Mom:    Daniel, I need to talk to you about your behavior. Dad and I realize there is probably an explanation for why the house is so dirty, but you shouldn’t have run out of the room and closed the door so hard like that.
Daniel:     Mom, I’m sorry, but I was so angry! You want me to act like an adult but you and dad treat me like a child. Why didn’t you just ask me what had happened?
Mom:    Well, I know that grown-ups are supposed to make good decisions but sometimes we make mistakes. We were angry too. None of us stopped to think and we should have. Can you explain to me now why the house was a mess and what you did with the money we left?
Daniel: Spot was sick, Mom. Eric and I didn’t want to call you and dad on your vacation, so I used the money you left and some of my own to take him to the vet. We stayed there and waited for him all day. That is why we didn’t have time to clean the house.
【小题1】 Who is Spot?

按所给的汉语，用英语完成下列句子
【小题1】当我们气喘吁吁赶到那里时，记录影片已经开始了半小时。
When                                , the documentary had been on for half an hour.
【小题2】与地震相比而言，近来核泄漏对日本人产生更坏的影响。
Compared with the earthquake, the nuclear leak ___________   the people in Japan recently.
【小题3】你能否向我解释一下，为什么我的电脑经常出故障？
Can you explain to me                                               ?
【小题4】他经常怀疑是否值得如此勤奋学习。
He often doubts whether ______________________________          .
【小题5】非常感谢为我们提供了这么多宝贵的建议。
Thanks for                                                   

按所给的汉语，用英语完成下列句子

1.当我们气喘吁吁赶到那里时，记录影片已经开始了半小时。

When                                , the documentary had been on for half an hour.

2.与地震相比而言，近来核泄漏对日本人产生更坏的影响。

Compared with the earthquake, the nuclear leak ___________   the people in Japan recently.

3.你能否向我解释一下，为什么我的电脑经常出故障？

Can you explain to me                                               ?

4.他经常怀疑是否值得如此勤奋学习。

He often doubts whether ______________________________          .

5.非常感谢为我们提供了这么多宝贵的建议。

Thanks for                                                   

I was being interviewed by a senior manager for a major insurance(保险业)company. I told him honestly why I wanted the job —I needed to keep my family in Boston. My wife recently died of a heart attack. A job in Boston would help me reduce some of the extreme trauma(精神创伤) and pain of the loss for my 16-year-old daughter. It was important for me to keep her in her present high school. I could still hardly talk about the loss of my wife. Bruce, the interviewer, was politely empathetic, but he didn’t probe(彻底调查) any further. He admitted (接受)my loss and, with great respect, moved on to another subject. After the next round of the interview, Bruce took me to lunch with another manager. Then he asked me to take a walk with him. He told me that he, too, had lost his wife. And, like me, he had also been married 20 years and had three children. In his sharing, I realized that he had experienced the same pain as I had —a pain that was almost impossible to explain to someone who had not lost a beloved one. He offered his business card and home phone number and suggested that, if I need help or just want someone to talk to, I should feel free to give him a call. Whether I got the job or not, he wanted me to know that he was there if I ever needed help. When he had no idea if we would ever see each other again, he helped our family deal with one of the greatest losses. He turned the normally cold business interview into a caring support for another person in need.
【小题1】The author took part in the interview because _______.