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　　When I was about twelve years old, I had an enemy, a girl who liked to tell me about my shortcomings (缺点)．Week by week her list became 　　1　　：I was very short, and I wasn't a good student, I talked too much, and so on．I tried to stand(忍受)all of these as long as I could．　　2　　, I became very angry．I ran to my father with tears(眼泪) in my eyes．

　　He listened to me quietly, and then asked, “Are the things that she said true or not? Jane, have you ever 　　3　　 what you're really like? Now you have that girl's ideas．Go and make a list of everything she said and mark the points that are 　　4　　．Pay no attention to the other things that she said．”

　　I did as he told me．To my great surprise, I found that about half of the things were true．Some of them I couldn't 　　5　　, like being very short, but a good number of them I could．I wanted to change the bad things in me, and for the first time I knew something about myself in a very 　　6　　 way．

　　I brought the list back to my father．He refused to take it．“That's just for you,” he said, “You know better than anyone else the truth about yourself, but sometimes others' opinions are also important, so you 　　7　　 learn how to listen, and not just 　　8　　 your ears in anger and feel hurt(受伤害)．When something that is said about you is true, you'll find that it will be 　　9　　 to you．Our world is full of people who think that they know you．Don't shut your ears．Listen to all of them, 　　10　　 the truth and do what you think is the right thing to do．” I have remembered my father's advice at many important moments．I have never had a better piece of advice in my whole life．

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　　Ways to Fall Asleep

　　为了尽快进入甜蜜的梦乡，历史上许多名人绞尽了脑汁，有的人终于找到了自己独特的人眠方法，可有的人还是好梦难圆。你想探个究竟吗?

　　How much sleep do we need? The answers are different.　Some people need only three hours of sleep a night. Others need ten hours of sleep a night. Most Amexicans sleep for an average of seven to eight hours a night. After age fifty, the average sleep hours go down to 6.5 hours a night.

　　Most people will have a bad night when they can't fall asleep. About one in three Americans has a problem with sleep. Many of these people cannot fall asleep. The name of this problem is called insomnia(失眠症).

　　This is not a new problem. Many famous people in history had insomnia .Some of these people had their own ways to sleep well. Benjamin Franklin(本杰明·富兰克林), the famous inventor, had four beds.He moved from one to another to fall asleep. King Louis XIV (国王路易十四) of France had 413 beds and hoped to fall asleep in one of them. Mark Twain, the famous writer, had a different way: he hy on his side(侧卧)　across the end of the bed!

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