It was just before 8 am, October 17. Pam Bales stepped onto the snow-covered Jewell Trail（小路）. She planned a six-hour climbing hike through New Hampshire's Mount Washington State Park. She had packed for almost every accident, including clothes, heat packs, a bottle of hot chocolate…And she intended to walk alone. A piece of paper on the dashboard of her car detailed her trip: start up Jewell Trail and return to her car before some forecasted bad weather arrives. Pam always left her hiking plans in her car. She was a volunteer on the Pemigewasset Valley Search and Rescue Team.
At 10:30 am, the weather was showing its teeth. Pam added even more clothes to protect herself from the cold winds and fog. Then she noticed something: a single set of footprints in the snow ahead of her. She'd been following faint tracks all day and hadn't given them much thought, because so many people climbed Jewell Trail. But these, she realised, had been made by a pair of trainers.
By 11 am, Pam was getting cold, despite moving fast. She put on an extra top. Good thing I packed heavy, she thought. She decided to abandon her plan. Returning to her car was a requirement. Strong gusts of wind attacked her back and left side and the only thing keeping her on Gulfside Trail was the tracks in the snow. As she fought the wind and heavy sleet, her eyes searching for some type of shelter, the tracks made a hard left-hand turn off the trail.
All of a sudden, she felt alarmed. She was sure the hiker could lose their way and was heading straight toward the challenging trails of the Great Gulf. Pam followed the tracks carefully. She rounded a corner and saw a man sitting motionless beside a stone. He stared in the direction of Great Gulf. She approached him. His head was bare. He looked soaking wet. Thick frost covered his jacket. As his eyes tracked her slowly, he barely turned his head.
第一段首句：Her searching now turned into rescuing the man.
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第二段首句：They had to get out of there.
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When I was 13, I climbed my first mountain — a fairly gentle 3,900-foot peak. I was overweight at the time and became breathless after reaching the top. But I loved the challenge of conquering something bigger than myself, and soon I’d climbed nearly 100 peaks.
I often go climbing with my friend Mel. Two years ago, on 30 December when I was 16, we drove to tackle 11, 240-foot Mount Hood. It’s safer to start winter climbs at night when there’s less risk of the sun melting the snow. That day, we started at 3 a.m., though the temperature was extremely low.
Five hours later, we reached Devil’s Kitchen at about 10,000 feet. However, the wind was blowing fiercely. The other climbers decided to turn back, but Mel and I went ahead since we thought we were well prepared.
The path became harder and harder to climb. At around 9 a.m., we reached a narrow ice step. I volunteered to go first. I placed my left foot on the ice step. Confident I was safe, I put my full weight on it. Suddenly, I heard a crack and fell backwards. I stuck out my arms and legs, grabbing at anything. That helped but I was still sliding. Finally, I stopped somewhere above the Devil’s Kitchen. Having fallen 600 feet, I found my face bloodied.
To make sure if I still had my senses, I asked myself, where are you? Mount Hood. What’s the date? 30 December. Good. My brain still functioned. Then I took a survey of my body, starting with my head, then my neck and arms. For the most part, I was fine, except for a sharp pain in my left leg. Strangely, touching my left leg, I couldn’t feel anything, so I tried to make my toes move. Fortunately, that worked — I wasn’t paralyzed (瘫痪).
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I was relieved and started to yell for help.
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The doctors advised me not to climb again but I wouldn’t give up.
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In the big forest, there lived many animals. There was a beautiful hare who was very good at running. She almost won all the running races, so she became very proud. Tortoise was the slowest in the forest. When other animals met him on the way, they always offered help, “Where are you going? Do you need a ride?” The tortoise would always answer them politely, “No, thank you. As long as I keep on crawling, I will get to my place finally.”
One morning, the hare saw the tortoise nearby. He was crawling slowly. The rabbit wanted to make fun of him. So she jumped toward the tortoise and said, “Tortoise, why don’t we have a race?” The tortoise thought for a while and said, “OK, let’s have the race now.” hearing this, the hare couldn’t help laughing. Then she pointed to the big tree at the foot of the hill and said, “All right, we’ll start from here. Let’s see who will get to that tree first.” The tortoise nodded in agreement.
The magpie flew around the forest. She told everybody the news. Everyone came to watch the race. They invited the squirrel brothers to be the judges. Younger brother squirrel stood at the starting line, and elder brother squirrel waited at the finishing line.
“Ready! Go-” younger brother squirrel ordered. “The hare ran forward very fast. The hare is so fast! The tortoise has no chance to win!” the animals said. Soon afterwards, the hare had left the tortoise far behind. She thought, “The tortoise racing with the rabbit, what a joke! I’ll teach him a lesson.” At this moment, the hare saw a big tree on one side of the road. She thought, “The tortoise is so far away behind me. Why not take a rest? I will let him go ahead. Then I can catch up with him in one jump. Everybody will know that I am really fast.” so, the hare stopped running and jumped toward the big tree. She sat down, closed her eyes, and fell asleep.
