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Most of the time, magicians(魔术师)give good shows, but every magician has given a show that was terrible or has tried to do a trick that didn’t go right. Howard Thruston, a famous magician, made some interesting mistakes on the stage.

Thurston did a famous Indian trick with a girl. The girl climbed into a box. Then the box was pulled up above the stage. Thurston shouted, “Iasia, garawallah, go!” The box opened and the girl was gone. “Wonderful! Wonderful!”

One night, after the show, a man asked the magician, “Please tell me where you learned your magic(有魔力 的)words?”

Thurston answered, “I’ve traveled in India and often heard ‘garawallah’ in the streets there. I thought it was a good word for an Indian trick.” The man smiled and said, “I’m from India. That word means ‘Hey, bus! ‘“

Another mistake stayed in Thurston’s show. In one trick, he cut off the heads of two chickens and two ducks and put their bodies inside a magic box. Then he opened the box and found four living birds with heads on them. This is the way the trick was done. The birds’ heads were tied under their wings. Then false heads were tied on the birds before they were brought on the stage. Thurston cut off these false heads and put the birds in the box. His helper was also in the box. He could put new false heads on the birds faster than he could untie the true heads. So after Thurston put the birds inside the box, his helper tied on false heads.

One night, the helper made a mistake. He tied the chicken heads on the ducks and then tied the duck heads on the chickens. The birds came out of the box, and the people laughed and laughed.

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41. “Garawallah” means ________.

A. after Thurston shouted the words, the girl was gone

B. the people in India ask for the traffic

C. the birds came out of the box and made the people laugh

D. it was a good words for an Indian trick

42. The best title of the story could be ________.

A. A Careless Helper B. A Magician’s Mistakes

C. Good Shows D. Terrible Tricks

43. How many people and how many kinds of birds were there in this story?

A. Six. B. Seven. C. Eight. D. Twelve

44. In fact, the second trick was a wonderful show. Could you guess what excuse the magician would say?

A. Sorry, my helper has made a mistake.

B. Oh, dear! What’s the matter with the birds?

C. Look! How magic my birds are!

D. Oh! I really don’t know what has happened.

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Albert Einstein is one of the greatest scientists who ever lived. But he couldn’t find his way home when he went for a w __ 45__ . He often forgot things. He had other things to think about. Science was m __ 46__ important to him than any other thing in life. Albert Einstein was born in 1879 in Germany. When he was a child, he learned things very s __ 47__ . Albert didn’t speak

u __48__ he was three years old. His parents were w __ 49__ about him. When he was 12, Albert began r__ 50__ math and science books. He was excited about the t __51__ he learned in those books. He became more and more interested in math and physics. He wanted to find the a__ 52__ to the questions about the universe. When he told people about his ideas, other scientists l__ 53__ at him at first. But his ideas changed the world, scientists looked at the universe in a n __54__ way. Because of him, we have such things as computers, televisions, and space travel today.

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