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The average cost of rehabilitate one seal after the Valdez oil spill in Alaska was $80,000. At a special ceremony, two of the most expensively-saved animals were released into the wild amid cheers and applause from onlookers. A minute later, a killer whale ate them both.

　In 1992, Frank Perkings in Los Angeles made an attempt on the world flagpole-sitting record. Suffering from the flu, he came 8 hours shorter than the 400-day record; his sponsor has gone bust, his girlfriend had left him and his phone and electricity had been cut off.

A woman came home to find her husband in the kitchen, shaking frantically with what looked like a wire running from his waist towards the electrical kettle. Intending to jolt him from the deadly current, she whacked him with a handy plank of wood by the back door, breaking his arm in two places. Until that moment, he had been happily listening to his walkman

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　　阿拉斯加瓦爾迪茲發生石油泄漏以后，救援每只海豹的平均費用達到8萬美元。在一個特別的儀式上面，有兩只花巨款拯救回來的海豹，在人們的歡呼和掌聲中被放回大自然。一分鐘后，它們雙雙被一頭殺人鯨吞入肚中。

　　1992年，洛杉磯的弗蘭克·帕金斯決心打破坐旗桿的世界記錄。由于染上感冒，他在還差8小時破400天記錄的時候下來;隨后發現他的贊助人已經破產,女朋友早拂袖而去，而他的電話和電都被停了。

　　一名婦女回到家中，發現丈夫在廚房里瘋狂的扭動身體，腰間似乎有根電線連到電暖壺。為了救他與危難之中，她就近從后門抄了一塊厚木版朝他劈去，把他的胳膊劈成兩段。其實此前他一直快樂的聽著隨身聽。

　　總結：

　　開頭的第一句話相信大家都被慎了一下：The average cost of rehabilitate one seal after the Valdez oil spill in Alaska was $80,000. 這里面有兩個比較關鍵和詞：rehabilitate 和 seal 意為：使康復和海豹;句中的關鍵詞如果不認識的話，試試跳過這句，看看后面的句子，能不能大概猜測一下這句話的意思呢?

　　然后有個怪怪的詞：flagpole-sitting 試著拆這個詞。。flag-pole-sitting能猜個八九成了吧

　　這篇文章總體上生詞比較多，但結構不復雜，但里面一些詞用得不錯哦，比如說：Suffering from the flu，his sponsor has gone bust等等