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There are about fifteen hundred languages in the world.

　　But __1__ a few of them are very __2__. English is one of these. Many, many people use it, not only in England and the USA, but in other parts of the world. About 200 million people speak it as their own language. It is difficult to say how many people are learning it as a __3__ language. Many millions are __4__ to do so.

　　Is it easy or difficult to learn English? Different people may have different __5__. Have you ever __6__ the advertisements of this kind in the newspapers or magazines?

　　“Learn English in six months, or your __7__ back...”“Easy and funny. Our records and tapes __8__ you master your English in a month. __9__ the first day your __10__ will be excellent. Just send...”Of course, it never __11__ quite like this.

　　The only language that seems easy to learn is the mother tongue. We should __12__ that we all learned our own language well when we were __13__. If we could learn English in the same way, it would not seem so difficult. __14__ what a small child does. He listens to what people say. He tries what he hears. When he is using the language, talking in it, and __15__ in it all the time, just imagine how much __16__ that gets!

　　So it is __17__ to say that learning English is easy, because a good command of English __18__ upon a lot of practice. And practice needs great effort and __19__ much time. Good teachers, records, tapes, books, and dictionaries will __20__. But they cannot do the student's work for him.

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　　Of all the men who ever liked fresh air, no one liked it more than James Wilson did. He 1 slept with his windows open even 2 snow was falling outside.

　　One winter Wilson went to Finland on business. When he 3 his room in the hotel he found that the windows were closed to 4 the icy air out. He did his best to open 5 , but failed.

　　The bed was really 6 , but Wilson could not sleep. He could not 7 the closed windows. No fresh air! It was 8 to think of!

　　At about one o' clock in the morning he was 9 awake, worrying about the air in the room. He became very 10 . Where was the windows? He could see something that looked like 11 over there. He threw a shoe at it through the 12 with all the force of his strong right arm. A terrible sound of breaking glass 13 the room, but to Wilson' s sad heart it seemed like the sound of 14 music. Five minutes later he was peacefully asleep.

　　When daylight came through the window, he 15 and lay with his eyes closed. There was 16 to worry about. What was it? Oh, the broken window! Yes, indeed. He would have to pay 17 that. He opened his eyes to look.

　　Suddenly he 18 in surprise; the window was not broken at all. The glass was all in one piece, just as good as it had been the night before. 19 was entering the room through the window!

　　 He then turned his eyes to the side and saw a broken picture hanging on the wall. There was 20 on the floor below it, and a lot of broken glass round the shoe.

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　　It was a very special, yet sad day for me. On that day I left my beloved home group, and, like any teenager, went to seek a new 1 , and a new life. All the 2 of survival I had learned were going to be put to the test. I said 3 ,and ran away, thinking of what a great my life it would be. I had a 4 childhood. My mother was shot, and my father poisoned 5 he went to search for her. I would still tremble at the thought of the scenes. I was 6 by the group. But my painful childhood faded away for a moment as I walked away.

　　Deep in the 7 I searched. Finally, I heard a female wolf 8 . She was howling in pain. I followed the sound, and quickly found her. Her hind leg was 9 in a metal thing called a trap. The head wolf from my old group had 10 me that these things were 11 and I should not go anywhere near it. This time, I chose not to listen to this 12 . I tried standing back, rushing to the trap to hit it with my head, but it 13 move. I tried biting it, but it 14 gave out the sound of clanging（叮当声）. I tried scratching（抓）it, 15 it only gave a reply of breaking one of my nails. I became 16 and started hitting, and knocking. That 17 and the female was free, and glancing at me with such bright blue 18 that I was in love with her at once. Her soft fur was like the ground after a(n) 19 , and there wasn't a 20 hair you could find that was not purely white. I felt I found my lover and a new home would be formed.

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　　John climbed easily over the garden wall He made no 1 .He looked around. After a moment he 2 to the window of Mr White's house.

　　John had been a 3 once. But that was 4 he had come to live in the small town of Brampton. Now he was a shopkeeper. He had 5 the shop in Brampton for ten years. And 6 knew that he had once been a thief. Tonight was the first time　　7 ten years.

　　John did not want to steal from Mr White. He needed 8 because a man he once met in the prison came to this town. He 9 that John had been a thief. He said that he would 10 the people in Brampton about it. John was afraid, 11 he gave him money. Then the man wanted more money. John did not have enough to 12 him. And he became a thief again.

