I will 17 forget the day when we climbed the main peak (山顶). The 18 in that area changes very quickly: it was sunny in the early morning when we set out, 19 it began to rain heavily when we were only halfway up. Soon, we were all 20 and some of us wanted to go home. The...
When Aunt Em came there to live she was a young, pretty wife. The sun and wind had changed her, too. They had taken the sparkle from her eyes and left them a sober gray; they had taken the red from her cheeks and lips, and they were gray also. She was thin and gaunt, and nev...
"In time, the brothers reached a river too deep to wade through and too dangerous to swim across. However, these brothers were learned in the magical arts, and so they simply waved their wands and made a bridge appear across the treacherous water. They were halfway across it when they f...
1.You will succeed in the end ___you give up halfway. A. even ifB. as thoughC. as long asD. unless 2.___ , I have never seen anyone who’s as capable as John. A. As ling as I have traveledB. Now that I have traveled so much C. Much as I have traveledD. As I have ...
But there was no help for it. All I had to do was to be quiet, and I was as quiet as a mouse. They were as quiet as mice, too, so far as any words were concerned; but the innocent manner in which they relied more and more upon me, as they took more and more ...
Sara sits in her father’s study as the paramedics take her dead father out of the room. Another guard explains to her that there were no signs of foul play. As she collects her belongings, she finds a key that slipped from her father’s pocket when she lowered him from the door. ...
RED (V.O.):And that's how it went for Andy. That was his routine. I do believe those first two years were the worst for him. And I also believe if things had gone on that way, this place would have got the best of him.But then, in the spring of 1949,the powers-that-be de...
There were a hundred and forty-two staircases at Hogwarts: wide, sweeping ones; narrow, rickety ones; some that led somewhere different on a Friday; some with a vanishing step halfway up that you had to remember to jump. Then there were doors that wouldn\'t open unless you asked politel...