A little boy invited his mother to his school"s first teacher-parent meeting. To the little boy"s disappointment (失望), she said she would go. This 1 be the first time that his classmates and teacher 2 his mother and
he felt ashamed (丢脸) of what she looked. 3 she was a beautiful woman, there was a deep scar (伤痕)
that covered the whole right side of her face. The boy never wanted to 4 why or how she got the scar.
At the meeting, the people were impressed (留下印象) by the kindness and natural beauty of his mother in
spite of (尽管) the scar, but the little boy still felt uncomfortable and hid himself from everyone. However, he
could hear the conversation 5 his mother and his teacher. The teacher asked 6 , "How did you get the
scar on your face?" The mother replied, " 7 my son was a baby, he was in a room that caught fire. Everyone
was 8 afraid to go in because the fire was terrible, so I went in. As I was running toward his bed, I saw a
long 9 of wood coming down and I placed myself over him trying to keep him from hurt. I was knocked,
but luckily, a fireman came in and saved 10 of us." She said slowly, "This scar will be lasting, but to this day, I have never regretted (后悔) what I did."
At this point, the little boy came out running toward his mother with tears in his eyes. This was his first
time to hear the story. He 11 her in his arms and felt the great 12 from his mother. He held her hand
tightly for the rest of the day.
of time. People think I"m selfish or not kind-hearted. But I don"t feel sorry for that, and I think more parents
will be coming around to my way of thinking. Britain"s universities are failing to serve either the country or
our children. It"s about time we voted (投票) with our feet.
I can"t remember when I began to change my mind on education. Like a lot of middle-class parents,
we had believed that going to university was what your children did. It"s one of the reasons (理由) we offered
more than $ 100,000 in fees (学费) for Jim to go to a private (私立) school rather than a free public one.
Education is more important than nice cars, new kitchens or skiing holidays.
Jim is a young boy of whom any parent would be proud. He"s clever and helpful; he"s good at things like
hanging pictures and mending doors; he can get on well with other kids. But he"s shown little interest in study.
It"s not Jim"s intellect (智力) that"s the problem-after he entered the school he was asked to sit an exam
but an in-built reluctance (勉强) to do any more work than necessary to get by. We"ve tried everything to make
him work harder. None of it has worked. For his final exams, Jim got a D and two Es. Even allowing for our
low expectations (期望), this came as a surprise to his mother and me.
"Surely," I said to one of Jim"s teachers, "the only subject Jim would get on with such poor grades would
be the kind of subject that wouldn"t be worth doing anyway."
"Not at all," the teacher answered, as if speaking to a dinosaur. He read out the names of a lot of univer-
sities I"d never heard of, saying they"d all be fit for Jim.
It was at this point I realized how far away I was from today"s education. I knew that, since I was at
school in the early 1980s-when a student with such poor grades as Jim"s would not have been allowed to go to
any university-the population in the UK going on to higher education has gone up from 14% to a surprising 44%.
B. there are few universities in the UK
C. Jim won"t be allowed to go to university
D. it"s a waste of time and money to do so
spoke. That"s one of the unwritten rules. Although we see the same faces every day, we prefer to 1
behind our newspapers. People who sit so close together are using those newspapers to keep their distance
(距离).
As the bus came near the Mile, a voice suddenly rang out, "Attention! This is your driver 2 ." We
3 the back of the driver"s head. "Put your papers down. All of you." The 4 came down. "Now,
turn and face the person next to you. Go ahead."
Surprisingly we all did it. Still no one smiled. I faced an older woman. her head wrapped (裹) in a red
scarf. I saw her 5 every day. Our eyes met. We waited for the next order from the driver. "Now repeat
after me. Good morning, neightbor!"
Our voices were 6 . For many of us, these were the 7 words we had spoken that day. But we
said them together, like 8 , to the strangers beside us. We couldn"t help smiling. There was the 9 of
relief (解脱). Moreover, there was the sense of ice being broken "Good morning, neighbor." It was not so
10 after all. Some of us repeated it, others shook hands, and many laughed.
The bus driver said nothing more. He didn"t 11 to. Not a single newspaper went back up. I heard
laughter, a 12 sound I had never heard before in No. 151 bus.
When I reached my stop, I said goodbye to my seatmate, and then jumped off the bus. That day I was
starting off happily.
At six o"clock his favourite programme "Travel with it!" was on TV. Andy liked to get home in good time
for that, so he was leaving the office a little 2 .
