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Shut Up Zoos, Not Animals!
You may think that visiting zoos is harmless fun, but you're wrong because zoos are just prisons for animals.The difference is that prisoners get out after a few years ! Animals in cages look bored and are boring to look at. After all, we all know what an elephant looks like, we've seen them on TV. So why make animals suffer by shutting them up for our fun?
Shut up the zoos instead!
Posted by: Emily on April 19,at 18:12 Comments (3)
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I partly agree. But some zoos aren't there for our fun. I've just got back from Jersey Zoo. It saves rare(珍稀） animals and breeds them. Then it returns the babies to the wild. Not all zoos are the same,you know.
Posted by: Angela on April 21, at 18:17
Quite agree! Every time I go to the zoo, I never look into the poor animals' eyes! Kept in the small and smelly cages, they look so lonely and sad. Hope one day they will return to nature, where they can live happily and freely with their families.
Posted by: John on April 22, at 12:21
Personally, I think zoos are fantastic places for children. They can play with animals and enjoy themselves so much there. Also, they learn a lot about animals. Why shut up?
Posted by: David on April 22, at 21:05
It was a full moon night. A thief was getting ready to steal something from a villager's house. He got to the house, and then went inside quietly. By the moonlight outside, he entered a dark room.He could not even see his own hands or feet. But on the wall near the roof, there was a ventilator（通风设备）.The moon created a circle of light on it. The thief brought a cloth with him in order to get together all the things he hoped to steal. He spread it out on the floor and went inside the storeroom, where all the things were kept.
He didn't know that the owner of the house was awake and watching. As soon as the thief went inside the storeroom, he got up quickly from his bed, and picked up the cloth which the thief had spread out. He came back to his bed, which was in one dark corner of the room, and waited for the thief to come out.
At the same time, the thief went on collecting the things he wanted and threw them on the floor where he knew he had spread out the cloth. Soon there was a little mountain in the center of the room. Then the thief looked around for the end of the cloth to tie up the stolen things. At that time, the house owner let out a big groan--a deep groan. The thief was so scared that he hurried to run away. The thief not only failed to steal. But also lost his cloth.
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American Sign Language, often called ASL, is used by most people with hearing problems in the United States and Canada.
Besides ASL, there are more than fifty sign languages used throughout the world today, including Mayan Sign, British Sign, Israeli Sign, and Chinese Sign. Like spoken languages, sign languages are different from each other. But all sign languages are based on sight instead of sounds.
Sign languages have several main visual (视觉) parts that work together to express meaning. The first part is the shape made by the hands. Movement is also important. Moving the body or organs (器官) like hands affects the meaning of the shape. The place where the sign is made and the direction the hands face are crucial as well. Other visual clues (线索), such as the expression on a person's face, can sometimes change a sign's meaning. For example, a change in a smile can show whether a signer is happy, very happy, or overjoyed. Raising the eyebrows can mark a question.
In sign languages, the visual parts are combined (结合) in different ways to create signs.
These signs stand for things, actions, feelings, and ideas. ASL has about 4,000 different signs. Like spoken languages, sign languages cannot be translated word-for-word.
For English word may be represented by a series of signs in ASL. Or several English words may be
represented by a single ASL sign. Unlike spoken languages, the signs are organized according to sign-language grammar and the most important word or idea is signed first.
In ASL, the letter signs are made with one hand. Signers would rarely, if ever, spell out all the words they are signing. That would be as awkward and slow as speakers spelling each spoken word. However, American Sign Language does not have signs for proper names, so signers may use the alphabet to spell these. Also, sign languages often borrow words from other languages. They may spell words using finger spelling which is done with a set of hand shapes that stand for letters of the alphabet.
Sign languages develop naturally when people with shared culture and needs want to communicate with each other. Signers are closely linked to each other, perhaps more than to speaking people in their own communities. Signers share points of view, values, needs, and problems,as well as languages.
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Whether you are teaching an elementary Spanish class or passing on Spanish to your children, it is important to teach children good manners. And there are culturally appropriate（恰当的）behaviors that children need to know.
