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    Mike Myers is a teacher at Chauncey Rose High School in Terre Haute, Indiana. Last year, he taught his students about the world's rain forests. They learned that rain forests are important because the plants and animals of the rain forest give us food, wood, and medicine.

    Destruction of the world's rain forests is a serious problem. Unluckily, rain forests are disappearing at a rate of 80 acres per minute! As part of a class project, Myers' students bought three acres of rain forest in Central America. They paid $25 per acre. The students hope that the land they bought will be protected and not destroyed. The students became so interested in rain forests that they decided to get a closer look at a real rain forest.

    So last June, Myers and four of his students took a boat ride down a river. They saw alligators and crocodiles. In the middle of the week, a guide took Myers and his students into the rain forest. "The monkeys were not happy that we were in their forest. They broke small branches off the trees and threw them at us," one of the students said. "It was a great learning experience for all of us," said Myers.

    Each student chose something specific about Costa Rica to study involving the plants, animals, food, and culture. During the last few days the group had time to do fun activities. They went whitewater rafting and horseback riding, and visited Costa Rica's active volcano.

    Myers hopes to make the trip every year with a different group of kids.

    Mary is an American girl. She is now in Beijing with her parents. She doesn‘t know Chinese, but she is trying to study and speak it .She often tries to speak Chinese to her Chinese friends. Sometimes they don't understand (理解 )her, because she can't speak Chinese well.

    It's Saturday morning. Mary goes out. She is on her way to the park. She is going there to see a flower show But she doesn't know how to get there. She asks a Chinese boy. The boy can't understand her. Then she takes out a pen and some paper. She draws some flowers on it, gives the picture to the boy and says something about it. The boy smiles and then shows ( 指 ) Mary the way to the park.

Five years ago，I worked in an office. The work was easy and I enjoyed it. One day at lunch，I went out to buy a hamburger in a store near a park. It was sunny so I decided to eat it in the park.

I saw some people making a movie there. It looked like that they were having some problems. Then they looked at me and two of them walked to me!They said that one of their actors hadn't come. "He only has one line in the story，"they said. "Would you like to have a try？"

I'd never done any acting in my life，but I said yes. An hour later we finished. It was so interesting. The people thanked me and gave me some money for my time. As I was leaving，the director（导演）came over and gave me his card. He said I could be a good actor. I was happy and I told him I would call him sometime.

Well，I did call him. And I went for an audition（试镜）for another short movie by the same director. And I got the work.

Two years later，I left my office work and I'm now working as an actor. I love the work and I'm going to a school next year to study acting.

My life is now different. And it's all because of the lunch in the park!Life is full of surprises and you never know what will happen.

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