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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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I arrived in the United States on February 6, 1996, but I remember my first day here very clearly. My friend was waiting for me when my plane landed at Kennedy Airport at three o'clock in the afternoon. The weather was very __1__ and it was snowing, but I was too excited to __2__. From the airport, my friend and I took a taxi to my __3__. On the way, I saw the skyline of Manhattan for the __4__ time and I stared in astonishment at the famous skyscrapers and their man-made __5__. My friend helped me unpack at the hotel and then left because he had to go back to work. He promised to return the next day.

　　__6__ my friend had left, I went to a __7__ near the hotel to get something to eat. Because I couldn't speak a single __8__ of English, I couldn't tell the __9__ what I wanted. I was very upset and started to make some __10__, but the waiter didn't __11__ me. Finally, I ordered the same thing the man at the next table was __12__. After dinner, I started to walk along Broadway __13__ I came to Times Square with its cinemas, theatres, neonlights, and huge crowds of people. I did not feel tired, so I __14__ to walk around the city. I wanted to see __15__ on my first day. I knew it was __16__, but I wanted to try.

　　When I returned to the hotel, I was __17__, but I couldn't __18__ because I kept hearing the fire and police sirens（警笛）during the night. I lay __19__ and thought about New York. It was a very big and interesting city with many tall buildings and big cars, and full of __20__ and busy people. I also decided right then that I had to learn to speak English.

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　　Doc Waston, the bird-caretaker（看守鸟的人）, was walking along the path in the San Francisco Zoo. Suddenly he came face __1__ face with a large tiger. He stood very still. The __2__ and the animal looked at each other.“I didn't __3__ what I saw at first,” Doc said“but there he __4__.”

　　Doc had no gun. He knew he __5__ be killed. The tiger's big yellow eyes __6__ him, but the big animal did not move. With much care, Doc went round the big __7__. Then Doc ran for the zoo kitchen.

　　“The big tiger's out! The big tiger's out!”cried Doc as he __8__ the kitchen door.

　　__9__ the men took guns, a zoo-keeper stepped out to take a look. And there __10__ the tiger only a few feet away. The big animal was looking __11__ at him. The keeper could see it would not be __12__ to jump back. So he __13__ took a hose（洒水用的软管）that was __14__ him. Then he turned __15__ the water. The tiger stepped __16__.

　　At that time a bell sounded. This __17__ all the keepers that an animal was out. Men from all over the zoo __18__. The tiger was surprised by the __19__. He turned and started back for the tiger house. Doc followed __20__.

　　At the tiger cage, he caught up with the animal. Doc pushed a garden rake（钉齿耙）at the tiger. It would have been easy for the cat to come at Doc. But the animal seemed to be tired of the game. He turned and went quietly through the open door into the cage.

　　Doc came up with care. He closed the door. The tiger was back where he belonged.

　　“I'm going back to the bird-cages,”said Doc.“I'm not afraid when they get out.”

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　　Marie was born in 1867. __1__ soon saw that she had a __2__ mind. When she was quite young, she __3__ nothing better than to __4__ hours reading in spite of her __5__ health, and always __6__ top honours at her school.

　　Her mother died when the youngest daughter was __7__ ten. From then on, Marie knew that she would __8__ to work harder than before at her lessons if she wanted to be __9__ in her life. When she was eighteen, she went to work __10__ a governess（家庭女教师）. She __11__ as much as she could __12__ her small salary, and went to Paris for __13__ study.

　　At the University of Paris, she took a single room without __14__ or light. She __15__ on bread and tea most of the time, and __16__ she thought of was her mathematics and __17__. This was her world, and __18__ all she liked her experiments, even the __19__ of the chemicals.

　　Marie always said __20__ it was because of her children that she went on with the work...and in doing so, she discovered a strong power and gave it to the world. It was the same power, however, that killed Marie Curie in 1934.

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　　A successful scientist is generally a good observer. He makes full ____1____ of the facts he observes. He doesn't accept ideas which are not _____2_____ on obvious facts, and therefore refuses to accept authority（权威）as the only _____3___ for truth. He always _____4_____ ideas carefully and makes experiments to prove them.

　　The rise of _____5_____ science may be considered to ___6___ as far back as the ___7___ of Roger Bacon, the wonderful philosopher（哲学家）of Oxford, who lived ___8___ the years 1214 and 1292. He was probably the first in the middle ___9___ to suggest that we must learn science ___10___ observing and experimenting on the things around us, and he himself ___11___ many important discoveries.

　　Galileo, however, who lived more than 300 years later (1564——1642), was the greatest of several great men, ____12___ in Italy, France, Germany, or England, began by ___13___ to show how many important ___14___ could be discovered by observation. Before Galileo, learned men believed that large bodies fell more ___15___ towards the earth than small ones, ___16___ Aristotle said so. But Galileo, going to the ___17___ of the Leaning Tower of Pisa, let fall two ___18___ stones and proved Aristotle was wrong．It was Galileo's ___19___ of going direct to Nature, and proving our ___20___ and theories by experiment, that has led to all the discoveries of modern science.

