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a little br**e girla little br**e girlit ** a true story.th** story was set in at the end of 2004 zhejiang, when a ten-year old girl walked on her way to home from school as usual, she was being kidnapped off guard by three men, whom are over 30 years of age, be tall, strong, and are very experienced in kidnapping. for just a split second, the girl was got in a car and didn’t know where she would head, but she didn’t burst into tears like others probably h**e done in her age, was unusually sober and figured out what has just happened. after short deliberation, she g**e her parents telephone number to threekidnappers after she was asked twice. kidnappers shortly send short ** to her parents to tell what they did a moment ago for the ransom of rmb500,000 as they commands, threatened them with their daughter’s life. her parents were at their wits' end at that moment and later had to dial police for helping. during closely watched by two kidnappers, the girl were pleased to cooperate with them in three meals, water, and spoke something to them for delaying. luckily, kidnappers are very emotional and were amazed at what the girl said when it comes to money, “ i know clearly you are impossible to kill me, you need money most of all, but you should know money doesn’t grow on trees, but on painstaking hands.” the girl said, “ uncle, you h**e probably had children like me, if you childrenare in the danger of kidnapping, how then do you think? …” finally, the kidnappers were profoundly moved by her reasonable words, and policemen easily seized them about two days later, now they do their time. soon after, a journal**t wanted to d**close the reason why such a little younggirl ** so w**e upon the curious queries from the public, but the girl’s parents definitely rejected to accept v**it, because they are afraid of kidnapping again as everyone would probably know her. but her main teacher briefly told that the school often takes “ keep a head during a cr****, to be w**e and br**e.” as a compulsory lesson to educate pupils, th** girl are br**e enough to pract**e th** lesson. also, the girl said she was sort of scared but must to eat enough to keep energetic so as to fight against the kidnappers as long as she could. through th** story, i deeply feel that the importance of education. nothing **more important than to receive education. education, ** absolutely not completewith graduation, ** a lifelong study and bound to exert a great impact on our future. further, the value of education. we should not educate children only for the aim of education, our foremost purpose ** to fit them for life.we can see bats in almost every part of the world but they can’t live in very hot or very cold places. they live on all continents but do not live on antarctica. you can find most species of bats in the places where the weather ** nice and warm. on some **lands there are only a few kinds of bats. that’s because it’s too far for most bats to get to those **lands. in the united states, the greatest number of bats live in the south-western part of the country. th** place has all kinds of places where bats can live and there ** a lot of food during most of the year. for example, texas has 32 different kinds of bats while maine has only 8; arizona has 28 species, but michigan has just 10. 词数:39处理时间:2′09〃questions:1. the underlined word "species" in the first paragraph means "______"in chinese.a. 种类b. 数量c. 天敌d. 栖息地2. we can learn from the passage that _____. a. bats like warm places b. bats live everywhere in the worldc. the us has the most bats in the worldd. bats don’t like living on **lands3. the passage mainly tells us ____. a. how bats live b. where bats live c. bats’food d. bats’lifeb本文词数:182参考时间:2′32〃in warm water, there ** a kind of sea mammal1 called dugongs. they live a comfortable life. they h**e no natural enemies and never fight2.dugongs lived in the oceans during the age of dinosaurs. they h**e funny faces and no front teeth! their teeth grow only along the sides of their mouth. some think they are ugly. only their