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56. If you want to watch the 2012 Olympic Games, you can go to _____.

Miracles（奇迹）will happen if you don't give up trying. Even if you have 1  for one hundred times, you may succeed when you try for the 10lst time.

When I was born, my doctor told my mother that there was something wrong with my 2  .  They were too soft to be able to walk. Although the news was bad, my mother didn't become  3  . She didn't believe what the doctor said  4  started to look for other ways.

My mother kept looking for other doctors for me, and finally she  5  . The doctor and his team in the hospital did  6 they could to help me. They also asked my parents to teach me to do some  7 to help me walk. One day when my mother came to pick me  8   . I crawled(爬) towards her. She was so surprised and happy that she couldn't believe  9   eyes. Crawling was not walking, but it was a good  10  . Day by day, I could walk by myself.

When I grew up, my mother  11   told me these stories. She said that if I thought of what she said whenever I met  12  , I could do anything successfully. I have been working hard and I have turned out to be a very   13  person.. I get best grades in school and I am a good dancer and swimmer.   14  my mother's strong resolution, I live a happy life now. What the story tells us, as my mother always says,   15_: Never give up.

Erik was a fourteen-year-old boy. He thought he was a young man but his parents didn’t think so. They told him, “When you begin to think about    1    others, you’ll be a young man.”
One morning, his parents gave Erik     2     money to buy hamburgers at a store. He saw an old man there. The old man looked very    3  . Erik went up to him and found that the old man had lost his money and hadn’t had     4   for his breakfast. Erik took the old man to the nearest restaurant. But the man ordered only a glass of water for   5   . Erik felt sorry for him, so he asked the waiter to    6    the old man some bread and a cup of coffee. The old man was so   7  that he ate up all the food very soon. After that, the old man told Erik that he would never forget    8   kindness. Erik was very pleased when he heard the old man said, “You are a very good young man.”
   9  their surprise, the food was a present because   10   day was the birthday of the boss.

Many people think it is very exciting and admirable(令人羡慕的) to be an actor. The actors often wear the most beautiful and fashionable clothes and they can make a lot of money. Many people like them and they have so many fans. But in fact, the job of an actor can be very tiring and hard. To make good movies, for example, action movies, the actors need to go to some remote(偏远的) places. There they don't have good places to stay or nice food to eat. They often have to get up early and go to bed very late. When they are too busy, they don’t have time to sleep or relax. It's very hard.
【小题1】Why do so many people think it is admirable to be an actor?