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    Roberta appeared on the stage. She took a1 breath and began to speak. Now she was Portia, a strong-willed character in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venlce. The theater was filled with people. She was speaking with a 2 she had never before experienced, the words flowing (流动) smoothly from her.

    In fact, Roberta had never acted in her life before the audition (选拔试演) . She 3 being in front of other people. She was very shy at school. She had never thought she was good enough at anything to 4 much attention. She stayed mostly to herself, making few friends. She had 5 grades, but she always thought that something was missing.

    Two weeks before the audition, Roberta's mother had heard about it and 6 her to join in.

    "I can't think of anyone else better 7 to play the part. Remember all the plays you used to act out for us."

    Her mother wouldn't let the 8 drop. “You're just a little scared. Everyone get scared. You know you can do it. The trick is to look 9 the fear to find the love of what you're doing.”

    So Roberta had made an appointment (预约) with the head of the Drama Club. She had 10 the play and found herself excited by the idea of speaking such rich words. In 11 she practiced Portia's part, memorizing (记住) the lines by repeating them over and over. It wasn't hard, she 12 every minute of it. Every time she spoke the words, she had a new 13 of the lines, as if Shakespeare had written Portia on many levels.

    On the day of the audition, she 14 two of Portia's famous speeches for the auditors. When she had finished, the head of the Drama Club announced the 15 was hers, she knew she had made it.

⑴ products made from milk.

⑵ casual/ loose trousers.

⑶ a very tall modern city building.

⑷ a large sculpture of a person or an animal, made of stone or metal.

⑸ objects such as rings and necklaces that people wear as decoration.

⑹ of or between two or more countries.

⑺ to put a dead body in the ground, a tomb or the sea.

⑻ good at thinking of new, original, and clever ideas.

⑼ often changing in one's feelings; annoyed or unhappy.

⑽ the place where a trial is held.

    Jim can well remember the event that happened one morning when he was ten years old. While he was focusing his m on doing his homework, some raised voices came to him. At first the noise didn't draw his attention since customers in the motorbike shop directly below their apartment often became loud, but he soon realized that it was d .

    "Quick! Quick! Remove the motorbikes from the shop," someone shouted loudly.

    Then a thick burning smell f the air. When Jim opened the front door of their apartment to have a close look, a thick cloud of smoke g him. The motorbike shop had caught fire and people were running and crying.

    Mary, Jim's elder sister, who had been playing the violin in her room, hurried to the living room. They rushed out of the door and along the corridor(走廊)t   the smoke.

    They were heading towards the stairway at the far end of the corridor when Mary suddenly stopped. She turned around and headed back the way they came. Tom had no idea what she was doing, but had to f her. Mary had suddenly remembered the lady in her 70s living next door to them, who they called Makcik. She began h Makcik's door loudly, but got no answer. As the smoke became thicker and thicker around them, Jim could see many of their n——some still in their pajamas(睡衣)running for getting away from the fire. The thought of fear crossed their mind.

    "She could have run for s  like everyone else!" Jim cried. However, Mary refused to give up. "She was too old to run away. She must be still i. " Mary knocked at the door violently(猛力地)again and again, shouting, "Go downstairs. Go now! Go!"