【正文】 ic relationships.Text A. .. . ..Unit 1Do you remember your first love? All those exciting and wonderful new emotions – the way your heart raced when that special person was near – those anxious, awkward moments when you didn39。 A mon misconception among youngsters attending school is that their teachers were child prodigies. Who else but a bookworm, with none of the normal kid39。 I39。 My princess sat near the pencil sharpener, and that year I ground up enough pencils to fuel a campfire. Alas, Debbie was far beyond my wildest dreams. We were separated not only by five rows of desks, but by about 50 . points. She was the top student in English II, the apple of Mrs. Larrivee39。 Occasionally, Debbie would catch me staring at her, and she would flash a smile that radiated intelligence and quickened my heartbeat. It was a smile that signaled hope and made me temporarily forget the intellectual gulf that separated us. “Hi,” she said. A few days later, during a fire drill, I casually went up to her and asked, “Ever been to the Aleutian Islands?” “I don39。 Debbie39。 One day I was browsing through the library. I spotted Debbie sitting at a table, absorbed in a crossword puzzle. She was frowning, apparently stumped on a word. I leaned over and asked if I could help. My hand shot up. “The albatross is a large bird that lives mostly in the ocean regions below the equator, but may be found in the north Pacific as well. The albatross measures as long as four feet and has the greatest wingspread of any bird. It feeds on fish and shellfish. The albatross has an enormous appetite, and when it39。 There was a long silence in the room. Mrs. Larrivee couldn39。 What I failed to perceive was that Debbie all this while was going steady with a junior from a neighboring school a basketball player with a C+ average. The revelation hit me hard, and for a while I felt like forgetting everything I had learned. I had saved enough money to buy Volume II Asthma to Bullfinch but was strongly tempted to invest in a basketball instead. “A little knowledge is a dangerous thing: 普羅迪我永遠(yuǎn)都無法接受在魚兒上鉤時不得不去上學(xué)的想法。突然間，我喜歡上學(xué)了，而這只是為了能夠凝視英語二班里那張可愛的臉。 我的公主坐在卷筆器旁邊，那一年我削的鉛筆足以點燃一堆篝火。這是一個標(biāo)志著希望、使我暫時忘記將我們分開的智力上的鴻溝的微笑。櫥窗里的一塊廣告牌稱商店正以29美分的特價供應(yīng)一套百科全書的第一卷。 我買下了第一卷 從Aardvark（土豚）到Asteroid（海星） 然后開始了在知識世界中的冒險歷程?！薄傍P尾魚生活在咸水里，淡水里很少見?！薄鞍⒘羯耆松聿陌。w格健壯，有著深色的皮膚和黑色的頭發(fā)。我發(fā)現(xiàn)黛比坐在一張桌子旁，正專心致志地做著一個填詞游戲。“簡直不敢相信。 那個光輝燦爛的、充滿歡樂的、富有浪漫色彩的二年級就這樣繼續(xù)著。 在教室里，我也漸漸讓別人感到了我的存在。它以魚類和帶殼的水生動物為食。她自豪得笑容滿臉，也對我眨了眨眼。當(dāng)時我已攢夠了錢買第二卷 從Asthma（哮喘?。┑紹ullfinch（紅腹灰雀） 但我真想去買一只籃球。 我覺得自己不僅受到了傷害，而且還遭到了背叛。第二年，黛比搬離了這個街區(qū)，轉(zhuǎn)到了另一所學(xué)校。s first car is less a means of transportation than a monument to his discovery of youthful freedom.ve never questioned my youthful emotions that day when the mechanic delivered his sad verdict.The word verdict conveys a feeling of ________ (inescapable doom a lifechanging statement).Text Bs first car is less a means of transportation than a monument to his discovery of youthful freedom. At least mine was.My parents furious, of course settled on my punishment: I would use my uping summer wages to pay for the repairs. To lessen the financial blow, I insisted that the mechanic fix the car with used parts. So when the work was pleted, the old red car had a green hood, a yellow fender and a blue door. I didn39。That summer, once school was out, I found my freedom expanded hugely. On days when my friends and I would once have ridden bikes to the public pool, we drove my car along the river road to explore an old abandoned train station. Instead of riding to baseball games in the coach39。One by one, my friends got driver39。t fortable there was no air conditioning, and on hot days our bare legs stuck to the seats. financial troubles, Tom spoke sadly of his father39。Since we graduated from high school, my friends and I have spread out across the country and grown into adults. Yet I39。 好吧，我承認(rèn)。至少我的車是這樣。我們只是駕著車得意洋洋地兜風(fēng)，海闊天空，東拉西扯。我倒吸了一口冷氣。在那些小男孩的眼里，我是個英雄。 我的父母當(dāng)然非常生氣，他們決定了對我的懲罰：我得用我那年夏天打工賺來的工資支付修理費。這輛車絕非美輪美奐，但她卻是我的。以前，我和我的朋友們得騎著自行車去公共游泳池，現(xiàn)在我們卻可以駕著我的車，沿著河邊的路，去踏勘一座廢棄的老火車站。 一天晚上，我正在打工的餐館里洗碟子，我的幾個朋友趁機將我的汽車輪胎卸了下來，讓車子無能為力地難堪地躺在停車場的水泥地上。即使在那個時候，我也不懂這是為什么。通常，我們只是讓它關(guān)著。在我的那輛舊車?yán)铮覀円呀?jīng)堆積了如同火種般的記憶，并且知道在某一天，某一個地方，白發(fā)蒼蒼的我們會聚在一起重新點燃我們的友誼之火。s natural to think of love. s great to relish it for a while, but as a steady diet romance is dangerously undernourishing. Ideally, romance will be woven through a loving relationship, and reviving it now and then is an excellent way to express affection (愛,感情) and mitment