A Heroic Woman
The whole of the United States cheered its latest hero,Ashley Smith,with the Federal Bureau of lnvestigation saying it was planning to give a big reward to her for having a brave heart and wise mind.
（46）She was moving into her apartment in Atlanta,Georgia early on the morning of March 12,when a man followed her to her door and put a gun to her side.\"I started walking to my door,and I felt really,really afraid,\"she said in a TV interview last week.The man was Brian Nichols,33.He was suspected of killing three people at an Atlanta courthouse（法院）on March 11 and later of killing a federal agent.（47）
Nichols tied Smith up with tape,but released her after she repeatedly begged him not to take her life.\"I told him if he hurt me,my little girl wouldn't have a mummy,\"she said.In order to calm the man down,she read to him from\"The Purpose-Driven Life\you thought your purpose in life was-what talents were you given.\"（48）
\"I basically just talked to him and tried to gain his trust,\"Smith said.
Smith said she asked Nichols why he chose her.\"He said he thought I was an angel sent from God,and we were Christian sister and brogher,\"she said.\"And that he was lost,and that God led him to me to tell him that he had hurt a lot of peopole.\"（49）She said Nichols was surprised when she made him breakfast and that the two of them watched television coverage（报道）of the police hunt for him.\"I cannot believe that's me,\"Nichols told the woman.Then,Nichols asked Smith what she thought he should do.She said,\"I think you should turn yourself in.If you don't,lots more people are going to get hurt.\"
Eventually,he let her go.（50）A US$60,000 reward had been posted for Nichols' capture.Authorities said they did not yet know if Smith would be eligible（有资格的）for that money.
（2）A The local police were searching for him.
（1）B Smith is a 26-year-old single mother with a daughter.
（4）D She even cooked breakfast for the man before he allowed her to leave. （3）E And the two of them discussed this topic. （5）F Then she called the police. Landmines
Worldwide there are estimated to be 120 million landmines （地雷） spread through 62 countries. ＿＿＿＿＿（1） The United Nations is currently involved in 14 mine-clearing operations around the world but it estimates that, at current rate, it will take 1,000\"years to remove all the world's landmines.
Landmines are a favorable weapon because they cost so little to produce - about 3 pounds per mine. ＿＿＿＿＿（2）
Landmines cause the death or injury of 70 people a day, of whom most are civilians. ＿＿＿＿＿（3） In fact, about half the landmines active today lie in unmarked fields, in countries no longer in conflict.
And landmines do not only kill and maim （使残废）; they also hold back economic development. In Afghanistan, for example, where the former Soviet Army laid down an estimated ten million landmines, more than half of the land which could be cultivated for agriculture is useless because it is so heavily mined. According to Eileen Maybin of the Charity Christian Aid, mines also condemn people to relying on overseas aid - aid which is often provided by governments which provided the landmines in the first place:
\"＿＿＿＿＿（4） Because there are landmines on agricultural land, people are actually dependent on food aid. This is one of the ironies of the situation - that governments are providing money for food aid when, if the mines were cleared, people would be able to feed themselves.\"
Forty-nine countries have so far signed the United Nations Inhumane Weapons Convention, which
restricts the manufacture and export of landmines. ＿＿＿＿＿（5） But some signatories （签约国） of the UN Convention, such as the UK, continue to support the manufacture and export of these weapons. The British
Government says that it won't support a complete ban because it considers the landmine a legitimate （合法的） military weapon if it is used responsibly.
（5） A A further 19 countries, including the USA, France, Germany and Japan, have banned all exports of landmines completely.
（2）B However, the cost of locating and removing them is high - between 300 pounds and 700 pounds per mine.
（1）D And every year, for every 100,000 mines removed, another two million are put down.
（4）E Landmines are actually destroying the social fabric and economic independence of countries. （3）F And many of the casualties occur in countries where war has long since ended. You Need Couragel
Shortly after I began a career in business，I learned that Carl Weatherup，president of PepsiCo(百事可乐公司)，was speaking at the University of Colorad0.1 tracked down the person handling his schedule and managed to get myself an appointment. (1)
So there l was sitting outside the university’S auditorium，waiting for the president of PepsiC0.1 could hear him talking to the students…and talkin9，and talkin9. (2)He was now five minutes over,which dropped my time with him down to1 0 minutes.Decision time.
1 wrote a note on the back of my business card，reminding him that he had a meetin9.”You have a meeting with Jeff Hoye at 2：30 p.m.”I took a deep breath，pushed open the doors of the auditorium and walked straight up the middle aisle(过道)toward him as he talked.Mr.Weatherup stopped.——(3)Just before I reached the door，I heard him tell the group that he was running late.He thanked them for their attention，wished them luck and walked out to where l was now sittin9。holding my breath.
He looked at the card and then at me.”Let me guess.”he said.”You’re Jeff.”He smiled.——(4)
He spent the next 30 minutes offering me his time，some wonderful stories that I still use，and an invitation to visit him and his group in New York.But what he gave me that I value the most was the encouragement to continue to do as I had done.——(5) When things need to happen，you either have the nerve to act or you don。t.
