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　　American teenagers have always worked for extra pocket money. 1 their predecessors（前辈）, today’s young people are 2 to work long hours during the week for hundreds of dollars each month. They spend the money 3 themselves rather than contributing it 4 their families. In a 1997 5 of 16000 high school seniors nationwide, it was 6 that eighty percent of students who worked 7 their earnings on their own 8 such as clothing, stereo equipment, records and movies. 9 five percent said they contributed most of their income, which often exceeded, ＄ 200 a month, to help pay family living 10 The benefits of this work-and-spend ethics（伦理观）are being 11 argued, Some experts, and many parents, 12 that year-round part-time employment increases youngsters’ 13 of worth, teaches them financial（财政的） 14 and reduces tension, and thus conflict（冲突） 15 the family. Other, 16 , argue that working teenagers are separated, physically and financially, 17 their families, which in turn 18 parental authority.

　　Teenagers’ schoolwork can also suffer.“When youngsters 19 for luxuries, they are buying distraction 20 education,”said a program director for the U．S．Department of Education. Working teenagers themselves say they have less time to spend with their friends and families.

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　　A couple from Minneapolis, in the north, decided to go to Florida, in the south, for a long weekend during one particularly icy cold winter. They both had jobs, and had 1 managing their travel schedules（日程安排）It was decided the husband would fly to Florida on a Thursday, and his wife would 2 him the next day. Upon arriving as 3 , the husband checked into the 4 There he decided to 5 his laptop（computer）and send his wife an email back in Minneapolis. However, he 6 left off one letter in her 7 and sent the e-mail without 8 his error.

　　In the 9 in Houston, a widow（寡妇）had just returned from her husband’s burial service He was a minister of many years who had been“called home to glory”following a heart 10 （died and gone to report in heaven）. The widow checked her e-mail, 1l messages from family and friends. Upon 12 the first message, she was so shocked as to fall to the floor, The widow’s son 13 into the room, found his mother on the floor and saw the computer 14 which read:

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　　I was poor and always said yes to my boss. But the 1 was reached one Tuesday my half holiday. On my way 2 on Tuesdays I used to carry a large basket of things to the house of my boss' sister. 3 her house was on my way home, I 4 refused this.

　　On this particular Tuesday, 5 , just as we were about to 6 , a load of smoked hams was delivered at the 7 . “Wait a minute, Little Stark,” said the boss and he opened the load and 8 out a ham, which he started to bone and string up.

　　I 9 in growing impatience to get on my way, not for one minute but for quite a 10 time.

　　It was nearly 2:30. Thank God! The boss finished. He then came to me with the 11 ham, put it in the 12 beside me, and told me to take it to a customer who had placed an 13 for it days before.

　　This meant my going a 14 way out of my road home, so I looked up, saying, “I have my 15 at two on Tuesday, you know.” “What do you 16 ?” he shouted. I told him that I meant that I would deliver things as 17 , but not at this moment.

　　The boss stared at me as if I were some 18 kind of insect and shouted even harder. But I 9 firm. At last, seeing it was impossible, he gave up and 20 me go home for my holiday.

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　　Elephants used to live in many places in Africa, but 1 many were killed by hunter for their 2 ivory tusks that there are not so many left any more.

　　Male elephants have huge 3 from six to nine feet long. They use them 4 digging up roots to eat and for carrying things and, 5 necessary, for fighting.

　　But elephants don't fight 6 . 7 man, they have no enemies. They are so big that no other animals attack them. And they don't attack or 8 other animals.

　　They eat leaves and bark and fruit and nuts and 9 .

　　They travel in herds(群), 10 a leader and are always looking for a good place to have a picnic. When they find a nice little grove of trees, they have 11 . They break the branches 12 the trees to eat the leaves as we 13 break off a stalk of celery.

　　Sometimes they just butt with their heads and 14 down a whole tree.

　　Baby elephants shuffle along with a traveling herd, hanging onto their mother's tails with their 15 . The mothers take good care of their 16 . Sometimes they even “plaster” them with 17 . Does a mother elephant know that this gives 18 baby some 19 against insect bites and stings It seems 20 . All the elephants keep an eye on the babies, for they are the pets of the herd.

　　If an elephant happens to sick or hurt, the other elephants take care of it, too. They never go on and leave it behind.

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　　Nowadays most people decide quite early what kind of work they would like to do. I was at 1 , we had to choose what to study when we were fifteen. I chose scientific subjects. “In the future, 2 will earn a lot of money,” my parents said. For three years I 3 to learn physics and chemistry, but in the end I 4 that I would 5 be a scientist. It was a long time 6 I told my parents that I wasn't 7 at school. “I didn't think you were,” said my mother. “I didn't either,” said my father. “Well, the 8 thing to do is to 9 a job.”

　　I talked about it with my friends Frank and Lesley. 10 of them could suggest anything, but they 11 that they would ask their friends. A few days later while I was still in bed. Someone telephoned, “Is 12 Miss Jenkings?” a man's voice asked. “I 13 your hobby is photography and I've got a job that might 14 you in my clothes factory. My name is Mr Brown.”

　　He seemed 15 on the phone so I went to see him right away. I was so excited that I almost 16 to say good－bye. “Good luck!” my mother said to me.

　　I arrived a bit 17 and when Mr Brown came, he said “Good morning” to me, and asked if I had been 18 a long time. “No, not long,” I replied. After 19 to me for about twenty minutes he offered me a 20 not as a photographer, though, as a model!

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　　I had walked all day in the mountains. It had been a beautiful hot day. It 1 still five miles from the nearest town 2 I reached a tiny village. Although it 3 late, I decided to stop at the grocer's shop for a beer. I needed 4 to help me over the next five miles, for it would certainly be long after dark by the time I reached the town. “You can come and stay at my house,” a middle－aged man said. “That would be 5 trouble for you,” I said. “No trouble at 6 ,” he said, “It would be a pleasure, 7 it?”

　　By the time the wife had begun to cook 8 , and her husband and I had gone off to take a bath together, we had already drunk 9 beer, 10 each other our telephone numbers, and decided that we liked each other a lot. The two of them lived alone in the house. In the 11 I 12 to mention that that day was my wedding anniversary and, 13 the husband had taken his, he dried himself quite hurriedly and 14 the bathroom. I spent ten minutes sitting alone in the hot water, 15 how kind my new friends were. When I had put on my clothes again and come back into the living room, 16 my surprise I found that the husband had telephoned my wife, and that she was waiting five hundred miles away in Tokyo to wish 17 a happy anniversary. As I spoke to her, the Japanese couple stood watching me and laughing with pleasure. We spent the 18 drinking more beer and singing songs and discussing the wife's plans to go to 19 in ten years' time when she had learned to speak French. When I woke in the morning, the 20 had already left for work.

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