For ten weeks, in a great house on the island of St Thomas , Dr John C. Lilly tried to teach a six-year-old dolphin to speak English Margaret Howe, an experiment (试验) helper, would live day and night with Peter, a dolphin. And they would eat, bathe, sleep and play together from Sunday to Friday, with only Saturdays off for Margaret. She lived her life in swimming clothes — with a coat on colder evenings — and cut her hair short so that she could get on with Peter more easily.

      After a few days, Peter was becoming more and more interested in winning her attentions. He threw a ball against her shower towel to get her to play. As time went by, he only wanted to play ball with her and not on his own.

      The problem was that, just at the time Peter and Margaret began to get on well just as two best friends, the experiment ended and the lab was closed. After a few weeks, Margaret received the sad news that Peter had killed himself by refusing to breathe, and sinking to the bottom of his pool.

Dolphins may not speak English — but, just like humans, they know all about broken hearts.

    Christopher Columbus is famous because he found something he wasn't looking for.

    In 1492, Columbus sailed across the Atlantic Ocean in order to reach India. What he found was something far different. He found the New World. How did this come about? It all started in Italy.

    Christopher Columbus was born in Genoa in 1451. His family didn't have a lot of money, and Christopher wasn't an only child. He didn't have much of an education until he was much older. Instead, he went to sea. He sailed around the Mediterranean(地中海) and as far north as England and Ireland.

    During his travels, Columbus heard the reports of land to the west of the Madeira and Azores Islands. They were in the Atlantic Ocean west of Portugal. He wanted to know more and got maps and books on geography.

    Marco Polo said that Japan was only 1,500 miles east of China. As a result, Columbus thought that Japan was only 3,000 miles west of Portugal. And 3,000 miles was a distance that ships could travel in those days.

So, Columbus decided that he wanted to get to the East by going west. He thought that if he sailed far enough west, he would sail around the world enough to reach the East. Based on his calculations(计算), Japan was only 3,000 miles away, after all.

When I was about 14, I had a friend who liked to tell me my shortcomings(缺点). For example: I was very1 , I wasn't a top student, I talked too much. I was too proud and soon. I became so2 that I couldn't stand her at last. I ran to my father with tears in my eyes.

My father3 me quietly and asked, "Are the things she says true or not? Jane, didn't you ever want to know what you're 4 like? Go and make a list of everything she said and mark the points that are true. Pay no attention to the other things she said." I did a she told me. To my great surprise, I5 that about half the things were true. Some I couldn't change, like being very short. But many I could and I wanted to change. For the first time, I had a better understanding of 6 .

I brought the list back to my father7 he refused to read it. "That's just for you," he said, "You know better than any other person the truth about yourself. When people say something true, you'll finally find it will be 8 to you. Don't shut your ears. Listen to them all, but only hear the truth and do what you know. It is the 9 thing to do.

Father's 10 have returned to meat many important moments. In my life, I've never had a better piece of advice.

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Do you know how to throw rubbish away properly (正确地)? Take a look at the rubbish bins outside your house. They come into different colors. It is not for fun- those colors tell you how to sort(分类) the rubbish. 

Not all rubbish is the same. Usually, people should sort their rubbish into four groups: recyclable(可回收的) waste, kitchen waste, harmful waste and other waste. Sorting rubbish can help us in many ways. We can try our best to reuse some rubbish, such as paper, glass and old clothes to make new things. 

There are many different ways to sort and take care of the rubbish in the world. For example, in Japan, there are strict rules for dumping (倾倒) rubbish. One has to put the right rubbish in the right place at the right time. 

Do you know where your rubbish goes after you throw it away? Most rubbish goes to landfill(填埋). Recycled rubbish goes to recycling centers. These centers use the rubbish to make new things. Finally some rubbish goes to"waste- to- energy" factories. These factories collect the rubbish and tum it into energy. 

Peter and David are good friends. Every morning. Peter gets up early to read books. In the afternoon, he does sports with David. 

Today they don't go to school. David comes to Peter's room and says, "I want to read books like you, but I don't understand(理解)them. Is reading good for me? "

Peter say, "This is a coal basket(煤筐). Get a basket of water from the river. Then I tell you. "David does that. But there is no water in the basket when he comes back. Peter says, "You can walk fast. "

This time David runs, but there still (仍然) no water in the basket. "See? It's useless. " he says. 

"Look at the basket!" Peter says. 

Then David finds it's clean now. Peter says, "That's how reading can help you. You may not understand all. But when you read, you'll be different. "