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From early times, man has been interested in art. People have often worked together to collect and save the world's art treasures. Fine art treasures from many countries are kept in an art museum called the Louvre in Paris, France. The works of art have been collected by the people of France over many centuries. It is one of the biggest art museums in the world.
The Louvre has not always been a museum. The first building was a fort (堡垒). In 1190, it was the king's castle with high walls and a round tower. It had a moat (护城河) to keep out the enemies. Over the years, the number of buildings around the castle grew. By 1350, the castle no longer needed a fort. The Louvre became a palace home for French kings and queens.
During the time of peace, new treasures were brought in. During the days of war, many treasures were stolen, and the buildings were damaged.
When Francis I became the King of France in 1515, he brought in many artists from other countries. One of the artists was Leonardo da Vinci from Italy. Da Vinci's Mona Lisa is the best known painting in the museum today.
In 1793, the Louvre became a public museum. It is a place where art treasures are kept for everyone to enjoy. Every year millions of people from all over the world come to the Louvre to see the masterpieces.
What killed King Tut? Historians and scientists have long believed that ancient Egypt's most famous king was probably murdered. But a recent scientific study claims to have found a different answer to this more than 3,300-year-old mystery. A team of researchers now say that King Tut, the boy ruler, died of complications (并发症) from a broken leg.
Tut's full name was Tutankhamun. He was just 9 years old when he became the ruler of Egypt in 1333 BC. His treasure-filled tomb was discovered almost a century ago. It was filled with royal riches, including a solid-gold coffin, a gold mask, and piles of jewelry.
Unfortunately Tut died at the age of 19. Many experts have thought that Tut was killed by one of his advisers, named Ay, who wanted to be king. But thanks to a major modern science project, it seems Ay is innocent.
Researchers set out to solve the mystery of King Tut's death by using the tools of science, including DNA tests and electronic scans of his mummy (木乃伊). Scientist Carsten Pusch carried out the tests on Tut for the new study. He thinks a broken leg led to the young king's death. More than 100 walking sticks were found in King Tut's tomb. This supports the team's findings. But how could a person die from a simple broken leg?
Pusch also found DNA evidence in Tut's body that shows he had malaria, a disease carried by mosquitoes. Malaria seriously weakens the immune system (免疫系统).
Pusch and his fellow researchers believe the malaria and the bone disease together caused the king's fracture (骨折) to become deadly. Finally, the young king was just too weak to recover. So effects of the disease combined with the bad luck of a broken bone —not a jealous adviser —are likely the real, causes of King Tut's death.
In the 1960s, while studying the volcanic history of Yellowstone National Park, Bob Christiansen became puzzled about something that, oddly, had not troubled anyone before: he couldn't find the park's volcano. It had been known for a long time that Yellowstone was volcanic in nature —that's what accounted for all its hot springs and other steamy features. But Christiansen couldn't find the Yellowstone volcano anywhere.
Most of us, when we talk about volcanoes, think of the classic cone (圆锥体) shapes of a Fuji or Kilimanjaro, which are created when erupting magma (岩浆) piles up. These can form remarkably quickly. In 1943, a Mexican farmer was surprised to see smoke rising from a small part of his land. In one week he was the confused owner of a cone five hundred feet high. Within two years it had topped out at almost fourteen hundred feet and was more than half a mile across. Altogether there are some ten thousand of these volcanoes on Earth, all but a few hundred of them extinct. There is, however, a second less known type of volcano that doesn't involve mountain building. These are volcanoes so explosive that they burst open in a single big crack, leaving behind a vast hole, the caldera. Yellowstone obviously was of this second type, but Christiansen couldn't find the caldera anywhere.
Just at this time NASA decided to test some new high-altitude cameras by taking photographs of Yellowstone. A thoughtful official passed on some of the copies to the park authorities on the assumption that they might make a nice blow-up for one of the visitors' centers. As soon as Christiansen saw the photos, he realized why he had failed to spot the caldera: almost the whole park —2.2 million acres —was caldera. The explosion had left a hole more than forty miles across —much too huge to be seen from anywhere at ground level. At some time in the past Yellowstone must have blown up with a violence far beyond the scale of anything known to humans.
It is natural for us teenagers to feel upset. Here I am offering some useful suggestions.
•Move your body.
