There was a woman in Detroit, who has two sons. She was worried 1 them, especially the younger one, Ben, 2 he was not doing well in school. Boys in his class 3 fun of him because he seemed so 4 .

　　The mother 5 that she would, herself, have to get her sons to do better in school. She 6 them to go to the Detroit Public Library to read a 7 a week and do a report about it for her.

　　One day, in Ben's 8 , the teacher held up a rock and asked if anyone knew it. Ben 9 up his hand and the teacher let him 10 . “Why did Ben raise his hand?” they wondered. He 11 said anything; what did he possibly want to say?

　　Well, Ben not only 12 the rock; he said a lot about it. He named other rocks in its group and even knew 13 the teacher had found it. The teacher and the students were 14 . Ben had learned all this from doing one of his book 15 .

　　Ben later went on to the 16 of his class. When he finished high school, he went to Yale University 17 at last became one of the best doctors in the United States.

　　After Ben had grown up, he 18 something about his mother that he did not know as a 19 .

　　She, herself, had never learned how to 20 .

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　　We were standing on the bridge, trying to catch some fish for supper when a small red plane flew almost directly above our heads. We could even 1 the pilot's (飞行员的) face. “I think he's 2 ,”jack said. “His plane is making a strange 3 .” “Well, we can't do anything, can we?” I said, “We can't even 4 from here.” We were 5 a boating holiday and we were 6 away from the nearest town. Jack suggested we 7 the plane down the river in order to save 8 . I agreed. We dropped out fishing lines and ran towards our 9 .It lay under some bushes (矮树丛) about a hundred metres 10 the river. Luckily our engine (发动机) started almost at once and 11 we were boating down the river. Jack came to this 12 of the country for a holiday almost every year and he knew the area well. The 13 was already becoming wider. We went around a bend (弯曲处) and there was a lake in front of us. We looked across the 14 and found something in the water, near the island in the middle. We raced 15 the lake. By the time we reached the 16 , the pilot-a very young 17 was sitting on top of the 18 .

　　“Thanks for coming to 19 me. I'm sorry I disturbed (搅扰) you while you were fishing. Anyway, would you like some fish for supper?” She reached into the plane and pulled out a large fish. “There's many more 20 !”she said happily.

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　　It is not polite to arrive at a dinner party more than 15 to 20 minutes late. The host or hostess (女主人) usually waits for all the guests to arrive before 1 the meal. If someone is late, the food may be spoiled, and so might the host or hostess's 2 . If you have to be late, call and tell them to 3 you.

　　It's even 4 to be early! The host or hostess will probably not be 5 . If you are early, drive or walk around the block a few times, or just sit in your car 6 the right time.

　　Though it's often important to arrive on time, yet 7 , for open houses, the host or hostess invites guests to arrive and leave 8 a certain time so you can arrive at any time 9 the time he or she gives you.

　　It's nice to bring an empty stomach, but it's even nicer to bring a small present. The present should not cost 10 , or you might embarrass (使窘迫) the host or hostess. Flowers, wine, or a box of 11 will do fine (适当的). Never bring money as a present.

　　In an introduction, the order of a name: (1) the given name, (2) the family name. In other words. the given name comes 12 . It's important not only to learn and remember names, but to 13 them often in conversation. After the 14 , we usually call friends by their given names. 15 may want you call them by their titles and 16 , such as “Mr Jones”, “Mrs Smith”, “Ms Johnson” or “Dr Brown”.

　　A maiden (未婚女子) name is a woman's family name at birth (从出生). In the United States and Canada, after a woman marries, she 17 the family name of her husband 18 her maiden name. It is now becoming common (常见)， 19 , for women to keep their maiden names 20 they get married.

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　　My husdand had just bought a new washing machine for me. I decided to use it the 1 day, and I washed a lot of things. Everything worked 2 , but I could't find 3 of my husband's socks though I had looked 4 for it.

　　The next morning, I got ready for 5 as usual, when the bell rang, the students came in. I greeted them and told them 6 we were going to do 7 .

　　When I turned 8 to write on the blackboard, the class burst out 9 . They laughed and laughed. They laughed so much, in fact, that I was 10 the headmaster would be in to see all this.

　　I asked the class to 11 , but the 12 I talked, the more they laughed. So I thought I had better pay 13 attention to them and continue to write on the blackboard. When I did this, they laughed even more.

　　Before long, the teacher who had the room next to 14 came to see 15 all the laughter was about. When he came in, he started 16 too.

　　“Good Heavens!” I said, “Will 17 please tell me what is, so 18 ?”

　　“Oh, God.”said the teacher, “You have a brown 19 stuck to the back of your shirt.”

　　So that's 20 I found my husband's missing sock.

　　“Oh, well,” I said to the class, “Let's just say you have had an unforgettable lesson on static electricity (静电).”

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　　It was uncle who taught me how to box. When I was eight, I was 1 into the depths (内地) of England to the 2 where my mother had been born. I become 3 of attack for the village boys. When he returned home from work, my uncle would get to his knees and 4 me to hit him on the 5 . I have been 6 to him ever since.

　　One day, on my way to school I was surrounded and badly attacked by 7 . It was a terrible 8 , but I 9 my uncle's advice and decided to fight my attackers. I 10 a tall boy twice on the nose. He fell 11 the ground and blood ran 12 his nose. All the others ran away.

　　We were 13 at school to play some game or other every afternoon and those who 14 to do so were punished. I had 15 interest in football or tennis but I liked boxing.

　　I read the Boxing Views every week, and in the holidays 16 spending a pound or two on 17 , traveled by bus into the unknown areas of Frost and South London to the swimming pools 18 some well-known boxers 19 before crowds of 20 people.

