I’d been proud that I’d never lost my cellphone until my husband Jack got a call one evening.
We went to visit a friend in hospital last year. When Jack’s  36  rang, it was my mother calling from my  37 . She asked if I had  38  my mobile. I checked my purse. It was  39 !
I used Jack’s phone to call my number. Then a boy, whom I’ll call Rhys,  40  it. “I found your phone!” he said, excitedly. “I have been trying to find you, but  41  it was getting late, I decided to leave.” He gave me the address of a  42  near his home.
Later that evening, I went to  43  him there. I didn’t dare to go  44 , worrying this was some cheater. So Jack came along. After  45  10km, we got to the coffee shop which Rhys  46 .
My  47  were gone. Rhys was just a young boy. “How did you  48  my mum?” I asked. He  49  that when he found my mobile by the roadside, he started calling people in my list of contacts. But all they  50  was my mobile phone number—which didn’t    51 . He’d called many names, starting with the letter A. Finally he got Adam, one of my friends, who  52 my house.
I was  53  to get my phone back with all the contacts, messages and photos I could have lost for ever. I was so  54  to Rhys and offered him some money, but he  55 .
As we drove back, we praised Rhys for his honesty.

A 7.0 magnitude（级）earthquake killed more than 230,000 people in Haiti. Then an 8.8 magnitude quake killed more than 900 people in Chile. And few weeks later, a 6.0 magnitude quake struck rural eastern Turkey, killing at least 57 people.
The earthquakes kept coming hard and fast.   1 It’s not. The problem is what’s happening above ground, not underground, experts say.
  2 They’re rapidly putting up buildings that can’t stand up to earth quakes, scientists believe.
And news reports and better earthquake monitoring make it seem as if earth quakes are increasing all the time.
On average, there are 134 earthquakes a year that have a magnitude between 6.0 and 6.9. So far this year there have been 40 earthquakes—more than in most years for that time period. But that’s because the 8.8 quake in Chile caused a large number of strong aftershocks.
Also, it’s not the number of quakes, but their destructive effects that gain attention. The death is largely due to building standards,   3  Paul Earle, a US seismologist, called for better building standards in the world’s big cities.
Of the 130 cities worldwide with populations of more than I million, more than half are likely to be hit by earthquakes.   4 “If you have a problem feeding yourself, you’re not really going to worry about earthquakes,” said Paul.
The earthquakes made everyone start to think   5  “People are paying attention to the violent planet we’re always lived on. Come back an another six moths if there has been no earthquakes, most people will have forgotten it again,” said US disaster researcher Dennis Mileti.

He 2 that it all came from a(n) 3 that occurred when he was three. He was trying to4 a bottle of milk from refrigerator when he lost hold of the bottle , spilling its5 all over the kitchen floor .

Instead of   6    at him , his mother said , “Robert , what a wonderful    7   you have made ! I have   8    seen such a huge puddle of milk . Since the    9   is done , would you like to get down and play in the milk for a while    10   cleaning it up ?”

Indeed , he did . “Robert ,   11   you make a mess like this ,   12   you have to clean it up and restore everything to its   13    order.” And then together they cleaned up the spilled milk . His mother then said , “Robert , that is a   14    experiment in how to   15    carry a big milk bottle . Let′s go out in the yard and fill the bottle with water and see if you can   16    a way to carry a bottle of water without dropping it .”

The scientist remarked he learned from that moment that mistakes were just   17    for learning something new , which is    18   scientific experiments are all about . Even if the experiment “doesn′t work”, we usually learn something    19   from it .

Wouldn′t it be great if all   20    would respond like “Robert′s mother ?

