The men on the ship saw a strange object lying on the beach. It was moving 1 them—perhaps twenty feet an hour. The men went 2 to look and could hardly believe 3 was a man. Three weeks later, 4 the man felt better, he told them his story. But there was 5 strange thing—he seemed to be afraid that there wasn’t 6 food on the ship. The men also noticed that he was getting 7 . They gave him less food, hut still he grew fatter with 8 day. Then one day they saw him put a lot of bread 9 his shirt. They examined his bed and 10 food under his blanket. The men understood. He would recover from it, they said.
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你必须跟他大声说话,他才能听见,因为他的听觉不太好。
他一方面对未来充满希望,另一方面对未来会发生什么又有点担心。
on felt starving worse with rumors little few good seat too which The year was 1879; the country, Ireland. It was a time of great poverty and unrest. Crops had been bad for several years; the people were hungry; indeed, many children were 1 to death. Britain ruled the land then, and London, the 2 of government, was a long way off. The lawmakers in parliament heard 3 and complaints, but dismissed them impatiently. The Irish, they 4 , were unruly, troublesome, and complaining a lot. So parliament did 5 to help, and a great deal to make matters 6 . For example, Parliament had passed Land Laws to protect the big landowners, 7 required the tenant farmers to pay rents promptly or be thrown off the land. This was cruelly hard 8 the Irish farmers. Most of them rented land. They were 9 poor to buy their own. If the crops were 10 , the farmers could pay and have a little left over for themselves. If the crops were bad, they faced starvation. Nom, under the Land Laws, they couldn’t even hope for a better crop next year.