This is a story about five brothers who live in peace in a village. They are orphans and they live by running the rice field1from their parents. The rice field is far from their home, so they have to go to the field before sunrise.
They have2to let the youngest brother stay at home to take care of their house . The youngest is very happy about the3. Every day when his elder brothers come home, they find the house clean, tidy and4. Foods and drinks have been5on the table, and their beds are6and all the dirty7have been washed.
But one of the older brothers is8of the youngest, so he says to the other boys that the job of the youngest is too easy and that he should also go to the field. And the others agree to his suggestion. But now when they come home they find that their home is9, and that the table is10, they realize that their youngest brother has played a very important role, and they have underestimated his11to the home.
So what can we get from this story? Never underestimate people who work behind the12, who is “useless” in your house. Maybe your grandpa or grandma who is13there every day; maybe the servant who seems lazy. Unconsciously we may say arrogantly(傲慢地)to these people, “You are14! ”If we really do this kind of thing, one day we will find that we have lost the best people in our life. Learn to see the importance of their presence, and imagine what would happen if they disappeared from your life. Each one of us is equipped with15talent and only by cooperation can we make the most of all our lives.
Tea drinking was common in China for nearly one thousand years before anyone in Europe had ever heard about tea.People in Britain were much slower in finding out what tea was like, mainly because tea was very expensive. It could not be bought in shops and even those people who could afford to have it sent from Holland did so only because it was a fashionable curiosity. Some of them were not sure how to use it They thought it was a vegetable and tried cooking the leaves Then they served them mixed with butter and salt They soon discovered their mistake but many people used to spread the used tea leaves on bread and give them to their children as sandwiches
Tea remained scarce and very expensive in England until the ships of the East India Company began to bring it direct from China early in the seventeenth century during the next few years so much tea came into the country that the price fell and many people could afford to buy it
At the same time people on the Continent were becoming more and more fond of tea until then tea had been drunk without milk in it, but one day a famous French lady named Madame de Sevigne decided to see what tea tasted like when milk was added. She found it so pleasant that she would never again drink it without milk Because she was such a great lady her friends thought they must copy everything she did, so they also drank their tea with milk in it Slowly this habit spread until it reached England and today only very few Britons drink tea without milk
At first, tea was usually drunk after dinner in the evening No one ever thought of drinking tea in the afternoon until a duchess (公爵夫人) found that a cup of tea and a piece of cake at three or four o'clock stopped her getting“a sinking feeling”as she called it She invited her friends to have this new meal with her and so, tea-time was born
两国之间发生了冲突。
他们注意到一个塑料袋在空中漂浮着。
During World Space Week(October 4～10)，you may learn about some of the space's myths. One is: “The Great Wall of China is the only manmade object1from space with the naked eye.”
You might be2of this claim, but it's not true. In fact, astronauts say that the Great Wall is just one of many manmade3can be seen from space. From an orbit 217 kilometres4the earth，it is5to see highways，airports，bridges, dams and even large6.
Cities can even be seen clearly from the International Space Station ( ISS, 国际空间站)，7circles about 400 kilometres above the planet. “You can see the8pyramids from space with a pair of binoculars(双筒望远镜). They are a little difficult to9with just your eyes，” said Ed Lu, a US astronaut10the ISS.
“With binoculars you can also see roads, harbours and even very large11in the ocean. From the moon, astronauts cannot12any manmade features on earth and the continents are very hard13. On Mars，the earth would appear to the naked eye as14but a bright 'star'. ”15what about the Great Wall? “You can see the Great Wall from space，”Lu said. “But it's a lot16than a lot of other objects. You can only see it in radar images，17in ordinary photographs.”
No one knows who18the Great Wall story. The earliest reference to it comes in a book by a US writer Richard Halliburton，published in 1938. He wrote，“Astronomers say that the Great Wall is the only manmade thing on our planet visible to the human eye from the moon.”
Halliburton's books19quite well during the first half of the 20th century. So，if he didn't20the story himself，he certainly spread it widely.
seems better than what we already have.
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Li Ming's mobile phone looked just the same as Zhang Hua's, but it cost his.
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A. With it come many health problems. B. When you finally get home you'll be greatly refreshed. C. I challenge each one of you to do the same. D. Draw up a detailed plan so you can see more. E. Life is not all about work, or at least it shouldn't be. F. And only you know how to vacation your way. G. For my next holiday, I will do all the things that I love doing. |
Vacations are important. We need to take time out from work to relax, and just be ourselves. We should all be allowed to leave our jobs behind us—at least for a few weeks each year—and just have fun. This might be something as simple as reading a good book in front of a warm fireplace and travelling to the most interesting places on our planet. Whatever we fancy doing is worth taking time out for.
Workplace stress is on the rise. These include disease, depression and even death. We all seem to be running from one place to the next, never finding out where we want to go in the first place. I intend to break that trend in the coming days.
I will sleep late, write, watch movies, drink the occasional glass of wine, and eat to my heart's content ignoring calorie counting. My plan is to just enjoy the fleeting moments of being alive.
Spend your next vacation the way you want. Do what will restore your mental health. You're very valuable to the people who are close to you, and to those who depend on you. Like it or not, we are all interdependent in this great life of ours.
You are valuable. Just remember that the next time you look at the mirror and take a deep breath. Remind yourself that there will never be anyone like you ever on this earth again.
All you have to do is just ask yourself what you want to do.
Most maps show places you can visit and how to get there. Most maps, however, were not made by astronomers. At a recent meeting in Texas, three teams of these scientists presented new maps to show where dark matter was.
Dark matter neither produces nor reflects light, which means it's invisible (看不见) to human eyes and to most scientific instruments. That makes it a challenge to measure and study. What makes the matter more upset: Scientific measurements show that the universe holds about five times as much dark matter as ordinary matter. Making up the known part of the universe, ordinary matter includes you, your dog, Earth, the sun, stars and planets.
Scientists find dark matter in the same way, they discover other things we can't see by observing how the invisible matter affects things we can see. We can't see wind, for example, but we can feel a gentle wind or watch a windmill(风车)turning on a hill. Dark matter doesn't turn windmills, but it does have gravity(引力). Like ordinary matter, dark matter holds everything around it firmly with gravity. Dark matter's gravity holds galaxies (星系) together and bends rays of light as they move past.
To make the new maps, astronomers trained powerful telescopes to watch for bending light arriving from distant galaxies. These telescopes recorded light that came from galaxies billions of light-years away. By studying how the light changed as it traveled through space, the astronomers could work out the location and shape of dark matter groups.
One of the new maps shows dark matter is more than 600 times as large as a full moon. The other covers an area more than a thousand times as large. But that's just the beginning: The astronomers want to carry on further studies to better understand the dark matter.