"I can get home in time if I hurry." Andy told himself when he 3 out of the office. But when he drove
off in his car, he 4 that he was almost out of gas (汽油). "I"ll have to stop at Fenton"s." Andy thought. He
5 Fenton"s because it was a self-service gas station. You do all the work yourself, but you pay 6 for
the gas. Fenton"s pump (泵) was not working properly and it 7 too much time to get gas.
So when Andy got home, it was already two minutes past six. Just then the phone rang. "Shall I answer
it?" Andy thought. He tried to fix his attention on the programme and forgot the phone. But it kept on ringing and
finally he picked it up.
"Mr. Barton?" 8 said, "Fenton"s Garage here."
"Fenton"s?" said Andy, " 9 , I was at your place only a few minutes ago, getting some gas. Did I
10 something behind or what?"
"No, you didn"t. Mr. Barton." the voice went on. "That"s just the point! You didn"t leave anything behind!
You went off without paying for your gas, you see! When that happened, we usually ring up the police. But
11 I recognized you and I know it was a mistake."
"I"m really very sorry." Andy said. "
Oh, 12 , Mr. Barton. But could you come round now and pay for your gas? And please hurry! We
close at half past six!"
very sick and they had no money. Only an operation (手术) could save him now and there was no one to
lend them the money.
One day she heard her Daddy say to her tearful mother, "Only a miracle (奇迹) can save him now."
The little girl went to her bedroom and pulled her piggy bank (存钱罐) from its hiding place. She poured
all the coins out on the floor and counted them carefully.
Holding her piggy bank, she ran to the nearby drugs store. she placed her coins on the glass counter.
"I want to buy a miracle for my little brother. He is really sick." said the little girl to the shop assistant.
"I beg your pardon?" the shop assistant could hardly believe what he heard.
"His name is Andrew and he has something bad growing inside his head and my Daddy says only a
miracle can save him."
"We don"t sell miracle here, child. I"m sorry," the shop assistant said.
"Listen, I have the money to pay for it. If it isn"t enough, I can try and get some more. Just tell me how
much it costs."
In the shop was a well-dressed customer (顾客). His name was Carlton Armstrong. He asked the little
girl, "What kind of miracle does your brother need?"
"I don"t know," she replied. "He is really sick and Mommy says he needs an operation. But my Daddy
can"t pay for it."
"How much do you have?" asked the man. "One dollar and eleven cents," she answered. "Well," smiled
the man. "A dollar and eleven cents? That is the exact price of a miracle for your little brother. I have the kind
of miracle you need."
He took her money in one hand and held her hand with the other. He said, "Take me to where you live.
I want to see your brother and meet your parents."
Carlton Armstrong saved Andrew"s life by giving him a successful operation.
"That operation," her mother said in a low voice, "was a real miracle. I wonder how much it would have
cost." The little girl smiled. She knew exactly how much the miracle cost-one dollar and eleven cents.
1. Could the girl"s family pay for the boy"s operation?
________________________________________________________.
2. Where did Carlton Armstrong work?
________________________________________________________.
3. What did the little girl think of miracle at first?
________________________________________________________.
4. How did Carlton Armstrong do the miracle?
________________________________________________________.
5. Why did Carlton Armstrong receive the girl"s one dollar and eleven cents?
________________________________________________________.
when this method of communication first came into business life, his company in New York and its satellites
across the earth were among the first to get it.
One evening in New York, the American friend was late for a drink we"d arranged (安排). "Sorry," he
said, "I"ve been away and had to deal with 998 emails." "Wow," I said, "I"m really surprised you made it before
midnight." "It doesn"t really take that long," he explained, "if you simply delete (删除) them all."
The friend had developed his own way on dealing with emails before most of us heard of emails. If any
information he got was very important, his no reply would make the sender ring him up. If the sender wasn"t
important enough to have his phone number, the communication couldn"t be important enough.
Almost every week now, we have to spend lots of time in dealing with emails. But if this happens, it"s only
because we haven"t developed the same thing in dealing with emails as we do with post. Have you ever regarded
an important letter as a piece of advertisement and thrown it out? Of course you haven"t. Junk (垃圾) email
looks unnecessary to read. But I cannot understand why so many people would like to open emails which come
from this kind of address such as SPECIALOFFER@junk.com.
Dealing with emails is an art. Firstly, you delete anything from any address you don"t know. Secondly, not
all the emails have to be answered. Thirdly, a reply email doesn"t have to be the same length as the original (原始
的).
B. Because he had to deal with quite a lot of emails.
C. Because he had to finish his work before midnight.
D. Because he had to delete quite a lot of emails.
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