When Salinger learned that a car park was to be built on the land, the middle-aged writer was shocked and quickly bought the neighboring area to protect it.... The townspeople never forgot the rescue and came to help their famous neighbor.

“You’re a smart boy.  Benny’s death was no accident, and you’re the only who saw it happen. Do you think the murderer should get away with it ? ”The boy was starting stubbornly at his lap again.

A thought suddenly occurred to Annika ,“Did you …You recognized the man in the car , didn’t you?”

The boy hesitated, twisting his fingers ,“Maybe ,”he said quietly.

Red Wolf by Liza Marklund（Atria Books, $25. 99）

She wants to say to him what she has learned , none of it in class. Some women are born stupid, and some women are too smart for their own good. Some women are born to give, and some women only know how to take. Some women learn who they want to be from their mothers, some who they don’t want to be. Some mothers suffer so their daughters won’t.  Some mothers love so their daughters won’t.

You Are Free by Danzy Senna （Riverhead Books,$15）

Do your kids like to have fun? Come to Fun Times! Do you like to watch your kids having fun? Bring them to Fun Times! Fun Times! ’s “amusement cycling” is the most fun you can have in the United States right now. Why spend thousands of dollars flying to Disney World when you can spend less than half to that within a day’s drive lf most cities?

Happy And Other Bad Thoughts by Larry Doyle（Ecco,$14. 99）

Joy Mangano was 33 and divorced. She had three kids under age 7, and was barely keeping up payments on her small two-bedroom home by working extra hours as a waitress. “There were times when I would lie in bed and think, I don’t know how I’m going to pay that bill,” Mangano says.

But he had a special ability for seeing the obvious thing. She knew how hard it was to mop the floor. “I was tired of bending down, putting my hands in dirty water, wringing (拧) out a mop,” Mangano says. “So, There s gotta be a better way.

How about a “self-wringing” mop? She designed a special tool you could twist in two directions at once, and still keep your hands clean and dry. She set out to sell it, first a few at flea markers.

Then Mangano met with the media. But would couch potatoes (电视迷）buy a mop? The experts on shopping TV were less than certain. They gave it a try, and it failed. Mangano was sure it would sell if they’d let her do the on-camera display. She said, “Get me on that stage, and I will sell this mop because it’s a great item.”

So QVC, a multinational corporation specializing in televised home shopping, took a chance on her. “ I got onstage and the phones went crazy. We sold every mop in minutes.”

Today she’s president of Ingenious Designs, a multimillion-dollar company, and one of the stars of HSN, the Home Shopping Network. Talking about the household invention, Mangano says, “It is as natural for me as it is for a parent to talk about their child.”

A device that stops drivers from falling asleep at the wheel is about to undergo testing at Department of Transport laboratories and could go on sale within 12 months.

The system, called Driver Alert, aims to reduce deadly road accidents by 20% — 40% that are caused by tiredness. Airline pilots can also use it to reduce the 30% of all pilot-error accidents that are related to fatigue.

Driver Alert is based on a computerized wristband (腕带）.The device, worn by drivers or pilots gives out a sound about every four minutes during a car journey. After each sound the driver must respond by squeezing the steering wheel (方向盘). A sensor in the wristband detects this pressing action and measures the time between the sound and the driver’s response ‘

Tiredness is directly related to a driver’s response time. Usually, a watchful driver would use about 400 milliseconds to respond, but once that falls to more than 500 milliseconds, it suggests that the driver is getting sleepy.

In such cases the device gives out more regular and louder sounds, showing that the driver should open a window or stop for a rest. If the driver's response continues to slow down, the sounds become more frequent until a nonstop alarm warns that the driver must stop as soon as possible.

The device has been delivered to the department’s laboratories for testing. If these tests, scheduled for six months’ time, are successful, the makers will bring the product to market within about a year.

Conventional wisdom says that hardship can make us old before our time. In fact, a new study suggests that violence not only leaves long-term scars on children’s bodies, but also changes their DNA, causing changes that are equal to seven to ten years of premature aging.

Scientists measured this by studying the ends of children’s chromosomes (染色体）, called telomeres(端粒), says Idan Shalev, lead author of a study published in Molecular Psychiatry.

Telomeres are special DNA sequences (序列）which prevent the DNA in chromosomes from separating. They get shorter each time a cell divides, until a cell cannot divide any more and dies.

Several factors have been found to shorten telomeres, including smoking, radiation and psychological stresses such as being treated badly when young and taking care of a chronically ill person.

