1．　　Larry seemed always silent and didn't have any friend. His teacher Mr. Brown (1)       this. One day, he asked Larry to meet him after class. Mr. Brown said, "I see that you don't talk to anyone or show any (2)       in anything. What's wrong?" Larry replied, "Sir, I have a very (3)       life. I have to face some very sad incidents and I keep (4)       them. Because of this, I can't focus my attention on anything and don't even feel like talking to (5)      ."
　　Mr. Brown listened carefully, thought for a while and said, "Would you like some lemonade (柠檬汽水)?" Larry felt a little (6)       and nervously replied, "Yes, thank you!"
While (7)       lemonade, Mr. Brown added more salt on purpose and kept the quantity of sugar low. Larry made a (8)       face as soon as he drank a sip of that lemonade. Seeing this, Mr. Brown asked, "You don't like it?"
　　"Um... it's just there is a bit too much (9)       in it," Larry answered.
　　Mr. Brown stopped him, "Oh, it doesn't matter. I will throw it away." As the teacher was lifting the glass to (10)       , Larry stopped him and said, "Sir, please don't throw it away. (11)       we put a little more sugar in the lemonade, it will be fine to drink."
　　Hearing this, Mr. Brown said (12)      , "This is what I want to hear from you. To improve the (13)       of lemonade, we don't need to remove the salt from it, we can just add some sugar to it. Similarly, we cannot remove sad things that have (14)       happened to us, but we can add sweetness of good experiences in our life. If you keep on crying about your (15)       neither your present will be right nor the future will be bright."
　　Larry realized his problem and promised to live a positive life.

3．　　Have you ever entered a tropical rainforest (热带雨林)? Rainforests make up only a small part of the Earth's surface, about six percent, but there are more kinds of trees than any other area in the whole world.
　　Tropical rainforests are in Africa, Asia, Central and South America, Australia, and on the Pacific islands. The largest tropical rainforest is the Amazon (亚马逊) Rainforest in South America, which covers 1.2 billion acres, or almost five million square kilometres. The second largest rainforest is in Western Africa.
　　Rainforests provide us with many things. In fact, the Amazon Rainforest is the "lungs of our planet" because it produces 20% of the world's oxygen (氧气). One fifth of the world's fresh water is also found in the Amazon Rainforest. Furthermore, one half of the world's species of animals, plants and insects live in the Earth's rainforests. 80% of the food we eat first grew in the rainforest. 25% of the drugs we take when we are sick are made of plants that grow only in rainforests. Some of these drugs are even used to fight and cure cancer.
　　There are four different levels of trees in a rainforest. The forest floor is the lowest layer full of animal life and receives the least amount of light. The under storey is the dark, cool environment under the leaves but over the ground. The canopy layer is the upper parts of most of the trees. The emergent layer contains a small number of very tall trees.
　　These different parts of a rainforest exist together to create an ecosystem for many animals, plants and human beings.

4．　　Jason and his father were going to the grocery store by car to pick up some apples. It had been an unusual day. The sky was dark but there were few clouds. As they drove up the street, there started to be a rumbling (隆隆的) sound heard across the ground.
　　Jason's father immediately realized that a tornado (龙卷风) was coming. He stopped the car and told Jason to get out immediately. Jason and his father got out of the car and made their way to the closest building. By this time the wind was blowing harder, and it was hard to see or hear. Debris was falling all over the place. Jason couldn't see his dad anymore. He also realized that he wasn't getting to the building fast enough. He was afraid he would be picked up by the wind and thrown into the air.
　　As he made his way towards the building, he noticed a field to his right. He could see an irrigation ditch (灌溉渠). In a panic, he scrambled (爬) to the ditch and lay flat on the ground. More debris and objects flew overhead. His heart was beating hard, and he was nervous. He had never been in a tornado before.
　　After a while, the winds died down and the loud roaring sound was gone. Jason slowly lifted his head and nervously looked around. What he saw was a great mess. Jason could hardly recognize the buildings in front of him because of all the damage.
　　He stood up and with shaky legs walked to the building. Once there, he pushed the door open and went inside. It was a public building owned by the city. It was empty, but Jason could hear noises further inside. He walked into the large room and saw his dad. He ran across the room and gave him a big hug.
　　"Jason! How are you? I've been worried sick about you!" said his father. "I couldn't find you anywhere!"
　　Jason breathed a sigh of a relief (松了一口气) and sat down. He did have a story to tell!

