Green is an important color in nature. It is the color of grass and the leaves on trees. It is the color of most growing plants, too.

Sometimes, the word green means young, fresh and growing. Sometimes, it describes something that is not yet finished or plants that are not ripe.

For example, a greenhorn is someone who has no experience, who is new to a situation. In the fifteenth century, a greenhorn was a young cow or ox whose horns had not yet developed. A century or so later, a greenhorn was a soldier who had not yet had any experience in war (战争) .By the eighteenth century, a greenhorn had the meaning it has today——a person who is new in a job.

About one hundred years ago, greenhorn was a popular expression in the American west Old—timers used it to describe a man who had just arrived from one of the big cities in the east. The greenhorn didn't have the skills that he would need to live in the hard, rough country.

Someone who has the ability to grow plants well is said to have a green thumb. The expression comes from the early nineteen hundred.

A person with a green thumb seems to have a magic touch that makes plants grow quickly and well. You might say that the woman next door has a green thumb if her garden continues to grow long after your plants have died.

The Green Revolution (革命) is the name which was given some years ago to the development of new kinds of rice and other grains. The new plants produced much larger crops. The Green Revolution was the result of hard work by agricultural (农业的) scientists who had green thumbs.

The Art of Paper

    Chen Zijiang is a paper cutting expert whom I interviewed for my article on Chinese Art. Paper-cutting is something that he learned to do from an early age.

    "It is a Chinese folk art with a long history," Mr. Chen told me, "Paper cuts of animals have been found in tombs. {#blank#}1{#/blank#}" He added that by the Southern Song Dynasty, paper-cutting had become an important part of everyday life.

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    Paper cuts for decoration are often seen, on windows and gates. {#blank#}3{#/blank#}They are also used on presents. A present for parents whose child has recently been born might show a paper cut of children, for example. Paper cuts which show the Chinese character for double happiness are often used to celebrate weddings.

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    The third kind of paper cuts are these used to make patterns on clothing. They are also sometimes used to decorate jewelry (珠宝) boxes. {#blank#}5{#/blank#}.

    Started in 1636, Harvard University is the oldest of all the colleges and universities in the United States. {#blank#}1{#/blank#}

    In the early years, these schools were much alike. Only young men went to college. {#blank#}2{#/blank#} Little was known about science then, and one kind of school could teach everything that was known about the world. When the students graduated, most of them became ministers or teachers.

    In 1782, Harvard started a medical school for young men who wanted to become doctors. Later, lawyers could receive their training in Harvard's law school. {#blank#}3{#/blank#} Soon it began teaching American history.

    As knowledge increased, Harvard and other colleges began to teach many new subjects. {#blank#}4{#/blank#}

    Today, there are many different kinds of colleges and universities. {#blank#}5{#/blank#} There's so much to learn that one kind of school can't offer it all.

A. In 1825. besides Latin and Greek, Harvard began teaching modern languages, such as French and German.

B. Most of them are made up of smaller schools

C. Yale, Princeton and Columbia were opened soon after Harvard

D Students were allowed to choose the subjects that interested them

E. All the students studied the same subjects, and everyone learned Latin, Greek and Hebrew

In 1888, a new invention showed a series of pictures in which people moved. This is the world's first movie. It lasted only two s{#blank#}1{#/blank#}, but viewers were surprised. It looked like the event was happening right in f{#blank#}2{#/blank#} of them. The movie showed people walking in a garden.

Before this time, a camera could take only one picture at a time. These pictures didn't move. However, once a series of pictures could be taken and shown quickly, the images s{#blank#}3{#/blank#} to move. First, they were called moving picture. Later, that name was shortened to movies.

For their first 40 years, movies had no sound. They were called silent movies. In the 1920s, sound was a{#blank#}4{#/blank#} to movies. This meant that the a{#blank#}5{#/blank#} could hear actors speaking to one another.

There are over fifty different types of plastics. Many of them are used 1 packaging (包装). Most plastics do not break down and a lot of them are not recyclable. When they are 2 , they can pollute the air and make it very dangerous. 

One of the most popular plastics used in making bottles is called PET. This can be recycled. Plastics 3 PET need to be labeled so they can be collected easily for recycling. In America, PET is recycled and used to make 4 things, such as flowerpots and milk crates. In Germany some bottles are made from a type of plastic which breaks down in strong 5 or when buried. 6 this is expensive and the bottles might break while they are being need. 

Nearly all the things you buy from the supermarket are wrapped in something. 7 fruit and vegetables are wrapped in plastic or in plastic bags. When we use these things, we usually 8 the packaging. Packaging keeps food 9 . It protects the food and also gives us information about the product. But is it all necessary? If you add up all the packaging, it comes to a lot. 

Try not to buy things that use a lot of plastic. You'd better 10 your old plastic containers for keeping things.

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Wonderful activities for my winter holiday

Winter holiday is coming! Here are the wonderful activities for my winter holiday.

First, I will

Then I 

Finally, I

I am sure I can have a great holiday.