Have you ever ridden a Ferris wheel lately? Can you imagine the flying feeling as you are pulled up to the top and then moved down to the bottom quickly again?

    Today a Ferris wheel is usually 40 to 60 feet tall. That seems very high when you are on the top looking down. But the first Ferris wheel was 264 feet high- taller than a twenty-story building! Can you imagine the view from the top of that?

    The first Ferris wheel was built for the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago. The people who planned the fair were looking for an attraction that would bring people to Chicago. George Ferris handed a drawing of a giant wheel that people could ride on. At first everyone laughed at his strange idea. But Mr Ferris did not give up, and finally the idea was accepted. The ride opened in June of 1893.

    Today's Ferris wheels have 12 to 16 seats, which each carry 2 or 3 people. But that first one had 36 enclosed cars, each holding 60 passengers. When filled, it carried 2,160 people. During that summer in Chicago, about 1.5 million people rode the Ferris wheel.

After the fair, the ride was moved to a nearby amusement park built especially to show off the wheel. In 1904, it was moved again一to St. Louis for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. After the fair there, the wheel stood unused. In 1906, it was finally sold to a company for scrap metal(废金属).

    Luckily a Chicago bridge builder, W.E. Sullivan, figured out how to make a smaller Ferris wheel that could easily be taken apart and put together. In 1906, he started the company that still makes many of the Ferris wheels used today.

    But, whenever you ride one, remember that it all began with George Ferris's strange idea!

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A difficult thing I met

Every Sunday morning，I take a jog（慢跑）around a park near my home. There＇s a lake in one corner of the1 . Each time I jog by this lake, I see the2 woman sitting by the lake with a small metal cage（金属笼）beside3 . 

Last Sunday，my curiosity（好奇心）got the better of me，4 I stopped jogging and walked over to her. As I went5 ,I found that inside the metal cage were three turtles, slowly walking around.  She had a fourth turtle in her lap（大腿）that she was6 brushing. 

"Hello,why are you always sitting here?"I said. "And I'd love to know7 you're doing with these turtles. "

She smiled and replied， ＂T＇m 8 their shells（龟壳）. Anything on a turtle＇s shell， like algae or scum, stops the turtle from swimming. It is also9 for the shell over time. It's my own way of making a10 . 

"Wow! That's really nice of you! But there are11 living in lakes all around the world. And hardly any of these turtles have people kind enough like you to12 them. So how exactly are you13 that you can make a change?" I questioned. 

The old woman14 at the turtle in her lap, brushed the last piece of algae from its shell. She then15 warmly and said, "Sweetie, if this little one could talk, he'd tell you I just changed his whole world. "

One day, Mrs. Green asked her class, "Does anyone think that they have changed since last year?" Danny put up his hand. 

"I was very lazy when I was in the fourth grade, " he said. "I 1 did my homework. I didn't bother (花费时间精力) going to the 2 because I didn't like to read books. But a park cleaner changed me. One morning, I was playing football in the park. The ball rolled (滚动) away and I ran to3 it up. I saw a cleaner sweeping up the leaves nearby. When he saw me, he stopped and said, 'Young man, doesn't the park look much cleaner now? I always work hard to make sure the park is clean. I don't waste my life and don't waste4 either. ' I thought about the man's words on my way home. I said to myself, 'I' m going to work hard to get good results at school. I won't be5 anymore. '"

Everyone gave Danny a big clap (鼓掌). 

Mooncakes are an essential(重要的)part of the Mid-Autumn Festival.Each year, bakers create millions of these desserts so people can share them with friends and family. But where did this tradition come from?

About 650 years ago,the Mongols ruled(统治)over China.The Han people wanted to get back control.However,they did not want the Mongols to catch them.So,they began passing secret messages inside of mooncakes,saying that they were going to fight the Mongols on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival.When the evening arrived,the Han people fought hard and were successful.

Each year after that,people celebrated the victory by eating mooncakes.It is a good way to remember the history.The practice spread quickly throughout China.Gradually, eating mooncakes became a cultural tradition.It is also a good chance for Chinese families to get together for family reunion(团聚).

Today,people can buy all different types of mooncakes.They come with different fillings and in different prices.People enjoy filling up with these tasty treats,but many of them don't know the history of the simple mooncakes.