5．　　Have you ever bought something and then changed your mind? For Alison Jenson, 15, this used to happen several times a week. Alison was a shopaholic. She just couldn't stop shopping and she loved special offers.
　　Alison's bedroom is full of stuff. "I've been to every shop in Birmingham, I think," says Alison. She picks up some earrings. The labels are still on them. "These were half price," she says. "I've never worn them." Alison's problem wasn't just jewellery. She also bought a lot of clothes, though not many shoes, because they were usually too expensive. She has also bought lots of other small things — like 20 new covers for her phone. She hasn't used any of them.
　　According to experts, we all feel excited after we buy something new. For shopaholics, it's a little different. Soon after they buy something, they think they've made a mistake and start to feel unhappy. So they buy themselves something else to feel happier.
　　Psychologists (心理学家) first described the problems of shopaholics in 1915. However, there was very little research on the subject until recently. Now, doctors think thousands of people suffer from the problem, and the situation is getting worse. There are also more teenage shopaholics now, although most young people don't have enough money to go shopping very regularly.
　　Alison knew she had a problem. "I often bought something every day. Usually it was something small, but I just needed to buy it," she says. "I spent money that I got for my birthday, and when I was short of cash, I borrowed money from friends or my parents. When I couldn't go shopping, I felt anxious. Then one day, my parents just looked at all the stuff in my room and said, 'This is crazy!' I knew they were right. I needed some big changes in my life."
　　Alison now gets help with her problem and feels she has changed. She no longer thinks she's a shopaholic. "When I want to buy something in a shop, I ask myself two questions," she says. "Do I need it? Can I afford it? The answer to both questions is usually 'no', so I walk away. It's great!"

17．
　　Do you know that we are using up the Earth's fresh water faster than we can replace it? We need water to stay alive and if we don't use water (1)            , we will run out of it!
　　Water is needed for just about everything we do. We need it to farm, to wash, to provide power, to control fires and — most importantly — to drink. (2)             water, we would all die.
　　So we should all save water if we want to have enough to stay alive. Using less water (3)             saving money and saving energy. Saving water is EASY. Here are some (4)             tips:
　　*Have shorter showers and only half fill the bath.
　　*Turn the tap off while you soap your hands or brush your (5)            .
　　*Fix any taps or hoses (软管) that drip — every drop counts!

18．　　Susan was tired of having her three children talk back to her. One day, she climbed into her kids' tree house. It was (1)             good place, she thought, for a mother to go on strike (罢工). She was tired of (2)            (drive) them everywhere without thanks and doing more than her share of the work around the house. Until (3)            (thing) changed, Susan decided to stay up in the tree.
　　Susan's strike got her kids' attention, (4)             course. But that was not all that happened. Word of the fed-up mother spread. Before long, a camera crew from television's Today Show came into their yard. Now people all across America were going to find (5)             who drove the kids' mother up a tree.
　　As the cameras worked, the three kids stood with their father near the tree house. Kate, the Today Show host, had a question for (6)            (they). "What do you think about your mom on strike in that tree house?" she asked.
　　"I am kind of embarrassed," said Misty.
　　"I'm really shocked,"said Joseph. "I did not think it would go this far. My mom is much (7)            (crazy) than we thought."
　　Rachel added, "I think mom is so strange (8)             I can hardly believe it."
　　But Susan had made her point. If the kids (9)            (want) her back, they should know what to do. When the TV crew left, the kids went into their house (10)            (quick) and got busy. Not long after that Susan climbed down from the tree and went back to being a mom.

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