【正文】 will be a gathering of celebrities and is regarded as a big social event. It is said that flowers have e from the U . S. President and the British Queen,Randy and Carole think it is extremely important for their career to be seen there with a lot of big shots. But they haven39。 t got an invitation while some of their Hollywood friends, also young actors and actresses like themselves , have been invited . That39。s why they are worried and are trying hard to find ways of getting themselves invited in the last minuteHow do you understand the young Hollywood couple in the play?L1 Courtesy: key to a happier worldQ: illustrate with example the basic ingredients of good manners Dr. Peale mentions in his article. A: Dr. Peale lists three things as the basic ingredients of good manners: a strong sense of justice, the ability to share another person s inner feelings and the capacity to treat all people alike.Once, a man was driving along a long, narrow and dusty road ahead of another car. Suddenly he stopped off the road and told the driver of the car behind to get ahead of him. He did not want the other person to put up with his dust all the way. This is a man with a strong sense of justice.A courteous also understands the pain or unhappiness of others. He/she offers help without hurting the feelings of the other person because he/she shares their emotions as if they were he/she own.Finally, a person with good manners treats all people alike, whether they are plain citizens or big shots. He/She never asks whether the other person deserves their good manners.Courtesy: the key to a happier world.Courtesy includes three basic qualities. First: a strong sense of justice. Courtesy is often nothing more than a highly developed sense of fair play. Second: empathy, a quality that enables a person to see into the mind or heart of someone else, to understand the pain or unhappiness there and to do something to minimize it. Third: the capacity to treat all people alike regardless of all status or importance.People may improve their manners in three ways. First: by practicing courtesy. Second: by thinking in a courtesy way. If our thoughts are predominantly selfdirected, discourteous persons are what we will be. If we train ourselves to be considerate of others and acquire the habit of identifying with their problems and hopes and fears, good manners will follow automatically. Third, by accepting courtesy, receiving it gladly and rejoicing when it es our way.The core of courtesy is how we regard peoplenot just people in general, but individuals. Politeness is the golden rule in action. Blessed are the courteous.L2 The man who could work miracles IQ: how did Mr. Fotheringay discover his unusual power and how did he take advantage of them? A: It was while he was trying to prove the impossibility of miracles that Mr. Fotheringay discovered his extraordinary powers. He was having a drink in a bar. A person called Toddy opposed everything he said. This made him very angry. He wanted to show Toddy that the lamp there couldn39。t burn upside down without breaking no matter how he wished it to do so . But as soon as he said, Turn upside down without breaking, the lamp did as Fotheringay had just said.Back at home he experimented with his magical powers and came to see that he could with things. The next day he began to take advantage of this unusual power. By his will he first got a fresh gooseegg for breakfast. In the same way he got the whole day39。s work done in 10 minutes. He also created an, her of useful things and increased his personal property.What magic power did Mr. Fotheringgay e to possess?How and why did he decide to give up this power?Conclude your answer with a onesentence ment.L3 The man who could work miracles IIQ: how did Mr. Fotheringay’s attitude towards miracles changes? A: Mr．Fotheringay did not believe in miracles until he was thirty years old．It was while he was asserting the impossibility of miracles that he discovered his extraordinary powers ．One day，when he was having a drink in a bar，Toddy Beamish opposed everything he said, so he decided to make an unusual effort. He tried to illustrate what was a miracle by giving a special example, that is, to make a lamp upside down and go on burning steadily without fallingTo his great surprise, what he said came true. Everyone was astonished at it. They all didn39。t believe it. After going back home, he tried his will power. He succeeded in getting a match and lighting the candle with his will power. He wondered at his will power. Then he tried to get himself a nightshirt, lay and cook a gooseegg, do one day39。s work in ten minutes, make walking stick blossom, and sent the policeman to Hades, then to San Francisco by using his will power. In the end he felt delighted even though he understood that the gift required caution and watchfulness.Do you believe in miracles? Why do so many people do? What does this story want to tell from the experience of Mr. Fotheringay?L4 Zero hour: fortythree seconds over HiroshimaQ: what did Kaz see at that day ?A: When she saw a B 29 bomber approaching , it didn39。t frighten her, because she thought Hiroshima was the only peaceful city during the war. But, then, Kaz saw the bomb falling away from the plane and drifting down towards her. The journey took 43 seconds. A loud explosion reverberated in the air. A mushroom cloud rose over the remains of the city. Kaz was thrown to tire ground so violently that her two front teeth broke off. She lost consciousness. When she came to herself, she found there was a dead silence around, broken only by the cries of the dying .Their house crashed down .Her father had the front of his body burnt. When her brother came back, she could barely recognize him through his wounds. As night fell, she arid her