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Love is a two-way street

A father sat at his desk and looked at his bills when his young son rushed in and announced: “ Dad, because today is your birthday and you’re 40 years old, I’m going to give you 40 kisses, one for each year!” When the boy started making good on his word(履行诺言)，the father shouted: “ Andrew, don’t do it now. I’m too busy!”

The boy soon fell silent as tears fell from his big blue eyes. Feeling sorry, the father said: “ You can finish later.” The boy said  nothing but walked away. That evening the father said: “ Come and finish the kisses now, Andrew!”

Unfortunately, a few days later after the father’s birthday, the boy had an accident and died. His father wrote: “ If only(要是••• •••,该多好)I could tell him how sorry I am for my thoughtless words, and how much my heart is hurting.”

Love is a two-way street. We must warmly accept any loving act, or others will take it as a “NO” and it can leave a scar(伤疤). If we don’t receive love, our life will lose its true meaning. Nothing is more important than accepting love from those who are near and dear to us.

46. On his father’s birthday, the boy wanted to _____.

A. help pay the bills      B. have a talk with his father

C. buy his father a gift    D. give his father kisses

47. A few days after the father’s birthday, the boy _____.

A. was badly hurt in an accident                  B. was killed in an accident

C. had to go back to school                      D. became unhappy with his father

48. The headline “Love is a two-way street” means _____.¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬

A. love keeps one busy all the time          B. love can make people happy and unhappy

C. we should learn to give and receive love    D. it’s important to love people around us

C

Many people use their mobile phones as the alarm clock and are more used to checking e-mails before sleeping. However, these habits are becoming sleeping problems.

Several years ago, my boss used to stay up working on her mobile phone and got badly ill because of that. Now she always leaves her phone in another room at night. And she encourages friends to do so. “I sent each of my friends the same christmas gift – an alarm clock so that they could stop using their phones as the alarm clock,” she said.

If your mobile phone wakes you up in the morning, it may also be keeping you up at night. A study in 2008 showed that people in mobile phone radiation(辐射)mostly had sleeping problems. And according to a Swedish study, a quarter of young people in this country feel like there must be phones around them. Most of them feel sorry for not returning messages. So they even have to reply to their friends before sleeping.

So what kind of people prefer to use mobile phones in their bedrooms? A recent study has shown that three-quarter people aged between 18 and 34 prefer to sleep with their phones near them. That number falls off a little in middle age, but only people aged 65 and older are used to leaving the phone in another room while sleeping.