36.Immigrate to America
Attracted by the boom in America, my nephew teamed up with a Korean to illegally cross the Bearing Strait in the Arctic to America. __1_____(avoid) the Customs’ punishment, they hid in a small ferry called the North Pole Seagull, sitting back to back ____2______ sleeping, showering and shaving for 3 days, and had no chance to mourn their lost luggage when landing. The hardship of this crossing was apparent.
At first, he made a living by means of raising cattle and then ___3___ (hire) in aircraft industries. He lived in a Catholic district. Taking in a small percentage of Pakistani immigrants, the majority of the residents were from Italy and Denmark, ___4___ all kept up their customs and cultures. Different blocks here were distinctly marked out and indicated from the __5___(race) angle. It was unfair and needed reforming. But with nowhere else to go, my nephew lived on and managed to make a life __6___ himself.
My nephew’s fortune came when he __7___(brave) helped a conductor brake a ream to stop it from slipping out of the rails. The man was elected vice chairman of the Socialist Party later. It occurred to my nephew ___8___ he could grasp this opportunity to ask for his help. the man who was thankful helped him apply to___9__ civil authority for the right to live in America by inserting his brave deed into his documents. Unlike a great many other applicants, __10___ application was approved by the Federal Justice Ministry. Before long, he started his own bakery and lived a better life.
37.Be Careful about Cloning
After a series of initial experiments and corrections, the scientist’s hard work paid off when the twin clone turkeys were hatched with normal feather and claws. This breakthrough ____1__(possible) enabled people to bring their adored pets back to life. ____2___, it bothered him from time to time that their health was in poor condition because they were unable to resist illnesses. This drawback cast him down. Merely 2 weeks later, the clones and their carrier died, ____3___ struck frustration into his heart. He retired before he attained his ambition and became a member of an opera chorus _____4____(relieve) his depression.
Shortly afterwards, the media published a conservative argument ____5___(object) to cloning owing to moral problems, and suggested the constitution include compulsory regulations to forbid obtaining commercial profits ___6____cloning.
When ___7____(interview), the scientist stared at the decorations on the ceiling, thinking for a while, and then said, “I’m not in favour of any arbitrary assumption, ___8__ undertaking cloning does differ from the straightforward procedure of making loafs out of flour. __9___ we accumulate enough exact knowledge, any practice is in vain and is bound to fail. Altogether, being more careful is reasonable __10___ we may walk into a side road.”
38.Strange Patent Applications
I set about working in the current Patent Office after resigning from the court personnel. Competent and dynamic, I never feel passive while ___1___(dive) into the identifications of whether applications are valid and ___2___(practice) according to the new version of the criteria.
___3__ the expectation of distinguishing their own importance, some people leave the beaten track and file strange products with us now and then, for example, lantern ___4__ can be attached on your forehead, cubic walnuts, refrigerator made of straw and glue, perfume that nobody can bear to smell, and so on.
Once, a man made a triangle helicopter out of stainless wires and string. He called us up ___5____ merrily claimed it was stable and convenient to use, and never out of order. I asked him to hang on, but this innocent man just rang off and set out ___6___(fly )from his courtyard. I dialed __7__ number in the directory trying to ring him back, but never got through.
Merciful God blessing, ___8___ abrupt freezing rainfall made his powder wet. Luckily, the trouble was without any extension except that he crashed into a greengrocer’s making all the ripe fruits become messy jam. ___9___ people seized this crazy man with caution and sobered him by tapping his face, he complained about the bad weather instead of associating his failure ___10__ his unscientific design.
39. Pronunciation and Status
An ambassador and a referee were consulting a professor on the caption of a Buddhistic alphabet when a sobbing woman stopped them to sell an antique musical bathtub. Her dirty garment and the handkerchief ___1___ her waist were badly in need of sending to a laundry. The ambassador ___2____(comfortable) gave her a handful of pence from his wallet and said, “Take this fortune away, troublesome woman.”
___3___ her figure faded away, the brilliant professor said, “You are mistaken and your improper remark on her should be condemned. In terms of this extraordinary woman, you can’t classify her status by __4___ horrible clothes or disgusting nails. Her clean woolen vest and stockings, especially her classic pronunciation, all ___5___(suggest) her upper status.” The ambassador gave a whistle in amazement, and advised ____6___(make) her acquaintance. The professor hesitated for a while, then compromised.
The outcome was ___7__ she was an authentic superior police officer. When they ___8____(show) in her office and saw her once more, she brought them a teapot of tea and some cookies, laughing and saying, “I rubbed some cream and wax on my garment and passed myself off as a shabby woman ___9___thieves and robbers to investigate a plot. Generally speaking, your overlooking me and my adaptation are the best help. But my pronunciation seemed __10____ (betray) me.”
40. A Sly Murder
When giving a lecture about the significance of punctuation, the academic professor was interrupted and arrested by the police for murdering his wife, a receptionist of a kindergarten. The police found some photos he deleted from their e-album ___1___(show) that they used to have a gay life. But, fed up with her wrinkled face, he murdered her instead of divorcing her __2___(avoid) fortune division. He cut up a kind of seashell ___3__ a sharpened knife, and hammered it into powder on a skateboard, and made at most one gram, which was enough to accelerate one’s pulse __4___he or she dies. This kind of poison can date back to 10,000 BC ___5___ people rubbed it on spears to kill beasts. The professor mixed the poison with onion, watermelon and yogurt ___6__ his wife. Howling and scratching her chest, she felt dizzy and died soon.
After tentative examination, the police assumed ___7__ died of heart disease. But systematic botanical analyses showed that the watermelon spit on the messy mat and the quilt was ___8____(poison). Regardless of exhaustion and starvation, the acute and skilful policemen __9__ (use) radioactive equipment to make sure the category of the poison. Primitive and not ample __10____ their alternative equipment was, they got perfect accuracy somehow.
People applauded the police and the woman’s family can look ahead with relief now.