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Nancy Bright and her husband John had been working overtime and saving for a long time so that they could pay the advance for Nancy s dream house. Today was the day that they had enough money in hand to make a down payment on the house. But the real estate(房地产)agent informed them that she had received another offer for the house. Although the other offer was slightly less than that of Nancy and John s, that person with the new offer was willing to pay the whole amount at once. The owner,in urgent need of money,wanted to accept the second offer. Nancy and John looked at each other with disappointed looks. They walked back home feeling very low about having lost the house. Soon they recovered and involved themselves into their daily lives,though once in a while Nancy would sink into a mild depression over losing the house. One day Nancy woke up in the morning feeling even lower than usual. She kept feeling sick, even lost interest in her routine coffee. She put all these symptoms down to the stress of working hard and losing her dream house. A week passed and she seemed to get worse. John was worried and insisted on taking her to the doctor. The doctor, after taking a few tests, informed them with a huge smile that Nancy was two months pregnant! John and Nancy were overjoyed but also worried about not having their own house before the baby was born. One evening Nancy wandered into the street where her dream house was,and as she passed by it,she was surprised to see that there were notices stuck on all the houses. On closer examination she found that the notices were for all the residents to move out of the houses as they were building a highway and the whole row of houses needed to be pulled down. Nancy suddenly realized that not getting her dream house had been a blessing in disguise. She thanked God and decided to be happy with the blessings she had and started looking forward to the birth of her child.

Why did Nancy and her husband lose their dream house?

A．They couldn" t pay the whole amount for the house at once.

B．Someone else offered more money for the house.

C．They couldn"t afford the advance for the house.

D．The house owner decided not to sell the house.

A man and his wife had a small bar near a station. The bar often stayed open until after midnight, because people came to drink there while they were waiting for trains.

At two o'clock one morning, one man was still sitting at a table in the small bar. He was asleep. The barman's wife wanted to go to bed. She looked into the bar several times, and each time the man was still there. Then at last she went to her husband and said to him, "You've waken that man six times now, George, but he isn't drinking anything. Why haven't you sent him away? It is very late."

"Oh, no, I don't want to send him away, "answered her husband with a smile: "You see, whenever I wake him up, he asks for his bill, and when I bring it to him. He pays it. Then he goes to sleep again."

The bar often stayed open ______. ( )

A．until after 12 o'clock in the evening

B．until early next morning

C．all day and all night

D．until 12 o'clock in the evening

A man and his wife had a small bar near a station．The bar often stayed open until after midnight，because people came to drink there while they were waiting for trains． At two o'clock one morning，one man was still sitting at a table in the small bar．He was a—sleep．The barman’s wife wanted to go to bed．She looked into the bar several times，and eachtime the man was still there．Then at last she went to her husband and said to him，“You’vewaken that man six times now，George，but he isn’t drinking anything．Why haven’t you senthim away?It is very late．” “0h，no，I don’t want to send him away，”answered her husband with a smile：”Yousee，whenever I wake him up，he asks for his bill，and when I bring it to him．He pays it．Then he goes to sleep again．” 根据以上内容，回答下列各题。 The bar often stayed open__________．

A.until 12 o'clock in the evening

B.until early next morning

C.all day and all night

D.until after 12 o'clock in the evening

A man and his wife had a small bar near a station．The bar often stayed open until after midnight，because people came to drink there while they were waiting for trains． At two oclock one morning，one man was still sitting at a table in the small bar．He was a—sleep．The barman’s wife wanted to go to bed．She looked into the bar several times，and eachtime the man was still there．Then at last she went to her husband and said to him，“You’vewaken that man six times now，George，but he isn’t drinking anything．Why haven’t you senthim away?It is very late．” “0h，no，I don’t want to send him away，”answered her husband with a smile：”Yousee，whenever I wake him up，he asks for his bill，and when I bring it to him．He pays it．Then he goes to sleep again．” 根据以上内容，回答下列各题。 The bar often stayed open__________．

A.until 12 oclock in the evening

B.until early next morning

C.all day and all night

D.until after 12 oclock in the evening

The British reporter Yvonne Ridley is thankfully now home with her nine-year-old daughter, Daisy, following her release from captivity by the Taleban in Afghanistan. But the British media has made much of her family ties, which raises the question: should female journalists with children be covering a war on the front line?

Two of our leading foreign correspondents, Orla Guerin, of the BBC, and Marie Colvin, of the Sunday Times, have publicly decried the notion that Ridley had no business running around Afghanistan and getting herself captured. The male correspondents, they pointed out, have children too and no one tells them off or publishes details of their "abandoned" children.

Quite so. Women have just as much business reporting from the front line. These days female correspondents are way up there among the best of them, all leaders in their field. "All of us leave people behind," says Guerin, "parents, family."

