【正文】 could sing, he would have sung. if he could dance, he would have danced. if he could have shouted to the world, he would have shouted to the world, “i’m free, i’m free!” he had been in “jail” for the last week. a mental jail, to be sure, but it still felt like jail. about six weeks ago, he had received his almost annual jury summons. printed on the outside of the white envelope, in bright red letters, was: official jury summons enclosed— registration required within 5 days. a friend of his had been throwing away such summonses for at least 20 years. archie couldn’t do that — he felt that his luck was so bad that if he tried it, his summons would be the one with the concealed microchip that recorded him throwing the envelope in the trash. then he really would be in jail. so, he dutifully filled out the form and waited until his starting date— november 5, a monday. for that week, he would be “on call” for “no more than five days.” as instructed, he dialed the 800srvjury number on the saturday preceding november 5. he tapped in his pin and jury group number. he listened, and sighed with relief。大學生英語故事演講比賽稿 在大學英語教學中 ,開展故事復述活動 ,對促進學生英語運用能力有很大幫助。t let the limitted time pass by ， leaving nothing of significance. 大學生英語故事演講比賽稿篇三 a dream from beyond i was sound asleep. my grandfather appeared in a dream. he asked why i had never visited him and grandma at the cemetery. he said that even my mom hadn’t visited since october 4 (grandma’s birthday). he told me that, when i was young, i had walked out into a pond and slipped under water. he had rescued me. he said grandma was supposed to be watching me, but that she had gotten sick all of a sudden and was throwing up. it was probably the fresh blackberries they had picked and eaten earlier. grandma had a bad stomach. my parents were out on a boat in the pond. they did not know that grandpa had saved me until they got back to shore. i was in a towel and my clothes were drying on bushes. my brown and white buster brown shoes were also soaked. i was only three years old, grandpa said. my parents were angry at first, but w