从前一个王子在第一次见到(at first sight)一位美丽的公主时，就爱上了(fall in love)她，但是他不敢(dare)向她求婚(ask for sb.'s hand in marriage)。一天清早(dawn)，他看到那位公主在捉蝴蝶(butterfly)。他抓住(seize)那次机会，唱了一首歌向她表达自己的爱意。然而，公主不愿意(unwilling)嫁给他，这使他心碎(broken)。

　　Once_a_prince_fell_in_love_with_a_beautiful_princess_at_first_sight,_but_dared_not_ask_for_her_hand_in_marriage._One_dawn,_he_saw_the_princess_catching_butterflies._He_seized_the_chance_and_sang_a_song_to_express_his_love._However,_she_was_unwilling_to_marry_him,_which_made_him_heart­broken.

　　二、勤练高考题型，多练自能生巧

　　Ⅰ.完形填空

　　Hunter Haire, 19, together with his five friends went home from their college last January in his SUV (运动型多用途车). Around 10 pm, they __1__ his friend's home and headed for a party near their __2__ high school in Lake Mary, Florida. __3__ they'd driven on the streets for many times, they couldn't find the house where the __4__ would be held, and Haire's iPhone GPS wasn't __5__.

　　__6__， he pulled in a parking spot facing a small __7__ to see if his SUV's GPS could help. Just then, Haire's friend Zac Sawin, 19, glanced up from the back seat and saw a pair of __8__ shining with a soft light from the water about 50 yards from the shore."There's a __9__ in the water！" he cried.

　　In the darkness, the boys could hardly __10__ the driver through the window. "We thought we'd better get the driver out of the car now, or he was going to die，" said Haire.

　　Haire and Sawin, both athletes, __11__ into the cold water and swam hard to the sinking car. Inside, Miguel Hernandez, 23, was grasping the steering wheel and __12__ straight ahead in shock.

　　Haire reached the car first and __13__ Hernandez to roll down the passenger­side window. Haire climbed inside and tried hard to __14__ Hernandez's seat belt. Then water began pouring into the car, causing it to slip toward the __15__ of the lake.

　　Haire climbed out of the open __16__， and then he and Sawin pulled Hernandez out of the car and put him to the shore as the car sank __17__ into the blackness below.

　　"The __18__ of events that led us there were the craziest coincidence ever，" said Haire. "We left my friend's house at a certain time. We didn't have to stop at any red lights and got __19__." Sawin agreed，"If we had __20__ up several minutes later, he probably would have been dead."

语篇解读：本文是一篇记叙文，讲述了Hunter Haire 和他的朋友迷路时碰上一辆汽车落水并抢救落水司机的故事。