Although I love my life, it hasn’t been a lot of fun as I’ve been ill for 28 years.
Music has always been a great love of mine and, in my 20s, when my was more manageable , I ten years as a professional singer in restaurants, playing and singing folk songs. it was years ago and times have changed. I live with mother on a country farm.
Two years ago, I decided that I would need to have some kind of extra work to make up for my disability pension (残疾抚恤金). I needed to sleep in the afternoons, I was limited(限制) in my choices. I decided that I would consider to singing in restaurants.
My family are all musicians, so I was when I went into our local music store. I explained that I wanted to sing again but using recorded karaoke music. I knew that discs were very expensive and I really didn’t have a lot of to get started. And often you find only three to four songs out of ten on a disc that you can use.
When I told the owner of the shop about my , he gave me a long thoughtful . “This means a lot to you, doesn’t it?” he said. “Come with me.”
He led me the crowded shop and to a bench with a large professional karaoke box on it. He placed his large hand on his treasure(财宝) and said, “I have 800 karaoke songs in here. You can take your pick and I’ll record them for you. That should get you started.”
I could have cried. Thanking him, I made a time with him to listen to all the songs and choose that I could sing. I have come full circle with his help.
His still warms my heart and makes me do just that bit extra, when I have the chance.
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Kids like to play games(游戏). Do you often play hide-and-seek(捉迷藏) your friends? A lot of kids often play this game and love to play . Hide-and-seek is a very game. Maybe(可能) your father and mother the game. Maybe your grandparents play it, . do we know this? Old stories(故事) tell us hide-and-seek. In old photos, we can the game, too. Boys and girls play old games. Big kids tell small kids about . And so the games live on(继续存在).
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A．one B．it C．they D．ones
A．old B．new C．big D．small
A．take B．need C．play D．see
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A．Why B．How C．What D．Where
A．about B．to C．with D．for
A．say B．see C．talk D．like
A．a lot B．much C．many D．lot of
A．they B．them C．him D．her
I have a good friend. Her name is Kate. She is American girl. She is eleven. She with her family in China. There four people in her family. They’re her father, her mother, her brother and herself(她自己). She has a cat. name is Mimi. It’s Sunday today. They at home. Look! Kate with Mimi. Her father is reading newspapers. Her mother is cleaning the house. Where is her brother Jim? He is doing homework in his study. Kate Chinese very much, but she can’t it very well. Jim likes soccer. He can play it very well.A. a B. an C. the
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A.is B. are C. am
A. It B. It’s C. Its
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A. play B. plays C. is playing
A. he B. his C. her
A. like B. to like C. likes
A. speak B. tell C. say
A. play B. plays C. playing
The designer of Apple Computer, Steven Jobs, was not very successful in his early year. He was not one ofat school, and sometimes he got into trouble with his teachers. he was full of new ideas. Things were stillwhen he went up to college and he dropped out halfway (中途退学).
Steven Jobs workedas a video game designer at Atari. He worked there for only a few months and then he India. He hoped that the trip would give him more ideas and give himin life for the better.
After he came back fromhe began to live on a farm in California. And then, in 1975, Steven Jobs starteda new type of computer. Along with his friend Stephen Woziak , he designed the Apple I computer in his bedroom. He chose the name“ ” because it reminded(想起 ) him of a happy summer he once spent in an orchard (果园 ) in Oregon.
Today Steven Jobs has lots of factories and he is veryin the world.
A little boy named Harry became very ill. He had to lie in bed all day, unable to move. He spent his days feeling and blue.
There wasn’t much he could do except look out of the . Time passed, and his illness frustrated him. Until one day he saw a strange in the window. It was a penguin eating a sausage sandwich. The penguin got in the open window, and said “good afternoon” to Harry, turned around, and __ quickly.
Of course, Harry was very . He was still trying to work out what had happened. Outside his window he saw a monkey busy blowing up a balloon. At first Harry asked himself that could possibly be, but after a while, as more and more crazy-looking appeared outside the window, he couldn’t help and found it hard to stop.
An elephant jumped on a stone, or a dog wore a pair of glasses and acted in a way. The little boy didn’t tell anyone about this. Those strange characters ended up putting joy back in his heart, and in his body. Before long, his health had so much that he was able to go back to school again.
There he told his classmates all that he had . While he was talking to his best friend, he saw __ coming out of his friend’s school bag. Harry asked his friend what it was, and he was so insistent (坚持) that his friend had to show him what was in the bag.
There, inside, were all the things that his best friend had been using to try to the little boy!
And from that day on, Harry always did his best to make sure that no one felt sad and alone.
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A．cheer up B．give up C．make up D．put up
This year,we have met a once-a-century drought( 旱灾 )in Yunnan. It makes us water is the “life blood”of our earth. Like air and sunshine,It is very important to livingthings. Without water,there can be life on the earth. All animals and plants need water. Man also needs water. We need water to drink,to cook and to clean . It even the greater part of our bodies.
Water is almost everywhere. Even in the places of the world,there is water in the air. However,we can not drink sea water fresh water.
To make things even worse,people often to keep the water clean. They throw rubbish into rivers,lakes and seas. So not all the fresh water is for us to drink. a member of the earth,we mustn’t waste water any more. Something must be to protect water.
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A．himself B．ourselves C．him D．our
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A．drier B．wetter C．driest D．beautiful
A．or B．so C．and D．but
A．decide B．fail C．try D．take
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