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A Heroic Woman
The whole of the United States cheered its latest hero, Ashley Smith, with the Federal Bureau of Investigation saying it was planning to give a big reward to her for having a brave heart and wise mind.
1 She was moving into her apartment in Atlanta, Georgia early on the morning of March 12, when a man followed her to her door and put a gun to her side.
"I started walking to my door, and I felt really, really afraid," she said in a TV interview last week. The man was Brian Nichols, 33. He was suspected of killing three people at an Atlanta courthouse (法院) on March 11 and later of killing a federal agent. 2
Nichols tied Smith up with tape, but released her after she repeatedly begged him not to take her life. "I told him if he hurt me, my little girl wouldn't have a mummy," she said. In order to calm the man down, she read to him from "The Purpose-Driven Life", a best- selling religious book. He asked her to repeat a paragraph "about what you thought your purpose in life was—what talents were you given. " 3
"I basically just talked to him and tried to gain his trust," Smith said.
Smith said she asked Nichols why he chose her. "He said he thought I was an angel sent from God, and we were Christian sister and brother," she said. "And that he was lost, and that God led him to me to tell him that he had hurt a lot of people. " 4 She said Nichols was surprised when she made him breakfast and that the two of them watched television coverage (报道) of the police hunt for him. "I cannot believe that's me," Nichols told the woman. Then, Nichols asked Smith what she thought he should do. She said, "I think you should turn yourself in. If you don't, lots more people are going to get hurt. "
Eventually, he let her go. 5 A.US $60,000 reward had been posted for Nichols' capture. Authorities said they did not yet know if Smith would be eligible (有资格的) for that money.
A.The local police were searching for him.
B.Smith is a 26-year-old single mother with a daughter.
C.Smith tried very hard to kill Nichols.
D.She even cooked breakfast for the man before he allowed her to leave.
E.And the two of them discussed this topic.
F.Then she called the police.Female Bullfighting
It was a unique, eye-catching sight, an attractive woman in a shiny bullfighter's suit, sword in hand, facing the sharp horns of a black, 500-kilogram beast.
Most people thought the days of female bullfighting were over in Spain. 6
The first woman fighter, Cristina Sanchez, quit in 1999 because of male discrimination (歧视). But Vega is determined to break into what could be Spain's most resistant male field. 7
Spanish women have conquered almost all male professions. 8 "The bull does not ask for your identity card," she said in an interview a few years ago. She insisted that she be judged for her skills rather than her femaleness.
Vega became a matador (斗牛士) in 1997 in the southwestern city of Caceres. 9 She entered a bullfighting school in Malaga at age nine and performed her first major bullfight at age 14. She has faced as much opposition as Sanchez did. And the "difficulties have made her grow into a very strong bullfighter," her brother Jorge says.
The 1.68-metre tall and somewhat shy Vega says her love of bullfighting does not make her any less of a woman. 10
A.She intends to become even better than Sanchez was.
B.Her father was an aspiring (有雄心壮志的) bullfighter.
C.But many bullfighting professionals continue to insist that women do not have what it takes to perform the country's "national show".
D."I'm a woman from head to toe and proud of it," she once said.
E.She looks like a male bullfighter.
F.But recently, 29-year-old Mari Paz Vega became the second woman in Spanish history to fight against those heavy animals.Every Dog Has His Say
Kimiko Fukuda always wondered what her dog was trying to say. Whenever she put on makeup, it would pull at her sleeve. 11 When the dog barks, she glances at a small electronic gadget (装置). The following "human" translation appears on its screen: "Please take me with you." "I realized that's how he was feeling," says Fukuda.
The gadget is called Bowlingual, and it translates dog barks into feelings. People laughed when the Japanese toymaker Takara Company made the world's first dog-human translation machine in 2002. But 300,000 Japanese dog owners bought it. 12
"Nobody else had thought about it," said Masahiko Kajita, who works for Takara. "We spend so much time training dogs to understand our orders; what would it be like if we could understand dogs?"
Bowlingual has two parts. 13 The translation is done in the gadget using a database containing every kind of bark.
Based on animal behaviour research, these noises are divided into six categories, happiness, sadness, frustration, anger, declaration and desire. 14 In this way, the database scientifically matches a bark to an emotion, which is then translated into one of 200 phrases.
When a visitor went to Fukuda's house recently, the dog barked a loud "bow wow". 15 It was followed by "I'm stronger than you" as the dog growled and sniffed (嗅) at the visitor.
The product will be available in U.S. pet stores this summer for about U.S. $120. It can store up to 100 barks, even recording the dog's emotions when the owner is away.
A.A wireless microphone is attached to the dog's collar, which sends information to the gadget held by the owner.
B.Nobody really knows how a dog feels.
C.This translated as "Don't come this way".
D.More customers are expected when the English version is launched this summer.
E.Now, the Japanese girl thinks she knows.
F.Each one of these emotions is then linked to a phrase like "Let's play", "Look at me", or "Spend more time with me".You Need Courage!
Shortly after I began a career in business, I learned that Carl Weatherup, president of Pepsi Co (百事可乐公司), was speaking at the University of Colorado. I tracked down the person handling his schedule and managed to get myself an appointment. 16
So there I was sitting outside the university's auditorium, waiting for the president of Pepsi Co. I could hear him talking to the students... and talking, and talking. 17 He was now five minutes over, which dropped my time with him down to 10 minutes. Decision time.
I wrote a note on the back of my business card, reminding him that he had a meeting. "You have a meeting with Jeff Hoye at 2:30 p. m. " I took a deep breath, pushed open the doors of the auditorium and walked straight up the middle aisle (地道) toward him as he talked. Mr. Weatherup stopped. 18 Just before I reached the door, I heard him tell the group that he was running late. He thanked them for their attention, wished them luck and walked out to where I was now sitting, holding my breath.
He looked at the card and then at me. "Let me guess," he said. "You're Jeff. " He smiled. 19
He spent the next 30 minutes offering me his time, some wonderful stories that I still use, and an invitation to visit him and his group in New York. But what he gave me that I value the most was the encouragement to continue to do as I had done. 20 When things need to happen, you either have the nerve to act or you don't.
A.I began breathing again and we grabbed (霸占) an office right there at school and closed the door.
B.As I sat listening to him, I knew that I could trust him, and that he deserved every bit of loyalty I could give to him.
C.I became alarmed: his talk wasn't ending when it should have.
D.He said that it took nerve for me to interrupt him, and that nerve was the key to success in the business world.
E.I was told, however, that he was on a tight schedule and only had 15 minutes available after his talk to the business class.
F.I handed him the card then I turned and walked out the way I came.