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　　I still don't believe in ghosts (鬼) even after my experience at the Rose Inn. 1 I have never seen one. But ghost stories have made me feel 2 since then I arrived at the inn late at night and asked the landlord for a room.

　　“There's nothing left,” he said, “ 3 you'd like to sleep in Number 7.”

　　“Why not?” I said, “What's 4 it?” I was 5 that I would have slept 6 .

　　“Nothing.” he said slowly, “But something happened there a few months ago.”

　　Every old inn has its strange stories, so I thought that 7 he told me about it, the better. I was willing to listen to anything for a bed to 8 .

　　“A man came here late at night, 9 you,” the landlord said. “I thought there was something strange about him because he kept 10 his shoulder while he was signing his name in the book. He asked me 11 room he could have and I offered him No. 7.‘ 12 a man who has said he'll 13 me,’ he said suddenly, ‘with a knife.’ He looked so frightened that I thought I had better 14 him to his room. I locked the door and left him 15 . The next day we found him dead, with a knife beside him. He had cut his throat.” the landlord said. “Or 16 had done it. Do you 17 sleeping there now you know the story?”

　　“Well,”I said. “No one is 18 me. But I wish you had told me the story 19 . As it is, I'll sleep here on the floor in the bar if you've a couple of 20 .”

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　　It is two thousand years 1 the Chinese began to make paper. 2 everybody knows, paper was one of the most important 3 in Chinese history. It is because of the invention that 4 Chinese history was kept. However, in 5 parts of the world, much of the history over hundreds of years is 6 because they had no paper in these countries.

　　Can you 7 that ancient Chinese people 8 records by putting many stones together in the old days? As soon as writing was developed, words were 9 on animal bones, later on metal pots, examples of these have been 10 from the sixteenth to the third centuries B.C. 11 the second and the fifth centuries A.D., words were written on pieces of bamboo or wood. Maybe you have seen the earliest books, which were made 12 pieces of bamboo or wood 13 words were written.

　　About 2,000 years 14 another kind of paper was 15 , which was made from 16 . It was much easier to write and draw on it than 17 , but it was too expensive so people made a kind of paper from the fibres of plants, 18 the outside of trees, pieces of old clothes and so on. This kind of paper was as good as silk but much 19 .

　　In the first century the making of paper had been well developed in China. In the 18th century a paper-making 20 was built in the Middle East. And later on, Spain, Russia and America began to make paper as well.

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　　One of my difficulties is to spell English. English words are too difficult to spell correctly. I always need a 1 which I can keep 2 me when writing. When I think 3 a word that I am not sure I can spell, I look it 4 in the dictionary. But what 5 words I think I really can spell? Some of these words are the 6 that I always spell wrongly!

　　What I need 7 a book that contains (包含) all the words spell 8 . Where can I find it? Properly I shall have to write it 9 ! Of course, I need a book which I can rely on (依靠). If I can't rely on it, 10 is the use of it? Also, it must be a book to carry 11 , so it must be small 12 to put in my pocket.

　　An Englishman 13 I knew to be a university lecturer once told me that 14 the most educated Englishman 15 spell every English word correctly! If he hears a new word which he has never heard before, he cannot be 16 how to spell it! I was so surprised that I wouldn't believe it, but he said, 17 , there are nearly 18 a million words in English, and nobody knows all of them, and secondly, English is not spelled phonetically (根据语音地). What he said 19 me very happy! If an English lecturer cannot spell 20 English words correctly, how can I?

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　　I consider myself something of an expert on apologies. A quick temper has 1 me with plenty of opportunities to make them. In one of my earliest 2 , my mother is telling me, “Don't watch the 3 when you say, ‘I'm sorry’. Hold your head up and look the person in the 4 , so he'll know you 5 it.”

　　My mother thus made the key point of a (n) 6 apology: it must be direct. You must never 7 to be doing something else. You do not 8 a pile of letters while apologizing to a person 9 in position after blaming him or her for a mistake that turned out to be your own 10 . You do not apologize to a hostess, whose guest of honor you treat 11 , by sending flowers the next day without mentioning your bad 12 .

　　One of the important things you should do for an 13 apology is a readiness to 14 the responsibility (责任) for your careless mistakes. We are used to making excuses, which leaves no 15 for the other person to 16 us. Since most people are open-hearted, the no-excuse apology leaves both parties feeling 17 about themselves. That, after all, is the 18 of every apology. It 19 little whether the apologizer is wholly or only partly at fault; answering for one's 20 encourages others to take their share of the blame.

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　　It was a sunny day. A city man was driving along a country road with a new wagon (马车) and a beautiful pair of horses. He didn't pay a lot of 1 to where he was going. Pretty soon he 2 that he was lost, but he 3 to drive, expecting to refind his way or to 4 someone who could tell him how to get back to the 5 .

　　It was along 6 road. For many hours he kept on driving. When it was almost 7 , he saw in the 8 a tall farmer ploughing the land. He stopped his 9 team of horses near the fence and called out, “Hello, farmer.”

　　“Hello, yourself.” the farmer replied, 10 ploughing.

　　“Where does the horse 11 ?” he asked without knowing his language errors (错误).

　　“I haven't seen it go anywhere. It 12 stays right where it is.” said the farmer, 13 stopping his work.

　　“How far is it to the next town?” said the city man, speaking a little 14 .

　　“Don't know. I never 15 it.” repeated the farmer. By this time the city man was getting 16 . “What do you know? You're the biggest fool I 17 saw.

　　 18 stopping, the farmer turned and looked for a long time 19 at the city man. Then he said, “Maybe I don't know much. 20 I am a fool. But at least I'm not lost!”

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