A girl complained to her father about her hard life. She didn't know 1 she had to do and wanted to give up. She felt 2 of fighting and fighting. One problem had been finished but another came. Her father 3 was a cook took her into the kitchen. He poured water into the pan（锅）and boiled it. While the water 4, in the first pan he put carrots, in the second he put some eggs and in the last he put some coffee. He waited for them for 5 minutes without any words. The girl closed her mouth and waited 6. She didn't know why her father was doing that. After about 20 minutes, her father turned 7 the stove, took out the carrots and put them in a bowl. He took out the eggs and put them into another bowl. After that the coffee8 into a cup. Turning back to 9 daughter, he asked, “What do you see?” “Carrots, eggs and coffee,” she answered.

Her father told her to close her eyes and let her 10 the carrots. She did and felt that the carrots were soft. After that he asked her to take eggs and break them. Then, she got boiled and hard eggs. At last, the father told her to smell the coffee. “What's the meaning, Father?” He explained that each one had 11 same unlucky experience—the boiled water,12each had a different reaction（反应）. The strong and hard carrots had become soft and weak after13in the boiling water?” The eggs became hard in the boiled water. The coffee was very special and it 14 change the water. “Who are you?” asked the father, “When calamity（厄运） 15 at your door, what's your reaction? Are you carrots, eggs or coffee?”

    Are you a man or a mouse? When people ask this question they want to know whether you think you are a brave person or a coward（懦夫）. But you will never really know the answer to this question 1you are tested in real life. Some people 2they are brave but when they come face to face with real danger, they act like cowards. Others consider themselves as cowards, but when they meet danger, they act like3.

    Lenny had always thought of himself as a 4person. He got worried before examinations. He worried about his job and his health. All he wanted in life was to be safe and healthy. Then, on January 15th, 2002, a plane crashed into the Potomac River in Washington. Lenny went to the river to see what was happening. He saw a woman in the ice-cold water. Lenny did not feel afraid. He kept very 5and did a very adventurous thing. He jumped into Potomac, swam to the woman, and kept her head above the water. Seventy-eight people died that day. Thanks to Lenny, it was not 6.

    When you are in a very dangerous situation and feel afraid, the body automatically （自动地） produces a chemical in the blood. This chemical is called adrenalin（肾上激素）. With adrenalin in the blood system, you actually feel stronger and stronger and are ready to fight or7 However, when you are absolutely terrified, the body can produce too much adrenalin. When this 8 the muscles become very hard and you find you can't move at all. You are paralyzed（使无能为力） with fear. This is9 when we are very frightened, we sometimes say we are “petrified”. This word comes from a Greek word “petros”, which means “stone”. We are10 frightened that we become stonelike.

    Twenty years ago, I drove a taxi for a living and sometimes I had to work at night. One late night, I got a telephone call from a neighborhood. When I arrived there at 2:30 a.m., the only building was dark except for a single light in the first floor window. So I walked up and knocked at the door.

    “Just a minute,” answered a weak voice. After a long time, the door opened and a small woman stood in front of me. Next to her was a small suitcase.

    Quickly I took her suitcase to the car and then returned to hold her. She took my arm and we walked slowly to the car. She kept thanking me for my kindness. “It's nothing”, I told her, “I just try to treat my passengers the way I would want my mother treated.”

    When we got in the car, she asked, “Can you drive me through downtown?”

    “But it's not the shortest way,” I replied.

    “I'm in no hurry.” she said slowly, “I'm on my way to a hospice（临终医院）. I don't have any family left. The doctor says I don't have very long time.”

    I quietly turned off the meter. For the next two hours, we drove through the city and passed the building where she had once worked, the neighborhood where she and her husband had lived, and some other special places. As the sun was rising, we stopped in front of a low building where two nurses were waiting.

    “How much should I pay?” she asked. “Nothing.” I replied.

    “But you have to make a living.”

    “Oh, there are other passengers.” Without thinking, I bent and gave her a hug. She held onto me tightly and said, “You gave an old woman a little moment of joy, thank you.”

    Sometimes people may not remember exactly what you did or said. However, they'll always remember how you made them feel.

    Barbara McClintock was one of the most important scientists of the twentieth century. She made important discoveries about genes（基因）and chromosomes（染色体）.