In this study, researchers examined whether exposure to violence could make children’s telomeres shorten faster than normal. They interviewed the mothers of 236 children 3t ages 5, 7 and 10, asking whether the youngsters had been exposed to domestic violence between the mother and her partner; physical maltreatment by an adult; or bullying. Researchers measured the children's telomeres —in cells obtained by wiping the insides of their cheeks一at ages 5 and 10.

Telomeres shortened faster in kids exposed to two or more types of violence, says Shalev. Unless that pattern changes, the study suggests, these kids could be expected to develop diseases of aging, such as heart attacks or memory loss, seven to 10 years earlier than their peers.

Shlev says there is hope for these kids. His study found that, in rare cases, telomeres Better nutrition, exercise and stress reduction are three things that may be able to lengthen telomeres, he says.

The study confirms a small but growing number of studies suggesting that early childhood adversity imprints itself in our chromosomes, says Charles Nelson, a professor of pediatrics and neuroscience at Harvard Medical School.

Every boy and every girl expects their parents to give them more pocket money.     16     One main purpose is to let kids learn how to manage their own money. The amount of money that parents give to their children to spend as they wish differs from family to family. Timing is another consideration. Some children get weekly pocket money.     17    

First of all, children are expected to make a choice between spending and saving. Then parents should make the children understand what is expected to pay for with the money. At first, some young children may spend all of the money soon after they receive it.     18     By doing so, these children will learn that spending must be done with a budget.

In order to encourage their children to do some housework, some parents give pocket money if the children help around the home.     19    They believe helping at home is a norm part of family life.

Pocket money can give children a chance to experience the three things they can do with the money.     20     They can spend it by buying things they want. They can save it for future use. Saving helps children understand that costly goals require sacrifice. Saving can also open the door to future saving and investing for children.

Last month, I visited one of my old neighborhoods in New York. I had not been there for twenty years and as I walked along the street, my mind was __ by memories of the past. I saw the old __ building where I had lived and the playground where I had played. As I viewed these once __ surroundings, images of myself as a child there __. However, what I saw and what I remembered were not the same. I __ realized that the best memories were those kept __.

My old apartment building, as I remember, was bright and alive. It was more than just a place to live. It was a movie house, a space station, or whatever my young mind could __. I would steal away with my friends and play in the __. This was always exciting because it was so cool and dark, and there were so many things there to __ among. There was a small river in the back of the building, We would go there to lie in the shade of trees and enjoy ourselves.

However, what I saw was __ different. The apartment building was now in bad __. What was once more than a place to live in looked hardly worth __ in. The windows were all __. The once clean walls were covered with dirty __ . The river was hardly recognizable. The water was polluted and the trees and flowers were all __. The once sweet-smelling river now smelled __. It was really heartbreaking to ___all this.

I do not __ having seen my old neighborhood. However, I do not think my __ childhood memories can ever be the same. I suppose it is __ when they say, “You can never go home again.”

A rainforest is an area     41     (cover) by tall trees with the total high rainfall spreading quite equally through the year. Rainforests have a great effect on the world environment because they can take in heat from the sun and adjust the climate.    42     the forest cover, these areas would reflect more heat into the atmosphere,    43     (warm) the rest of the world. Losing the rainforests may also influence wind and rainfall patterns, potentially causing certain natural disasters all over the world.

In the past hundred years, humans     44     (begin) destroying rainforests in search of three major resources: land for crops, wood for paper and other products, land for raising farm     45     (animal). This action affects the environment as a whole. For example, a lot of carbon dioxide in the air comes from burning the rainforests. People     46     (obvious) have a need for the resources we gain from cutting trees,    47     we will suffer much more than we will benefit.

Rainforests are often called the world’s drug store. More than 25% of the medicines we use today come from plants in rainforests. However, fewer than 1% of rainforest plants have been examined for their     48     (medicine) value. It is extremely likely     49     our best chance to cure diseases     50     (lie) somewhere in the world’s shrinking rainforests.

2. 只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。

Halloween is on first day of November, and it was very popular in some western countries. On that day, people, especial kids, dress in horrible styles. We knock from door to door. Where people don’t give them to sweets, the kids will play tricks on them. In China, more and more young people like to follow this trend. They’d like to join on some activities on that day. They wear strangely clothes and find some funs. When the night comes, they always have a party, sing and dancing together.

2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；

3. 开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。

I'm writing to invite you to join in a family party held this Sunday.

Yours,

Li Hua