　　 13 was easy to get into the house. He 14 the room where all the 15 things were kept. John 16 his pockets with all those things. Soon he had more than enough.

　　He was leaving 17 he heard a sound him. He 18 quickly. They door was 19 and Mr White himself was 20 in front of him.

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　　With their shiny, grey bodies, dolphins（海豚）appear to be large fish．____1____, they are really warm-blooded mammals. Although they can stay under the water for up to 15 minutes ____2____, the dolphins must come up to breathe air through a hole on top of their heads.

　　Dolphins are social animals. Many of them even ____3____ around humans. In addition to being playful; they are helpful to men. For example ____4____ 400 B.C. the Great poet Arion was saved from ___5____ by a dolphin. From then until now, dolphins have been helping swimmers, ____6__ in trouble. Swimmers, however ,are not ___7____ humans they help. In some parts of the world, they help men ____8____ fish.

　　Dolphins are very clever. Its brain is even larger than a human's. Therefore, some people think a dolphin ____9__ smarter than a man, but ____10___, brain size is not the only measure of cleverness. Besides, measuring dolphin's cleverness in other ways is not possible ___11____ men cannot talk with them. But we can almost ____12____ that dolphins can talk with each other. They make different ____13____ which seem to be at least a form of language. Up to now men ____14___ able to find out how dolphins are talking. So no one really knows what they are thinking. If we could talk with them, perhaps they could teach us to be ___15____ they seem to be.

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　　During the dust-blown thirties, everyone fell on hard times. The year 1 10, we drew names at our little school to see whom we'd 2 Christmas gifts with. I picked Helen's name. Helen was a new girl. Her family 3 in a house someone had deserted.

　　Every day Helen wore the 4 brown dress to school, some of the neighbors whispered that Helen's daddy was 5 , and that he drank. Some didn't 6 want their kids to be friends with Helen.

　　One day in December I said to Mom,“Wouldn't it be nice to get Helen a 7 for Christmas?”Mom agreed, 8 I could see from her expression that there was no extra money for material. She had bought the material for me and my sisters and our dresses were almost 9 “There must be a way,”I 10 . Mom hugged me.“I wish there was a way,”she said.

　　The next morning Mom called me into the kitchen.“I have a(an) 11 ,”she said.“You and Helen are the same 12 . If you gave her your new red dress, I could fix you up the wool plaid（格子花呢）one that your cousin Esther sent.”I got a special feeling in my stomach. Give Helen my new dress? 13 I could respond, Mom said quickly,“I'll go ahead and fix the plaid dress and you can give her that, so she will have a 14 dress to wear for Christmas.”

　　“Give the red dress to Helen,”I said.“I want her to have it.” “Are you 15 ?” “I am sure. Absolutely.”When Helen came into the room Mom handed her the new red dress. A look of 16 filled Helen's face. She hugged Mom. Helen took it and 17 it in front of her.“Thank you, thank you, thank--”she said to me.“I'm so 18 .”I was feeling happy, too. Helen moved away shortly after that and I never 19 her again. Me, the plaid dress became one of my 20 . 

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The Brick

　　About ten years ago, a young and very successful manager named Josh was travelling down a Chicago neighborhood street. He was going a bit fast in his 1 car.

　　He was watching for kids rushing out from between parked cars. 2 his car passed, no child rushed out, but a brick did and WHUMP! It 3 his shiny black side door! Josh 4 out of his car, grabbed the kid and pushed him up 5 a parked car. He shouted at the kid,“ 6 was that all about and who are you? Just what are you doing?”He went on with 7 “That's my new Jaguar, that brick you threw is going to cost you a lot of money. Why did you throw it?”

　　“Please, mister, please…I'm 8 ! I didn't know what else to do!” 9 the youngster.“I threw the brick 10 no one else would stop!”Tears were dripping down the boy's chin as he 11 around the parked car.“It's my brother, mister,”he said.“He rolled 12 the sidewalk and fell out of his wheelchair and I can't 13 him up.”Sobbing, the boy asked the manager,“Would you please help me get him 14 into his wheelchair? He's hurt and he's too heavy for me.”

15　　 beyond words, he lifted the young man back into the wheelchair and took out his handkerchief 16 wiped the cuts, checking to see that everything was going to be OK. He then 17 the younger brother push him down the sidewalk toward their home.

