withdraw专业英语八级考试TEM(5)

2021年1月10日发(作者：伍宇娟)

专业英语八级考试:TEM(5)

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Ups and Downs

I was convinced that roller coasters were invented in Nazi Germany to conduct fiendish
experiments on unsuspecting children who did not ear their vegetables. My earliest
memory of riding a machinewas when I was 9. A friend of my parents was going
to Astro World and invited us to come along. Being the natural adventures that we
were, my sister, brother and I decided to journey with them. After arriving there,
I somehow found myself waiting in line to ride the notorious Texas Cyclone. Yes, the
roller coaster with the sign that should read:

PLEASE SECURE ALL LOOSE ITEMS SUCH AS GLASSES; DENTURES; HAIRPIECES; VITAL ORGANS;
SMALL, ORIENTAL 9-YEAR-OLDS; ETC. IF YOU HAVE NO WISH OF DYING, THEN GET OUT OF LINE
NOW. THANK YOU.

it's a lot of fun,said Lan, one of the older girls I was with. I was beginning
to worry, nonetheless.





She reassured me a few more times that the ride was perfectly safe and that the odds
of getting killed were as slim as something comparable to ... ohhh, living past the
age of 9. I smiled to show her that I was totally relaxed and ready for the ride.
But deep in the left lobe of my brain I was thinking.
ABOUT TERMITES?!! Has it not occurred to you that the reason the Cyclone was one of
the last wooden coasters around was that people have better things to do than die
by being flung from a few stories up off the rails at a gazillions miles an hour?

I stood in line watching others, with the sun filtering through the rafters, twitching
my leg nervously. The heat sought us out through the patches of sun, and my legs began
to ache from standing. For some odd reason I stayed in line. I'll try to explain this
phenomenon as best as I can. You see, all males are forced by some masculine gland,
located next to the pancreas, to get on a roller coaster even if they are scared to
the point of a bladder-control loss. We are obliged by the girls standing behind us
in line to get on the ride or risk the girls thinking that we, the studs we are, are
of their gender if we don't. I finally got onto the ride hoping for a quick end. I
actually prayed (honest, I'm not lying) and people in line laughed. I thought it eased
the situation a bit.

I stepped into the car and put the safety bar over my lap. A mad dash for the exit