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Mary MooreWhen Mary Moore began her high school in 1951, her mother told her, “Be sure and take a typing course so when this show business thing doesn' t work out, you'll have something to rely on.” Mary responded in typical teenage fashion. From that moment on, “the very last thing I ever thought about doing was taking a typing course，”she recalls.The show business thing worked out, of course. In her career, Mary won many awards. Only recently, when she began to write Growing Up Again, did she regret ignoring what her mom said, “I don't know how to use a computer,”she admits.Unlike her 1995 autobiography, After All, her second book is less about life as an award- winning actress and more about living with diabetes（糖尿病）.All the money from the book is intended for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation （JDRF）, an organization she serves as international chairman.But she hasn't always practiced what she teaches. In her book, she describes that awful day, almost 40 years ago, when she received two pieces of life-changing news. First, she had lost the baby she was carrying, and second, tests showed that she had diabetes. In a childlike act, she left the hospital and treated herself to a box of doughnuts（甜甜圈）.Years would pass before she realized she had to grow up—again—and take control of her diabetes, not let it control her. Only then did she kick her three-pack-a-day cigarette habit, overcome her addiction to alcohol, and begin to follow a balanced diet.Although her disease has affected her eyesight and forced her to the sidelines of the dance floor, she refuses to fall into self-pity."Everybody on earth can ask, ‘why me?’ about something or other," she insists.“It doesn't do any good. No one is immune（免疫的）to heartache, pain, and disappointments. Sometimes we can make things better by helping others. I've come to realize the importance of that as I've grown up this second time. I want to speak out and be as helpful as I can be.”1.Why did Mary feel regretful?

Mary MooreWhen Mary Moore began her high school in 1951, her mother told her, “Be sure and take a typing course so when this show business thing doesn' t work out, you'll have something to rely on.” Mary responded in typical teenage fashion. From that moment on, “the very last thing I ever thought about doing was taking a typing course，”she recalls.The show business thing worked out, of course. In her career, Mary won many awards. Only recently, when she began to write Growing Up Again, did she regret ignoring what her mom said, “I don't know how to use a computer,”she admits.Unlike her 1995 autobiography, After All, her second book is less about life as an award- winning actress and more about living with diabetes（糖尿病）.All the money from the book is intended for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation （JDRF）, an organization she serves as international chairman.But she hasn't always practiced what she teaches. In her book, she describes that awful day, almost 40 years ago, when she received two pieces of life-changing news. First, she had lost the baby she was carrying, and second, tests showed that she had diabetes. In a childlike act, she left the hospital and treated herself to a box of doughnuts（甜甜圈）.Years would pass before she realized she had to grow up—again—and take control of her diabetes, not let it control her. Only then did she kick her three-pack-a-day cigarette habit, overcome her addiction to alcohol, and begin to follow a balanced diet.Although her disease has affected her eyesight and forced her to the sidelines of the dance floor, she refuses to fall into self-pity."Everybody on earth can ask, ‘why me?’ about something or other," she insists.“It doesn't do any good. No one is immune（免疫的）to heartache, pain, and disappointments. Sometimes we can make things better by helping others. I've come to realize the importance of that as I've grown up this second time. I want to speak out and be as helpful as I can be.”2.We can know that before 1995 Mary ______.

Mary MooreWhen Mary Moore began her high school in 1951, her mother told her, “Be sure and take a typing course so when this show business thing doesn' t work out, you'll have something to rely on.” Mary responded in typical teenage fashion. From that moment on, “the very last thing I ever thought about doing was taking a typing course，”she recalls.The show business thing worked out, of course. In her career, Mary won many awards. Only recently, when she began to write Growing Up Again, did she regret ignoring what her mom said, “I don't know how to use a computer,”she admits.Unlike her 1995 autobiography, After All, her second book is less about life as an award- winning actress and more about living with diabetes（糖尿病）.All the money from the book is intended for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation （JDRF）, an organization she serves as international chairman.But she hasn't always practiced what she teaches. In her book, she describes that awful day, almost 40 years ago, when she received two pieces of life-changing news. First, she had lost the baby she was carrying, and second, tests showed that she had diabetes. In a childlike act, she left the hospital and treated herself to a box of doughnuts（甜甜圈）.Years would pass before she realized she had to grow up—again—and take control of her diabetes, not let it control her. Only then did she kick her three-pack-a-day cigarette habit, overcome her addiction to alcohol, and begin to follow a balanced diet.Although her disease has affected her eyesight and forced her to the sidelines of the dance floor, she refuses to fall into self-pity."Everybody on earth can ask, ‘why me?’ about something or other," she insists.“It doesn't do any good. No one is immune（免疫的）to heartache, pain, and disappointments. Sometimes we can make things better by helping others. I've come to realize the importance of that as I've grown up this second time. I want to speak out and be as helpful as I can be.”3.Mary's second book Growing Up Again is mainly about her ______.

