FAJTHFUL（忠诚的）TO DEATH

    Some time ago, a fire broke out(爆发) in a building late at night. Nearly all the families were s{#blank#}1{#/blank#} inside the house. After the firemen came, they rushed into the burning building and saved the people to the safe p{#blank#}2{#/blank#}.

    The crowds thought a{#blank#}3{#/blank#} the people were safe. But it was not so. Two little orphan （孤儿) girls were still asleep alone at the very top of the building, in a small room. N{#blank#}4{#/blank#} . thought of them. Luckily, they lived with a dog.

    The dog tried to wake them up, but f{#blank#}5{#/blank#}. He ran to the window and barked(吠叫) loudly for help. B{#blank#}6{#/blank#} no one noticed him. Then he climbed down the ladder (梯子) and tried to pull a fireman to the ladder. The fireman kicked him away, thinking he was mad. Then the dog ran to a{#blank#}7{#/blank#} fireman, jumped on him, ran to the ladder, barking all the time and looking back as if he was asking the fireman to follow him.

    This fireman realized there must be someone in the little room, as the dog was acting so strangely. So he followed the dog u{#blank#}8{#/blank#}the ladder, there he saw the two girls and saved them.

    Where was the d{#blank#}9{#/blank#}? A brave fireman rushed into the room to look for him and found him lying near the window, choked (窒息) with smoke. He brought him down with care, but he was already d{#blank#}10{#/blank#}. He had given his life for his friends. What a faithful friend!

    David Beckham was b{#blank#}1{#/blank#} in 1975 in London, at a place called Leytonstone. When he was a young boy, his greatest interest was playing football. He played it whenever he had the c{#blank#}2{#/blank#}. Sometimes he would go and watch a game with his friends. When David Beckham was 12 years old, he w{#blank#}3{#/blank#}  the Bobby Charlton Sue cur Skills award. This was an important step forward for this young boy, and it l{#blank#}4{#/blank#}. him to go for a visit to a football training camp in Spain, As a boy he played for schools of Essex and also for his county(郡)team.

    In 1991, he became a trainee with Manchester United. This meant that he could practice football as much as he wanted to and play for the highly successful Manchester United Youth Cup team and Under-21 team. In April, 1995, he played his first football league game a{#blank#}5{#/blank#}the team Leeds United. During 1995 and 1996, David became a regular(正式的)member of the team and Manchester United won in b{#blank#}6{#/blank#}football seasons, with David scoring many goals(进球得分).

    His goals made him well k{#blank#}7{#/blank#}. In the first game of the 1996 to 1997 season seeing the goalkeeper(守门员)a little way out of his goal, he scored a surprising goal from beyond(超过)the halfway line, Beckham became famous suddenly and quickly. He continued to score surprising goals, especially from free-kicks. The speed of one of his shots(射门)was timed at

157 kohl. He also had the ability to make the ball go from left to right, or right to left, whenever he chose.

    Goalkeepers were never sure where the ball was going, and it regularly ended up in the goal.