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Robin asked us to share inspiring favorite words that other people had spoken. As I rolled through ideas in my head. My 36 kept relearning to an event from my youth.
The words spoken were not 37 in their delivery .The person who received them wasn’t me. And, the life-changing event 38 to someone else. But I remember it very well. My friend Evonne was a skinny little girl. We weren’t best friends. But we were 39 .We 40 a classroom every year from 2nd through8th grade. Hing school got us into other groups of fellow students and we kept up our friendship 41 .But then the 42 happened during our senior year that changed her life 43
Mrs. Lee was Evonne’s and my senior advisor. I don’t remember one word the woman spoke to me during consulting .However .I do remember what she said to Evonne .On one particular day, Evonne ,the teary-eyed 17-year old girl 44 Mrs. Lee’s office . She cried , “She might as well have told me I was 45 .She told me ‘You are not college material ’ Can you believe she said that?” Evonne 46 Then the still tiny ,but determined young woman made a brave 47 . “I’ll show her ”…and then she 48 !
Evonne’s head 49 . down in her studies the rest of that year. Following graduation she found employment and began 50 her way through coilege .She liaished her 4 years and 51 to graduaie school (研究生院),Not very years Not very many years later I heard that she had a PHD and became a professor at university in Tennessee 52 words don’t always make someone cleeide to invest (投资) in themselves so wisely.
Whenever I think of the inspiration and motivation that 53 Evonne . I am also 54 that there are many others who are discouraged by the 55 of our words. My story today is in honor of my old friend. Evonne.
36 A opinions | B intentions | C thoughts | D dreams |
37 A accurate | B ridiculous | C moving | D inspiring |
38 A stuck | B ridiculous | C turned | D added |
39 A close | B near | C casual | D unique |
40 A entered | B owned | C spared | D shared |
41 A loosely | B cautiously | C willingly | D totally |
42 A situation | B accident | C condition | D incident |
43 A always | B forever | C temporarily | D totally |
44 A escaped | B locked | C shut | D left |
45 A stupid | B simple | C sensitive | D selfish |
46 A begged | B appealed | C questioned | D commanded |
47 A statement | B comment | C judgment | D arrangement |
48 A nobbed | B tried | C would | D did |
49 A kept | B nosed | C bent | D turned |
50 A changing | B finding | C working | D coming |
51 A wandered | B headed | C immigrated | D rushed |
52 A Encouraging | B Negative | C Appropriate | D Abstract |
53 A persuaded | B proved | C pushed | D created |
54 A told | B informed | C reminded | D advised |
55 A carelessness | B seriousness | C firmness | D vividness |
CDBAD ADBDA CADBC BBCCA
One day, four lawyers were riding along a country road. There had been a(n) 36 , and the ground was soft. The lawyers rode 37 , talking and laughing. As they were passing through a 38 , they heard some noises in the grass.
“What’s the matter here?” asked one man.
“Oh, it’s only some old robins (知更鸟)!” said another one, “The 39 has blown them out of the nest. They are too young to 40 .”
“What a 41 ! They’ll die,” said the third one.
“Well! They’re nothing but 42 ,” said the first lawyer.
The three men looked down and saw the mother robin 43 to her mates. Then they rode on, talking and laughing as before. In a few minutes they had 44 the birds. But the fourth lawyer, whose name was Abraham Lincoln, 45 . He got down from his 46 and gently took the little ones up. They didn’t seem 47 , but chirped (唧唧叫) softly, as if they knew they were safe.
“Never 48 , my little fellows,” said Mr. Lincoln. Then he looked up to find the nest from which they had 49 . It was much higher than he could reach. But Mr. Lincoln could 50 . He put the birds softly, one by one, into their warm home.
In a few minutes, Mr. Lincoln 51 the others. He had torn his coat on the thorny (多刺的) tree. Then all three of them 52 heartily. They thought it so 53 that a strong man should take so much trouble just for some worthless young birds.
“Gentlemen,” said Mr. Lincoln, “I couldn’t have 54 tonight if I had left those helpless robins to die in the 55 grass.”
Abraham Lincoln afterwards became President of America.
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