The tortoise was still crawling forward very slowly. The animals yelled at him, “The hare may have reached the finishing line by now. You can’t win.” “No matter what, I will keep crawling and get to the finishing line,” the tortoise answered.
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It was very hot at noon.
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The hare finally woke up.
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My 10-year-old daughter and I were driving from Los Angeles to Dallas. We were running low on gas somewhere in New Mexico and figured we’d see a gas station soon enough to fill up.
But that didn’t happen and we realized we were not going to make it to the next town. So my daughter made up a sign that read “Low on gas. Can you help?” and held it outside her window in the hope that a driver in the next lane would notice it and stop to help us.
It was a desolate (荒凉的) stretch of road and about 3:30 pm on a weekday. There were only a few vehicles passing us from time to time. A Suburban was driving along happily in the neighboring lane ahead of us. We caught up with it in the hope that the driver would notice the sign.
An elderly gentleman was driving it and after a brief expression of confusion on his face, he seemed to have noticed the sign and slowed down to pull over. We pulled over right behind him.
He was friendly and was eager to help us. At first he thought we didn’t have enough money to buy gas, so he offered to buy us gas at the next town Roswell that was about 10 miles away! Awfully sweet of a stranger to offer that.
When we explained our difficulty of not having enough gas to get to Roswell, he said he was a ranch (牧场) hand that was returning home from work. His ranch was about 20 minutes away and they had a gas pump on there, so if we could give him 40 minutes, he would head back there, get a can of gasoline and fill up our tank for us. We had no alternative and accepted his offer of help thankfully.
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It was a long wait.
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Filled with gratitude, we decided to do something.
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“Did you hear what happened to Adam Last Friday?” Lindsey whispers to Tori.
With her eyes shining, Tori brags, “You bet I did, Sean told me two days ago.”
What are Lindsey and Tori talking about? I can tell you what they are saying is not nice and not even true. Still, Lindsey and Tori aren’t very different from most students here at Linton High School, including me. Many of our conversations are gossip. I have noticed the effects of gossip.
An important negative effect of gossip is that it can hurt the person being talked about. Usually, gossip spreads information about a topic - breakups, trouble at home, even dropping out - that a person would rather keep secret. The more embarrassing or shameful the secret is, the juicier the gossip it makes. Probably the worst type of gossip is the absolute lie, people often think of gossipers as harmless, but cruel lies can cause pain.
If we know that gossip can be harmful, then why do so many of us do it? That answer lies in another effect of gossip: the satisfaction it gives us. Sharing the latest rumor can make a person feel important because he or she knows something that others don’t. Similarly, hearing the latest rumor can make a person feel like part of the “in group”.
Gossip also can have a third effect: it strengthens unwritten, unspoken rules about how people should act. Professor David Wilson explains that gossip is important in policing behaviors in a group. Translated into high school terms, this means that if everybody you hang around with is laughing at what John wore or what Jane said, then you can bet that wearing or saying something similar will get you the same kind of negative attention. The do’s and don’ts conveyed through gossip will never show up in any student handbook.
The effects of gossip vary depending on the situation. The next time you feel the urge to spread the latest news, think about why you want to gossip and what effects your “juicy story” might have.
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What Trouble We Have
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When Ben delivered milk to my cousin's home that morning, he wasn’t his usual sunny self.
It was late November, and as a newcomer to Lawndale, California. I was delighted that milkmen still brought bottles of milk to doorsteps. In the weeks that my husband, kids and I had been staying with my cousin while house- hunting, I had come to enjoy Ben’s sunny personality and cheerful conversation.
Today, however, he was in a bad mood as he dropped off his milk from his truck. He placed the some embarrassment, he told me two customers had left town without paying their bills, and he would have to cover the losses. One of the debtors owed only S 10, but the other was $79 in arrears (逾期欠款) and had left no forwarding (发送) address. Ben was upset for allowing this bill to grow so large
"She was a pretty woman," he said, with six children and another on the way. She was always saying, 'I' m going to pay you soon, when my husband gets a second job. ' I believed her. What a fool I was! I thought I was doing a good thing, but I’ve learned my lesson. I've been cheated All I could say was, I’m so sorry
The next time I saw him, his anger seemed worse. I repeated how sorry I was about his loss of income. But when Ben left, I found myself caught up in his problem and longed to help. I worried that his might turn a cheerful person into a bitter one. I thought how to help him. Then, remembering that Christmas was coming. I thought of what my grandmother used to say: "When someone has taken something from you, give it to them, and then you can never be robbed.
The next time Ben delivered milk, I told him I had a way to make him feel better about the $79.
“Nothing will do that, "he said, but tell me anyway.”
“Forget about it, Give the woman the milk as a Christmas present.”
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“Are you kidding?” he replied.
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Two months later, while delivering milk, Ben saw a woman running toward him, waving money.
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