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2005年1月6日 先从词汇阅读和听力下手学习,词汇选择的是"胡敏读故事记单词——托福词汇" 每天按50页为一个进度学习，现和大家分享书的内容，也欢迎大家监督。今天的任务是A,B开头的词^^ Having faith You can call me A.J., which is an abbreviation of my full name, Alexander justice. I like to abbreviate my name because it’s easier for people to remember. I work for a museum that collects aboriginal artifacts. I would like to tell you why have an abiding faith in the legal system. The story you’re about to read has been abridged to reduce its length. I used to live in an area where criminals abounded and where the legal system seemed powerless. One day, my daughter was abducted. Although I abided by the kidnapper’s monetary demands, they refused to release her. I had no choice but to put my faith in the legal authorities. The police responded immediately and searched the area. Despite their lack of success, they refused to abandon their search or to call an abort to their mission. They knew that any abortive action would surely result in my daughter’s death. The investigation eventually led the police to conduct an abrupt search at the home of a local official who was abashed when he learned of the search. My daughter was found in his basement. She had abrasions to her wrists where the abrasive rope had scraped her. The official was arrested along with his bodyguard who abetted him in the kidnapping. The official was forced to abdicate his position and was sent to prison for life. The judge told him that he was lucky that capital punishment had been abolished and that it was only due to this abolition that he would not be executed. The swift apprehension and strict punishment of these criminals helped to abate my lack of faith in the legal system. These days, I truly believe in “justice”, and it’s not because of my name! Love of numbers As an academician, I think mathematics is an intriguing and absorbing science. However, many of my students consider it an abstract science and they hate it because the equations are too difficult to absorb and to remember. I think my students would laugh if they knew how I became so interested in math. When I was a freshman in college, I also believed math was a mere abstraction. Studying it was like falling into a spinning abyss of numbers and symbols. Just thinking about it seemed like an abuse of my brain. However, my entire tuition was financed by an academic scholarship, so I had to maintain high marks in all of my classes, including math. My most abstruse class was advanced calculus mathematics. It was taught in a large lecture hall which abutted the north access gate of the university. Unlike the many absentees in my class who often abstained from attending the boring lectures, I dared not absolve myself from this responsibility. Any degree of absenteeism would probably cause me to fail math and to lose my scholarship. I was so afraid of falling that I even pledged abstinence from my abundant supply of alcohol. It wasn’t until the forth week of math class that I met the wonderful person who would accelerate my interest and understanding of this absurd subject. She was a foreign exchange student from Beijing. She was also a brilliant mathematician. She would come to class everyday in a colorful silk scarf that accentuated her lovely smile. It was so nice to meet someone from my home country. She inspired me to love math. Although we now live and teach in different countries, I still see her smiling face between every number I write! | 
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