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My husband and I used to live in the city, but we often faced a lot of problems there. There was a lot of latenight noise. It was difficult to find parking. And the rent of the apartment was high. Finally, my husband and I decided to move to the suburbs (郊区) outside Boston.
We started looking for our new home. It turned out that many other people were also moving to the suburbs and it wasn't easy to find a nice house there. Finally, we went to see a small and dark house. It needed a lot of work. But it was well built and it was on a street where we could walk to Starbucks, restaurants and bus stops. Well, before I knew it, we had made an offer and the house became ours.
On our first night in the house I cried for five hours. I thought we had made the wrong choice and I wanted to go back to the city. The house was smelly and old. And many families and old people lived around it. But after thinking of the problems we had when we were living in the city, I calmed down. Besides, our new home wasn't that bad, after all. I had a driveway of my own. There were three big bedrooms and a backyard for my dog. Oh, how lovely the sound of_nothing was. I changed the house inch by inch and it became a very comfortable home.
We have been in our house for over two years until now and it's the best move we have ever made. While I'm glad I can drive into the city in 15 minutes and enjoy all it has offered, I'm always happy to return home.
My 9-year-old daughter is reading in her room before bed. Every now and then I hear her 1 at a funny line. Sometimes she calls out to ask 2 she can read us something. It's 3 and she should be asleep by now, but we say yes.
“Listen!” she reads us the 4. “Isn't that wonderful?”
My husband and I 5. It is wonderful. I can't help feeling a little 6, too.
Not that long ago, we'd read to her nightly before she went to sleep. We did so even as she 7 reading on her own. As a result, we were often 8 by what was going on in her books, 9 we'd miss chapters as she speeded ahead. No matter. Bedtime was 10 reading aloud as a family, and we 11 it.
After almost ten years of reading together, she's ready to step away from that12. It's tough for my husband and me to 13 the tradition, even as we delight in the to-be-read pile growing next to her bed.
But we still talk to her about 14. She's aware that reading isn't everyone's favourite thing, and that some find it harder to get into a 15 than she does. It was frustrating for her once too, though she doesn't remember that 16. These days, she keeps a blog of her 17, and begins to talk to others about what she loves to read. She's outgrown our 18 rituals(习惯) because she's falling in love with books on her own. I 19 this makes me happiest of all.
We all used to read together, but my 9-year-old daughter has taken it to a new level. What a 20 from one bedtime reading tradition towards another!
My dad is an enthusiastic(狂热的) runner who (great) influenced me when I was young. So I was very sporty before the age of 14. However, when my family move, my new school didn't pay much attention sports and had no after-school activities like football or running. Over the next few years, I (stop) exercising apart from during Physical Education lessons at school. It looked like I was (health); however, I was not.
One day, I was late for a bus, tried to run after it and in under a minute was out of breath! This made me realize how unfit I was. (help) myself get in shape again, I made a (decide) that I would take up a kind of sport.
A friend of mine suggested a swimming pool she goes to a few times a week. Now, I'm a swimming lover! I find swimming in the pool very (relax). I swim for hour three times a week. I hope that I will soon start to feel the benefits of regular exercise, and will become (fit) than before.
那个陌生人怀着极大的兴趣环顾他的四周。
孩子们有良好的衣食供应。
我受到激励比以往任何时候都更加努力地工作。
不要搬那个箱子——你会伤着自己的。
为了看接下来会发生什么，这只猫离孩子们远远的。
想要经商成功很不容易。
坦率地说，我不喜欢她的新小说。
他醒来时，发现自己在医院里。
One Sunday evening, it was quite dark when old Stanley went for his walk. He was walking along the sidewalk. Suddenly, he saw a white car coming the corner at high speed. It was going too fast and crashed into a red car in the street where he was walking. He rushed up to the cars to see if anyone was hurt and needed help.
The two drivers were arguing.
"You came around the corner too fast, " one man said.
"No！" said the driver of the white car, "That's not true! Your car was parked in a wrong place. "
Stanley listened to their argument and then said the white car driver was wrong to drive too fast. The driver of the red car asked Stanley to prove he was right in court (法庭). Stanley gave the driver his name and telephone number.
Next Thursday morning. Stanley was asked to go to the court. The lawyer(律师) for the driver of the white car asked him a lot of questions about what he had seen. Then he asked Stanley how old he was.
"I'm eighty-two, " answered Stanley.
"Do you usually wear glasses？" asked the lawyer.
"Yes, I do, " answered Stanley.
"Were you wearing them on the night of the accident？" the lawyer asked.
"No, " replied Stanley.
Then the lawyer said, "Why should the court believe you? You are eighty-two years old, you were not wearing your glasses, and it was dark. How far can you see in the dark？"
Stanley thought about it for a minute. "Well, " he said, "when it is dark, I can see the moon. How far is that？"
