A family of bald eagles lives in a   11    near the top of a huge tree. The tree is on the side of a steep hill that   12   Jennings Randolph Lake in West Virginia. The lake provides many fishes for the eagles to eat.Eagles are good at fishing. They have excellent eyesight.
       Scientists have been studying the eagles in that area for five years. The scientists want to make sure that the eagles are safe. “I   13   get excited every time I see an eagle,” said Gary Strawn, a biologist. “Bald eagles were almost  14   for many years. Now they are beginning to recover. I think it’s wonderful.”  
      In 1782, the bald eagle became the symbol of the United States. Back then, bald eagles   15   to be a common sight everywhere in the United States.

       Physical gestures and body language have different meanings in different cultures, and misunderstanding these signals can sometimes be embarrassing.   16   I had spent a lot of time among non-Americans, I had never really realized what this could mean in practical terms. I had an experience  17  me well, however. Some years ago, I organized and accompanied a small group of visiting foreign students to New York for four days of sightseeing by bus. Because these students were rather young, and because New York is such an overwhelming city, I was constantly counting heads    18    we hadn’t lost anyone. In the U.S., it is very common to count people or things    19   pointing the index finger and, of course, I used this method. One young man became extremely quiet and    20   , and I thought that perhaps he wasn’t enjoying himself. When I asked him what was the matter, he replied, “In my country, we count people with our eyes. We use our fingers to count the pigs.”

       Muhammad Ali was born in 1942 and was famous for his unusual boxing style, funny comments, and social justice work. His parents named him Cassius Clay Jr. One day when Clay was 12 years old, his bike was stolen in a local fair. He told a police officer that he would beat up the thief. The officer suggested that he learn how to fight.That officer was actually a boxing instructor and later became Clay’s first boxing coach. When he was only 18 years old, Clay won the gold medal at the Olympics. After that he won his first professional match. His unique style and perfect ring record made him very popular. Before a match, he often guessed for the fans in which round the match would end. In 1964, he boxed against the world heavyweight champion Sonny Liston. Most people thought that Liston would win. However, Clay won, becoming the new world heavyweight champion. After winning, he told the world that he had changed his name to Muhammad Ali. When he retired at 40 years old, Ali had won 56 professional wins, and only 5 losses.

       During his childhood and youth, black people couldn’t go to the same schools or enter the same restaurants and so on as white people. Even after coming home with his Olympic gold medal, Ali was not allowed to enter white-only restaurants. Because of experiences like that, Ali often spoke about peace and racial justice in public. In 1988 he became the UN Messenger of Peace for his work in developing nations. Like many heroes before him, his legend will live on in the memory of the world.

      Plenty of people expressed frustration on social media on Saturday, as the prospect of losing an hour’s sleep loomed large. Abolishing Daylight Saving Time – or conversely, extending it year-round – would require a law passed by U.S. Congress. States are allowed to opt out of Daylight Saving Time, but all states are required to follow standard time from November to March. Legislators in some states have tried unsuccessfully to pass laws abandoning Daylight Saving Time, but Arizona and Hawaii are the only states that do not reset their clocks twice a year. For everyone else, Sunday morning will come just a little bit earlier than usual.

      Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is the most commonly used therapeutic treatment for phobias. It involves exposure to the source of the fear in a controlled setting. This treatment can decondition people and reduce anxiety.New CBT techniques use virtual reality technology to expose people to the sources of their phobias safely.

       Pete is 36 years old and works for the post office. He has worked there for 12 years. His salary is good, and benefits are excellent. All postal workers have health insurance and a good   36   plan. Pete works hard,   37   misses work, and is never late. He’s reliable, and his supervisors know that they can   38   on him. He also gets along well with the other workers. Pete loves sports. He played football and baseball in high school, and he still jogs three or four times a week. Pete doesn’t drink or smoke, but he has one big   39   . He loves to   40   . He buys a lottery ticket every day. He goes to the racetrack every week. He also bets on football, basketball, and baseball games. Sometimes, he wins a lot of money, but sometimes he loses a lot. This makes his wife, Gloria, angry. “You should stop betting,” she tells Pete. “I’ll stop betting if you lose 40 pounds,” he replies.

       The doctor told me that the major’s wife, who was very young and   41   he had not married until he was definitely invalided out of the war, had died   42   pneumonia. She had been sick only a few days. No one expected her to die. The major did not come to the hospital for three days. Then he came at the usual hour,   43   a black band on the sleeve of his uniform. When he came back, there were large framed photographs around the wall, of all   44   of wounds before and after they had been cured by the machines. In front of the machine the major used were three photographs of hands like his that were completely restored. I do not know   45   the doctor got them. I always understood we were the first to use the machines. The photographs did not make much difference to the major because he only looked out of the window.