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Curt von Badinski is an engineer of a company in San Francisco． （1）　　（然而）， his home is in Los Angeles， which is 770（2）　　（英里） away from his workplace， so he has to take a plane work and back．

    Every workday morning， von Badinski gets up at 5 a．m． for the 15﹣minute drive to the airport． After（3）　　（停放） his car， he goes straight to take the plane． After a 90﹣ minute flight， he（4）　　（着陆） at Oakland Airport and drives to his company． The（5）　　（整个的） trip takes him about 3 hours．

    Von Badinski pays the airline 2,300 dollars monthly so that he can fly（6）　　（自由地） at any time to and from San Francisco．

    Flying to work every day is not（7）　　（容易的） for von Badinski because he can only sleep five hours every night， but he believes（8）　　（没有什么） could be more important to him than his family． He had thought about several ways to solve the problem，         （9）　　（包括） moving his family to San Francisco， but none of them worked．

    "The six﹣hour round trip shows that I have the（10）　　（能力） to have all the things I want． "he explains．" I am always excited to start a new day．"

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Deer Future Self，

    This is you from ten years ago， the same girl that you used to be．I am sitting in my grade seven

classroom， staring outside． Now， trees with green leaves seem so tall and （1）　　（笔直的）． Do you still find them large？ Or perhaps they seem small to you now？

    Do you still find the squirrels cute？ Do you still have a strong love for（2）　　（动画片）？ Or perhaps are all of these childish for you？I （3）　　（想知道） if my friends now are still friends with you， ten years later？Are you still in touch with them？

    Can you tell me how my high school graduation went？ Did you like sitting and（4）　　（听）to the headmaster and teachers speak？ And can you tell me what I will become in the future． Am I a doctor？ Am I a teacher，engineer，officer，（5）　　（科学家）， or writer？I' m not sure what I want to be but I'm sure that you have （6）　　（已经） known． That reminds me， did I do well on my math test （7）　　（昨天）？

    Oh， I've always wanted to travel around the world! Did you visit Japan， （8）　　（加拿大）， Italy，the United States or Chins yet？ Or did you visit Russia， South Korea or Australia instead？

    Life will always （9）　　（继续）． Please remember all the happy times and all the terrible times．Please remember me， the you who（10）　　（生活） ten years ago．

Yours，

Ten Years Past Self

A marathon（马拉松） is a long﹣distance running race．Now it is not only a competition，but some people organize marathons for charity（慈善）．Runners get friends，families and other people to（51）　　（支持） them．They promise to provide a certain amount of money for every race．For example，if the runner runs one（52）　　（千米），the providers each give the runner ＄1 for the charity．A（53）　　（充足） of money can be raised this way．However，not everyone can run，so people in the USA have thought of other ways to raise money，using the idea of a marathon．

Walk﹣a﹣thons     A walk﹣a﹣thon is（54）　　（相似的） to a marathon，but people walk（55）　　（代替） of running．This is a common way for people to raise money．

Read﹣a﹣thons      Many schools organize read﹣a﹣thons to raise money．Students can get money（56）　　（简单地） for the number of books they read．They might be given a certain （57）　　（阶段） of time to read．Little kids can （58）　　（进入） the reading competition according to the number of pages they read．The read﹣a﹣thons are        （59）　　（举行） not only to raise money，but also to encourage teenagers to read．

Bowl﹣a﹣thons     Bowling is a（60）　　（受欢迎的） sport in the USA．In a bowl﹣a﹣thon，people raise money for every point they get in the game．The higher the score is，the more money they make for the charity．

Daniel Kristiansea is a 14﹣year﹣old schoolboy from Denmark．Recently，while doing his history homework about World WarⅡ，he had a surprising discovery（51）　　（在…后面）his family's home．He found the remains of a（52）　　（德国的）World WarⅡplane．

After telling his father about his history homework，Daniel was encouraged to go out onto their farm．He and his father hoped they might find some old（53）　　（瓶子）or something to show at school．Much to their surprise，on the（54）　　（第四）day，they found some broken plane pieces．So they（55）　　（借）a special machine from a neighbour．When then（56）　　（挖） down seven meters，they suddenly came across pieces of（57）　　（灰色的）clothes．They reported what they found to the government（58）　　（立刻），and the news was widely heard across Danmark．Each day their house was（59）　　（拥挤的）with news reporters．

Daniel's father，Klaus，remembered being told by his（60）　　（爷爷） that a plane had hit their farm during World WarⅡ．But Klaus thought it was just a good story．Now it turns out to be true．

Alison Lapper，a very unusual painter，paints pictures for a living．She doesn't use her （51）　　（手） when she paints．She uses her mouth! Alison was born （52）　　（没有） any arms．Her physical problem caused her to spend the first （53）　　（十七） years of her life in a hospital．But this didn't stop her from making her dreams in life come true．She （54）　　（认识到） that even though she was disabled，she could express herself as freely as （55）　　（正常的） people．This was what got her to start drawing paintings．

Although Alison lives （56）　　（十分） a different life from others，she believes that she can （57）　　（成功） as others．Her paintings are excellent and they do not look like they were drawn by （58）　　（某人） who used her mouth．Alison has become a symbol of    （59）　　（勇气）．Her active way of living has encouraged many disabled people around the （60）　　（世界） and will continue to do so in the future．

A golden envelope（信封）fell through the letter box．On the front，there was no（57）　　（地址） or name of the person who sent it，it only said，"You've won．"

Mum opened it and was very glad to tell them that the family had won a（58）　　（免费的） holiday．They were so excited and started to（59）　　（讨论） the holiday plan．

Laura said she wanted to go to the coast and swim in the sea．Ted hoped to go（60）　　（某处） and eat lots of nice food．Mom preferred to go shopping in big cities while Dad just wanted to leave his（61）　　（生意） alone and have a good rest．

They couldn't decide until it was（62）　　（几乎） dark．Then the phone began to         （63）　　（响铃）．Ted answered it．

"Hello! This is Lucy Holidays．You've won a holiday to sunny Alexandria．"

"That's where my grandma lives．"

"This is Grandma!"

"On，Grandma! You played a joke on us!"

"You're all invited to spend your summer holidays with me．

"They spent（64）　　（十四） fun days at Grandma's．They were so happy and（65）　　（放松的）! Everyone got what he wanted．