mothers may love them, but as we know, they are important and helpful for us! dugongs only eat plants. they swim slowly so that they can eat the sea grass. they often dig down into the sand and eat sea-grass roots. dugongs relax during the day. during most of the night, they eat. they eat no**ily and you can often hear the sounds of their chomping teeth. dugongs give birth to only one baby every three to five years. they take the newborn baby to the surface of the water so that the baby can take its first breath of air. it stays with its mother for two years and sometimes rests on its mother’s back. dugongs feed their young with milk. dugongs can live for about 60 years, but every year more and more people move to near the warm coasts and rivers which are also the homes to dugongs. they h**e fewer places to live and feed.notes:1. mammal n. 哺乳动物2. 意为:在自然界它们没有敌人,也从不争斗。词数:39处理时间:2′09〃questions:1. which one ** the best title for th** article?a. the kind animalb. dugongs’livesc. dugongs are niced. mother loves dugongs2. the underlined words "chomping teeth"mean __________.a. washing teethb. changing teeth c. eating loudly d. opening the mouth3. which one ** true? a. dugong babies live with their mother when they are 3 years old.b. dugongs eat animals and plants. c. dugongs give birth every year. d. dugongs can live for as long as 60 years.阅读新题型本文词数:240参考时间:6′00〃a man was looking for office help. he put a sign1 in the window: "help wanted. must know how to type2 and speak two languages, and be good at the computer."1 the man was surpr**ed, but led him into the office. inside, the dog jumped on the chair and looked at him. the man said, "i can’t give you th** job. the sign says you must know how to type." the dog jumped down, went to the typewriter, and typed out a perfect letter. 2 the man was shocked3, but told the dog, "the sign says you h**e to be good at the computer." the dog went to the computer and wrote out the same letter on it. the man looked at the dog and said, "you’re a very clever dog. 3 " the dog looked at the man and said, "meow!"notes:1. sign n. 标牌2. type v. 打字3. shock v.使震惊词数:39处理时间:2′09〃task: please put the following sentences in the blanks. 把下列句子还原到文中空白处。a. he took out the piece of ** and g**e it to the manager.b. however, i still can’t give you the job, because the sign also says that you need to speak two languages.c. a short time later, a dog came to the window, saw the sign and went inside.本期阅读答案阅读a 1-3 a a b阅读b 1-3 b c d 阅读新题型1-3 c a bthomas alva ed**on was a man of wonderful ability who had the good luck to be born at a good time. in the period just after the american civil war the united states was growing conditions were right for the talents of a man like ed**on. the ed**on family had come to the united states from holland in the early part of the l8th century． thomas alva the youngest of samuel’s seven children was born in 1847. thomas was an unusually curious child． even at an early age he loved to read and make experiments． because he was so dreamy and quiet a teacher once accused him of being stupid． thomas’s mother was so d**pleased by th** remark that she took her son out of school and never sent him back. she took charge of h** education herself and taught him reading h**tory science and philosophy． ed**on was a very quick reader and he remembered everything． once he got the idea of starting at the first shelf of a large library and reading everything in it． but after reading through fif** feet of books he g**e up th** ambition. in order to earn money for books and for h** scientific experiments thomas sold vegetables from the family garden. th** work did not bring in enough money and so he began to sell news**s and candy on a train that ran between port huronmichigan and detroit． because people were so eager for the latest news about the civii war which was then at its height thomas decided in february 1862 when he was fif** years old to print a news** of h** own the weekly herald, in a baggage car of the train where he worked．