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Tasting a Biker’s Life

For most of my life I knew nothing about motorcycles. I believed that motorcycle riders were tough and leather-wearing loners. They seemed     1     (look) for trouble all the time, using the roar of a motorcycle engine to frighten others off.

Then, on a warm May evening outside my house, my cousin came and showed me his new motorcycle. Never had a real motorcycle    2     (present) in front of me by a close family member. “It’s beautiful, isn’t it?” he asked. But I didn’t really understand what I was looking at.

It wasn’t until August     3     I was able to actually ride on the motorcycle with him. I prepared     4     oversized leather jacket for myself.     5     (fill) with nervous energy, I held on tightly to my cousin. Soon the bike carried us onto the top of the hill,     6     we stopped to watch the sun set over the city below. I realized that was the most relaxing moment for me in months.

Since then, my prejudices about motorcycle bikers     7     (start) to shift. On the back of a motorcycle,     8     (place) all your trust in someone to get you safely home is a way to remind you of the love they have for you. Later, whenever my cousin was gone on a Saturday ride, I would try on his leathers and look in the mirror, wondering if I was     9     a biker myself.

Maybe the most important lesson, though, is that you really can’t judge a man by his appearance,     10     much leather he wears. Motorcycle bikers are not scary, or mean, or unapproachable. They’re adults who remember the freedom of riding their first bicycle, and are continuously seeking to recreate the experience.

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The Goosehead guide to life

Ashley Powers mother bought a computer for her when she was eight. When she was thirteen, she was surfing the Internet regularly, but she     1    not find anywhere for teenagers to meet and talk. And one day she thought, "If I had my own website, I'd make it a really interesting site for teenagers."

So, when Ashley was sixteen, she launched her own website, called Goosehead. She had no idea how big a success it     2     (be), but three years later, the site was the most successful teen site in the USA! It was getting 100,000 hits every day, and Ashley had about 30 employees.

After a few years, the website closed down. Then Ashley, who lives in Los Angeles,    3    (ask) to write a book called The Goosehead Guide to Life. The book is about     4    to design a website and start a business. It begins with a section called All About Ashley,     5    Ashley tells readers what it's like     6    (be) the boss of a company when you're only sixteen - not always easy! "I was so happy. But it was crazy in a lot of ways. I got very stressed. I mean. I was only sixteen - I didn't even have a car! If you were sixteen and you had your own company, you'd be stressed too!"

In her book, Ashley talks about the problems facing teenagers today, and about the importance of friendship, but also about being independent. "Learn to love your friends but not rely on them. I did that by     7     (create) Goosehead on my own."

Ashley says that The Goosehead Guide o Life is not a book of teenage advice. "It isn't a book that's going to tell you what to do. I hope you can work that out for     8    ,”she says.“I just want to provide a little inspiration to teenagers. Maybe    9     reading my story, you'll launch your own website. But perhaps you've got a better idea? Well, if I were you, I'd just do it,     10    it is. Maybe it won't work-but maybe it will!"

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Rescue a Raccoon (浣熊)

A disoriented five- month-old raccoon hurries across a busy road in Greenbrae, California.Somehow the animal and her mom have become separated, and now the     1    (frighten) baby has no idea what to do. Suddenly a car approaches. Unable to see the animal, the driver accidentally runs over her hind leg. The raccoon falls to the ground where she lies helpless.

Other motorists, who saw the accident, pull over to check on the injured animal. One concerned witness is Marco Berger,     2    works for a nearby wildlife hospital called WildCare.Berger calls a nearby branch of the Marian Humane Society, an organization that, among other things, transports injured wildlife to care centers. About 10 minutes later, rescue officers arrive on the scene.

They use a net to lift up the lttle raccoon, then load her into an animal ambulance and     3    (rush) her to WildCare.

At the hospital, head veterinary technician Nat Smith gives the raccoon a checkup. An X-ray of her leg reveals that the thighbone is completely broken. If the bone     4     (not repair),she'll never be able to run, climb, or search for food in the wild. The good news is that the leg     5    be fixed with surgery.

Almost immediately after     6     (wake) up from the surgery, the raccoon shows signs of improvement. "Within a day she's able to walk on her leg," Smith says. A week and a half later,the raccoon has become so active that WildCare staff decide to move the animal to a 12-foot-by-12-foot outdoor enclosure     7    trees for her to climb.

Within two months, the young raccoon is ready     8    (release). After one final checkup, she's loaded into a pet carrier and driven to a forested area near     9     she was found.     10    the carrier door is opened, the raccoon runs into the woods. "She's ready to take on the wild," says Smith.