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　　More than 40 years ago, John Williams gave away all of his belongings and went off to the mountains to live the way people lived 100 years ago．For 　　1　　 he traps wild animals and fishes in the rivers－　　2　　 he can．John lives in a cabin he made 　　3　　, out of trees he chopped down with an axe．　　4　　 he has no relatives that he knows of, he does have a deer he 　　5　　 from a fawn(幼鹿)．The deer lives in the house in winter and goes with John when he goes into the 　　6　　 for food．Nobody lives 　　7　　 fifty miles of his cabin in the mountains and John has not been out of the mountains during the entire forty years．One day last year I hiked in to see 　　8　　 John lives in．It was like going 　　9　　．There were no stores, no post offices, no noise, no pollution, not 　　10　　 a road．

　　　　11　　 notable(值得注意的)of all, there were no people and that's the 　　12　　 John Williams wants to keep his part of the world．But there seems to be something impossible in his story．He is an 　　13　　 man．He has books and nobody knows how he got them．Mostly he reads about his 　　14　　－the mountains, the animals, the plants, and the 　　15　　．He has seen airplanes flying overhead but does not want to 　　16　　 about them．For him, electricity is no more than lightning, not light bulbs, refrigerators, televisions, or washing machines．John is 90 years old and has not has a 　　17　　 day in his life．He owes his 　　18　　 life to the fact that he has nothing to do with people and in order to let him 　　19　　 many more years of health, happiness and solitude(孤独), I will not tell you 　　20　　 his kingdom lies．There is no room there for you or me．

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　　“Today is the day I start the big diet,” I told my wife as I raised my hand and 　　1　　，“No chocolate today!”

　　“Oh, has the hospital gift shop 　　2　　 selling it?” she asked．

　　“No,” I said．“I'll just have to 　　3　　 my strong determination．”

　　But when I arrived at the hospital, my little friend Benton had been there 　　4　　．I knew my promise would 　　5　　 disappear．Because if Benton had things his way, I'd always be eating a piece of candy from the 　　6　　 bag he often shared with me．

　　Benton was an eight-year-old boy who was 　　7　　 because of a kind of cancer, which caused him to live in the darkness, when he was fifteen 　　8　　 old．For the next twenty-six months, he was in and out of our hospital．For nearly four years, it seemed 　　9　　 Benton could beat the disease, until one Friday afternoon in April 2009, when he 　　10　　 a headache and lost 　　11　　 on his right side．His mom 　　12　　 him to the hospital．

　　Over the next several months, Benton came to our 　　13　　 many more times．Each time he came, we 　　14　　 say hello, while Benton answered the 　　15　　　by holding out a candy from his bag．

　　So, on that first day of my diet, I went to his room and found Benton lying in his bed, his eyes 　　16　　　but not looking into this world．

　　“We brought his candy bag with us．Would you like to have some?” his mother asked．

　　Without thinking of my diet, I 　　17　　　into the bag and pulled out the first piece my fingers touched．It was my favorite as if Benton had saved one last piece 　　18　　　me．At home that evening, I answered a phone about Benton's 　　19　　．As I 　　20　　　it up, I opened the candy and ate it．