in four years he earned two thousand dollars from th**business. while he worked on the train young ed**on continued to experiment setting up a laboratory in the baggage car. one day a stick of phosphorus feil to the floor and set thecar on fire． the conductor of the train as so angry that he threw tom and all h** equipment off the train at the next station； he also struck tom causing a permanent injury which later made him deaf in the right ear. one day not long after he had started h** news**, ed**on saw a child playing on the tracks in front of a train. he jumped off the station platform and snatched the child from the wheels of the train. the father who happened to be the stationmaster was so grateful that he offered to teach tom to become a telegraph operator．he g**e him lessons four days a week after the station had closed for the nightand in three weeks ed**on was a better telegrapher than h** teacher. ed**on was sober and independent for h** age, but hen was restless and very careless in h** dress． he began to wander from city to city and from job to job． because h** ideas were too strange to please the men who hired him,they often asked him to le**e． during th** time, he worked in indianapol**, cincinnati, memph**, and lou**ville． ed**on went to boston's where he had been prom**ed work as adegraph operator, mainly because of the neat handwriting in h** letter of application, when heappeared in that city, he looked so untidy and strange that the superintendent asked him to return later in the day to take a test in telegraphy, with ihe idea of making ihe test so diffcult that the young man could not possibly pass it, as the rapid ** came in, ed**on realized clerks in the station were playing a joke on him. they had arranged for the new york operator to send him a **, faster and faster,in an effort to make ed**on admit that he could not write it down at such a rapid pace, but ed**on was not d**couraged. he decided to outwit these fellows, and he began to send a ** himself. he said to the new york operator,“come on, don’t go to sleep．get busy! that ended the joke, and ed**on won h** job, as weil as the title of fastest telegraph operator in the western union company. in 1869 he borrowed some money and went to new york． during the first three years he spent there, he nearly died of starvation. he slept in a room belonging to a company that sent **rmation on stock prices to the business houses of new york． one day the machine that printed news about gold stopped． six hundred banks and business houses were without **rmation about what was being bought and sold that day. ed**on succeeded in repairing the machine, and he was then offered a job as manager for $300 a month． he was soon hard at work making improvements in the machine and inventing new parts． h** universal printer, invented at th** time, printed full **rmation about gold prices, instead of showing them only by a few letters and numbers． th** was h** first big success． generai marshall lefferts, president of the gold and stock telegraph company, bought th** and several other inventions of ed**on's for forty thousand dollars. ed**on then put h** new money to work． he opened a factory in newark,new jersey． soon he had over one hundred and fifty men building machines to record stock prices, while he himself continued to work on new ideas. at one time, he had forty-five separate inventions in h** laboratory, including several important improvements of the telegrilph. he invented a way of sending two **s at the same time in opposite directions, and then a way of sending two **s at the same time in the same direction,in 1874 he invented and sold to western union a system by which four **s could be sent over one wire at the same time, two in each direction. he also perfected a new system for sending telegrams. these inventions s**ed western union milhons of dollars in the cost of wires and telegraph poles alone. western union then suggested to ed**on that he try to develop a commercially useful telephone, alexander graham bell had already patented the te1ephone, but bell's telephone could be heard only over short d**tances． ed**on added several improvements, which were adopted, and are still