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　　It's 7 am Kyoto (东京), Japan, and the taxi company has just called a second time to say they can't find my house.　　1　　I tell him directions. even a blind person can　　2　 , look impatiently at my watch, and wait. Only two hours remain until my　　3　　leavesand it's an hour-and-a-half trip to Osaka airport.

　　The telephone rings　　4　 .“Terribly sorry,”begins the clerk. Then I　　5　　what's happened: flooded with　　6　 , the company is too busy. I've heard this happens when the weather gets　　7　 . I shout into the　　8　　that I have a plane to catchI must be in Seoul　　9　　and I'll meet the　　10　　a few hundred meters away on a bridge over the Kamo River.

　　Standing in the heavy　　11　 , I look up and down. No　　12　　From the other direction a white car comes up, then stops. A young man opens the door, signing to me to　　13　 . Shaking with cold and　　14　 , I climb inside.

　　In the most　　15　　Japanese, the man explains to me that he is the person with whom I have spoken　　16　　this morning. He apologizes again and again, but does not explain why a taxi could　　17　　except to say they are“very, very busy”this morning.

　　A few hours later, seated into my seat as the storm-delayed 727　　18　 , I open the　　19　 . My eyes wander to the headline (标题) of a short article:“Taxi Strike Begins this Morning in　　20　 .”

American English has changed for the centuries,	1．________
too. There have several reasons for this. One of	2．________
the reasons is that people travelled to America	3．________
from all the Europe countries and from other	4．________
parts of the world, too. They start to use	5．________
English, but they was also brought in some	6．________
words from their own language. For example,	7．________
a “cent” in American money is old French.	8．________
One of the states in the USA called “Florida”;	9．________
in Spanish this means the “land of flowers”.
There are a great many of American Indian	10．_______
words and German words, too.

One cold winter in 1900, a small boy called Charles
Chaplin was walking alone the street in London.
He could not have breakfast or lunch. He wanted to
buy some breads, but he didn't have any money.	1． ________
His father dead when he was very young. His	2． ________
mother was often very sick, so she could not take	3． ________
care of Charles and his brother. All of them had to
work to help their sick mother.	4． ________
He was a small boy but his dream very big.	5． ________
He wanted to be great man in the world of films. So	6． ________
he worked very hard to sing and danced well. Then	7． ________
a man came to him and asked, “Will you work for my	8． ________
film?”“Yes, I 　　 will,” he answered. And he did best	9． ________
in it. Many people have said, “We have never seen	10． ________
such an interesting film.”

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