　　It was a long and slow walk back to his expensive car. Josh 18 did fix the side door of his Jaguar. He kept the damage to 19 him not to go through life so fast that someone has to throw a brick at him to get his attention. Pay 20 to the bricks of life coming at to you.

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　　Marlin was a poor man． Once he was out of work and was trying to find a ____1_____. One day he read in the newspaper that a man was ____2_____to work in a zoo. He thought that it would be ____3____ to work in a zoo because he liked animals. He thought that ____4____ animals would be very interesting. So he was very glad and went to the ____5_____ of the zoo and asked for the job.

　　“You look ____6____ a smart boy, ” said the manager. “You can start work tomorrow.”

　　Marlin said OK and went home ____7____. The next day he went to the manager and asked ____8____ he was to do. The manager told him that their monkey had just died and it would ____9____ two months before they could get ____10____ one, so they wanted him to ____11____ the monkey's place.

　　On hearing this, Marlin got angry and shouted：“You want me to take the place of a monkey! Take his place yourself. You look ____12____ like a monkey than I do.”

　　“Don't take it like that, ”said the manager. “I know you don't look like monkey, but we'll ____13____ you up.”

　　Marlin thought about it for a while. _____14_____ he did not like the idea, he had to make ____15____ after all. So he took the job in the end.

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　　Many years ago, when I was a man in my twenties, I worked as a salesman for a piano company.

　　We 1 our pianos all over the state by advertising in small town 2 .Every time we advertised, we would receive a reply on a postcard which said,“Please 3 me a new piano for my little granddaughter. It 4 be red mahogany（红木）. I can pay $10 a month with my egg money.”Of course, we could not sell a(n) 5 piano for $10 a month. 6 her cards kept on coming.

　　A couple of years later, I 7 my own piano company, and when I 8 in that area, the postcards started coming to me. For months, I ignored（不理睬） 9 --what else could I do?

　　But then, one day I 10 to be in the area. I had a red mahogany piano on my little truck. Despite knowing that I was about to 11 a terrible business decision, I managed to find the old woman and took the new piano in her house and placed it 12 I thought the roof would be least likely to rain on it. I told her and a little barefoot girl to try to 13 the chickens off it, and I left sure I had just 14 a new piano.

　　But the 15 came in, all 52 of them as agreed, sometimes with coins. It was unbelievable!

　　Then one day I was in Memphis on 16 business. As I was sitting at the bar having a drink, I heard the most beautiful piano music behind me. I looked 17 ,and there was a lovely young woman 18 a very nice ground piano.

　　She smiled at me, asked for requests, and when she took a 19 she sat down at my table.

　　“Aren't you the man who sold my grandma a piano a long time ago?”

　　I suddenly remembered. My Lord, it was her! It was the little barefoot girl!

　　I did have to go to my room because men don't like to be 20 crying public.

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　　My 23-year-old son Daniel stood in the doorway, ready to say goodbye to his home. In a couple of hours he was going to fly out to France. He was going to be away for at least a year to learn a foreign language and 1 in a foreign country.

　　It was a milestone in Dan's life, a change from school days to　　2 When we were to say goodbye, I 3 closely at his face. I would like to provide him with good 4 that would last longer than here and now.

　　But not a sound came over my lips, I 5 motionless and silent, looking 6 my son's green eyes.

　　 I knew that this wasn't the first time I 7 such an opportunity pass me by. When Daniel was a little boy, I followed him to the bus on his first day in preschool, I 8 the excitement in his hand that held mine when the bus came round the corner. He looked at me just 9 he did now. And then he hoarded the bus and 　　10 .The bus drove away. And I hadn't 11 a word.

　　Some ten years later, a similar experience 12 .His mother and I drove him to the university where he was going to 13 .Daniel was ill in bed when I wanted to say goodbye. 14 the words let me down. I only murmured something like“I hope you're 15 ,Dan.”Then I turned around and left.

　　Now I stood in front of him and recalled all the 16 when I hadn't make use of those opportunities. Why does it have to be so 17 to tell your son what you feel? My mouth was 18 ,and I knew I would only say a few words.

　　“Dan,”I 19 stammered out（结结巴巴地说）,“If I had the choice myself, I would have 20 you.”That was all I could say. It was nothing, and yet it was everything.