used in the telephone today． western union paid ed**on one hundred thousand dollars for h** inventions. in l876 he built a workshop and laboratory in menlo park, new jersey． he was known after that as he wizard of menlo park,because of the wonderful d**coveries he made there, he began to study the attempts of other men to invent an incandescent electric light． he tried over and over again to make a soft light that would be suitab1e for use in private houses． he tested over two thousand materials before d**covering one that would work． he needed something that would become hot and give off light when electricity passed through it in a glass container from which the air had been removed． he spent a hundred thousand dollars searching for the best material． men were sent to india, china, brazil, and finally, japan, where a material was finally found. in jalluary,1880, the electric light was patented. ed**on then built a factory for the production of h** light in menlo park, and an electric power station in new york city. but it was four** years before the public really accepted the electric light． after that, the electric light business grew so great that ed**on was able to sell h** share in the electric light for more than one million dollars. ed**on patented over one thousand separate inventions during h** life, he never stopped trying to learn more about science and what it could do for man, h** d**coveries probably increased the wealth of the world more than those of any other single man in h**tory. on october l8,1931,ed**on died at the age of eighiy-four at h** home in orange, new jersey． several days later, the whole united states turned off its electric lights for one minute, in honor of the man whose d**coveries had so changed and improved the life of people everywhere. 托马斯.阿尔法.**生是一位诞生在好时代里的天才人物。 南北战争以后,美国正在成长壮大,各种条件对于象**生这样有天才的人都是有利的。 **生一家人在十八世纪早期从荷兰来到美国。托马斯·阿尔法生于1847年,是撒缪尔的七个孩子中最小的一个。 托马斯是一个好奇心特强的孩子。即使还在幼年时代,他就爱读书和做实验。因为 他如此爱好空想和不声不响,以致一位老师有一次骂他愚蠢。托马斯的母亲对这个评语很不高兴,她令孩子退学不再返校。母亲自己照管孩子的教育,教他阅读,教他历史、科学和哲学等。**生读起书来,领会得快,而且过目不忘。有一次他异想天开,要从一所大图书馆的第一个书架看起,看完书架上每一本书。但在看完了书架上十五英尺厚的书籍后,他放弃了这个野心。 为了挣钱买书和搞科学实验,托马斯就出售他家菜园中的蔬菜。这工作挣不到足够的钱,所以他就开始在一列专跑休伦港、密执安和底特律的火车上卖报纸和糖果。因为人们在南北战争的高潮中急于了解战争的新情况,托马斯在1862年2月间,他十五岁时,决定在他所工作的火车行李车上印刷他自己的报纸《先驱周报》。四年之间他从这张报纸上赚了二千美元。 年轻的**生在火车上工作时继续搞实验,在行李车上建立了一间实验室。有一天 一根磷棒掉在地板上使这节车厢着火。列车长十分生气,在下一个车站把汤姆和他的所有实 验设备都扔下了火车,还揍了汤姆一顿,造成永久性伤害,使**生右耳聋了。 **生在开办他的报纸后不久,有一天望见一个小孩在火车前面的铁轨上玩耍。他急忙从站台上跳下把小孩从火车轮子下抢救出来。这孩子的父亲正好是站长,他很感激,主动 提出要教会汤姆成为电报员。他在车站夜晚关门后,每周给他上四次课,三个星期之后**生 便成为比他老师更好的电报员了。 就他的年龄来说,**生很稳重,有独立性,但他见异思迁,而且对于衣着很不注意。 他开始从一个城市漫游到另一个城市,从一个 职业换到另一个职业。因为他的想法太离奇, 不能使雇用他的人满意,雇主们常常叫他卷铺盖走路。在这段时间里,他在印地安纳波利斯,辛辛那提,孟菲斯和路易斯维尔等城市都工作过。 **生去到了波士顿,在那里有人答应给他电报员的工作,主要因为他的求职信中字迹写得工整。当他在波士顿露面时,他是如此的衣冠不整,怪里怪气,以致主管人叫他当天晚些时候去参加电报技术的考试,目的是要故意出难题,使这位青年考不及格。当电报迅速拍进来时,**生意识到电报局的职工们是在和他开玩笑。他们已经和纽约市的电报员安排好,给**生拍一份电报来,越拍越快,企图迫使**生承认他抄不下这么快的电报。但**生没有泄气。他决心以智取胜,于是他开始自己拍出一份电报。他对纽约市的电报员说：“来吧,别去睡觉,使劲吧！”这就结束了这场玩笑,**生也赢得了他的职位,同时还赢得了西联电讯公司最快电报员的称号。 1869年**生借了些钱去到纽约,他在纽约的头三年里,几乎饿死。他睡在一家公司的一间房子里,这公司专给纽约各商行提供股票行情。一天,那台印刷黄金行情的机器不动了。六百家银行和商行都收不到关于那天买进卖出的商情,**生把这机器修好了,因此人家给了他一个经理的职位,月薪三百美元。他很 快地就努力改进这台机器,并且还发明了许多新部件。他当时发明的万能印刷机印出了关于金价的全部情报,而不只是以少数字母和数字来显示行情。这是他第一个**,金价和股票电报公司的经理马歇尔。莱费兹将军出资四万美元把这台机器和**生的其他几项发明买了下来。 **生就拿这新到手的钱做生意。他在新泽西州纽阿克市开了一家工厂。很快地他就雇了一百五十人制造纪录股票行情的机器了,而他自己则继续试验他的一些新想法。有一段时间在他实验室里共有四十五个不同的发明项目,包括几项对于电报机的重要改进。他想出了一种方法,可从两个相反方向同时各拍出一份电报,随后又想出一种方法,可从一个方向同时拍两份电报。1874年他发明并售给西联电讯公司一种装置,用了它可以在一根电线上拍发四份电报,即从每一方向可同时拍发两份电报。他还改进了一种拍电报的新方法。使之趋于完善。这些发明,仅在电线和电线竿的成本上就为西联电讯公司节约了几百万美元。 西联电讯公司又向**生建议：叫他试制一部商用电话,亚历山大.贝尔已经取得了电话机的专利,但贝尔的电话讥只能在短距 离内听见。**生增大了几项改进,被采用了,这些改进直到今天仍然应用在电话上。西联电讯公司为他的几项发明付给**生十万美元。 1876年,**生在新泽西州门洛园建造了一个车间和实验室,由于他在那里搞出了许多奇妙的发明,以后他被人们称为“洛园的巫师”。他开始研究别人为发明白热电灯所作的尝试。他一次再一次地试制一种适子家用的柔光灯。在找到,种合用的材料之前,他竟试验了两千种以上的材料。他需要某种可放在抽去空气的玻璃容器内,通过电流后能变热并发出光来的材料。他花了十万美元寻找最好的材料。他派人去印度、**、巴西,最后终于在日本找到了。 在1880年1月,他取得了电灯专利权。**生在门洛园建造了一家生产电灯的工厂,并在纽约市建成了一座发电站。但是直到过十四年公众才真正接受他的电灯。在那以后,电灯业发展得规模如此之大。以致**生出售他的电灯股票时,竟得了一百多万美元。 **生一生中得到一千多种发明项 国的专利为了学习更多的科学并使科学为人类服务,他永不停息。他的各种发明为世界增加的财富可能比历史上任何一个人都多。 1931年10月18月,**生在新泽西州奥兰奇城的家中去世,终年八十四岁。几天后全美国都停电一分钟以纪念这个以他的发明大大改变并改善了各地人民生活的人。 20210311