Passage C
One evening after dinner,Mr.and Mrs.William called a family meeting.“We’ve had to make a difficult decision.”Mr.William announced.“You see,your mother has been offered a post as co-director of a television in Chicago.Unluckily,the station is not here.After thinking long and hard about it,we’ve concluded that the right decision is to move to Chicago.”
Peter looked shocked,while his sister Amy breathlessly started asking when they’d be moving:“It’s surprising,but exciting!”she said.Peter simply said,“We can’t go—I can’t leave all my friends.I’d rather stay here and live with Tommy!”
Mr.and Mrs.William hoped that by the time they moved in August,Peter would grow more accustomed to the idea of leaving.However,he showed no signs of accepting the news,refusing to pack his belongings.
When the morning of the move arrived,Peter was nowhere to be found.His parents called Tommy’s house,but Tommy’s mother said she hadn’t seen Peter.Mrs.William became increasingly worried,while her husband felt angry with their son for behaving so irresponsibly.
What they didn’t know was that Peter had started walking over to Tommy’s house,with a faint idea of hiding in Tommy’s attic（阁楼）for a few days.But something happened on the way as Peter walked past all the familiar landscape of the neighborhood:the fence that he and his mother painted,the tree that he and his sister used to climb,the park where he and his father often took evening walks together.How much would these mean without his family,who make them special in the first place?Peter didn’t take the time to answer that question but instead hurried back to his house,wondering if there were any moving cartons（纸板箱）the right size to hold his record collection.

Passage B
Except for the sun,the moon looks the biggest object in the sky.Actually it is one of the smallest and only looks big because it is so near to us.Its diameter is only 2160 miles(3389 km),or a little more than a quarter of the diameter of the earth.
Once a month,or,more exactly,once every 29.5 days,at the time we call“full moon”,its whole disc looks bright.At other times only part of it appears bright,and we always find that this is the part which faces towards the sun,while the part facing away from the sun appears dark.People could make their pictures better if they kept this in mind—only those parts of the moon which are lighted up by the sun are brighter.This shows that the moon gives no light of its own.It only throws back the light of the sun,like a huge mirror hung in the sky.
Yet the dark part of the moon’s surface is not completely black;usually it is just light enough for us to be able to see its shape,so that we speak of seeing“the old moon in the new moon’s arms”.The light by which we see the old moon does not come from the sun,but from the earth.We know well how the surface of the sea or of snow,or even of a wet road,may throw back uncomfortably much of the sun’s light on to our faces.In the same way the surface of the whole earth throws back enough of the sun’s light on to the face of the moon for us to be back to see the parts of it which would otherwise be dark.

Passage B
Except for the sun,the moon looks the biggest object in the sky.Actually it is one of the smallest and only looks big because it is so near to us.Its diameter is only 2160 miles(3389 km),or a little more than a quarter of the diameter of the earth.
Once a month,or,more exactly,once every 29.5 days,at the time we call“full moon”,its whole disc looks bright.At other times only part of it appears bright,and we always find that this is the part which faces towards the sun,while the part facing away from the sun appears dark.People could make their pictures better if they kept this in mind—only those parts of the moon which are lighted up by the sun are brighter.This shows that the moon gives no light of its own.It only throws back the light of the sun,like a huge mirror hung in the sky.
Yet the dark part of the moon’s surface is not completely black;usually it is just light enough for us to be able to see its shape,so that we speak of seeing“the old moon in the new moon’s arms”.The light by which we see the old moon does not come from the sun,but from the earth.We know well how the surface of the sea or of snow,or even of a wet road,may throw back uncomfortably much of the sun’s light on to our faces.In the same way the surface of the whole earth throws back enough of the sun’s light on to the face of the moon for us to be back to see the parts of it which would otherwise be dark.

Passage B
Except for the sun,the moon looks the biggest object in the sky.Actually it is one of the smallest and only looks big because it is so near to us.Its diameter is only 2160 miles(3389 km),or a little more than a quarter of the diameter of the earth.
Once a month,or,more exactly,once every 29.5 days,at the time we call“full moon”,its whole disc looks bright.At other times only part of it appears bright,and we always find that this is the part which faces towards the sun,while the part facing away from the sun appears dark.People could make their pictures better if they kept this in mind—only those parts of the moon which are lighted up by the sun are brighter.This shows that the moon gives no light of its own.It only throws back the light of the sun,like a huge mirror hung in the sky.
Yet the dark part of the moon’s surface is not completely black;usually it is just light enough for us to be able to see its shape,so that we speak of seeing“the old moon in the new moon’s arms”.The light by which we see the old moon does not come from the sun,but from the earth.We know well how the surface of the sea or of snow,or even of a wet road,may throw back uncomfortably much of the sun’s light on to our faces.In the same way the surface of the whole earth throws back enough of the sun’s light on to the face of the moon for us to be back to see the parts of it which would otherwise be dark.

