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    The book I read is A Picture to Remember by Sarah Scott-Malden. It's1 a girl called Christina. One day, when she was waiting at the traffic lights, she 2 two men with a gun in a car next to her. They were bank robbers（抢劫者）and she saw 3 faces. They didn't want her to tell the police, so they planned to kill her.

    At first, one of the robbers attacked（攻击）Christina near the park, but 4 she only got her arm hurt slightly. After she called in her friend, Philippe for help, they were5 in the street when the robbers drove their car into them. Philippe was6seriously and had to go to hospital. When Cristina visited Philippe and left the7, the robbers followed her. Christina saw that they had a gun and understood 8 they want to do. She was scared, but she kept calm. The robbers were close behind her, but they were driving 9 fast that they couldn't stop the car and it turned over, so the police caught 10 the robbers. That's the end of the story.

    One day, Jim was driving a taxi through a busy street. 1, a young man stopped his car and 2 his taxi. "To the station, hurry up!" he said. Jim did his 3, but at every crossing there was a red light. The young man shouted, "Be 4! I don't want to miss the train." Jim shouted back, "I don't want to die here!"

    At that time he turned back and noticed the young man's face. "Oh, he is 5 thief," He thought, "I saw his face in the newspaper."  6, Jim had an idea. He drove 7 the red light, and found a police car running 8 him. "Stop!" The young man said and jumped 9. Jim caught hold of him and cried, "Give me the money!" Just then, two policemen came on. "He is the 10," Jim said. They caught the young man at once.

    "You did a good job. Thank you!" the policemen said to Jim.

    In an interview with media, Stephen Hawking's three children 1 their father as follows: He was curious. He encouraged questions because they are the start of exploration (探索). He was aggressive (进取的). He 2 stopped searching for subjects that he liked. He was 3. From his mouth, difficult physics turned easy and interesting.

From the school reports in Hawking's childhood, we know that he was just a(n) 4 boy, or even worse. Once, his mother asked him, "Are you really weak in your studies?" He answered, "Em… the others are the same." He was not from a rich family. However, his parents, who graduated from Oxford, 5 books a great teacher to their children. For the reason, 6 was common in Hawking's family.

    In his early days in Oxford, Hawking wasn't so excellent. It is said that he liked to bet (打赌) with others on strange topics and ended up losing every time. When he was going to graduate soon, his body went wrong. 7 his mind and spirit were free. He 8 became more interested in scientific research than before.

    There are many great scientists in the world. However, few of 9 are like Hawking, who never got tired of playing roles in films and TV plays and travelling around the world to 10 lectures. Now, the great man has gone, but we will remember him forever.

    A 14-year old boy from the US was described as a hero after he saved the life of a girl in another country.

    Dean Bluey from Dallas, Texas, was a school boy who has much1in computer. One day, he2an email to a friend on the Internet. Suddenly he received a message saying" Help! Pain! Help!". The message was from Finland,3kilometres away from America.

    "I didn't know4I should do," Dean said to a reporter afterwards. "It was really difficult to tell if the message was real. "So Dean did nothing at first.5the messages kept coming.

    "By then it was easy to see that someone was in trouble," Dean explained. He6and discovered that the sender was a student called Tarja, who was alone in a university library. She was ill. What was7 ， there was no phone around her. Her only way of communicating with the world was by email. Dean got in touch8the police immediately. And they realised that the situation was quite serious. They called the police in Finland. Then an ambulance rushed to the library.9, she was still alive and was sent to hospital quickly.

    "I'm glad she's OK," Dean said. "It's hard to believe, but10saved her life.