crossing the street, and an ambulance rushed him to Kings County Hospital. There, when he came
to now and again, the man repeatedly called for his son.
From a worn letter located in his pocket, an emergency room nurse learned that his son was a
marine stationed in North Carolina. Apparently there were no other relatives.
Someone at the hospital called the Red Cross office in Brooklyn, and a request for the boy to
rush to Brooklyn was sent to the Red Cross director of the North Carolina Marine Corps camp.
Because time was short--- the patient was dying--- the Red Cross man and an officer set out in an
army vehicle. They found the young man walking through some marshes (沼泽) in a military exercise.
He was rushed to the airport in time to catch the only plane that might enable him to reach his dying
father.
It was dusk when the young marine walked into the entrance lobby of Kings County Hospital. A
nurse took the tired, anxious serviceman to the bedside.
"Your son is here," she said to the old man. She had to repeat the words several times before the
patient"s eyes opened. The medicine he had been given for the pain from his heart attack made his eyes
weak and he could only see the shadow of the young man in Marine Corps uniform standing outside
the oxygen tent. He reached out his hand. The marine wrapped his strong fingers around the old man"s
weak ones, squeezing a message of love and encouragement. The nurse brought a chair, so the marine
could sit by the bed.
Nights are long in hospitals, but all through the night the young marine sat there in the dimly lit ward
(病房), holding the old man"s hand and offering words of hope and strength. Occasionally, the nurse
urged the marine to rest for a while. He refused.
Whenever the nurse came into the ward, the marine was there, but he paid no attention to her and
the night noises of the hospital --- the banging of an oxygen tank, the laughter of the night staff exchanging
greetings, the cries and breathing of other patients. Now and then she heard him say a few gentle words.
The dying man said nothing, only held tightly to his son through most of the night.
It was nearly dawn when the patient died. The marine placed the lifeless hand he had been holding
on the bed, and went to inform the nurse. While she did what she had to do, he smoked a cigarette, his
first since he got to the hospital.
Finally, she returned to the nurse"s station, where he was waiting. She started to offer words of
sympathy, but the marine interrupted her. "Who was that man?" he asked.
"He was your father," she answered, shocked.
"No, he wasn"t," the marine replied. "I never saw him before in my life."
"Why didn"t you say something when I took you to him?" the nurse asked.
"I knew immediately there"d been a mistake, but I also knew he needed his son, and his son just
wasn"t here. When I realized he was too sick to tell whether or not I was his son, I guessed he really
needed me. So I stayed. "
With that, the marine turned and left the hospital. Two days later a message came in from the North
Carolina Marine Corps base informing the Brooklyn Red Cross that the real son was on his way to
Brooklyn for his father"s funeral. It turned out there had been two marines with the same name and
similar numbers in the camp. Someone in the personnel office had pulled out the wrong record.
But the wrong marine had become the right son at the right time. And he proved, in a very human
way, that there are people who care what happens to their fellow men.
B. because the old man repeatedly called for his son
C. from a letter found in the old man"s pocket
D. form the old man"s relatives
B. he was participating in a military exercise
C. he and his fellow soldiers were stuck in marshes
D. he was already with the old man
B. the dying man said a few words to the young man
C. the young marine offered him comfort in the last few hours of the old man"s life
D. the night was cold and long, with people coming and going all night
B. when the nurse sensed something strange
C. before the marine came to the nurse"s station
D. as soon as he arrived
B. carelessness on the part of someone in the personnel office
C. the wrong records kept in the North Carolina Marine Corps base
D. the wrong information provided by the Brooklyn Red Cross
means that ______.
B. the marine did not tell the truth at the hospital until some time later
C. the marine told the real story about him and the old man
D. the marine made the right decision about what he should do
to put on fund-raising events to raise money for youth at risk programs.
The last time I was there he introduced me by saying, "I want to tell you why I let Jack use my house.
It all goes back to a story about a young man who was the son of an itinerant(游荡的) horse trainer
who would go from stable to stable, race track to race track, farm to farm and ranch to ranch, training
horses. As a result, the boy"s high school career was continually interrupted. When he was a senior, he
was asked to write a paper about what he wanted to be and do when he grew up. "
"That night he wrote a seven-page paper describing his goal of owning a horse ranch someday. He
wrote about his dream in great detail and he even drew a diagram of a 200-acre ranch, showing the
location of all the buildings, the stables and the track. Then he drew a detailed floor plan for a 4,000-square-foot house that would sit on a 200-acre dream ranch. "
"He put a great deal of his heart into the project and the next day he handed it in to the teacher. Two
days later he received his paper back. On the front was a large red F with a note that read, "See me after
class." "
"The boy with the dream went to see the teacher after class and asked, "Why did I receive an F?""
