"I don"t see why I can"t be the best person to write an advice column for the students called Dear Amy!"
Andy said to Jenny, the editor of the school newspaper. Andy agreed to do it if Jenny did not tell it to anyone
else.
At first it wasn"t too bad. Most of the letters he received were interesting and quite easy to answer. Then
came a letter from a person named Joe.
"Dear Amy," it began. "I"m in real trouble. I"ve wanted to be a songwriter all my life, but my parents won"t
even let me take music lessons .I have a guitar, but they both get angry if I play it, I"ve tried explaining, but they
won"t listen. I feel sad. Should I run away from home? Maybe that will make my parents change their minds! "
The letter was written by "Joe".
Andy thought about this letter for a long time. Should he advise someone to run away from home? But did
n"t Joe have a right to be a songwriter if he wanted to? Andy thought hard but couldn"t think out a good answer.
Andy couldn"t sleep . He just worried about poor Joe.
In a reading room a few days later, Eleanor, a girl in Andy"s maths class, sat down next to him and said,
"You look a little bit worried"
"I guess I do." Said Andy.
"If you"ve got a problem, why don"t you try writing to Dear Amy about it?" asked Eleanor.
Andy groaned, but she went on."I guess Dear Amy is rather busy with other problems. She still hasn"t
answered the phoney letter I wrote her last week .You"d better read it — it may make even the most hard-
hearted person cry! It was thought to be from a songwriter named Joe."
注： advice 建议，column 专栏，editor 编辑，guitar 吉它，explain 解释， right 权力，groan ***
About a hundred people lived in a very small mountain village. It was very 1 from the other villages
and towns. They had few friends and they got bad harvest. 2 of them left the village. Of course there
was neither electricity (电) nor gas (煤气) there.
Once a writer 3 the village. The backwardness (落后) of the village surprised him. He decided 4
about it to the world. So he took the oldest villager to London. The old man told all about his home village to
the people. Several months 5 he returned. All the villagers went to see him and asked him how he had
enjoyed 6 in the city.
"Everything is wonderful in 7 ," the old man said.
"I"ve 8 to many good places and eaten all kinds of nice food and other things. But the trouble was I
could not 9 at night."
"What happened to you?" his wife asked.
"The 10 was on in my bedroom all the time."
"Why not blow it out, then? "
"I tried-but it was inside a little glass bottle."
Travel by train
Jack loves traveling by train. Whenever he feels like traveling, he"d first think about taking a trip on the
rail. That is because he never has to bother to book (订) tickets or collect them in advance (提前). Going to
the station and buying a ticket are what he has to do.
Traveling by train is also very comfortable. Most of the trains are air-conditioned, warm in winter and
cool in summer. Jack usually chooses a non-smoking section, taking a seat by the window so he can enjoy
the outside views. If it is a night train, the experience can be exciting. He just sleeps the whole night and the
next day, he will be in a new city. By the way, he never has to worry about his meals. The train provides
food around the clock.
Traveling by train has another advantage to offer: you may run into some old friends or you can listen
to people talking about something of your interest. Last week when he was on a train, for instance, he ran
into a primary school classmate. They didn"t expect that they could bump into each other that way. Their
talk brought back many things: the games they played, the jokes they made on their peers and the funny
things they had done.
1. 请用简短的话概括文中提到的乘火车的三个优点。
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2. How would you like to go to school? Why?
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(举止文明),but the sixth was a rude( 粗野的) young man who was causing (引起) a lot of 2 to the other
passengers.
At last this young man got out at a station with his two heavy bags. 3 of the other passengers helped
him, but one of them 4 until the rude young man was very 5 , and then opened the window and
shouted to him ."You 6 something behind in the compartment!" Then he closed the window again.
The young man turned around and 7 with his two bags. He was very 8 when he arrived, but
he shouted through the window, "What did I leave behind?"
As the train began to move again, the passenger who had 9 him back opened the window and said,
"A very 10 impression ( 印象)!"
He pretended (假装) to look for 4 on the ground by her feet. It wasn"t long before the woman noticed him
and asked 5 he had lost anything. "Yes," answered the man, looking very 6 , "I"m looking for a smile
that is lost." 7 the woman understood what he 8 and soon there was a smile on her 9 , and it
grew bigger. Then the man told her that was just the thing he was looking for!
After seeing all this I thought that the world will become much 10 if everyone is ready to give his
help to others like him!
work. When he got on the lift, it stopped between floors. Mr. Coates could not get out of the lift. He started
to shout, but no one heard him. Then Mr. Coates remembered that it was a holiday in England. No one
was going to come to work until Tuesday!
There was nothing for Mr. Coates to do. He had to wait. With nothing to eat or drink, Mr. Coates slept
for most of the time. Early on Tuesday morning, his workmates came into work and found the lift was not
working. When the lift was opened, Mr. Coates came out. He was cold, weak, and tired. He had been in the
lift for 62 hours!
Now Mr.Coates says, "I only use lifts if they have telephones in them."
B. it was the weekend
C. it was in an office
D. it was a holiday
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