    Barbara McClintock was born in 1902 in Hartford, Connecticut. Her family moved to the Brooklyn area of New York City in 1908. Barbara was an active child with interests in sports and music. She also developed an interest in science.

    She studied science at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Barbara was among a small number of undergraduate students to receive training in genetics in 1921. Years later, she noted that few college students wanted to study genetics.

    Barbara McClintock decided to study botany, the scientific study of plants, at Cornell University. She completed her undergraduate studies in 1923. McClintock decided to continue her education at Cornell. She completed a master's degree in 1925. Two years later, she finished all her requirements for a doctorate degree.

    McClintock stayed at Cornell after she completed her education. She taught students botany. The 1930s was not a good time to be a young scientist in the United States. The country was in the middle of the great economic Depression. Millions of Americans were unemployed. Male scientists were offered jobs. But female geneticists were not much in demand.

    An old friend from Cornell, Marcus Rhoades, invited McClintock to spend the summer of 1941 working at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. It is a research center on Long Island, near New York City. McClintock started a temporary（临时的）job with the genetics department. A short time later, she accepted a permanent（永久的）position in the laboratory. This gave her the freedom to continue her research without having to teach or repeatedly ask for financial aid.

    By the 1970s, her discoveries had had an effect on everything from genetic engineering to cancer research. McClintock won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1983 for her discovery of the ability of genes to change positions on chromosomes. She was the first American woman to win an unshared Nobel Prize.

    Do you look like your name? Scientists say there's a good chance you do.

    This comes from a new study published in a magazine. Researchers from Israel found that our given names may have something to do with our facial appearances.

    Lead writer Yonat Zwebner of a university, along with her team, did eight different experiments in Israel and France. The different experiments were set up to answer two main questions: whether people can correctly guess a person's name based only on a photo of a face and what is behind this matching effect.

    During the experiments, researchers asked students to look at photos of people's faces and guess each person's name from a list of four choices. They correctly guessed the right name 38 percent of the time, which was better than the 25 percent of a random（随机地）guess.

    What's more, when the faces the students looked at came from within their own country, they were able to best match the faces to the names. French students were better at matching only French names and faces while Israeli students were better at matching only Hebrew names and Israeli faces.

    Researchers believe it is possible that people change their appearances without paying attention to it, to match their names. One study especially backed up this idea, showing that a hairstyle, something that can be changed by people easily, was enough to guide others in correctly guessing their names.

    “Earlier research has shown there are cultural stereotypes（老套观念）carried by names, including how someone should look. For example, people are more likely to imagine a person named Bob to have a rounder face than a person named Tim. We believe these stereotypes can, over time, influence people's facial appearances,” Zwebner said.

    The results of the experiments may even make parents think twice when choosing a name for their children.

    “If a name can influence appearance, it can influence many other things. This research opens an important direction that may suggest how parents should consider better the names for their children,” said Zwebner, who recently had a baby herself.

    “As parents, it was really difficult for us to name our 12-day-old daughter as we know the meanings of names.”

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Have you had a headache during a test? Have you ever been so worried about something that you have a headache or even can't sleep at night? If so, then you know what stress is. Stress is what you feel when you are worried about something.       You may feel angry, sad, scared, or afraid — all of which give you a stomachache or a headache.

          Some kinds of stress are good and others are bad. Good stress might happen when you're called to answer questions in class or when you have to give a speech.       For example, you may do a better job in your test if the stress pushes you to prepare better before the test.

    On the other hand, bad stress can happen if the stress lasts too long. You may not feel well if your parents are fighting, if a family member is sick, if you're having problems at school, or if anything else makes you unhappy every day. That kind of stress isn't going to help you      

           Make sure you keep yourself in mind: Sleep, exercise, leisure, and food. If you get enough sleep and eat healthily, and if you exercise and leave time for fun, you'll probably fell less stressed.

A. This is kind of stress can help you to get things better done.

B. This worry in your mind can make your body feel bad.

C. The best way to face the stress is to have a balanced life.

D. And it can actually make you sick.

E. However, there are different kinds of stress.

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She wondered                            the book.

Huge areas of forests               in this big fire.

                     football match it is!

                    a typhoon is coming.

This is                             that we all enjoy reading it.

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