"My name's Jim Shelley and I'm an addict(有瘾的人)..."

    With these words I began to1the problem , the problem of my telephone addiction.I used to call people2, from the moment I woke up to the time I went to sleep.I3to be phoned ,I wanted to phone .Just one more call.

    It started socially-a few calls each day.It seemed4, just a quick chat.Gradually though, the5got worse. Soon it was6use, until, finally, addiction.

    And it began to affect my7. During the day I would disappear for8call .If I couldn't make a call , I spent the whole time waiting for the phone to ring .Getting more and more9,in the end , I would ring someone , then someone else,10myself just one more call.

I was phoning people and11messages to make sure 12calls would see me through the day . I used to arrive at friend's homes and before the door was closed , go straight for the phone with the13"Is it OK if I just use the phone...?" At work ,I became14when my fellow workers tried to15me from using the phone.And one day I hit my boss (with the phone ).Finally , the police caught me16a phone box that had taken my last one pound coin, and I was17to see a psychiatrist (心理医生).

    I haven 't18a phone in the house for three weeks now , and it 's several days19 I used a phone box .I try not to watch TV because there are20 people on it making phone calls.My name is Jim  Shelley and I am an addict.

In 1882 a baby girl caught a fierce fever. She 1 but the fever left its mark—she could no longer 2 or hear. So how did this child grow up to become a world-famous 3 and public speaker?

    The fever cut her off from the outside world. It was as if she had been 4 into a dark prison cell from which there could be no release. 5 she was not someone who gave up easily. Soon she began to 6 the world by using her other 7. She followed her mother wherever she went, hanging on to her skirts. She touched and smelled everything she came 8. She learnt to 9 people by feeling their faces or their 10. She could also tell where she was in the 11 by smell of the different plants and the feel of the ground under her feet.

    By the age of seven she had 12 over 60 different signs by which she could talk to her family. If she wanted bread, for example, she would 13 to cut a loaf and butter the slices. But even so she had 14.

    At five she began to realize she was different from other people, which made her so 15 that she used to kick and scream in the room. As she got older, her frustration 16 and her anger became stronger and stronger. Fortunately, with the help of her teacher Anne Sullivan, she 17 to be a remarkable scholar. While she was still at college she wrote The Story of My Life, which enjoyed immediate popularity and 18 enough money to buy her own house. She 19 the country, giving lecture after lecture and she also received many 20 from foreign universities and kings. The girl was Helen Keller.

    During my second year in high school, I got sick and missed a few days. When I1, I was greeted with two essays due, three days of math and history homework, plus several tests.2I went home from school that day exhausted, I had to stay up really late to finish them all.

    The next day at school, I got a rude awakening: I'd totally forgotten to prepare for the3on Romeo and Juliet, which I'd take4my lunch hour! Worse still, I had5the in-class discussion and all the notes. When lunch came, I went to the English room to face my certain doom(厄运). All I could do was try to6on the questions I didn't know.

    As it turned out, I didn't know the majority of the questions. I was just about to give7when my pencil accidentally fell and broke. Standing by the blackboard sharpening my pencil, I8down and there in full view lay the answer sheet for the test! What good fortune! I can kiss good-bye to all my9of failing the test! My heart started beating, and my brain10, Yes! Read over the answers—quickly! This was quickly followed by another voice, No! You'll get caught! My mind turning back and forth, Yes! No! Yes! No! …This went on for ten of the11seconds in my entire life.

    Finally, I decided to finish the test on my own, without12! I was satisfied with my decision but pretty13I had failed the test.

    The next day when I walked into the English room, my great joy of having been an14soul changed into a wave of doom as I saw my test paper lying face down on my desk. I knew what awaited me. I stared at it a few seconds before I got up the15to turn it over.

    You can only imagine my16when I learned that I had passed the test! I have never in my whole life been so happy to see my17, a C-.

    My mom says the victories that18the most courage are won within. Now I know19what she means. Now not only can my conscience(良心) rest easy, but I don't have to worry about getting caught and meeting a sad20like Romeo and Juliet.

