Brian was not good at public speaking. One day, he {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(invite) to makea speech at a church. His younger sister, Ann knew he was nervous and tried to calm him down. "Don't worry. Everything{#blank#}2{#/blank#}(be) fine. “When the day came, Brian's car had {#blank#}3{#/blank#}accident on the way to the church. Luckily, he was not{#blank#}4{#/blank#}(bad) hurt and arrived at the church on time. It was his turn. Whenhe stood up, hit coat became tangled with his chair. After a few minutes, he finally began his speech. but he was so nervous {#blank#}5{#/blank#}he dropped his book. Many people thought he would run,{#blank#}6{#/blank#} he went on.

    Suddenly, people saw something unusual{#blank#}7{#/blank#}(run) down from his nose, blood! He stopped speaking when he saw the blood. But he still tried to finish his still tired to finish his speech. Then Ann quietly moved to the front and handed him her handkerchief. Then she gave him a smile and {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(return) to her seat.

    It was a really simple gesture, and might be the {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(simple). She just saw someone in need, and gave him a hand. In the end, Brian finished his talk, {#blank#}10{#/blank#} more confidence.

    "After walking through the mirror, many strange things happened to Alice. One day, she{#blank#}1{#/blank#} (meet) a unicorn(独角兽).'What－is－this? 'the unicorn asked its friend. 'That is a child,' {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (reply)the friend. 'Ah,' said the unicorn, I always thought they were fabulous monsters(传说中的怪兽)! Is it alive？'Alice then said, "Do you know,' I always thought unicorns, were fabulous monsters {#blank#}3{#/blank#}? I never saw one alive before!'"

    Fifty years before Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) wrote{#blank#}4{#/blank#} (he) stories about Alice, many people still believed in the myth (神话) of unicorns. But in the early nineteenth century, a French{#blank#}5{#/blank#} (science) named Baron Cuvier showed that unicorns were only a {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (product) of imagination.

    For hundreds of years before that, things were very different. Everybody{#blank#}7{#/blank#} (believe) that unicorns were real, but very few people saw them. Julius Caesar, who built the Roman Empire, ever said that the animal had the head of a deer, the {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (foot) of an elephant and a one-meter-long horn on its forehead. Marco Polo, who thought he saw a unicorn in India, agreed that it had elephants' feet and a horn, {#blank#}9{#/blank#} said it had a pig's head. He was almost certainly describing a rhinoceros(犀牛)! By the sixteenth century，when books about animals were {#blank#}10{#/blank#} (become)very popular, everyone agreed that the unicorn looked like a white horse with a horn.