5.

梗概：Bill 晚年孤独一人，每晚六点他都去家附近的餐馆吃晚餐，然后和那里的人聊天。其
中一位叫 Cara 的服务生对 Bill 非常友好，并且非常关心 Bill。Bill 去世后把一大笔
钱留给了 Cara。
关键词：every evening（每晚） restaurant（餐馆） waitress（服务生） money
（钱） kind（友好的）
Every evening at six o’clock an old man goes to a restaurant near his house.
He eats dinner. After dinner, he drinks coffee and talks to the people at the
restaurant. The old man’s name is Bill. Bill eats at the restaurant every evening
because he is lonely. His wife died years ago, and he has no children. Every
evening the same waitress brings Bill his dinner. Her name is Cara. She is 17
years old. Cara is kind to Bill. She knows he is lonely, so she talks to him. If Bill
is late for dinner, she calls him on the telephone. “Are you OK?” she asks him.
One evening Bill doesn’t come to the restaurant. Cara calls him, but he doesn’t
answer the phone. Cara calls the police. “Please go to Bill’s house,” she tells
them. Later the police call Cara at the restaurant. “Bill died in his sleep,” the
police tell her. Bill was 82 years old. A week later, a man comes to the
restaurant. “I have something for Cara,” the man says. The man gives Cara a
check for $500,000. The money is from Bill. “This money is for me? From Bill?”
Cara asks the man. “Yes,” the man answers. “But … why?” Cara asks the man.
“Bill liked you,” the man says. “You were kind to him.”
信息点：
1. Bill goes to a restaurant near his house at 6 pm every day.
2. Bill eats dinner, drinks coffee and talks to the people there.
3. Bill’s wife died years ago and he has no children, so he feels lonely.
4. Cara is a waitress at the restaurant and is kind to Bill.
5. Cara brings Bill his dinner every evening.
6. If Bill is late for dinner, Cara calls him on the phone.
7. One day, Bill doesn’t come as usual, and there is no answer when she calls
his phone.
8. Cara tells the police to go check on Bill and the police find out that Bill died.
9. A week later a man comes to the restaurant and gives Cara a check for
$500,000.
10. The man tells Cara that Bill left the money to her because she was kind to
him.

6.
梗概：Larry 想成为飞行员，但他没有飞机，于是他把 45 个大气球系在一把椅子上，然后
坐在上面。椅子慢慢升空了，他很高兴，但过了一会儿他就开始害怕了。
关键词：pilot（飞行员） chair（椅子） balloon（气球） fly（飞） ground（地面）
Larry really wants to be a pilot. He wants to fly a plane, but Larry is not a
rich man. He doesn’t have a plane. He has only a chair. So one day, Larry ties
45 big balloons to his chair and then sits in it. The chair starts to go up. For a
few minutes, everything is fine. The view from the chair is beautiful. Larry can
see houses and trees below him. He is happy. He is flying! The chair goes up
very high. Larry is afraid. “I don’t want to go very high,” Larry thinks. “I want to
go down a little.” Larry uses a small gun to shoot 10 balloons. Then something
terrible happens. Larry drops the gun, and it falls to the ground. Larry can’t
shoot any more balloons. The chair goes up and up. Larry is three miles above
the ground. Planes are flying over him and under him. Larry has a small radio.
“Help! Help!” he says into the radio. “I’m flying in a chair, and I want to come
down!” People hear Larry, but they can’t help him. Larry flies in the chair for 45
minutes. Then the balloons begin to lose air. Slowly the chair comes down, and
Larry is back on the ground. He is not hurt. Larry says, “For 45 minutes, I was a
pilot of a chair.”
信息点：
1. Larry wants to be a pilot, but he doesn’t have a plane.
2. One day, Larry ties 45 big balloons to his chair.
3. Larry sits in the chair and the chair goes up.
4. Larry can see a beautiful view from the chair.
5. Larry is happy, and everything is fine for just a few minutes.
6. Then the chair goes up very high, and Larry is afraid.
7. Larry shoots only ten balloons, and then the gun falls to the ground.
8. The chair continues to go up and he begins to radio for help.
9. No one can help Larry, but he finally comes down when the balloons begin to
lose air.
10. Larry is not hurt, and he is happy that he was a pilot of a chair for 45
minutes.