Like most parents, I teach my children to say“thank You” frequently．What I hope to teach them is not to say Thanks 1 , but to feel it．I believe that thankful people are 2 people．
Dr．Fulton Oursler used to tell of Anna, who 3 him when he was a child．Without any relatives, Anna worked in his family for many years, who not only 4 her thanks, but feIt it．
He remembered her sitting at the kitchen table, her hands 5 and her eyes closed as she prayed(祷告), “Much obliged(非常感谢), Lord, for my vittles．”He asked her what vittles were and she 6 that they were food and drink．He told her 7 she gave thanks, she would get food and drink．and Anna said, “Yes, we'll get our vittles, but it makes them taste better when we're 8 ．”She told him that a man taught her to 9 look for things to be thankful for．So, as soon as she awoke each morning she asked herself, “What is the 10 thing I can be Thankful today?”Sometimes the smell of early-morning coffee in the kitchen found its way to her room and she would say, “Much obliged, Lord, for the 11 !”
Young Oursler grew up and left his 12 ．One day he received a message that Anna was 13 ．He returned home and found her in bed with her hands folded just as he had seen them in prayer before．
He 14 what she could give thanks for this time．As if she could read his 15 , she opened her eyes and looked at the loving faces around her bed．Then, 16 her eyes, she said quietly“Much obliged, Lord, for such fine 17 ．”
Oursler was deeply 18 by Anna's ability to always find some 19 to say“Much obliged．”This wise woman 20 him how to be happy．
The film starts out as a normal day at a typical American high school．Friends chat in the dining room and boys play football．
But there's a big surprise when the movie 1 with two students going crazy in the 2 shooting and killing people．
This is“Elephant”．Filmed in just 20 days, it stars real high school kids．American 3 Gus Van Sant had no ready made lines(台词)．The student actors 4 their own dialogue, with Van Sant asking them to base their characters on their own 5 ．
6 it may not sound very high quality, the film won the Palmed' Or(金棕榈奖)for Best Film and the award for Best Director at the Cannes 7 festival in France on May 25．
The film is based on the 8 at a high school in the US, where two boys 9 13 people and then themselves in 1999．
The title of the 10 refers to the old expression about a 11 that's as hard to ignore as an elephant in the house．
The film takes a close look at a few hours in the lives of the victims(受害者)and the 12 ．It shows how high school is a different experience for everyone－fun and friendly, or hard and 13 ．
In many ways, the two boys, who carry out the shooting, act like ordinary 14 ．But, there are hints(暗示)of the 15 they feel inside．One of the boys is bullied at school．The other plays violent 16 games．But Van Sant isn't 17 their killings on either bullying or violent video games．In fact, the film doesn't offer any 18 for why school violence happens．
“I didn't want to 19 anything．It's up to the audience to draw its own 20 ,”said the 51-year-old director．
Sailors long ago were often afraid that if they sailed too far from home they would fall off the 1 of the flat ocean．In the 2 , many people had to trust the words of 3 , for they have no way to gather 4 for themselves．Today, we can fly in airplanes high over the 5 and see the curve(曲线)that proves its roundness．Astronauts flying miles high can send us 6 that support our beliefs．Most people now 7 the fact that the earth is certainly not flat． 8 many of them don’t realize that it’s not exactly 9 either．
A mathematician, Ann Eckels Bailie, used computers to gather information to 10 in planning space flights．
During 11 work of tracking the second US satellite, Vanguard I, she discovered some facts that didn’t 12 to make sense．It appeared that the perigee(or point nearest to the earth)satellite orbit(轨道)measured a different 13 from the northern hemisphere(半球)of our earth than from the 14 hemisphere．At first, she thought these strange 15 were because of some mathematical mistakes．But Bailie wouldn’t 16 the idea that important new information had been 17 ．She and．other scientists discussed the 18 of the earth again and again． 19 research finally proved that Bailie’s 20 finding was correct．
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announcement
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earth
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universe
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news
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refuse
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prove
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find
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enjoy
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When I was a little girl, every Sunday my family of six would put on our best clothes and go to Sunday School and then church．The 1 in elementary school would all meet together to sing songs, and then later divide into 2 based on their ages．
One Easter Sunday, all the kids 3 with big eyes and big 4 about what the Easter Bunny(复活节小兔)had brought． 5 all of the kids shared their stories with 6 , one young boy , whom I shall call Bobby, sat 7 ．One of the teachers , noticing this, said to him, “And what did the Easter Bunny 8 you?”He replied, “My mom 9 the door by accident so the Easter Bunny couldn't get 10 because he hadn't got a key．”
This sounded like a 11 idea to all of us kids, so we kept on going with the stories．My mom knew the true story, 12 ．Bobby's mom was a single parent , and she suspected(怀疑)that they just couldn't 13 the Easter Bunny．
After Sunday School was over, everyone went off to 14 ．But my mom announced that we were going home 15 ．At home, she explained that to make Bobby feel 16 , we were going to pretend(假装)to be the Easter Bunny , make a basket of our candies for him and 17 it at church．We all donated(捐赠)some to the basket, and 18 back to church．There, mom hung the basket over the hanger(挂钩)and attached(附上)a(n) 19 ：
Dear Bobby,
I'm sorry I 20 your house last night．Happy Easter．
