Classic Is Never Gone

    Every year hundreds of films are produced, yet how many are forgotten after six months? Movies come and go, as throwaway as popcorn bags left on the floor of a cinema. But of those few films that people do remember, there is one that is truly “evergreen”(常青).

    Whether you are young or old, or where you are in the world, the 1939 classic Gone with the Wind never seems to become unpopular. Last year the film celebrated its 75^th birthday.

    The movie comes from a best-selling book of the same name by US writer Margaret Mitchell. Hollywood was soon interested in turning the novel into a movie.

    The story is set in the periods before, during and after the American Civil War (1861-1865). It is about relationships between members of high-class families living in the south of America.

    The Civil War period piece highly rewarded the time and effort of the filmmakers who worked on it. Over twenty years, no studio went beyond it in making the most money of any film ever made. It's the kind of movie that every studio dreams of making.

    On June 26th, 2000, two scientists, called Francis Collins and Craig Venter, told the world that they could now read the whole “map” of the human body: DNA. DNA is something that all humans have, and it tells the body what to do. DNA is the reason that we look like our mother and father, because we get some of their DNA to make our own. Now we can read some of this “map”, and so we can find out more about how our bodies work.

    People have been trying to understand the human body for a long time. In 1860, Gregory Mendel discovered that there is a special reason why we look the same as other people in our family. It is because of small things called “genes” that we have in our body. In 1953, James Watson and Francis Crick made another discovery and found out that those small parts are really messages written in the DNA with a special language.

    In 1961, Marshall Nirenberg and Johann Matthaei found the first “word” that they could understand in that language, showing how DNA tells the cell to build its parts. This meant that one day we would be able to read all the messages that a human body gets from its parents' bodies. Scientists have now found all the words in DNA map, but we still do not understand what they all do. By understanding what just one “word” means, we can help save people from several diseases. So the more we understand, the more doctors will be able to do.

    Most people hope that this will help to make better medicine and help people who are very ill. Other people worry about that when we learn more words and find out lots of other information, we still use it in the wrong way, just to make people more attractive, or stop sick people getting jobs.

    In the Olympic history before no city has hosted both the Winter and Summer Olympics. Now,Beijing will be first the city doing it.

    After hosting the Summer Olympics in 2008 China will hold the 2022 Winter Olympics. On July 31st,2015，China beat Kazakh rival(对手) Almaty in a surprisingly close vote(选票).

    In 2008 Beijing shut down many factories to reduce pollution，and the cost of hosting the Summer Olympics was $44 billion. During the 2022 Winter Games, however, Beijing hopes to show a greener China，with only $3.1billion.

  Beijing plans to use several playgrounds from the 2008 Olympics, including the Bird's Nest and Water Cube. But the Wand sliding events would be in Yangqing and Zhangjiakou,60 and 140—kilometers away from Beijing.

    Beijing was seen by the IOC as a safe, reliable (可靠的) choice because it offered great commercial (商业的) opportunities in a new winter spors market.

    “It is really a safe choice," IOC President Thomas Bach said,"We know China will keep its promises."

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    Many people like sports, but they do not all like the same sports. In some countries, cricket (板球运动) is a very popular sport. In others it is not popular at all. No one plays it or watches it on TV. However, most people like cocker. The World Cup is very popular.{#blank#}2{#/blank#}

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    What do you like? Have you got an idea?

A. They like soft music.

B. Not everyone likes the same color.

C. Millions of people watch the game on TV.

D. They eat fruit and vegetables most of the time.

E. Some other people enjoy beautiful places like the mountains or beaches.

    Unlike most restaurants, the Enoteca Maria restaurant in New York offers only home-cooked food by grandmas coming from all over the world.

    Joe Scaravella, a 61-year-old Italian-American born and raised in New York, opened the restaurant in 2007. After losing almost all his family members, he tried to recreate the feeling of a home-cooked meal in his restaurant.

    He employed(雇佣) grandmas from different parts of Italy at first, and later, he began hiring grandmas from other countries like Argentina(阿根廷), Brazil, France and Greece. He built two kitchens in the restaurant: one for Italian grandmas to cook during lunchtime and the other for grandmas from other countries to cook every evening. The menus in the restaurant are often changing because what is being served depends on the grandmas who are on duty.

    The restaurant opens five days a week from Wednesday through Sunday. At present, there are more than 40 grandmas and a grandpa working in it. Most of them came to the US with their children, helping take care of their grandchildren. Scaravella gave them the chance to express themselves in a culinary(烹饪的) way.

    Enoteca Maria has received positive(正面的) reviews since its opening. Customers are impressed deeply by its delicious food, comfortable environment and most importantly, the grandmas who may remind them of their own.

    Once upon a time, there were three fish living in a pool. One evening, some fishermen (渔夫) passed by and saw the fish." This pool is full of fish!" they said excitedly. "We've never fished here before. {#blank#}1{#/blank#}" After saying that, they left.

    When the oldest of three fish heard this, he was worried. He said, Did you hear what the fishermen said? We must leave this pool quickly. {#blank#}2{#/blank#}" The second fish said. You're right. We must leave here. {#blank#}3{#/blank#} "There's nothing to worry about." he said "We have lived here all our live. No fisherman has ever come here. I'm not going anywhere. My luck will keep me safe."

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The oldest fish saw the problem ahead (预先) and acted before it arrived. {#blank#}5{#/blank#} But the fish that depended on luck and did nothing died in the end.

A. The second fish acted when it came.

B. But the youngest fish didn't think so.

C. The fishermen will come back tomorrow and kill us!

D. The third fish's luck didn't help him— he was caught and killed.

E. We must come back tomorrow with our nets (网) and catch these fish!