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For years, people in North and South America have told 1 (故事) about the animal. One day, Maria and her mother were watching TV. It was late. Suddenly, they heard a loud noise in a 2 (房子) . They had 3 (绵羊) and other animals there .They went outside to find out what the noise was. They thought it was a large dog at 4 (首先) . It was dark, so they couldn’t see well. But then it stood up on two legs-like a man! It was over a meter 5 (高) with 6 (红色) eyes and large teeth. Later, They found five chickens were 7 (死的). But the animal didn’t eat 8 (它们) . It drank their blood. It was a really scary dream-but they know it was real. 9 (许多) people in Chile, Brazil, Mexico, even the U.S. have 10 (看见) this thing. They hope they never see it again.
Dana M iller is a bus driver. She drives a bus in the city of Phladelphia. She works the night shift. That means she starts work at 10:00 at night and gets off at 6:00 in the morning. In the world of bus driving, this is sometimes called third shift. Dana has been driving a bus for 15 years. She started when she was 23 years old. She loves her job most of the time. She gets to meet all kinds of people.
There is the guitar player. He lugs(用力拉) his heavy guitar on the bus every Friday night. He plays at a nightspot downtown. People call him Get Low. That is because he likes to play the guitar on his knees. If the bus is not too crowded, Get Low plays in the back of the bus. The bus is seldom crowded at night. He likes to warm up on the bus before shows.
There is the woman who works at the pretzel(一种脆饼干) factory. Each day the “Pretzel Lady” brings Dana a bag of fresh, soft pretzels. They fill the bus with a wonderful smell!
Sometimes Dana’s job is hard. It is hard when Dana sees people down on their luck(倒霉).
One time, a young woman left her sleeping baby on the bus. There was a note on the baby’s blanket（毯子） asking for help. Dana had to call the police. Another time, a teenaged boy stole money from Dana on the bus. He had a fake（假的）gun. Dana thought it was real. She was very scared(害怕).
Occasionally（偶尔）, driving a bus can be scary. But most of the time, driving a bus is great. Dana does not want to work anywhere else.
“How was your night?” Dana’s husband likes to ask when she gets home. “Good music, good food, and a great view of the city,” she says.
小题1:In the world of bus driving, the third shift is 10pm-6am.小题2:Dana enjoys driving a bus most of the time.小题3:The guitar player is called Get Low because he has a low voice.小题4:Sometimes driving a bus can be scary.小题5:Dana is now thinking about changing her job.
A 14-year-old boy from the USA was described as a hero yesterday after he saved the life of a girl in
another country.
Dean Bluey from Dallas, Texas, was a school boy who was interested in computer. One day, he was
sending an e-mail to a friend on the Internet. Suddenly he received a message saying "Help! Help! Help!"
The message was from Finland, thousands of kilometers way from the USA.
"I didn't know what I should do," Dean said to a reporter. "It was really difficult to tell if the message
was real." So Dean did nothing at first. But the message kept coming.
"By then it was easy to see that someone was in trouble," Dean explained. He replied and discovered
that the sender was a 20-year-old student called Tarja, who was alone in a university library. She was very
ill. What was worse, there was no phone around her. Her only way of communicating with the world was
by e-mail.
Dean got in touch with the Texas police. The police immediately realized that the situation was quite
serious. They found it necessary to call the police in Finland. Then an ambulance＊ rushed to the university,
and soon doctors found Tarja. Luckily, she was still alive and was quickly sent to the hospital.
"I'm glad she's OK," Dean said. "It's hard to believe, but e-mail saved her life."
B. Reading in the library.
C. Sending an e-mail.
D. Playing computer games.
B. He thought it was interesting.
C. He believed it.
D. He didn't know if the message was real.
B. she shouted aloud.
C. she wrote letters.
D. she knocked at the door.
B. The Internet is becoming very helpful.
C. We must help others.
D. There must be some doctors in school libraries.
For hundreds of years, the people of a Scottish town believed that a dinosaur-like strange creature(生物) lived in a nearby lake called Loch Ness. Many said they saw the creature, but no one could prove it was real.
In 1934, a London doctor, Robert Kenneth Wilson, gave a newspaper a photo of the strange creature. He took the picture, he said, when he suddenly saw the animal in the lake one morning. The news traveled around the world. People came from everywhere to see this creature, now called the “Loch Ness Monster.” Then, in 1993, a man named Christian Spurning surprised everyone. He said the photo of the “Loch Ness Monster” was a lie. He and some friends created the famous picture themselves, and then Wilson gave it to the newspaper as a practical joke.
Today, tricks and jokes like this are common, and many are spread using e-mails. Some can be funny, but others can cause trouble. In August 2000, an e-mail was sent from a large British supermarket chain(连锁店)---Safeway---to thousands of its shoppers. It said, “Store prices are going to increase 25 percent. If you don’t like this, go to another store.” It was signed(签名), “the Safeway Team.” The e-mail worried many of Safeway’s shoppers and caused big problems for the supermarket. Later, Safeway discovered what happened. Someone broke into the company’s website and sent the cheating e-mail.
Not all tricks are as bad as this one. Some make us laugh, and others surprise us. In the end, they all show us that seeing is not always believing.
1 Who took the photo of the “Loch Ness Monster?”
A. A Scottish. B. Robert Kenneth Wilson.
C. Christian Spurning. D. Nobody.
2 How did the supermarket Safeway get its trouble?
A. It received an e-mail from a dangerous person.
B. Its price would have to increase by 25 percent.
C. Its website got broken into.
D. It lost a lot of shoppers.
3 Which of the following is TRUE?
A. Wilson gave the picture to the newspaper as a joke.
B. A dinosaur-like creature lives in the lake Loch Ness.
C. Most people use e-mails as tricks and jokes to trouble the world.
D. Because of the cheating e-mail the store prices are going to increase.
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