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TEXT EThe Pony Express In the United States today, we can send a letter from coast to coast in just a few days for well under half dollar. But news did not always travel as fast or as cheaply as it does today, In the mid 1800s, trains and horse-drawn coaches carded mail. It took many weeks for news to travel from Now York to California. In 1860, the railroad and telegraph reached only from the East Coast to Missouri, less than halfway across the coun try. Horse-drawn coaches, which were very slow, then carried the mail from Missouri to California, In April 1860, the Pony Express began to carry the mail from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California. The trip took just ten days -- half the time the coaches took. The Pony Express was a horse relay system. There were stations every 10 or 15 miles along the route, which was nearly 3,200 kilometers’(2,000 miles) long. Fresh horses were at each station. The riders, with their heavy mailbags, changed horses at every station. They continued riding full speed for a total of about 100 miles. Then another rider look over and continued riding. The Pony Express riders rode through dangerous territory, including mountains, deserts, and Indian lands. Bad weather didn’t stop these tough riders, either. They rode through rain, snow, sleet, and blizzards, both night and day. The riders, therefore, had to be both brave and strong. Some newspapers in 1860 carried this advertisement: Wanted: Young, skinny, wiry fellows, not over 18. Must be expert riders, willing to risk death daily. Orphans preferred. Most of the young Pony Express riders completed the ride successfully. Some of them even became famous for their courage and bravery during difficult rides. What did these young men get paid for their bravery Twenty-five dollars a week. And what was the cost of sending a letter by Pony Express Five dollars a half-ounce in 1860, then reduced to two dollars in 1861. In October 1861, the telegraph reached California. The Pony Express disappeared after this and became a short but exciting chapter in American history. According to the passage, the Pony Express riders ore ______.
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Please excuse me if I’’m a little pensive (哀伤的) today. Mark is leaving, and I’’m feeling kind of sad. You probably don’’t know Mark, but you might be lucky enough to know someone just like him. He’’s been the heart and soul of the office for a couple of years, combining exemplary professional skills with a sweet nature and gentle disposition. He’’s never been all that interested in getting credit for the terrific work he does. He just wants to do his job, and to do it superbly well. And now he’’s moving on to an exciting new professional opportunity. It sounds like it could be the chance of a lifetime, and we’’re genuinely, sincerely pleased for him. But that doesn’’t make it any easier to say goodbye to a dear friend and trusted colleague. Life has a way of throwing these curve balls at us. Just when we start to get comfortable with a person, a place or a situation, something comes along to alter the recipe. A terrific neighbor moves away. Someone in the family graduates. A child finds new love and loyalties through marriage. The family’’s principle bread-winner is laid off. Our ability to cope with change and disruption determines, to a great degree, our peace, happiness and contentment in life. But how do we do that Philosophers have considered the question for centuries, and their responses have been varied. According to the author of the Biblical book of Ecclesiastes, comfort can be found in remembering that "to every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven." Kahlil Gibran urged his listeners to "let today embrace the past with remembrance, and the future with longing." A friend of mine who works for the government is fond of reminding his fellow bureaucrats that "survivability depends upon adaptability." And then there’’s Chris, the California surf-rat, who once told me that the answer to life’’s problems can be summed up in four words; "Go with the flow." "It’’s like surfing," Chris explained. "You can’’t organize the ocean. Waves just happen. You ride ’’em where they take you, then you paddle back out there and catch the next one. Sure, you’’re always hoping for the perfect wave where you can get, like, you know, totally tubular. But mostly you just take ’’em the way they come. It’’s not like you’’re trying to nail Jell-O (果冻布丁) to a tree, you know" I’’m not exactly sure, but I think Chris was saying that life is a series of events—both good and bad. No matter how deft (熟练的) your organizational skills, there will always be life-influencing factors over which you have no control. The truly successful person expects the unexpected, and is prepared to make adjustments should the need arise—as it almost always does. That doesn’’t mean you don’’t keep trying to make all your dreams come true. It just means that when things come up that aren’’t exactly in your plan, you work around them—and then you move on. Of course, some bumps along the road of life are easier to take than others. A rained-out picnic, for example, is easier to cope with than the sudden death of a loved one. But the principle is the same. "Change, indeed, is painful, yet ever needful," said philosopher Thomas Carlyle. "And if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope." We’’re going to miss Mark, just like you’’ll miss that graduate, that neighbor or that newlywed. But rather than dwell on the sadness of our parting, we’’ll focus on our hopes for a brighter future—for him, and for us. And then we’’ll go out and do everything we can to make that future happen. Until our plans change—again. Chris sums up life’’s problems as "go with the flow" , which means________.
