I had walked along the sea for about an hour until I began to feel hungry. It was seven. At that time I was not far from my favourite restaurant, where I often went to eat two or three times a week. I knew the owner well.
I went into the restaurant, which was already crowded, and ordered my meal. While I was waiting, I looked 1 to see if I knew anyone in the restaurant.Then I saw a man sitting at a corner table near the door keeping looking in my direction, as if he knew me. I certainly didn't know him, for I never forgot a 2. The man had a newspaper open in front of him. But I could see that he was keeping an 3 on me. When the waiter brought my soup, the man was 4 puzzled(迷惑) by the familiar(熟悉) way that the waiter and I called each other. He became even puzzled as time went on. He could see that I was well 5 in the restaurant. At last, he got up and went into the kitchen. After a few minutes he came out again, 6 for his meal and left.
When I had finished, I called the owner of the restaurant and asked him 7 the man had wanted. The owner told me he was a detective. “Really?” I was surprised. “He was certainly 8 in me. But why?” I asked. “He followed you because he thought you were a man he was looking 9 ,” the owner said. “When he came into the kitchen, he showed me a photo of the man. He certainly looked like you! Of course, since we 10 you, I told him that he had made a mistake.”It was lucky I came to a restaurant where I was known, or I might have been arrested!
A
Hemingway was one of the famous writers. He was born in Americain 1899. His father was a doctor and loved sports very much, and his mother taught music. Among the six children in the family, Hemingway was the second oldest.
Hemingway had written many books in his life. The Old Man and the Sea is one of the most famous books and it is also my favorite. It came out in 1952. The main character in the book is a fisherman. He is an old man and fishes alone. People think he is a man with bad luck, because he doesn't get a fish in eighty-four days. Every evening, he comes home with his empty boat. But the old man believes himself. Then on the eighty-fifth day the old man takes a big fish.Although he meets a lot of trouble, the old man never gives up.
B
John Grisham is one of the most popular American authors(作家) today. All of his books have been best-sellers (畅销书). And six books of his, including The Client,have been made into films.
Grisham was born in Arkansas in 1955. As a child, he wanted to be a professional baseball player. Later he changed his mind and studied accounting (会计学) at Mississippi State University. After 1981, he worked in a law firm (律师事务所) for nearly ten years. Although he was working 60-70 hours a week, he got up at 5:00 a.m. every day to write his first book, A Time to Kill. It took him three years to write this book and he finished it in1987. His next novel, The Firm, came out in 1991. It was his first big success.
Now Grisham lives with his wife and their two children in Mississippi. In his free time, he helps children develop their baseball skills.
Do you know what Oscar is? When did it start? Maybe you can find the background of the awards in the following passage.
The awards started in 1929. Their full title is “The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Awards”. The Academy is a group of people who have worked in the film industry for many years. They decide who will receive the awards. The awards are often referred to as the “Oscar”. This is a nick name given to the awards by a lady called Margaret Herrick. She was once the director of the Academy and she once said that the little gold statue reminded her of her uncle Oscar!
The Oscar is always an exciting event. Each year, at least one unusual thing happens. When the Italian actor and director Roberto Benigni won an Oscar for best foreign film, he danced on stage! When Gwyneth Paltrow,the star of Shakespeare in Love won the Oscar for best actress, she could not make her acceptance speech because she was crying so much with happiness!
In 1987, Roberto Benigni won the award for best director for a film about the last emperor of China. Since then, Chinese film and actors have started to make an impact at the awards. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was a huge success and it won the award for best foreign language film in 2001.It also won several technical awards for its amazing “flying” people. We expect to see more awards for Chinese film in the near future.
It's time for the Oscar again. Once more, the stars will dress up in their finest and go to Kodar Theater. There, they will find out who have won the awards for best actor, best actress and best director. Millions of people watch the awards every year to find out who the winners are. Some people watch it to see the stars crying and laughing as they receive their awards.
Ronald Reagan was the only actor to be president of (A) _______,but some film stars have also become successful public officers. (B) One of them is Shirley Temple, who is remembered throughout the world as a little girl who sang and danced in many films.
(C) ShirleyTemple began to make films at the age of five, and she was only nine when she played the part of Heidi. In almost every part of the world where films are seen on television, children and their parents still enjoy Heidi and other films of Shirley Temple.
(D)当秀兰·邓波儿21岁时, 她已经迈出了电影圈子。Twenty years later, many people thought of her as a little girl that Americans have always loved in the films. However, others knew her as an excellent woman with knowledge of world problems. One of the people who recognized these important abilities was President Richard Nixon, who sent her to work in the United Nations in 1969.
(E) Americans are becoming to realize that many film stars have other talents besides acting.