These five behaviors are considered good manners throughout Latin America. Of course, these are good manners in the US too, but they are not given as much attention because the opposite behavior is not considered particularly rude. In Spanish-speaking countries, however, the opposite behavior is negative（负面的）and can change the impression people have of children (and adults!)
All of these good manners can be practiced by children with different language level.
Good manners to teach kids learning Spanish.
When you hand something to someone ,put it directly into her hand. Do not toss things at people.
2 Keep your feet on the floor. Do not put your feet on chairs.
3 When you move away from a group of people or leave a room, say con permiso. Do not just walk away.
4If someone sneezes, say salud, which means“take care”in English.
5When you arrive, greet everyone.When you leave, say goodbye to everyone.
There are lots of resources for teaching children good manners in Spanish. Many polite behaviors also involve language. Here you will find resources for teaching polite expressions, including books and a song.There are also YouTube videos that teach polite behaviors.
In my experience, kids are interested in what is considered polite behavior in different cultures, and they want to learn to act appropriately. We work hard teaching them to use Spanish. It is important that they also know how to interact（相互影响）so that others are comfortable and they can make the most of the language they have learned.
When I was a child, my father had to do three jobs for a family of seven.Every time I saw him come back late, looking tired, I promised myself that someday I would show my 1 to my father for what he had done.
Over the next twenty years, my father worked hard to 2 our big family and suffered （遭受) a lot from a heart problem. One morning, my father's old car3 and he asked me to pick him up after his medical examination. He had 4 refused when I offered to replace(取代) his old car. He said that he did not want something that he was unable to pay himself. As he stepped out of the doctor's office, he looked unusually 5 . We drove in silence and he made me promise to keep the medical report as a 6 . I did this with a heavy heart. At that time, I was 7 a new car. I asked my father to go with me to pick one out. 8 I started talking with the salesman, I noticed my father admiring a brown car. I 9 chose a white car.
My father took one final look at the brown car and seemed kind of 10 before leaving .I heard him muttering (嘀咕) to himself, "Really like that car. Wish I could 11 it. Several days later, I asked my father if he could go with me to pick up 12 new car. As we arrived, the salesman 13him a key to his new car - the brown one - and explained that it was for him, 14 me. My father looked at me in great 15 . I explained it was my childhood promise and smiled at this man, who had given up everything for his family.
All photos are made with a camera. In many ways, a camera works like a human eye.Like the eye, it takes in rays of light reflected from an object. It then focuses the rays into image（影像）.Older cameras record the imagine on film.
Newer digital cameras record the imagine on an electronic storage device（存储装置）such as a memory card. Once the image is permanent, it can (see) and enjoyed by many people.
The photographic process for older cameras has five steps to it:Finding a subject;Focusing
the subject;Exposing the film;Developing the film,and making the print. Many professional photographers, peopletake pictures for a living, do all five steps (they). They use a room called a darkroom. It's “dark”so that light doesn't ruin in the negatives(底片）.
Photography makes our lives richer in many ways. Through photos we can learn about other
（part) of the world. We can see how people live today. We can also see how people lived in the mid-1800's, around the time when the camera (invent). Special cameras can capture images in places most human beings can't go, like the moon. ,best of all, photographs remind us of the special people in our lives. Millions of people the world over use camera (take)pictures of their family,friends,and special(celebrate). For them, the photographs they take are priceless.
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A One-day Tour | ||
Preferred activity | □Learn about Chinese education □See beautiful sights þLearn about Chinese culture | Your idea: þNo □Yes→What is it? |
Preferred place | □School þA village □A museum | |
Other needs | □No þYes→What is it? Taste some local food. | |
要求：①文中不能出现真实人名、校名等相关信息；
②词数：80左右。开头和结尾已给出（不计入总词数）。
Dear Mr Black,
I'm Lingling.My school asked us to make a one-day tour plan for you and we tried to make it best to your preferences, but I'm afraid we'll have to make some changes.……
Best wishes
Lingling