    It was the last day of the final examination in a large eastern university. On the steps of one building, a group of engineering seniors gathered, discussing the exam due to begin in a few 1. On their faces was confidence. This was their last exam before they went on to 2 and jobs.

    Some talked of jobs they already had; others talked of jobs they 3 get. With all this assurance of four years of college, they felt ready and able to take 4 of the world.

    The approaching exam, they knew, would be a(n) 5 task, because the professor had said they could bring 6 books or notes they wanted, requesting only that they did not 7 each other during the test.

    After they entered the classroom8, the professor passed out the papers. And smiles 9 on the students' faces as they noted there were only five essay-type questions.

    Three hours had passed 10 the professor began to collect the papers. The students no longer looked confident. On their faces was a frightened expression. Papers in hand, no one spoke as the professor faced the class.

    He looked at the 11 faces before him, and then asked, "How many completed all five questions?" 12 a hand was raised.

    "How many answered four?" Still no hands.

    "Three? Two?" The students moved restlessly in their seats.

    "One, then? Certainly somebody finished 13."But the class remained silent.

    The professor put down the papers. "That is exactly what I 14," he said. "I just want to impress upon you that, 15 you have completed four years of engineering, there are still many things about the 16 you don't know. These questions you couldn't answer are relatively 17 in everyday practice. "Then smiling, he added, "You will all 18 this course, but remember — even if you are now college graduates, your education has just 19."

    The years have 20 the name of this professor, but not the lesson he taught.

    It's about 250 miles from the hills of west-central Iowa to Ehlers' home in Minnesota. During the long trip home, following a weekend of hunting. Ehlers 1about the small dog he had seen 2 alongside the road. He had 3 to coax(哄) the dog to him but, frightened, it had 4.

    Back home, Ehlers was troubled by that 5 dog. So, four days later, he called his friend Greg, and the two drove 6. After a long and careful 7, Greg saw, across a field, the dog moving 8 away. Ehlers eventually succeeded in coaxing the animal to him. Nervousness and fear were replaced with 9. It just started licking(舔) Ehlers' face.

    A local farmer told them the dog sounded like one 10 as lost in the local paper. The ad had a 11 number for a town in southern Michigan. Ehlers 12 the number of Jeff and Lisa to tell them he had 13 their dog.

    Jeff had 14 in Iowa before Thanksgiving with his dog, Rosie, but the gun shots had scared the dog off. Jeff searched 15 for Rosie in the next four days.

    Ehlers returned to Minnesota, and then drove 100 miles to Minneapolis to put Rosie on a flight to Michigan. "It's good to know there's still someone out there who 16 enough to go to that kind of 17,"says Lisa of Ehlers' rescue 18.

    "I figured whoever lost the dog was probably just as 19 to it as I am to my dogs," says Ehlers. "If it had been my dog, I'd hope that somebody would be 20 to go that extra mile."

Alexis, 17, sat quietly in the passenger seat of her dad's car. She let her eyes lazily scan the landscape for wildlife. Then a deer came into 1 about 200 yards in front of them. It was a male deer with 2 antlers (角)on each side of its head.

As the car moved closer, Alexis heard a 3 and then saw the deer 4 a woman. Sue had been out for her morning run. The deer followed her and edged 5. "I knew I was in trouble, " Sue says. She went to pick up a stick for 6, and the deer 7. It lifted her with its antlers and 8 her into the air. Sue could feel blood flew down her leg.

When Alexis and her father 9, the deer was throwing Sue like a doll. Alexis looked into the woman's 10 eyes, and 11 her father had even stopped the car, the teenager 12 quickly out of the car and ran toward the deer. "I was kicking it to get its 13," she says. Then her father followed and pushed the deer away from the women.

Alexis helped Sue into the car. Then she heard her father shout 14 . He had been knocked to the ground. Alexis took hold of a hammer from the car to beat the deer's head and neck, but the blows didn't 15 it away. "I was losing faith," she says. "A couple more 16, Alexis," said her father. "You can do it. "Turning the hammer around, Alexis 17 her eyes and beat the deer's neck with all her 18. When she opened her eyes, the deer was running away. Alexis got in the driver's seat and 19 toward the nearest hospital. After Sue was treated, she 20 thanked her rescuers.