Have you ever noticed that you feel happier and have a sense of achievement after a good workout? That's because working out creates endorphins —body chemicals that make us feel happy. No matter how low you are feeling, your mood will get a well-deserved boost (改善) after a workout. Exercise also helps you keep your heart in shape, makes you stronger and helps you stay at a healthy weight. And exercise is totally fun —and it's great for your self-esteem, too.
•Talk about it.
Friends' ears can be a great source of support since you're all in the same boat. And don't forget your mom —she was once a teenager as well and may understand more than you realize. Even talking to your pet can help —just saying things out loud can help you see things differently and calm you down.
•Laugh a lot.
Humour can rescue you from an upset moment or make you feel better when you're in an unpleasant mood. No matter what's going on, the ability to laugh at yourself and your situation is really important. It's true! Using your smile muscles tells your brain to make more endorphins and that boosts your mood.
•Cry —it's okay!
Sometimes the only way to get out of your feelings is to cry —so go ahead! Shut yourself in your room and cry your eyes out! No one says you have to be happy all the time.
A. Why not pack up your suitcase and take a trip?
B. We can't say enough good things about exercise.
C. But still we should find ways to manage our feelings.
D. So smile at whatever is happening and choose to be happy.
E. And do you know just smiling can help better your mood?
F. When you are done, you'll be ready to face the world again.
G. Don't hold in all those feelings until you are ready to explode.
Just Listen
I suspect that the most basic and powerful way to connect with another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our 1, and especially if it's given from the 2. When people are talking, there's no need to do anything but 3 them. Just take it 4. Listen to what they're saying. Care about it. Most times caring about it is even more important than 5 it.
One of my patients told me that when she 6 to tell her story, people often 7 to tell her that they once had something just like what happened to her. Subtly (微妙地), her pain became a story about themselves. 8 she stopped talking to most people. She was just to 9. We connect through listening. When we interrupt what someone is saying to let him know that we understand, we move the 10 of attention to ourselves. But when we listen they know we care.
I have ever learned to 11 to someone crying by just listening. In the old days I used to reach the tissues (纸巾) 12 I realized that passing a person a tissue may be just another way to shut them 13, instead of taking them out of their 14 of sadness and pain. Now I just listen. When they need to cry, they find me there 15 them. This 16 thing has not been that easy to learn. It certainly went against everything I had been 17 since I was very young at school. I thought people listened only because they were too 18 to speak or did not know the answer. A loving silence often has far more 19 to connect than the comforting 20.
A Brave Maid
A wooden vase at the (enter) to the reception hall amazed everyone. The artists designed it in rare style and selected valuable jewels (decorate) it. People thought (high) of its fancy colour of honey and the beautiful paintings on it. The vase (use) to belong to an old castle. But when the country was war, the enemy troops exploded the castle. Debates on how the vase (survive) went on and on. In order to remove people's doubt, a team of no less than 20 people carried out an (formal) investigation. The evidence they found showed that a maid took the vase apart and asked a sailor to sink it in a local well. She never gave away the secret even under the cruel trial of the enemies were in search of treasures.
It is worth (give) this brave maid a fortune in return.
Located in the checkroom in Union Station as I am, I see everybody that comes up the stairs. Harry came in a little over three years ago and waited at the head of the stairs for the passengers from the 9:05 train.
I remember seeing Harry that first evening. He wasn't much more than a thin, anxious kid then. He was all dressed up and I knew he was meeting his girl and that they would be married twenty minutes after she arrived.
Well, the passengers came up and I had to get busy. I didn't look toward the stairs again until nearly time for the 9:18 and I was very surprised to see that the young fellow was still there.
She didn't come on the 9:18 either, nor on the 9:40, and when the passengers from the 10:02 had all arrived and left, Harry was looking pretty desperate. Pretty soon he came close to my window so I called out and asked him what she looked like.
"She's small and dark," he said, "and nineteen years old and very neat in the way she walks. She has a face," he said, thinking a minute, "that has lots of spirit. I mean she can get mad but she never stays mad for long, and her eyebrows come to a little point in the middle. She's got a brown fur, but maybe she isn't wearing it."
He showed me the telegram he'd received: ARRIVE THURSDAY. MEET ME STATION. LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE. MAY. He told me she was a typist and when he telephoned her former boss, all they knew was that she left her job to get married.
Harry met every train for the next three or four days. I could see that they all thought that May had simply played a trick on him. But I never believed that, somehow.
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After about two weeks, Harry said he had to get a job and began to work as a clerk for Tony, the owner of the magazine stand（售报亭）.
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For a while they just hung there to each other laughing and crying.
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