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which could then replace existing power (13) stations . Some scientists, (14) however believe that even if we stopped releasing carbon dioxide and other gases into the atmosphere tomorrow, we would have to wait (15) several hundred years to notice the results. Global warming, it seems, is here to stay.
第二篇A Lucky Break
Actor Antonio Banderas is used to breaking bones, and it always seems to happen when he's 1 doing sport. In the film Play It to the Bone he 2 plays the part of a middleweight boxer alongside Woody Harrelson. 3 During the making of the film Harrelson 4 kept complaining that the fight 5 scenes weren't very convincing, so one day he suggested that he and Banderas should have a fight for real. The Spanish actor wasn't 6 keen on the idea at first, but he was 7 eventually persuaded by his co-star to put on his gloves and climb into the boxing ring. However, when he realized how seriously his 8 opponent was taking it all, he began to regret his decision to fight. And then in the third round, Harrelson hit Banderas 9 so hard in the face that he actually broke his nose. His wife, actress Melanie Griffith, was furious that he had been playing "silly macho games". "She was right," confesses Banderas, "and I was a fool to 10 take a risk like that in the middle of a movie." He was 11 reminded of the time he broke his leg during a football match in his native Malaga. He had always 12 dreamed of becoming a soccer star, of performing in front of a big crowd, but doctors told him his playing days were probably over. "That's when I decided to take 13 up acting;
I saw it as 14 another way of performing, and achieving recognition. What happened to me on that football 15 pitch was, you might say, my first lucky break."
第一篇A Life with Birds
For nearly 17 years David Cope has worked as one of the Tower of London's yeoman warders, __1 better __ known to tourists as beefeaters. David, 64, lives in a three-bedroomed flat right at the __2_ top _ of the Byward Tower, one of the gatehouses. "__3_ From _ our bedroom we have a marvellous view of Tower Bridge and the Thames, " says David.
The Tower of London is famous __4__ for its ravens, the large black birds which have lived there for over three centuries. David was immediately fascinated by the birds and when he was __5_ offered _ the post of Raven Master eight years ago he had no __6 hesitation __ in accepting it. "The birds have now become my life and I'm always __7_ aware _ of the fact that I am __8 maintaining __ a tradition. The legend says that if the ravens leave the Tower, England will fall to enemies, and it's my job to __9__ make sure this doesn't happen!"
David_10 devotes _about four hours a day to the care of the ravens. He has grown to love them and the _11_ fact _ that he lives right next to them is ideal. "I can _12_ keep a close eye on them all the time, and not just when I'm working." __13_ At first _, David's wife Mo was not __1. 4_ keen _ on the idea of life in the Tower, but she too will be sad to leave when he retires next year. "When we look out of our windows, we see history __15_ all _ around us, and we are taking it in and storing it up for our future memories."。