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　　Ebron James isn’t the first high school basketball player to go straight into the NBA, but he’s probably the best．He has the body, skills and the basketball brain of an All-Star(全明星球员)．

　　This 　　1　　 was on 　　2　　 as he scored 41 points to take Cleveland Cavaliers(克里夫兰骑士队)to a 107-104 win over the New Jersey Nets(新泽西网队)on March 28．Aged of 19 years and 87 days, James became the 　　3　　 player to score 40 or more in the NBA．“It was by far James’ best 　　4　　, ”said Cleveland coach Paul Silas．Known to his friends 　　5　　“the king”, this was the day James earned his crown(王冠)．But he was 　　6　　 from being a king during a childhood spent in the back streets of Akron, Ohio．　　7　　 many other African-American basketball players, James’ early years were a 　　8　　．His mother Gloria was just 16 when she gave birth to him; he knows nothing about his father．Mother and son battled for everything from food to a place to live．　　9　　 help from his grandmother and neighbours, James would 　　10　　 have died when he was young．

　　This spirit of survival has served him well on court, forcing him to take any 　　11　　 he finds．“I 　　12　　 losing, I don’t like losing, ”said James of his 41-point display．“I 　　13　　the opportunity for us to win and I was 　　14　　 to capture it．”At 2．03 metres, he is not Yao Ming but this didn’t 　　15　　 him being first choice in 2003 NBA draft．This was 　　16　　to his strength and skill, much of which he learned from high school American football．

　　Although he has a 　　17　　 brain, James has never had to concentrate on 　　18　　．Some people think this is a mistake and say he should have gone to college to 　　19　　 his mind．But James is one of the lucky few who has found fame and fortune 　　20　　 a diploma(文凭)．On the court, he is king．

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　　Florence Nightingale was born in 1820, and died at the age of 90．When she was a young girl, hospitals were not as they are now, and nurses were sometimes very careless．The doctors, especially the army doctors, did not know enough about healing(治疗)wounds and curing diseases．A great many of the poor soldiers in the Crimean(克里米亚半岛的)War died of wounds and fever because the doctors were not skillful enough to cure them．

　　When Miss Nightingale was a little girl, she used to visit the poor people near her house and look after them when they were ill．

　　She wanted very much to be a nurse．But her father didn't like her to be a nurse．He had plenty of money and let her travel to many other countries．He hoped she would forget about wanting to be a nurse．

　　Wherever she went, she visited hospitals and worked in them．She learned all she could because she was very sad to hear about the poor English soldiers dying in the crowded hospitals．Then she was placed in charge of a small hospital in London．

　　She wrote to some very important people and at last one of her friends, who was the Minister of War, allowed her to go and look after the wounded soldiers．She picked the best nurses she could find and took them with her．They found the hospital crowded and dirty．There was not enough medicine．There were not enough bandages(绷带)．

　　There was not even enough food．Miss Nightingale and her nurses had to work very hard indeed．

　　She fell ill because she had worked too hard for a very long time．When she came back to England, however, she started to train nurses in all the hospitals．Soon all the big hospitals in England had their own training-schools for nurses．Hospitals became clean and cheerful places and nurses were much more skillful．Today Florence Nightingale is remembered by nurses all over the world as the founder of modern nursing and one of the founders of Red Cross．

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