The lady with the white fence taught me to leave the gate to life open………

When my husband died of a brain disease, I became very angry. Life was not   1  . I hated being alone. One day, as I was  2  down a busy street in town, I suddenly noticed a new fence, www.ks5u.com which was being set up  3  a house. I pulled off to the side to really admire the fence. The carpenter had done such a good job that my eyes almost   4   up with tears. I could not  5  myself away. I stopped the engine, went over and touched the fence. It still  6  of fresh paint. I could hear a lady was trying to start the lawn mower（除草机） in the back garden.

“Hello!” I shouted and   7   at her. “Well, hello!” She stood up and wiped her hands in the apron. “I ——I came to see the fence. It is so beautiful!” I said.

“The fence is not there for my  8  ”, the lady explained to me in a(n)9    voice. “I live alone. But so many people drive by every day, and I thought they  10  be glad to see something really nice. People see my fence and wave.  11   stop like you and come up to veranda(走廊) to have a chat.”

“  12  weren’t you sad when they expanded the road and everything changed so much?” I asked.

Her reply  13  my life. “Change is a part of life and takes part in  14 us who we are. When something we do not like happens to us, we have two choices: to become a  15  person or to become a better person.”

I carefully left the gate  16  and drove on with a new feeling inside me. I could not  17  what it was, but I could feel the  18  stone wall around my angry heart breaking off. And  19  a pretty white fence was built. I decided that I would keep the gate open for everything and everyone that came my   20  .

1．A．fair                      B．unhappy            C．successful            D．unknown

2．A．walking                B．driving               C．wandering            D．running

3．A．near                      B．beside                C．around                 D．in

4．A．welled                  B．dried                  C．took                     D．kept

6．A．felt                       B．tasted                 C．sounded               D．smelled

7．A．looked                  B．stared                 C．waved                  D．glared

8．A．sake                     B．street                 C．job                       D．income

9．A．angry                    B．frightened           C．doubted                D．pleasant

10．A．ought to             B．should                C．might                  D．have to

11．A．Everyone             B．Nobody              C．A few                  D．Few

12．A．So                      B．But                    C．Thus                    D．Though

13．A．gave                   B．changed             C．charged                D．cost

14．A．making                B．leaving               C．finding                 D．catching

15．A．better                  B．bitter                  C．best                     D．worst

16．A．open                   B．closed                C．broken                 D．locked

17．A．discuss               B．speak                 C．talk                      D．tell

18．A．thin                     B．weak                  C．broken                 D．thick

19．A．unfortunately       B．besides               C．disappointedly       D．instead

20．A．position              B．way                    C．route                    D．method

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　　“Fire! Fire!”What terrible words to hear when one wakes up in a strange house in the middle of night! It was a large, old 1 house and my room was on the top floor. I jumped out of bed, 2 the door and stepped out into the passage. It was 3 of thick smoke.

　　I began to 4 , but as I was still only half-awake, instead of 5 the stairs I went in the opposite direction. The smoke grew thicker and I could 6 flames all around. The floor became 7 under my bare feet. I found 8 door and ran into a room to get to the window. But before I could reach it, one of my feet 9 in something soft and I fell down. The thing I had fell over felt 10 a bundle of clothes, and I 11 to protect my face from the smoke and heat. Just then the floor 12 way under me and I crashed to the floor below with pieces of burning wood all around me.

　　I saw a flaming doorway in front, put 13 over my face and ran. My feet burned me terribly, but I got through. As I reached the cold air outside, my bundle of clothes 14 a thin cry, I nearly dropped it in my 15 . Then I saw a crowd gathered in the street.

　　A woman is a night-dress and 16 coat screamed as she saw me and came running 17 .

　　“My baby! My baby!” She cried. The crowd 18 wildly as she took the smoke-blackened bundle out of my arms. I had some difficulty in 19 her. She was the Mayor's wife, and had 20 her baby. I was a hero.

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　　I began to 4 , but as I was still only half-awake, instead of 5 the stairs I went in the opposite direction. The smoke grew thicker and I could 6 flames all around. The floor became 7 under my bare feet. I found 8 door and ran into a room to get to the window. But before I could reach it, one of my feet 9 in something soft and I fell down. The thing I had fell over felt 10 a bundle of clothes, and I 11 to protect my face from the smoke and heat. Just then the floor 12 way under me and I crashed to the floor below with pieces of burning wood all around me.

　　I saw a flaming doorway in front, put 13 over my face and ran. My feet burned me terribly, but I got through. As I reached the cold air outside, my bundle of clothes 14 a thin cry, I nearly dropped it in my 15 . Then I saw a crowd gathered in the street.

　　A woman is a night-dress and 16 coat screamed as she saw me and came running 17 .

　　“My baby! My baby!” She cried. The crowd 18 wildly as she took the smoke-blackened bundle out of my arms. I had some difficulty in 19 her. She was the Mayor's wife, and had 20 her baby. I was a hero.

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When we think about giving help to developing countries, we often think about giving money so that these countries can build schools and hospitals, buy food and medicine, or find clean water supplies. These seem to be the most important basic needs of the people we are trying to help. However, it’s far from enough. Ladies and gentlemen, we’ve got to come up with some better ideas to help them.
I was very surprised, then, when I read about a plan to make cheap laptop computers（便携式电脑）for children in developing countries. A man called Nicholas Negroponte invented a cheap laptop computer, which can run without electricity. He decided to invent this computer after he visited a school in Cambodia.
The laptop which Mr. Negroponte has designed is a little different from the normal laptop computers you can buy in the shops. One difference is that it will be covered in rubber so that it is very strong and won’t be damaged easily. As an electricity supply can be a problem in developing countries, the computer also has a special handle（把手）so that children can wind（摇）the computer up to give it extra power when needed.
These special laptop computers will cost less than 100 US dollars and Mr. Negroponte wants to build as many as 15 million machines in the first year of production. The idea is that these computers will help the children’s education as they will be able to access the Internet. These computers might not help the people in developing countries immediately, but by improving children’s education they should help people to find their own solutions to their problems in the long term.
Another idea to help children in developing countries is to recycle old mobile phones so that they can be used again. In the UK, and, probably in many other countries too, millions of mobile phones are thrown away every year. The waste created by throwing away these old phones is very bad for the environment, so it seems to be an excellent idea to recycle them. In this way we will be able to achieve two important goals（目标）at the same time. We will reduce the waste we produce and help others. In other words, we will be able to “kill two birds with one stone”, and that is always a good thing.
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