Passage B
Except for the sun,the moon looks the biggest object in the sky.Actually it is one of the smallest and only looks big because it is so near to us.Its diameter is only 2160 miles(3389 km),or a little more than a quarter of the diameter of the earth.
Once a month,or,more exactly,once every 29.5 days,at the time we call“full moon”,its whole disc looks bright.At other times only part of it appears bright,and we always find that this is the part which faces towards the sun,while the part facing away from the sun appears dark.People could make their pictures better if they kept this in mind—only those parts of the moon which are lighted up by the sun are brighter.This shows that the moon gives no light of its own.It only throws back the light of the sun,like a huge mirror hung in the sky.
Yet the dark part of the moon’s surface is not completely black;usually it is just light enough for us to be able to see its shape,so that we speak of seeing“the old moon in the new moon’s arms”.The light by which we see the old moon does not come from the sun,but from the earth.We know well how the surface of the sea or of snow,or even of a wet road,may throw back uncomfortably much of the sun’s light on to our faces.In the same way the surface of the whole earth throws back enough of the sun’s light on to the face of the moon for us to be back to see the parts of it which would otherwise be dark.

Passage A
On the evening of June 21,1992,a tall man with brown hair and blue eyes entered the beautiful hall of the Bell Tower Hotel in Xi’an with his bicycle.The hotel workers received him and telephoned the manager,for they had never seen a bicycle in the hotel hall before though they lived in“the kingdom of bicycles.”
Robert Friedlander,an American,arrived in Xi’an on his bicycle trip across Asia which started last December in New Delhi,India.
When he was 11,he read the book Marco Polo and made up his mind to visit the Silk Road.Now,after 44 years,he was on the Silk Road in Xi’an and his early dreams were coming true.
Robert Friedlander’s next destinations(目的地)were Lanzhou,Dunhuang,Urumqi,etc.He will complete his trip in Pakistan.

Passage A
On the evening of June 21,1992,a tall man with brown hair and blue eyes entered the beautiful hall of the Bell Tower Hotel in Xi’an with his bicycle.The hotel workers received him and telephoned the manager,for they had never seen a bicycle in the hotel hall before though they lived in“the kingdom of bicycles.”
Robert Friedlander,an American,arrived in Xi’an on his bicycle trip across Asia which started last December in New Delhi,India.
When he was 11,he read the book Marco Polo and made up his mind to visit the Silk Road.Now,after 44 years,he was on the Silk Road in Xi’an and his early dreams were coming true.
Robert Friedlander’s next destinations(目的地)were Lanzhou,Dunhuang,Urumqi,etc.He will complete his trip in Pakistan.

Passage A
On the evening of June 21,1992,a tall man with brown hair and blue eyes entered the beautiful hall of the Bell Tower Hotel in Xi’an with his bicycle.The hotel workers received him and telephoned the manager,for they had never seen a bicycle in the hotel hall before though they lived in“the kingdom of bicycles.”
Robert Friedlander,an American,arrived in Xi’an on his bicycle trip across Asia which started last December in New Delhi,India.
When he was 11,he read the book Marco Polo and made up his mind to visit the Silk Road.Now,after 44 years,he was on the Silk Road in Xi’an and his early dreams were coming true.
Robert Friedlander’s next destinations(目的地)were Lanzhou,Dunhuang,Urumqi,etc.He will complete his trip in Pakistan.

Passage A
On the evening of June 21,1992,a tall man with brown hair and blue eyes entered the beautiful hall of the Bell Tower Hotel in Xi’an with his bicycle.The hotel workers received him and telephoned the manager,for they had never seen a bicycle in the hotel hall before though they lived in“the kingdom of bicycles.”
Robert Friedlander,an American,arrived in Xi’an on his bicycle trip across Asia which started last December in New Delhi,India.
When he was 11,he read the book Marco Polo and made up his mind to visit the Silk Road.Now,after 44 years,he was on the Silk Road in Xi’an and his early dreams were coming true.
Robert Friedlander’s next destinations(目的地)were Lanzhou,Dunhuang,Urumqi,etc.He will complete his trip in Pakistan.

Passage A
On the evening of June 21,1992,a tall man with brown hair and blue eyes entered the beautiful hall of the Bell Tower Hotel in Xi’an with his bicycle.The hotel workers received him and telephoned the manager,for they had never seen a bicycle in the hotel hall before though they lived in“the kingdom of bicycles.”
Robert Friedlander,an American,arrived in Xi’an on his bicycle trip across Asia which started last December in New Delhi,India.
When he was 11,he read the book Marco Polo and made up his mind to visit the Silk Road.Now,after 44 years,he was on the Silk Road in Xi’an and his early dreams were coming true.
Robert Friedlander’s next destinations(目的地)were Lanzhou,Dunhuang,Urumqi,etc.He will complete his trip in Pakistan.