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　　Aristotle was the first to watch living things and to try to find out how life begins, and to write down things __1__. He watched things carefully and learned. Such are his__2__of work with the catfish（鲶鱼）.He __3__ hours in a small boat off the coast of Lesbos, looking down at a catfish that was __4__ its eggs among the grass like plant. Later he made a __5__ of what he had seen: “The fish lays eggs not deep in water, usually close to roots.” After he had watched the __6__ of the catfish for a long time, Aristotle began to __7__ other things about fish.

　　“Fishes can produce no __8__”, he wrote, “for they have no __9__ , but some of them, as the catfish in the river, make sounds __10__ rubbing their gill（鱼鳃）covers.”

　　So day after day from his small boat, Aristotle watched the life of the __11__ world. Everyone had seen fish before, and the fishermen knew something about their habits, for this __12__ helped them to get a bigger __13__. But until then no one had watched the ways of fish for the single aim of trying to understand them.

　　Aristotle thought that if he watched each living thing __14__ and wrote down what he saw, he would come __15__ to an understanding of life. It was there on the shore of the Lesbian Gulf __16__ he began his biological studies. Through the __17__ thus collected, Aristotle was able to write some fifty books. At his great school he __18__, Aristotle talked with his pupils, and he wrote down his __19__ in book after book. Most of Aristotle's books have been __20__, but enough of his works remain just to prove that he is the first and the greatest biologist.

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　　I met this guy who told me an amazing story. He was ___1___Scotland on a motorbike by himself. One late afternoon he was on the road between Aberdeen and Elgin. He was travelling along, miles from any village, when he saw a really ___2___girl standing by the road, hitch hiking（沿途搭车）. Anyway, he stopped and said he would give her a ___3___to Elgin. She got on and he drove off. He said he ___4___having her on the back, as it was nice___5___. But after a time he forgot that she was there. Suddenly he___6___ her, but he realized that he couldn't feel her knees ___7___against him! He ___8___behind him but…, she wasn't there.

　　He said he felt frightened ___9___his life! He felt cold all over. He thought she must have ___10___off the back. So he turned round and ___11___back along the road. He didn't find' her. He went to see if she had crawled（爬）into a field or something. But he didn't find her. So he began to think that she might have been ___12___by someone else.

　　Anyway, he drove on towards Elgin and didn't see anyone ___13___he came to a pub. He decided to ___14___so that he could talk to someone and he thought he ought to tell ___15___. He went into a pub and talked to the barman. He told the barman what had happened. He said the barman didn't seem to be at all ___16___. He just carried on ___17___the glasses.

　　Then the barman said,“You're not the ___18___person to come in here and tell the same ___19___That girl you think you picked up ___20___seven years ago... in a motorbike accident.”

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　　From Monday till Friday most people are busy__1__or studying, __2__in the evenings and on weekends they___3___enjoy ___4___. Some watch TV or go to movies; others engage in sports. It ___5___ individual（个人的）interests. ___6___ many different ways to spend our spare time.

　　Almost everyone has some kind of hobby. It may be anything ___7___collecting stamps___8___model airplanes. Some hobbies are very expensive, but others___9___anything at all. Some collections are worth a lot of money, others are ___10___only to___11___.

　　I know a man who has a coin___12___worth seven thousand dollars. A short time ago he bought a rare fifty-cent piece worth 250 dollars! He was very happy about that and thought the price was___13___. On the other hand, my younger brother collects match boxes. He has almost 600 of them but I___14___if they are worth any money. However, to my brother they are extremely___15___ ___16___makes him happier than to find a new match box for his collection.

　　That's___17___a hobby means, I guess. It is something we like to do in our spare time simply___18___of it.___ 19___in dollars is not important but the pleasure it___20___us is important.

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　　I've really got to do something to lose weight because I'm getting much too fat. I wasn't___1___about it until I went to see the doctor. She told me that I'd___2__have a heart attack___3__I started eating less. She said,“When you are on___4__you have to resist the temptation to eat even though you feel___5__. This may be very hard to do and you certainly need a lot of___6__to succeed.”

　　So, I'm going to a ___7___ arm for a month where I won't be able to___8__much and where I'll have to___9__my diet. They will also make me take plenty of___10__, which won't do me any___11__either. Both the diet and the exercise will help me to lose___12__and feel healthier. People say that health farms are like __13__ here every one is___14__up and given carrot juice and lettuce when really wants a bi __15__. In fact, that's exactly the kind of discipline I___16__, because whenever I see someone having a ___17__in a TV program, feel like a drink myself and it's __18__ cigarettes and food. ___19__me luck, when you see me again, I'll be so slim that you won't ___20__ me.