So these many years later, I wondered what he was up to. With time on my hands, I googled him and looked him up on Facebook and
before long I found him .And after a few texts we agreed to meet. And he told me his 3 .
Vincent knew he was smart, but he also knew he couldn’t do what other kids did. He had to move around and talk. For him, sitting still, listening and reading, didn’t 4 . The more he tried to do the things on his terms, the more we forced him to do the things on our terms and the angrier he got. The angrier he got, the more trouble he got into.
In other words, we 5 him.
But he wouldn’t let me tell him that. He took full responsibility for his behavior. He remembered feeling 6 for acting out.
That 7 me. Kids like Vincent are always angry about something ;they hold the world responsible for the consequence(后果). This story also had one of us turning Vincent around. But none of us did that for him. There were no excellent teachers like Annie Sullivan or Jaime Escalante. That didn’t mean we
didn’t 8 .I remember countless conversations, trying to understand them, going to his little League games.
It was Vincent who turned Vincent around , along with a junkie (吸毒者) house painter he worked with after failing through high
school. This guy clearly scared (惊吓) him straight; talked him into going to 9 .
But it was Vincent who attended classes and got straight A’s for two years .And it was Vincent who got accepted into ten different universities, including Stanford and UW. And it was Vincent who landed a great job at a big tech company.
Vincent is completely different from 18 years ago. I couldn’t be happier for him.
And for me, the 10 is simple but powerful---there’s always hope.
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“Ring…ring…” the telephone suddenly rang. Sam got up to __36__the call. It was his aunt.
“Sam, __37__ are you still at home?” she asked surprisingly. Sam looked at the clock. It was already 7:30 am…
“Oh, my goodness! There’s an important __38__ today,” Sam shouted out.
He hurried to wash his face and get dress. When he was going to leave the house, he remembered that he had not put away his books. He ran quickly to the desk and put them into the bag.
He went to the bus stop as __39__as he could. When he got into the classroom, his classmates were__40__ writing. “Why are you so __41__?” asked the teacher.
“I’m sorry, sir.” Sam answered, afraid of looking __42__, “It was my clock… It failed to wake me up this morning and…”
“Don’t say anything about it!” his teacher __43__ him. “Don’ try to come late next time!” Sam said yes and walked to his
__44__quickly. But when he tried to do the paper, he could not __45__ in a right way. He put his head on the desk and said, “What a bad day it has been for me!”
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Look at this ______ (36), please. It’s me. This picture was taken when I was at the age of 11. Now I am 12 years old. My
first name is Tanya, and my last name is Lopez. So ______ (37) full name is Tanya Lopez. My parents and I are all in Beijing. They are working together with the Chinese doctors. I think my parents are good doctors. Now I am studying at Tsinghua Middle School. I also want to be a good ______ (38) like my father and mother. My ______ (39) number is 535- 2375. It’s very ______ (40) to have you as my friend. Call me up if you are free.
What is the best way to study? This is a very important question. Some Chinese students often ______ (41) very hard for long hours. It is a ______ (42) habit, but it is not a better way to study. An efficient(讲效率的) student must ______ (43) enough sleep, enough food and enough rest. Every week you ______ (44) to go out for a walk or visit some friends or some nice places. It’s good ______ (45) your study. When you return to your studies, you’ll find yourself ______ (46) than before and you’ll learn more.
Maybe we can ______ (47) that learning English is like ______ (48) Chinese medicine. We don’t mean that it’s bitter(苦的). We mean that like Chinese medicine, the efficiency of your study
______ (49) slowly but surely. _____ (50) slowly but surely every day and effects will come just like Chinese medicine.
作业5、
I was once a fat girl. I weighed 336 pounds and looked as big as my fridge. I was never ____1____ it. But one day I had a medical
examination（体检）. The ____2____ told me that I was having heart trouble. It ____3____ me up. I began to feel nervous. Then I decided to do something!
In a year and five months, I ____4____ 104 pounds. What a great thing I did! I didn’t have any expensive food, medical treatment or camp-style（训练营式的）exercise. What was the secret to my ____5____? First I looked through the Internet for do-it-yourself ____6____ that people could follow on losing weight. Of course I saw countless ads which try to get me to buy their products. But I bought nothing. The only thing I did was to change my bad ____7____. The following are what I have done. You can try these. Stop drinking something with too much sugar in it. ____8____ sweet cakes. Eat green vegetables. Use only vegetable oil. Never eat after 6：30 pm. Also, do light exercise for 15 to 20 minutes five days a week.
Then I kept doing what I should do. People sometimes say, “You don’t need to tell me ____9____ to do. I know it already!” But the fact is that knowing what to do and doing what you know are totally ____10____. The important thing is to know what to do and then just keep doing it.
作业6、
Do you ever watch old movies? Maybe you will see one with Carole Lombard. She was a famous ____1____ in the 1930s. She died when she was only 34. In her ____2____ life she made 70 movies!
Lombard’s real name was Jane Alice Peters. In 1921, she was playing baseball in the ____3____ near her home. A．movie director ____4____ her and decided to put her in a movie. She was only 13 at
the time. The movie was one of the last silent movies. She acted so well that she ____5____ the hearts of some people. At 16, she left school to act.
In1925, she had an agreement with a ____6____ studio, 20th Century Fox. The studio gave ____7____ a new name, and she acted in several films. Then, at age 18, she was in a bad car accident. The accident left scars on her face. The studio broke the agreement, but she did not ____8____. She continued to act.
It was Paramount Studio that made Lombard a ____9____. She
made many movies for the studio. She also married two of their stars. Lombard was married to actor William Powell for only 23 months.
____10____ seven years later, she married the great love of her life, actor Clark Gable. It was a great Hollywood love story.
作业7、
When I was a junior high school student in 1980, God gave me a gift, it was happiness.
One weekend, I went to visit my grandparents in the countryside. On my way home a car ran over me and cut off my ____1____ because of its high speed.
Several days later when I woke up at the hospital, I realized I had to spend the rest of my life ____2____ arms. How sad I felt at that time! Even I was full of fears. ____3____ slowly I knew I had to face the fact and got over it. I couldn’t get my arms back even though I ____4____ every day.
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