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林霄，1984年2月出生于浙江宁波市，1999年公费考入省一级重点中学——镇海中学。2001年4月底，18岁即赴英国留学，在剑桥市圣安德鲁斯学院完成语言和大学预科后，以优异成绩同时被多所大学录取，最终他选择了伯明翰大学，学“电子电气工程及管理”专业。他出国前是学校网络部的副主席，属于镇海中学的“风云人物”。
两小时做错了10个
剑桥的“肯德基”

　　当看到屏幕上出现730时，我心中感到了踏实，这不是个值得炫耀的成绩，但是我珍视它，正如任何一个曾经失败过的人一样，我对跌倒过爬起来的胜利格外珍惜。两个月前，我败过，败的很惨，当时自认为了得的我，得到了一个与自己的期望值差100分、低于TOFEL分数的成绩：650。G域上有个叫FEATHER的女孩的签名我很喜欢：如果你没有考过GMAT，你怎么会知道自己输的这么惨。永远会记得当时自己走出考场的心情，在考试方面我一直很顺：高考地区第一名、大学毕业第一名、六级95分、注册会计师、TOFEL653。从此GMAT像一道魔咒套到了我的身上，我不停的问自己：为什么别人能行，我却不行？今天的成绩证明：爱拼总会赢。
　　一、一战备考经历
　　从去年12月做了出国的打算，

　　Russian journalist Oleg Blotsky holds his book entitled "Vladimir Putin: Life Story" during a news conference in Moscow, January 21, 2002.
　　 He is fearless, altruistic, steel-willed, hospitable, unbelievably hardy, unpretentious and warm -- and he has lost none of these qualities since becoming Russia's president.
　　 It is a s

[11] Sleep wouldn't come. I lay staring into the dark, listening to the sounds of trucks and cars rushing along the nearby interstate. I tried to summon up reassuring images of home, now so many hundreds of miles away. I thought of Betsy and Tabitha, the two lovable cats that belonged to my husband and me; of Ben, the playful mutt who loved to c

[11] Every day I sat on the landing and watched the river rise. Mother cooked simple meals in a spare bedroom she had turned into a makeshift kitchen. She was worried, I could tell, about what would happen to us. Father came and went in a small fishing boat. He was concerned about his patients and possible outbreaks of dysentery, pneumonia or ty

My Irreplaceable Treasure
[1]Recently I gave a dinner party for some close friends. To add a touch of elegance to the evening, I brought out the good stuff--my white Royal Crown Derby china with the fine blue-and-gold border. When we were seated, one of the guests noticed the beat-up gravy boat I'd placed among the ne

WHATEVER LOVE MEANS—DIANA
Although neither or them remembered the occasion, Diana first met her future husband when she was just a baby. It happened during the winter of 1961, when twelve-year-old Charles, Prince of Wales, was visiting his mother's Sandringham retreat.
At the time, your Prince Charles barely glanced at

In a year the situation of Mr. Ralph Spencer was this: he had won the respect of most of the inhabitants of the place, his shoe-store was prospering, and he and Annabel were to be married in two weeks. Mr. Adams, Annabel's father, who was a typical country banker, approved of Spencer. Annabel herself was very proud of her fiancé. In fact her pri

Yes, it was worthwhile investing money in the shoe business, he thought. There wasn't a shoe-store in the place. The dry-goods and general stores sold them. Business in all lines was fairly good.
他想，不错。投资经营鞋子是划得来的。这地方没有鞋店。鞋子只在布店和百货商店有售。各行各业的买卖都相当不错。
"I hope, Mr. Spencer, you'll decide to stay in Elmore. You'll find it a pleasant

Ben Price knew Jimmy's habits. He had learned them while investigating the Springfield case.
本·普莱斯对基米的恶习了如指掌。当他在侦查春田案件时就掌握了所有这一切。
One afternoon Jimmy Valentine and his suitcase climbed out of a train in Elmore, a little town in Arkansas. Jimmy, looking like a student who had just come home from college, walked out of the station

Disregarding the song of the birds, the green trees, and the smell of the flowers, Jimmy went straight to a restaurant. There he ordered a roast chicken and a bottle of white wine and a better cigar than the one the warden had given him. Then he walked slowly to the railroad station. He put a quarter into the hat of a blind man sitting by the do

A guard came to the prison shoe shop where Jimmy Valentine was working and took him to the prison office. There the warden handed Jimmy his pardon, which had been signed that morning by the governor. He took it quietly; he was too tired to show excitement. He had been in prison nearly ten months and he had been sentenced to four years. True, he

We spent part of every day together for the next week. I knew I was falling in love, but dared not speak it. I couldn't upset our chances for a lifetime.
在之后的一个星期里，我们每天都会抽时间在一起。我深知自己已坠入了爱河，可却没有胆量说出来。我不愿因此而破坏我们各自生活中的良机。
" And I know he loves me, too," l moaned to Stacy over a cup of coffee in my near-empty restaurant. "We've

I followed him through a tour of the house, then accepted when he offered me a cup of tea. Barry had a sophisticated kindness about him and listened attentively as I chattered nervously about myself. His silver-rimmed glasses accented a few gray streaks in his dark hair. Soon, his warm, inviting smile put me at ease, and we spent the next two ho

"This is a chance of a life time," I declared to my friend Stacy as I locked the door of my office and left the restaurant I managed. "It's every twenty-seven-year-old woman's dream to live in New York City, and in a few months I'll know if I get the transfer."
“这可是我生命中的一次机遇，”我对斯泰西说。说着，我锁上办公室的门，离开了我经营多年的饭店。在纽约生活，这可是每个27岁的女人所梦寐以求的.还有几

The wallet is a woman's, fat with money and credit cards from places like Sak's and Peck & Peck and Lord & Taylor, and it belongs to the blonde in the fur-trimmed coat--the blonde he has earlier seen in conversation with the criminal brunette. She, too, is breathless, as is the police man with her.
这只皮夹是一名妇女的，鼓鼓囊囊地装着钞票和像“萨克”、“佩克与佩克”

"You lifted my wallet," he says. He is pleased to have said "lifted", thinking it sounds more wordly than stole or took or even ripped off.
“你摸走了我的钱夹，”他说。他很得意地说“摸走”，他觉得这个字眼比“偷走”、“盗走”，甚至“掏走”，听上去更加贴切。
"I beg your pardon?" the girl says.
“你在说什么呀？”那女孩说。
"I know you did--at the magazine counter. If you'll just give it back, w

First. Find a policeman, tell what has happened, describe the young woman, damn her, he thinks, for seeming to be attentive to him, to let herself stand so close to him, to blush prettily when he spoke-and all the time she wanted only to steal from him. And her blush was not shyness but the anxiety of being caught; that was most disturbing of al

When next he sees her, he is buying a magazine to read during the flight and becomes aware that someone is jostling him. At first he is startled that anyone would be so close as to touch him, but when he sees who it is he musters a smile.
当他再次看见她的时候，他正在买一本杂志，以便在飞机上看。突然，他觉得有人挨近了他。他先是吃了一惊，怎么会有人靠得这么近碰到他的身体呢？但等看清是谁之后，他的脸上浮起了微笑。
"Busy

He is waiting for the airline ticket counter when he first notices the young woman. She has glossy black hair pulled tightly into a knot at the back of her bead-the man imagines it loosed and cascading to the small of her back-and carries over she shoulder of her leather coat a heavy black purse. She wears black boots of soft leather. He struggles