It’ s said that a giant rock was located in the North Sea but once many boats and ships （strike）it and sank.
About a century years ago, a kind and imaginative minister came up with an idea to have a buoy（浮标） （fasten）to the rock. On the top of the buoy
（place）a bell, which would ring whenever any ships got closer. When hearing the bell ringing, sailors knew where the rock was and stayed safe. One day, a sea robber Rover happened
（sail） not far away from the rock.
Seeing buoy floating in the water, he decided to play a trick. Soon his crew broke the chain that held the buoy, let the bell go into the water and then sailed away. In the following weeks, they robbed many
ships around the seas and filled the ship with a great
（vary） of treasures. Unfortunately, when returning, they themselves had no idea how to get away from the terrible rock
the ring. The ship was moving swiftly in the dark
there was a great crash.
was the very rock and the ship began to sink.
Mary: What do you hope to do when you finish University?
John: I’d like to go into ___ (manage). I’ve applied fo
r several jobs already and I’m ___(hope) that I’ll get some job offers. How about you?
Mary:After I graduate, I have to do some more studies to pass exams ___ (become) a lawyer. I think I’ve got a good chance of passing. There’s a possibility __
__getting a job with a firm in London if I do well.
John: We both have to overcome several __ (difficult) if we are to achieve our ambitions.
Mary: If life were easy, then we’d achieve our ambitions quickly and then get bored.
John: unfortunately, some people always work hard yet they never succeed.
Mary: That’s ____ambitions need to be realistic. You can’t achieve __
__ that’s totally unrealistic.
John: As long as you plan carefully, most things are possible.
Mary: I think it’s important to be successful in a field you are ___ (true) interested in, not something that other people force you to be interested in.
John: My father ____ (want) me to become a doctor, but I know it will be impossible for me.
Mary: I hope my parents won’t try to force me to do __favorite job.
Well，we’re here in New York at last!
Our flight left at 2:30pm and for the next hours everything was great. But when we were about 30 minutes away from New York，there was a ________ (暴风雨) in the city．The pilot told us that we had to
lin Washington DC and the airline was going to take
________by bus to New York．However, we couldn’t get
_______the plane in Washington DC because there were too many planes
________ (到达) at the same time．It had to fly in circles for three hours before we finally
lthe plane．
The airline then ius that we’d have to stay in a hotel and set off for New York the next morning．So off we went to find the bus to the hotel．We found the bus stop and then stood in the rain
________ (焦急地) waiting for the bus．40 minutes later, we reached the hotel but there was only one room
afor my brothers and I．So we had to share one single bed．
________you can imagine，we didn’t get much sleep．
What a journey!
Making friends is a skill. Like most skills, it improves with practice. you want to meet people and make friends, you must take action. It is much
(easy) to communicate with people sharing your hobbies and interests. So join a club or a group,
you are likely to make new friends.
Many people are fearful when talking to new people. After all, meeting strangers means (face) the unknown. Actually, most of our fears about dealing with new people come
doubts about ourselves. We imagine that other people
(judge) us, finding us too tall of too short, too this or too that. But don’t forget that they must be feeling the same way. Try to accept what you are,
you’ll feel more comfortable.
Try to act with (confident) even if you don’t feel that way. When you enter a room full of strangers, such as a new classroom, walk tall and straight, look
(direct) at other people and smile. If you see someone you’d like to speak to, don’t wait for him/her to start a conversation.
Just meeting someone new doesn’t mean that you’ll make friends with that person. takes time and effort to develop a friendship.
The air we breathe is freely available, withoutwe could not survive more than a few minutes. For the most part, air is available to everyone, and everyone needs it. Some people use the air to sustain them while
(sit) around and feel sorry for themselves.
breathe in the air and use the energy it provides to make
magnificent life.
Opportunity is in the same way; it is everywhere. It is so freely available that we take it granted. Yet opportunity alone is not enough to create success; it must
(seize) and acted upon in order to have value. So many people are so
(anxiety) to “get in” on a “ground floor opportunity”, as if the opportunity will do all the work. That’s
(possible).
Just as you need air to breathe, you need opportunity to succeed. , it takes more than just breathing in the fresh air of opportunity. You must make use of it. That’s not up to the opportunity; that’s up to you. It doesn’t matter what “floor” the opportunity is on, but
matters is what you do with it.
Phyllis Rawlins’ house was destroyed after a tornado swept through her town of Kokomo, Ind., on Sunday. Last summer, she lost husband of over 40 years, Edgar. In the tornado’s rubble (瓦砾) , Rawlins searched
Edgar’s wedding ring. “Digging and praying. Digging and praying,” she told local station Fox 59.
“It was everything to me, because that’s one thing that I had,” she said.
Rawlins had been visiting family in Kentucky the storm came through. She returned to find her home
(complete) in pieces. “This was the house that love built,” she told WTHR.
Without her husband her house, she was determined to find the ring. But finding the exact position of it among the piles of rubble seemed to be
(hope).
Somehow, her brother (spot) something under a piece of the roof and called her over. The ring,
(bury) in the rubble, had turned up.
“It was a miracle,” Rawlins said. “We both just hugged each other, crying. That wasI had searched for,”
When all was lost, special ring he left was finally found.
“I’m very strong with my faith, and I know that God is in control of everything, the good and the bad,” Rawlins said.