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A John had a puppy（小狗） that he really loved. He loved it because it was a g from his father. One day, the puppy was naughty and ran away. When John realized that this puppy was lost he looked for his puppy e . After searching a very long time, he saw Lucy playing with his puppy. Lucy was too rough with the puppy and was hurting it. John told Lucy the puppy belonged to him and he wanted back. Lucy was mean and said, “I found him so he belongs to me now. If you want him hack, you will have to buy him.” John wasn’t happy that he had to pay for the puppy that was o a gift from his father, but he could not s seeing the puppy in pain. “How much to you want?” John asked. Lucy smiled and said, “All that you have.” John gave Lucy all of his money and Lucy gave the puppy b to him. As John was l Lucy said to him, “John, you are not clever. With all this money you could have b a new puppy…a puppy that wouldn’t run away.” John answered, “Even t This one was naughty and ran away, I love him too much to let you keep and mistreat（虐待）him.” The puppy loved John and was very glad that he belonged to him o again and he never ran away again. C In 1909 an English newspaper o ￡1,000 to the first man to fly across the English Channel in a plane. Today, modern jets（喷气机）c it in minutes. But at that time it still seemed a good distance. The race to win the money soon became a race between two men. Both were very colorful. One was Louis Bleriot. He o a factory in France that made motor car lamps. He was already w as a pilot because he had crashed（坠落） several times. Some people l at him. One man said, “He may not be the first to fly across the Channel but the will c be the first to die in a crash!” But Bleriot was really a good and b pilot. He also had many good ideas about plane d . The other man was Hubert Latham. He was half French and half English. He t up flying when his