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Asha looked out of the window on the plane. What a1 ! The buildings were so tall. The city was large, much larger than her small town.
Asha was on vacation in New York City. She was very2 as she had always wanted to come since she was young. She read stories about it and studied its3 . She knew how the island of Manhattan was bought from native Americans 300 years ago. She4 knew people from all over the world came to live here. These people, like Asha,5 a new life in New York.But Asha was only staying for fourteen6 . She thought of these two weeks as a time to7 herself to move back to New York. She would return to her small8 , stay for one year, and then come to live in New York forever. So she had to plan this vacation9 .
In New York Asha wanted to do10 things. First, she wanted to look for a job. Next, she would find a place to live. She knew it was expensive to live in New York and that finding a good place to live was11 . And the third thing she wanted to do was to12 her English. She had studied English for 12 years but didn't know13 she could understand "real" English.
Before leaving, her friends told her that New York was a14 place.But Asha wasn't worried. She had studied New York carefully. She believed she would be safe.
15 Asha saw the Statue of Liberty! The plane flew around it, and then began to slow down. Soon Asha was on the ground, getting ready to leave the plane to meet her future.
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One day, I happened to meet an Englishman in a store and soon we began to talk. As I was talking about how I was studying English, the foreigner seemed to be very surprised, gently shaking his head and saying, "You don't say! You don't say!"
I was puzzled(困惑的), and I thought, "Perhaps this is not a right thing to talk about."So I said to him,"Well, shall we talk about the Great Wall? Have you ever been there?" "Certainly. When I'm back home, everyone will laugh at me if I leave here without seeing it. The Great Wall is wonderful!" he answered. "Yes, it is one of the wonders in the world. And people from all over the world have come to visit it," I added. As I was telling him more about it, he said again, "You don't say!" I couldn't help asking, "Why do you ask me not to talk about it?" "Well, I didn't ask you to do so,"he answered, greatly surprised. "Didn't you say ‘You don't say!'?" I asked again. Hearing this, the foreigner laughed loudly. He began to explain. " ‘You don't say!' means‘Really?'. Perhaps you know little about English idioms(习惯用语)."
Wow! How foolish I was! Since then I have been careful with English idioms.
Some people like to collect stamps. Others prefer posters or coins. But Pinky Bhutia is different. She collects children. In her mountain village, in Sikkim, she is known as the wonderful young woman who adopts (领养) all the children she can.
Pinky was 14 when she adopted her first child, a Nepali baby girl, whose patents died. Pinky's parents did not mind. Pinky left school and started working full time because she had a baby to feed. Today, she has twelve adopted children, and two sons from her marriage.
Pinky is about 30 years old and she comes from a common family. If you passed her on the street, you wouldn't give her a second look. She lives in a brown mud-washed(泥刷的) house. There is a vegetable garden outside. Red hens with noisy chicks run all over the garden looking for food.
If you ask her why she provides a home to so many kids, she smiles shyly. But her eyes are serious. "I know what it is to be poor and hungry. "As a child, her only dream was to eat a full meal, and her favorite amusement was watching people with shoes and imagining what it felt like. By adopting poor and homeless children she is making sure that they never feel that hopeless.
Pinky feels very proud when she sees her children happy and bright, Her oldest baby, Aarita Rai, is now 20 years old. Then, there is 19-year-old Nimbe who came to Pinky because her mother was unable to look after her. She started to work in a government office two years ago. 10-year-old Bhim and 14-year-old Kumar came to Pinky five years ago, after their father died. They started living on a patch of land given by Pinky and grew vegetables for sale.
"I like children. It's not one more mouth to feed but one more soul saved, "Pinky says.
It happens every spring. Flowers come out everywhere on the same day. But how do plants "know" when to flower?
For years, it has been a difficult question for scientists. But a US research group may have finally answered it—the secret lies in a protein(蛋白质)called FKF1. This helps plants to know when the days become long and when they get short. Then they can tell the seasons(季节)are changing.
Researchers found the FKF1 protein when they were studying a plant called Arabidopsis. It is sensitive(敏感的)to sunlight, and can be made active by sunlight.
Plants produce this protein every day in the late afternoon all year. If there is no light at this time, for example, in winter when the sun goes down early, the protein won't be active. But when spring comes and the days get longer, the FKF1 protein can be made active by day light and the plants "know" it is time to flower. " If there is light in the late afternoon, plants will know that the days are getting longer and that it is the best time for flowers to come out,"explained Takato Imaizumi, leader of study. But when conditions are poor for growing, such as during autumn or winter when the weather is cold and days are short, plants won' t flower.
Although researchers have only studied how the FKF1 protein works in the Arabidopsis, they believe that it is the same with many other plants, including crops such as rice and wheat.
"If we can control when flowers come out, we might be able to increase crop production," Imaizumi said.
When we see a cigarette box, we'll see "Smoking is harmful to your health" on it. Children are not allowed to smoke by their parents or teachers. But in many countries smoking is becoming a bigger problem for young people. Most smokers start in their teens or earlier.
Some students think smoking is very cool, and they can see many people smoking around them. They want to have a try.
"But young people start smoking early, they will probably get addicted to nicotine(尼古丁). And it will be very hard to give up later on,"said a professor.
What can we do to make them stop smoking? Some people think we can make a law. Teenagers under 18 are not allowed to smoke, or they should be fined(罚款). Parents should give up smoking. They can set an example to their children .
"Every year about eight million people die of ". Every year about eight million people die of smoking. And if people keep smoking, the number will increase(增长) 10 million a year from now on," said the World Health Organization. So we must learn and tell others about the danger of smoking.
A. Hard to give up |
B. Ways of stopping smoking |
C. A big problem for the young |
D. Danger of smoking |
E. Smoking is very cool |
F. The reason for young people to smoke |
it material machine touch hurt |
Everyone wears shoes. We wear them every day to avoidour feet. We can buy shoes in many places. But maybe most of us don't know about the process of shoemaking because now most shoes are produced by. Here I will tell you how to make a pair of shoes.
The first step is drawing a design. Next, the shoemaker will use paper to make a pattern. Then the shoemaker draws the pattern on somelike leather(皮革)and cloth. After that, he cuts the leather with scissors and then he will sew(缝) and glue the leather pieces together.
Then the shoemaker connects the pieces to the insole(鞋内底).The insole is the part of the shoe thatyour feet. Next, the shoe is heated to make the leather soft so it can be shaped. Then the shoe goes in an oven. This helps it keepform. At the same time the shoemaker works on the lower(较低的) parts of the shoe. When all the parts are ready, the shoemaker glues and sews them together. After these steps, a pair of shoes is completed.
I was looking through my old photos last Sunday. One photo(catch) my eye. In the photo, I was sitting in a chair, hugging Duke, my best friend in the whole world.
Duke was an interesting name for suchlittle dog. But he was my friend from the moment I could walk. He stayed with me in that chair when I read(book). When I went outside(play) games, he would drive our cats up to the trees and then walk off feeling proud of(him). When he was hungry, he would carry his food dish in his mouth and dropat my mom's feet. When I was sick, he refused to leave my bed until I got(well) than before.
I learned a lot from Duke. I learned that a short sleep at noon could be goodyou. I learned that simplest dinner can be deliciousyou eat it with great enjoyment. I learned that life can be good when you live it with love and joy. (sad), I also learned that life is short, especially if you are a dog.
To me, Duke is like a teacher who has taught me how to love and to be loved.
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