Yes, this is a Wench. Having been a Moscow correspondent during the turbulent Nineties I know all too well the emotional conflict of putting yourself into dangerous situations halfway across the world from parents you care about. But this is a millions miles removed from leaving a child behind.

Having a child is what Jane Shilling described as the "unbridgeable barrier of experience" which no parent can successfully communicate to a non-parent, just as the non-bereaved cannot empathise with the bereaved: you have to join the club to understand.

There are exceptions--the excellent Maggie O' Kane, of the Guardian, and Christian, Lamb, of The Sunday Telegraph--but otherwise it is notable that none of the women mentioned above is a mother, and many former correspondents, such as Diana Goodman, who was the BBC's first female foreign correspondent and, later, the first female correspondent to be posted with a child, have found hard-nosed reporting incompatible with motherhood and have moved on to home postings. So while I would fiercely defend the right of any mother to head for the trouble-spots if she wants to, the truth is that few do.

When I was expecting my first child, I heard that one of the editors on the paper I then worked for said that "a woman with a child can't be a proper foreign correspondent' and was duly outraged. By the time the second wave of the hechen War hit the headlines, I was a mother. While the professional side of me longed to get straight into the thick of the fighting, to my frustration and disappointment, the mother side won hands down: the carelessness of the childless had evaporated. Although I am only now prepared to admit it, there was a grain of truth in the editor's assumption.

But is this to assume that fathers who are foreign correspondents remain unaffected? "You'll never get anyone from the BBC to admit it publicly, but according to our corporate culture we have to be Mr. Unattached and ready to go anywhere without a backward glance", says a BBC colleague. "But having children makes you more cautious--something we are now at least prepared to admit quietly to each other. "

While they may not be prepared to admit openly to caution, there is no longer—arguably thanks to the feminization of journalism any shame in admitting that fatherhood influences their reporting.

The fact that he is a father has been central to much of Fergal Keane's sensitive reporting, while the BBC's Ben Brown talked, on Radio 4's From Our Own Correspondent, about how having young children meant that he can no longer remain detached when reporting atrocities involving children. "I remember reporting the Rwanda Massacres when my daughter was one year old," recalls another colleague, "I freaked out, and as soon as I got home I had to go straight to the baby's cot and hold her. "

At a time when men are increasingly prepared to acknowledge that fatherhood affects their professional life

A．more likely to be captured

B．more likely to be influenced by feminism

C．more likely to be affected by her motherhood

D．more likely to be criticized for abandoning her children

How Two Great Conflicts Helped to Change Europe

Ninety years ago on a sunny morning in Northern France, something happened that changed Britain and Europe for ever. At half past seven on the morning of July l,1916, whistles（哨子）blew and thousands of British soldiers left their positions to attack their German enemies. By the end of the day, 20,000 of them were dead, and another 30,000 wounded or missing. The Battle of the Somme, （51）it is called, lasted for six months. When it ended, 125,000 British soldiers were dead. They had gained five kilometers of ground.

This was one of a series of great battles during WWI. The attack on the Somme was staged to relieve （52）on the French, who were engaged in a great battle of their own at a place called Verdun. By the time the battle ended, over a million French and German troops had been killed.

About l7 million people were killed in WWI. There have been wars with greater numbers of dead. But there has never been one in （53）most of the dead were concentrated in such a small area. On the Somme battlefield, two men died for every meter of space.

Local farmers working in the land still （54）the bodies of those who died in that battle. The dead of all nations were buried in a series of giant graveyards along the line of the border （55）France and Belgium. Relatives and descendants（子孙）of those who died still visit these graveyards today. What the French call the “tourism of death” （56）an important contribution to the local economy.

It took a second great conflict before Europe was to turn （57）war itself. Twenty-eight years after the Somme baffle, a liberating army of British, American and Canadian troops took back （58）from another German invasion. More than 500,000 people were killed. New （59）were built.

Two great conflicts across two generations helped to change the European mind about war. Germany, once the most warlike country in Europe, is now probably more in （60）of peace than any other. One major cause of war in Europe was rivalry（竞争）between France and Germany. The European Union was specifically formed to end that （61）.

According to US commentator William Pfaff, “Europeans are interested in a slow development of civilized and tolerant international relations, （62） on problems while avoiding catastrophes（灾难）along the way. They have themselves only recently （63）from the catastrophes of WWI and WWI l, when tens of millions of people were destroyed. They don’t want （64）.”

The last British veteran of the Somme battle died in 2005, aged l08. And WWI is passing out of memory and into history. But for anyone who wants to understand how Europeans （65）, it is still important to know a little about the terrible events Of July l,1916.

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