A Toronto man is offering a free round-the-world air ticket to the right woman. But 1 apply. You must be named Elizabeth Gallagher and have a Canadian 2.
Jordan Axani, 28, said he and his then girlfriend, Elizabeth Gallagher, booked heavily discounted round-the-world air tickets in May, but their 3 ended and he did not want her ticket to 4. The ticket had a strict no-transfer(不可转让)5, but since passport information was not required when 6, any Canadian Elizabeth Gallagher can 7 it.
"I just want to see the ticket go to good use and for someone to 8 a lot of joy," said Axani. He posted his 9 on a social networking website, and received thousands of e-mails, including thirty from actual Elizabeth Gallaghers with the 10 passports. "More 11, there are hundreds of Canadians who are interested in 12 their name to Elizabeth Gallagher," Axani said. "It was absolutely out of 13, thousands of e-mails, people around the world 14 their stories of travel.”
Axani wrote in his post that he is not 15 anything in return and that the woman who uses the 16 ticket can choose to either travel with him or 17 the ticket and travel on her own.
The 18 is scheduled to start on December 21 in New York City and continue on to Milan, Prague, Paris, Bangkok and New Delhi before 19 in Toronto on January 8. He said the 20 woman will be announced on the website and the trip will be shared online.
How to Remember What You Read
Reading is important. But the next step is making sure that you remember what you've read! You may have just read the text, but the ideas, concepts and images(形象) may fly right out of your head. Here are a few tricks for remembering what you read.
If the plot, characters, or word usage is confusing for you, you likely won't be able to remember what you read. It's a bit like reading a foreign language. If you don't understand what you're reading, how would you remember it? But there are a few things you can do...Use a dictionary; look up the difficult words.
Are you connected?
Does a character remind you of a friend? Does the setting make you want to visit the place? Does the book inspire you and make you want to read more? With books, you may feel a connection at once.How willing are you to make the connections happen?
Read it; hear it; be it!
Read the lines. Then, speak them out loud. And, put some characters into the words. When he was writing his novels, Charles Dickens would act out the parts of the characters. He'd make faces in the mirror, and change his voice for each character.
How often do you read?
If you read frequently, you'll likely have an easier time with remembering what you're reading(and what you've read). As you make reading a regular part of your life, you'll make more connections, stay more focused and understand the text better. You'll learn to enjoy literature—as you remember what you read!
A. Are you confused?
B. Practice makes perfect.
C. What's your motivation?
D. Memory is sometimes a tricky thing.
E. Marking helps you remember what you read.
F. But other books require a bit more work on your part.
G. You can do the same thing when you are reading the text!
Last October, while tending her garden in Mora, Sweden, Lena Pahlsson pulled out a handful of small(carrot) and was about to throw them away. But something made her look closer, and she noticed a (shine) object. Yes, there beneath the leafy top of one tiny carrot was her long-lost wedding ring.
Pahlsson screamed loudly that her daughter came running from the house. "She thought I had hurt (I)," says Pahlsson.
Sixteen years (early), Pahlsson had removed the diamond ring (cook) a meal. When she wanted to put the ring back on later, it was gone. She suspected that one of her three daughters — then ten, eight, and six—had picked it up, but the girls said they hadn't. Pahlsson and her husband (search) the kitchen, checking every corner, but turned up nothing. "I gave up hope of finding my ring again," she says. She never replaced it.
Pahlsson and her husband now think the ring probably got (sweep) into a pile of kitchen rubbish and was spread over the garden, it remained until the carrot's leafy top accidentally sprouted (生长) through it. For Pahlsson, its return was wonder.
