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阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从每小题所给的四个选项中，选出一个可以填入空自处的最佳答案。

　　One day I saw a kid from my class was walking home from school. His name was Kyle. It looked like he was carrying all of his books. I thought to myself, “Why would anyone bring home all his books on a Friday?”

　　As I was walking, I saw some kids running towards him. They ran at him, knocking all his books out of his arms．He looked up and I saw the terrible 1 in his eyes. My heart went out to him. So I helped him pick up his books, and asked him where he lived. We talked all the way 2 , and I carried some of his books. We hung out all weekend and the more I 3 to know Kyle, the more I liked him.

　　Over the next four years, Kyle and I became best friends. When we were seniors(高中毕业), we began to think about 4 . Kyle decided on Georgetown, and I was going to Duke. I knew that we would always be friends, that the miles would never be a 5 . He was going to be a doctor, and I was going for business on a football scholarship.

　　Kyle was valedictorian(毕业班发言代表) of our class. Graduation day, I could see that he was 6 about his speech. 7 , I smacked(拍打) his 'back and said, “Hey, big guy, you'll be great!” He looked at me and smiled.

　　“Thanks,” he said.

　　As he started his speech, he cleared his throat, and began. “Graduation is a time to 8 those who helped you make it through those tough years. Our parents, our teachers, maybe a coach 9 mostly our friends. I am here to tell all of you that being a friend to someone is the best 10 you can give him or her. I'm going to tell you a story.” I just looked at my friend with 11 as he told the story of the first day we met. He had planned to kill himself over weekend. He talked of how he had cleaned out his locker so his Mom wouldn't have to do 12 later and was carrying his stuff home. He looked hard at me and gave me little smile. “Thankfully, I was saved. My friend saved me from doing the unspeakable.”

　　I saw his Mom and Dad looking at me and smiling that same grateful smile．Not until that moment I 13 its depth. With one small gesture you can change a person's 14 . As you can see, “Friends are angels who 15 us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.”

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阅读下面短文，写出与下列时间有关的事件。

　　The first newspaper was written by hand and put up on walls in public places． The earliest daily newspaper was started in Rome in 59 B． C．． In the 700’s the world’s first printed newspaper was published． Europe didn’t have a regularly published newspaper until 1609, when one was started in Gemany．

　　The first regularly published newspaper in English was printed in Amsterdam in 1620．In 1621, an English newspaper was started in London and was published once a week． The first daily English newspaper was the Daily Courant, which came out in March 1702．

　　In 1690, Benjamin Harris printed the first American newspaper in Boston． But not long after it was first published, the government stopped the paper published daily in the American Colonies (殖民地)． By 1760, the colonies had more than thirty daily newspapers． There are now about 1, 800 daily papers in the United States．

　　Today, as a group, English language newspapers have the largest circulation (发行量) in the world． But the largest circulation for a newspaper is that of the Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun． It sells more than eleven million copies every year．

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