1．A．away                   B．apart                  C．above                 D．ahead

3．A．experiment           B．coincidence         C．experience          D．conflict

4．A．deliver                  B．return                 C．move                 D．remove

5．A．mixture                 B．water                 C．liquids                D．contents

6．A．yelling                  B．coming                C．nodding              D．laughing

7．A．mistake                B．mess                  C．trick                   D．treasure

8．A．always                 B．often                   C．rarely                 D．ever

9．A．damage                B．business             C．favor                  D．harm

10．A．before                B．after                   C．with                   D．without

11．A．whatever            B．however             C．wherever            D．whenever

12．A．especially            B．eventually            C．respectively        D．immediately

13．A．opposite             B．particular            C．proper                D．natural

14．A．failed                  B．forbidden            C．demanded           D．deserved

15．A．absolutely           B．comfortably        C．confidentially       D．effectively

16．A．develop              B．grasp                  C．invent                 D．discover

17．A．options               B．opportunities       C．qualities              D．procedures

18．A．that                    B．where                 C．what                  D．which

19．A．available             B．valuable              C．practical             D．accessible

20．A．managers          B．directors          C．parents          D．relatives

It was 4 o'clock in the morning, when I received the phone call.
“This is the emergency room calling and your son was just   36  in with severe burns on his face, neck and arms. We have called for a(n)  37  and are going to fly him to the burn unit in Seattle.” Seattle was 350 miles from his college, so we knew immediately this was  38  . The doctor described the  39 , which caused the burns. At 6 am, our son and his friends decided to barbecue hamburgers in the courtyard of their apartment. When they   40  the charcoal(木炭),it burst into flames because they had sprayed too much gasoline(petrol).The flames  41  my son’s shirt tail and shot from his waist to well over his head.
  42 , one of the boys was quick-minded, grasped my son, and  43  him on the grass. While it saved his life, it was not in  44   to save him from severe burns and the terrible scars(伤疤).
After he  45  from the treatments, the doctors told him they would not do plastic surgery(整容)for 6 months  46  it takes that long for the skin to stop shrinking and wrinkling. So, he had to return to college with scars typical of severe burns.
When I was a child, my mother told my sister, who had a 10-inch very  47  scar on her arm, “Nancy, if you ignore the scar, other people will ignore it. It does not mean they will not   48  it, but it means it will not matter to them if it doesn’t matter to you.”
I   49   this wisdom on to my son. He took my advice to  50   and returned to school with his head held high--glad he was alive.
By the end of the six-month waiting period, he decided that the scars did not  51 . So he made the  52   to give up any plastic surgery. We all have “scars” that we believe  53  people to keep away from us. And we spend a lot of time thinking that if only we looked differently, or dressed differently, people would like us better.  
But you see, people will only judge you by your looks, or your clothes, if you are judging yourself by these same  54  standards. Put your imperfections out of your mind and concentrate on what you value  55   yourself, and your beauty will shine through.

It was 4 o'clock in the morning when I received the phone call．
“This is the emergency room calling and your son was just  41 in with severe burns on his face，neck and arms．We have called for a（n）  42  and are going to fly him to the burn unit in Seattle．” Seattle was 350 miles from his college，so we knew immediately this was  43 ．
The doctor described the  44 ，which caused the burns．At 6 am，our son and his friends decided to barbecue hamburgers in the courtyard of their apartment．When they   45  the charcoal（木炭），it burst into flames because they had sprayed too much gasoline（petrol）．The flames  46 my son’s shirt tail and shot from his waist to well over his head．
  47 ，one of the boys was quick-minded，grasped my son，and  48 him on the grass．While it saved his life，it was not in  49  to save him from severe burns and the terrible scars（伤疤）．
After he  50 from the treatments，the doctors told him they would not do plastic surgery（整容）for 6 months  51 it takes that long for the skin to stop shrinking and wrinkling．So，he had to return to college with scars typical of severe burns．
When I was a child, my mother told my sister，who had a 10-inch, very  52__ scar on her arm，“Nancy，if you ignore the scar，other people will ignore it．It does not mean they will not  53 it，but it means it will not matter to them if it doesn’t matter to you．’’
I  54  this wisdom on to my son．He took my advice to  55 and returned to school with his head held high--glad he was alive．
By the end of the six-month waiting period，he decided that the scars did not  56 , so he made the  57 to give up any plastic surgery．
We all have “scars” that we believe  58 people to keep away from us．And we spend a lot of time thinking that if only we looked different，or dressed differently，people would like us better． 
But you see，people will only judge you by your looks，or your clothes，if you are judging yourself by these same  59 standards．Put your imperfections out of your mind and concentrate on what you value  60 yourself，and your beauty will shine through．