Mary MooreWhen Mary Moore began her high school in 1951, her mother told her, “Be sure and take a typing course so when this show business thing doesn' t work out, you'll have something to rely on.” Mary responded in typical teenage fashion. From that moment on, “the very last thing I ever thought about doing was taking a typing course，”she recalls.The show business thing worked out, of course. In her career, Mary won many awards. Only recently, when she began to write Growing Up Again, did she regret ignoring what her mom said, “I don't know how to use a computer,”she admits.Unlike her 1995 autobiography, After All, her second book is less about life as an award- winning actress and more about living with diabetes（糖尿病）.All the money from the book is intended for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation （JDRF）, an organization she serves as international chairman.But she hasn't always practiced what she teaches. In her book, she describes that awful day, almost 40 years ago, when she received two pieces of life-changing news. First, she had lost the baby she was carrying, and second, tests showed that she had diabetes. In a childlike act, she left the hospital and treated herself to a box of doughnuts（甜甜圈）.Years would pass before she realized she had to grow up—again—and take control of her diabetes, not let it control her. Only then did she kick her three-pack-a-day cigarette habit, overcome her addiction to alcohol, and begin to follow a balanced diet.Although her disease has affected her eyesight and forced her to the sidelines of the dance floor, she refuses to fall into self-pity."Everybody on earth can ask, ‘why me?’ about something or other," she insists.“It doesn't do any good. No one is immune（免疫的）to heartache, pain, and disappointments. Sometimes we can make things better by helping others. I've come to realize the importance of that as I've grown up this second time. I want to speak out and be as helpful as I can be.”4.When Mary received the life-changing news, she ______.

Mary MooreWhen Mary Moore began her high school in 1951, her mother told her, “Be sure and take a typing course so when this show business thing doesn' t work out, you'll have something to rely on.” Mary responded in typical teenage fashion. From that moment on, “the very last thing I ever thought about doing was taking a typing course，”she recalls.The show business thing worked out, of course. In her career, Mary won many awards. Only recently, when she began to write Growing Up Again, did she regret ignoring what her mom said, “I don't know how to use a computer,”she admits.Unlike her 1995 autobiography, After All, her second book is less about life as an award- winning actress and more about living with diabetes（糖尿病）.All the money from the book is intended for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation （JDRF）, an organization she serves as international chairman.But she hasn't always practiced what she teaches. In her book, she describes that awful day, almost 40 years ago, when she received two pieces of life-changing news. First, she had lost the baby she was carrying, and second, tests showed that she had diabetes. In a childlike act, she left the hospital and treated herself to a box of doughnuts（甜甜圈）.Years would pass before she realized she had to grow up—again—and take control of her diabetes, not let it control her. Only then did she kick her three-pack-a-day cigarette habit, overcome her addiction to alcohol, and begin to follow a balanced diet.Although her disease has affected her eyesight and forced her to the sidelines of the dance floor, she refuses to fall into self-pity."Everybody on earth can ask, ‘why me?’ about something or other," she insists.“It doesn't do any good. No one is immune（免疫的）to heartache, pain, and disappointments. Sometimes we can make things better by helping others. I've come to realize the importance of that as I've grown up this second time. I want to speak out and be as helpful as I can be.”5.What can we know from the last paragraph?

Global Warming①Global warming may or not be the great environmental crisis of the 21st century, but regardless of whether it is or isn' t—we won't do much about it. We will argue over it and may even, as a nation, make some fairly solemn-sounding commitments to avoid it. But the more dramatic and meaningful these commitments seem, the less likely they are to be observed.②Al Gore calls global warming an “inconvenient truth,” as if merely recognizing it could put us on a path to a solution. But the real truth is that we don't know enough to believe global warming, and—without major technological breakthroughs—we can't do much about it.③From 2003 to 2050, the world's population is projected to grow from 6.4 billion to 9. 1 billion, a 42% increase. If energy use per person and technology remain the same, total energy use and greenhouse gas emissions (mainly, CO2) will be 42% higher in 2050. But that’s too low, because societies that grow richer use more energy. We need economic growth unless we condemn the world' s poor to their present poverty and freeze everyone else’s living standards. With modest growth, energy use and greenhouse emissions more than double by 2050.④No government will adopt rigid restrictions on economic growth and personal freedom (limits on electricity usage, driving and travel) that might cut back global warming. Still, politicians want to show they * re "doing somethingn. Consider the Kyoto Protocol. It allowed countries that joined to punish those that didn't. But it hasn't reduced CO2 emissions (up about 25% since 1990) , and many signatories didn't adopt tough enough policies to hit their 2008-2012 targets.⑤Practical conclusion is that if global warming is a potential disaster, the only solution is new technology. Only an aggressive research and development program might find ways of breaking our dependence on fossil fuels or dealing with it. The trouble with the global warming debate is that it has become a moral problem when it' s really engineering one. The inconvenient truth is that if we don't solve the engineering problem, we're helpless.1.Paragraph ①: