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　　The Middleton Bank was robbed (抢劫), and Detective Paul Nichols was sent for. The bank  1 said, “The robber had a long and ugly scar (难看的伤疤) on his right cheek (面颊).” It happened that the  2 came into the bank and stood in line with the other  3 . When he reached the window, however, he handed the bank clerk a piece of paper saying, “Do not say anything or  4 anything. I have a gun and will  5 it if I have to. Put four thousand dollars in an envelope and handed it to me. ” Realizing he was not joking, the bank clerk  6 exactly as the robber wished. The man walked out of the  7 ; no one realized what had happened, even not the lady standing behind him.

　　A thorough(彻底的) search was made,  8 no such a person with an ugly scar was  9 .

　　“I can't understand how he could get away so rapidly,” Detective Nicholstold said to his  10 Nancy that evening. “We questioned  11 inside and outside the bank. No one saw a man with a scar on his  12 .” Nancy Nichols was a very practical (有实际经验的) woman. Her husband liked to discuss his  13 with her because of this.

　　She enjoyed helping solve a case. While her husband was  14 the program on TV, Nancy sat drinking her coffee in  15 ,“Why should the robber want the bank clerk to  16 the scar?” she said to herself. “He should have wanted to hide it.”

　　Nancy  17 , and went over to turn off the TV, She let her  18 know what she had come up with.

　　Five minutes later, Paul was in his car, hurrying to the  19 station. Another search was organized.

　　The robber was caught within twenty-hours. The man had been  20 , and knew how to disguise (伪装) himself.

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　　Although many stars seem to be crowded together, particularly in  1 part of the sky we call the Milky Way (银河) where stars seem  2 close together that they look  3 a pale hazy (模糊的) cloud, they really are far apart.  4 thought of the name Milky Way because it looks  5 like milk spilled (溢出) in the sky,  6 like billions of separate stars. We know that the sun, our  7 special star, is 93 million mills from the earth. If  8 spaceship could leave the earth and travel at a speed of 25000 miles  9 , it would take about five months  10 to the sun. to reach the star that  11 nearest to our sun, the spaceship would have  12 for about 114000 years. Yet some stars are even farther  13 . Their distances are so great that astronauts measure them  14 “light years.” A “light-year” is the  15 of miles light can travel during one whole year,  16 six trillion (万亿) miles. Some stars are  17 50000 light years away from the sun.  18 is this? Almost 300 million billion miles,  19 we can't even begin to imagine the  20 .

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　　Einstein, a world-famous scientist, was often invited to make speeches though  1 people could understand.

　　Once on his way, his driver said, “Dr. Einstein, I've learned all your lectures by  2 . I'm sure I can repeat one without any  3 .”

　　Hearing this, Einstein said with a smile, “That's  4 . You can take my  5 . Luckily, nobody there  6 me. I'll pretend to be your  7 .”

　　The driver really pretended to be Einstein,   8 gave the lecture.

　　When he finished, an old professor with grey hair came  9 and said, “Dear Dr. Einstein, your lecture is  10 advanced that there are quite a few points I don't  11 . Would you please be so  12 as to give further explanation?”

　　The driver, being a quick-minded man, said, “your  13 are abstract (抽象)”.

　　“Perhaps my driver is  14 to help you.” And he  15 to the ‘driver’, “Would you please answer this question for  16 ?”

　　Having heard the thorough explanation  17 by the ‘driver’, the professor was much  18 . He stood dumbfounded and said to  19 , “His driver is so  20 , let alone (更不用说) Einstein himself.”

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　　It was an early morning in summer. In the streets, sleep - eyed people were moving quickly, heading towards their  1 . This was the beginning of another  2 day in New York City.  3 this day was to be different .

　　Waiting  4 the crowded streets, on top of a  5 storeys high, was Philippe Petit. This daring Frenchman was about to  6 a tightrope (绷索) between the two towers of the World Trade Center.

　　Philippe took his first  7 with great care. The wire held. How he was  8 he could do it. 9 only a balancing pole, Philippe walked his way across, a  10 of 131 feet.

　　Soon the rush - hour  11 began to notice . What a  12 ! There, 1350 feet above the street, a  13 figure was walking of air.

　　Philippe made seven  14 , back and forth (来回) . He wasn't satisfied with just  15 . At times, he would turn, sit down, and  16 go on his knees. Once, he had the astonishing  17 to lie down on the thin thread . And thousands of  18 watchers stared with their hearts beating fast .

　　After the forty - five - minute  19 , Philippe was taken to the police station. He was asked  20 he did it. Philippe shrugged (耸肩) and said, “When I see two tall buildings, I walk. ”

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　　Linda had to go to Boston one evening. She decided she  1 take a train than  2 there by car.

　　But when she got to the station, she found that only half the trains  3 . Some of the drivers  4 strike. Linda wondered  5 there was any point in waiting. Just then she caught sight of Margaret, a friend  6 . She was going to Boston, too. “Come on. We'll push  7 the crowd,”she said.