（4）A I began breathing again and we grabbed(霸占)an office right there at school and closed the door. （2）C I became alarmed：his talk wasn’t ending when it should have.
（5）D He said that it took nerve for me to interrupt him，and that nerve was the key to success in the business world.
（1）E 1 was told。however,that he was on a tight schedule and only had l 5 minutes available after his talk to the business class.
（3）F I handed him the card then I turned and walked out the way I came Good Writing
Like fine food, good writing is something we approach with pleasure and enjoy from the first taste to the last. （1） Quite the contrary, just as the cook has to undergo an intensive training, mastering the skills of his trade, the writer must sit at his desk and devote long hours to achieving a style in his writing, whatever its purpose－school work, matters of business, or purely social communication. （2）
There are still some remote places in the world where you might find someone to do your business or social writing for you, for a fee. There are a few managers who are lucky enough to have the service of that rare
kind of secretary who can take care of all sorts of letter writing with no more than a quick note to work from. （3）
We have to write school papers, business papers or home papers. We are constantly called on to put words to paper. It would be difficult to count the number of such words, messages, letters, and reports put to the mails or delivered by hand, but the daily figure must be enormous. （4） We want to arouse and hold the interest of readers. We want whatever we write to be read, from first word to last, not thrown into some \"letters-to-be-read\" file or into a wastepaper basket. （5）
（3）A But for most of us, if there is any writing to be done, we have to do it ourselves （1）C Any good writers, like good cooks, do not suddenly appear full-blown （成熟的） （4）D What is more, everyone who writes expects, or at least hopes, that his writing will be read. （5）E This is the reason we bend our efforts toward learning and practising the skills of interesting, effective writing.
（2）F You may be sure that the greater the effort, the more effective the writing, and the more re Every Dog Has Its Say
Kimiko Fukuda，a Japanese girl，always wondered what her dog was trying to say. Whenever she put on makeup，it would pull at her sleeve. (46)When the dog barks，she glances at a small electronic gadget(装
置)The following “human” translation appears on its screen：“Please take me with you．“I realized that‟S how he was feeling．”said Fukuda．
The gadget is called Bowlingual ，and it translates dog barks into feelings．People laughed when the
Japanese toymaker Takara Company made the world‟s first dog。human translation machine in 2002 But 300.000 Japanese dog owners bought it. (47)
“Nobody else had thought about it，”said Masahiko Kajita，who works for Takara．“We spend SO much time training dogs to understand our orders；what would it be like if we could understand dogs?‟‟
Bowlingual has two parts． (48)The translation is done in the gadget using a database(资料库)containing every kind of bark．
Based on animal behaviour research，these noises are divided into six categories：happiness，sadness，frustration，anger，declaration and desire (49)In this way，the databasescientifically matches a bark to an emotion，which is then translated into one of 200 phrases．
When a visitor went to Fukuda‟s house recently，the dog barked a loud“bow WOW”This translated as „ (50) It was followed by“I‟m stronger than you”as the dog growled(嗥叫)and sniffed(嗅)at the visitor
The product will be available in US pet stores this summer for about US$120.It can store up to 100 barks，even recording the dog‟s emotions when the owner is away．
E Now，the Japanese girl thinks she knows
D More customers are expected when the English version is launched this summer
A A wireless microphone is attached to the dog‟s collar，which sends information to the gadget Held by the owner‟
F Each one of these emotions is then linked to a phrase like“Let‟s play”，“Look at me”，or“Spend more time with me”
C Don‟t come this way” Rising Tuition in the US
Every spring， US university administrators gather to discuss the next academic years budget. They consider faculty salaries， utility costs for dormitories， new building needs and repairs to old ones. They run the numbers and concludes College Board， the price of attending a four－year private university in the US rose 81 percent between 2005 and 2006， the numbers continued to rise in 1993 and 2004. ________
According to university officials， college cost increases are simply the result of balancing university checkbooks. Tuition increases at Cedarville University are determined by our revenue needs for each year， said the universitys president， Dr Bill Brown. Student tuition pays for 78 percent of the universitys operating costs. Browns school is a private university that enrolls about 3， 1 00 undergrads and is consistently recognized by annual college ranking guides like US News and World Reports and The Princeton Reviews. __________
Tuition at private universities is set by administration officials and then sent for approval to the schools board of trustees （监管）all of a states public institutions. John Durham， assistant secretary（董事）________ This board oversees to the board of trustees at East Carolina University， explains that state law says that public institutions must make their services available whenever possible to the people of the state for free. Durham said that North Carolina residents only pay 22 percent of the cost of their education. _____State residents attending ECU pay about us$10， 000 for tuition room and board before financial aid.
Amid the news about continued increases in college costs， however， there is some good news. Tuition increases have been accompanied by roughly equal increases in financial aid at almost every university. To receive financial aid， US students complete a formal application with the federal government. The federal government then decides whittler an applicant is eligible（有资格的）for grantsorloans.________
E. That„s more than double the rate of inflation.
C. The school currently charges US$23，410 a year for tuition. B. At public universities， however， tuition increases must also be approved by a state education committee， sometimes called the board of governors
F. The state government covers the rest
A. The application is then sent to the student„s university， where the school itself will decide whether free money will be given to the student and how much
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