices (牺牲) they have made for his education, but, if he drops out now, he will lose the whole term's credit (学分). That will be too much for 8 . He doesn't know what to do. He spoke to his girl friend, Maria, and she told him to go on his study in school. He 9 spoke to his uncle, Carlos, but he thought that his first 10 was to help his family get through the difficult time ahead. What should Jose do? | ||||
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| In a small town in France, there was a farmer who lived alone. Every day he 1 a pound of butter to his neighbor, who was a baker, One day the baker decided to 2 the butter to see if he was getting a pound. After he weighed it, he found that he wasn't. The baker then took 3 farmer to the judge (法官). The judge asked the farmer if he had any way to weigh the butler. The farmer replied."I am so 4 that I do not have enough money to buy anything to weigh it, 5 I do have a kind of scale (天平)." The judge asked, "Then how do you weigh the buttery" The farmer replied,"Before the baker started buying butler from 6 , I had bought bread from him. So now every time when I bring home the bread from the baker, I put it On the scale and give him the butter of the same weight," We 7 what we give to Others in life. Whenever you take action, ask yourself this 8 , "Am I honest?" Honesty or dishonesty can become a 9 . Some dishonest people can lie (说谎) without a red face. Others lie so much that they do not even 10 what the truth is any more. But who is it bad for? As a matter of fact, those who lie will hurt themselves by their own dishonest | ||||
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| Two friends went to a city and 1 in a big hotel. Their room was on the 56th floor, and there was a fast lift, so they went up and down very 2 . They came back to the hotel very late one Saturday 3 ,and the liftman said to them," The electricity (电) stopped today. You can't 4 the lift now, " The two friends said. "We 5 to go upstairs (上楼) to our room." They left their coats downstairs because they were 6 , and began to climb. It took a 7 time, but they sang some interesting songs. At 12:00, they 8 the 56th floor. Then one of them put his hand in his pocket (口袋) and stopped. He said to 9 , "Now. I'm going to sing the most interesting song of all. Its name is: I 10 the key to the room downstairs in my coat." | ||||
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