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Greg Dunham has built a big motorcycle. It is so big that when people see it for the first time, they sometimes think that they have
shrunk（使收缩）!
Officials from the Guinness Book of World Records say that Dunham’s motorcycle is the biggest one in the world. It took Dunham three years to build it. It is 15 feet tall and 25 feet long. It weighs about 6,500 pounds. He steers the motorcycle from a special cage below the handlebars（把手）.
Greg Dunham built the monster（巨大的） motorcycle because his friends said it was impossible. He wanted to prove that he could do it. It was a giant project, but he accomplished it.
He enjoys the way people react when they see his motorcycle. “Fifteen guys came to see it. One of the guys said, ‘Build me one!” Greg reports. “People love it!” he says.
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Dunham would like to take the motorcycle on a tour of the country so that more people can see it. However, he would need a corporate
sponsor（赞助商）to help pay for the tour.
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QQ chats on net
Jean is a bright young woman who comes from a rich and famous family. She goes to a good university and has everything that money can buy. Well, almost everything. The problem is that the people in Jean’s family are so busy that they can hardly find time to be with her. In fact, Jean is quite lonely.
So Jean spends a lot of time on her QQ. She likes being anonymous(匿名), talking to people who do not know about her famous family and her rich life. She uses the name Linda on QQ and has made a lot of friends who she keeps in touch with quite often.
Last year Jean made a very special friend on QQ. His name was
David and lived in San Francisco. David was full of stories and jokes. He and Jean had a common(共同的) interest in rock music and modern dance. So it always took them hours to talk happily on QQ and
sometimes they even forgot their time. Of course, they wanted to know more about each other. David sent a picture of himself: He was a tall, good-looking young man with a big, happy smile. As time went by, they became good friends and often sent cards and small things to each other.
When Jean’s father told her that he was going on a business trip to San Francisco, she asked him to let her go with him so that she could give David a surprise for his birthday. She would take him the latest DVD of their favorite rock singer. But when she knocked on
David’s door in San Francisco, she found that her special friend was a twelve-year-old boy named Jim!
Thinking：
After reading the story, do you have anything to say?
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The History of the First Cars
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