Please excuse me if I’’m a little pensive (哀伤的) today. Mark is leaving, and I’’m feeling kind of sad. You probably don’’t know Mark, but you might be lucky enough to know someone just like him. He’’s been the heart and soul of the office for a couple of years, combining exemplary professional skills with a sweet nature and gentle disposition. He’’s never been all that interested in getting credit for the terrific work he does. He just wants to do his job, and to do it superbly well. And now he’’s moving on to an exciting new professional opportunity. It sounds like it could be the chance of a lifetime, and we’’re genuinely, sincerely pleased for him. But that doesn’’t make it any easier to say goodbye to a dear friend and trusted colleague. Life has a way of throwing these curve balls at us. Just when we start to get comfortable with a person, a place or a situation, something comes along to alter the recipe. A terrific neighbor moves away. Someone in the family graduates. A child finds new love and loyalties through marriage. The family’’s principle bread-winner is laid off. Our ability to cope with change and disruption determines, to a great degree, our peace, happiness and contentment in life. But how do we do that Philosophers have considered the question for centuries, and their responses have been varied. According to the author of the Biblical book of Ecclesiastes, comfort can be found in remembering that "to every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven." Kahlil Gibran urged his listeners to "let today embrace the past with remembrance, and the future with longing." A friend of mine who works for the government is fond of reminding his fellow bureaucrats that "survivability depends upon adaptability." And then there’’s Chris, the California surf-rat, who once told me that the answer to life’’s problems can be summed up in four words; "Go with the flow." "It’’s like surfing," Chris explained. "You can’’t organize the ocean. Waves just happen. You ride ’’em where they take you, then you paddle back out there and catch the next one. Sure, you’’re always hoping for the perfect wave where you can get, like, you know, totally tubular. But mostly you just take ’’em the way they come. It’’s not like you’’re trying to nail Jell-O (果冻布丁) to a tree, you know" I’’m not exactly sure, but I think Chris was saying that life is a series of events—both good and bad. No matter how deft (熟练的) your organizational skills, there will always be life-influencing factors over which you have no control. The truly successful person expects the unexpected, and is prepared to make adjustments should the need arise—as it almost always does. That doesn’’t mean you don’’t keep trying to make all your dreams come true. It just means that when things come up that aren’’t exactly in your plan, you work around them—and then you move on. Of course, some bumps along the road of life are easier to take than others. A rained-out picnic, for example, is easier to cope with than the sudden death of a loved one. But the principle is the same. "Change, indeed, is painful, yet ever needful," said philosopher Thomas Carlyle. "And if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope." We’’re going to miss Mark, just like you’’ll miss that graduate, that neighbor or that newlywed. But rather than dwell on the sadness of our parting, we’’ll focus on our hopes for a brighter future—for him, and for us. And then we’’ll go out and do everything we can to make that future happen. Until our plans change—again. According to the author,_______.
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TEXT B Just over 10 years ago, Ingmar Bergman announced that the widely acclaimed Fanny and Alexander would mark hi, last hurrah as a filmmaker, Although ,some critics had written him off as earnest but ponderous, others were saddened by the departure of an artist who had explored cinematic mood, -- from high tragedy to low comedy = during his four-decade career. What nobody foresaw. that Bergman would find a variety of way, to circumvent his own retirement director television movies, tailing theater production, and writing screenplay, for other filmmakers to direct, Hi, latest enterprise as a screenwriter, Sunday’, Children, complete, a trilogy of family-oriented movie, that began with Fanny and Alexander and continued with The Best Intentions written by Batsman and directed by Danish filmmaker Bille August, Beside, dealing with member, of Bergman’s family in bygone times - it begins a few years after The Best Intentions leaves off- the new picture was directed by Daniel Batsman, his youngest son, Although it lacks the urgency and originality of the elder Bergman’s greatest achievements, such as The Silence and Potions, it has enough visual and emotional interest to make a worthy addition to his body of work, Set in rural Sweden during the late 1920s, the story centers on a young, boy named Pa, clearly modeled on Ingmar Bergman himself. Pu’s father is a country clergyman whose duties include traveling to the capital and ministering to the royal family, While this is an enviable position, it doesn’t assuage problems in the pastor’s marriage, Pu’s young enough to be fairly oblivious to such difficulties, but his awareness grows with the passage of time, So do the subtle tensions that mar Pu’s own relationship with his father, whose desire to show affection and compassion is hampered by a certain stiffness in his demeanor and chilliness in his emotions. The film’s most resonant passages take place when Pu learns to see his father with new clarity while accompanying him on a cross-country trip to another parish. In a remarkable change of tone, this portion of the story is punctuated with .flash-forwards to a time 40 years in the future, showing the relationship between parent and child to be dramatically re versed: The father is now cared for by the son, and desires a forgiveness for past shortcomings that the younger man resolutely refuses to gram. Brief and abrupt though they are, these scenes make a pungent contrast with the sunny landscapes and comic interludes in the early part of the movie. Sunday’s Children is a film of many levels, and all are skillfully handled by Daniel Batsman in his directional debut. Gentle scenes of domestic contentment are sensitively interwoven with intimations of underlying malaise. While the more nostalgic sequences are photographed with an eye-dazzling beauty that occasionally threatens to become cloying, any such result is foreclosed by the jagged interruptions of the flash-forward sequences--an intrusive device that few filmmakers are agile enough to handle successfully, but that is put to impressive use by the Bergman team. Henrik Linnros gives a smartly turned performance as young Pu, and Thommy Berggren - who starred in the popular Elvira Madison years ago - is steadily convincing as his father. Top honors go to the screenplay, though, which carries the crowded canvas of Fanny and Alexander and the emotional ambiguity of The Best Intentions into fresh and sometimes fascinating territory. From the passage we can infer that Pu’s father is portrayed as a ______.
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