　　A long queue was waiting in front of the entrance  8 the Boston Train. They joined it. People in the queue all  9 the strike. “Why are those train drivers on strike?” asked an old man. “They are striking for  10 wages. They  11 a pay rise last year but prices  12 in the meantime. The rise has been wiped out by inflation (物价飞涨),”a young man replied.

　　 13 this, Margaret said. “It's high time we women  14 on strike, too. They think they can pay us  15 just because we're women. We must get equal rights  16 pay and everything. We wanted  17 exactly the same  18 men are ! Exactly the same !”

　　Just then it was time for the passengers to go aboard the train and people began to push their way through the entrance . A man pushed Margaret  19 and got in front . “There aren't any gentlemen left any more . Men don't even know  20 a woman like a lady any more !” Margaret said loudly .　　

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　　Two friends are having a picnic (野餐) together. Their names  1 Jim and Tim, Tim is very lazy.  2 the first evening of their holiday, Jim says  3 Tim, “Here  4 some money. Go and buy  5 .”

　　“I'm  6 ,” answers Tim. “You go.”

　　 7 Jim goes  8 the meat.

　　 9 he comes back. He says to Tim, “Now  10 is the meat. Please  11 it.”

　　But Tim answers, “No, I'm not good  12 cooking. You do it.” So Jim cooks  13 meat.

　　Then he says to Tim, “ 14 and get some water.”

　　“No, I don't want  15 my clothes dirty,” Tim answers.  16 last Jim says, “The meal  17 . Come and eat  18 .”

　　“Yes, I'll do  19 ,” answers Tim. “I don't like  20 ‘No’ all the time.”

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　　For eighty-four days the old man did not catch any fish. People said that he was  1 . But the old man still loved the sea. He was  2 a strong and a good fishman.  3 the eight-fifth day the old man sailed farther out to sea than any of  4 boats. He sailed to the  5 where the water was very deep. Then he felt his fishing line  6 gently by a big fish which was swimming very deep in the water.

　　The fish was so powerful  7 it pulled the boat after it. It took the small boat for  8 to sea. The old man could  9 see the land.

　　‘Fish’, he said softly,  10 ‘I'll stay with you until I am dead’.

　　The old man pulled the line a little  11 , but he did not dare to pull it  12 . The fish might jump and  13 . Or it might dive  14 into the sea and pull the boat after it. But the fish was  15 and brave. It pulled the boat  16 .

　　When the fish  17 at last to the top of the water, the old man saw that it was two feet  18 than his boat. The old man  19 many great fish, but this one was the greatest fish he had ever seen. It was also the most  20 .

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　　Two years ago my husband bought me a bike. If you live in a town, it is often 1 than a car and you don't have to worry 2 parking, You can 3 it anywhere. As it has a seat 4 the back and a basket at the 5 . I can take my small daughter to the library, shopping, anywhere in fact .

　　I use it 6 in summer when the 7 is warm and dry . It can also be very 8 .You must of course be careful 9 a bike. Accidents are not 10 problem though. One day I went shopping and came back to 11 my front wheel was 12 . It was a long walk to the bike shop! Now I have three 13 .

　　My husband 14 my bike some times for short journeys . He is not a keen (热心的) cyclist but says its 15 than waiting for a bus. He still 16 his car for 17 journeys, but I think that all this 18 down is making him fat and lazy. On my bike I get a lot of 19 and fresh air, and cycling makes me feel a lot 20 .

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　　Once a neighbour stole one of Washington's horses, Washington went 1 a police office to the neighbour's farm 2 the horse, but the 3 refused to give the horse up; he said 4 it was his horse .

　　Washington placed 5 of his hands over the eyes of the horse and 6 to the neighbour.

　　“If this is your horse, 7 you must tell us 8 eye he is blind.”

　　“In the right 9 !” the neighbour said.

　　Washington took his 10 from the right eye of the horse and 11 the police officer that the horse was not blind in the 12 eye .

　　“Oh, I have made a 13 ,” said the neighbour. “He is 14 in the left eye.”

　　Washington then showed that 15 was not blind in the left eye 16 .

　　“I have made 17 mistake,” said the neighbour.

　　“Yes,” said the police officer, “and you have 18 that the horse does not belong 19 you. You must 20 it to Mr. Washington.”

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　　Can you imagine what life would be 1 if there were no telephone? You could not call 2 your friends on the phone and talk to them. If fire 3 out in your house you could not 4 the fire department. If somebody were 5 , you could not call a 6 .

　　In our daily life we need to communicate(交际) with 7 . We do this 8 by speaking to other people and listening to 9 they have to say to us, and when we are 10 to them we can do this very 11 . However, our 12 will not travel very far even when we 13 , and it is thanks to the 14 of the telephone that we are 15 able to communicate with each other as clearly 16 we were in the same room.

　　The man who 17 this possible was Alexander Graham Bell, a Scotsman, born in Edinburgh in 1847. Bell, a teacher of visible (可见的) speech who later moved to Canada, 18 all his spare time experimenting. 19 enthusiastic(热情的) was he in his research for a means for sending 20 by electricity that he left little time for his day-to-day work and at one time was almost penniless.

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