"The teacher said, "This is an unrealistic dream for a young boy like you. You have no money. You
come from an itinerant family. You have no resources. Owning a horse ranch requires a lot of money.
You have to buy the land. You have to pay for the original breeding stock and later you"ll have to pay
large stud(马群)fees. There"s no way you could ever do it." Then the teacher added, "If you rewrite this
paper with a more realistic goal, I will reconsider your grade." "
"The boy went home and thought about it long and hard. He asked his father what he should do.
His father said, "Look, son, you have to make up your own mind on this. However, I think it is a very
important decision for you." "
"Finally, after sitting with it for a week, the boy turned in the same paper, making no changes at all.
He stated, "You can keep the F and I"ll keep my dream.""
Monty then turned to the assembled group and said, "I tell you this story because you are sitting in
my 4,000-square-foot house in the middle of my 200-acre horse ranch. I still have that school paper
framed over the fireplace." He added, "The best part of the story is that two summers ago that same
schoolteacher brought 30 kids to camp out on my ranch for a week. When the teacher was leaving, he
said, "Look, Monty, I can tell you this now. When I was your teacher, I was something of a dream
stealer. During those years I stole a lot of kids" dreams. Fortunately you had enough gumption not
to give up on yours.""
Don"t let anyone steal your dreams. Follow your heart, no matter what.
B. An unforgettable experience
C. Fly with your belief
D. Struggling of life
B. The boy didn"t have enough ability to do that.
C. The dream was too far away from him.
D. All of the above
B. The teacher failed to help many kids to achieve their goals.
C. The teacher always refused to praise kids.
D. The teacher treated the kids in an unfair way..
B. He wanted to tell others his house was a best place to put on the events to raise funds.
C. He hoped people could understand what was important to help young people to achieve their goals.
D. He thought his story was good enough to attract others.
B. intelligent but rebellious
C. farsighted and determined
D. rich and knowledgeable
their nets. About thirty metres away, a boat pulled alongside the slippery steps leading ___1__ to the
sea.
"Hey, look!" exclaimed Rahim. "Those two men are ___2__ heavy rocks. I thought we no longer do
muscle labour in this technological ___3__. "
"You don"t __4___ a crane (起重机) to unload less than a dozen rocks, do you?" smiled Joshua.
"But those men don"t __5___ to have muscles at all,"said Michael, rather surprised. Joshua
smiled.
"They are ___6__ laborers who know how to spread the weight of the rocks they ___7__. See how
the man positions the rock just at the slope of his 8 . Some of the rock"s weight is set ___9__ his
head, some on the right hand and some on the left hand. His body isn"t bent. His legs are well __10___ ."
"You"re right, Josh. He may have a small build. ___11__ he certainly well knows his job. Dear me!
And to think we have been studying ___12__! " Rahim thought about all that was happening. Suddenly,
he said, "Technology won"t ___13__ the human being completely, it appears."
"I don"t think it will. " ___14__ Joshua.
"You can harvest a crop of potatoes or wheat with one of those large, multi-purpose tractors, but
you __15___ use that equipment to harvest tea leaves and tomatoes, will you?""You can get a computer
to __16___ multiple-choice assessments, but you cannot get the computer to produce of assess essays,
can you?"asked Michael.
"Well, the washing machine leaves my shirt collar quite as ___17__ as ever — that"s domestic
technology for you! " said Rahim.
"One day, perhaps, there won"t be anybody ___18___ who can carry a large rock the way those
men do. It"s not going to be a very ___19___ world, I"m afraid." Sighed Michael.
"You"re too much of a pessimist (悲观主义者), Mike." Said Joshua. " __20___ will always be other
things that will make the world exciting. "
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When Susan White went back to high school a couple of years ago, she never had any thought about actually getting a high school diploma(文凭). "I 1 wanted to learn more," she said. 2 when she found out that many of her classmates were 3 to graduate, Mrs. White recalled (回忆), "I said if my 4 friends can 5 from high school, so can I." She seems to have been 6 . As soon as she completes a history 7 , Mrs.White will graduate next month. And when she does, she will 8 the record books as the 9 person ever to graduate from high school in the United States. Mrs. White is 98 years old, and nobody 10 of anyone who has completed high school 46 an older age. Mrs. White dropped out of school in the tenth 12 , but her ability (能力) 13 has obviously not been dulled (减弱) by the 80-year layoff (中止活动). Since going back to her studies she has 14 a straight-A record, and that is the highest possible. 15 she is about to get a diploma, Mrs. White has become a strong believer in getting a good 16 . "I 17 anyone dropping out of school," she said. "It makes me mad when a person decides to 18 school, because 19 generations will have to know 20 more than we do in order to survive (生存)." | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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