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The Sierra Leona civil war in 1990 was financed by the trade in illegal(非法的 ) stones. The beautiful but 1 stones are also known 2"blood diamonds".
Although the diamonds come from Sierra Leona3 Liberia, people in the two countries 4 get rich from them. Someone in other countries may 5 one diamond for a large house or a big car. However, the locals can only get some food such as rice and bananas for a 6 diamond because the diamond trade here is not allowed. The only place they could exchange diamonds for 7 money is the black market.
In Liberia mining (采矿)is a culture and also a 8 . Though the trade in diamonds here is illegal, the officials never stop poor people 9 mining. And we'll see that the action of a chicken for a diamond goes 10 in Liberia.
A farmer wanted to eat good food every day, but he didn't like working. He often went to other farmers' homes. He ate so much, so the farmers didn't like him.
One day, he saw a rabbit running down the hill. The rabbit knocked against a tree in his field, broke its neck and died soon. The farmer was so happy. "Great!" he went to the tree, got the dead rabbit, and went home with it.
That day, he ate a lot. He thought that the meat of the rabbit was very nice. The next day, he stopped his farm work, and waited by the tree for a second rabbit to knock against the tree. He waited for many days, but no rabbit came at all.
After nearly 60 years of lighting our homes and streets, halogen bulbs (卤素灯泡）were stopped to be used across Europe in September, 2018. Instead, people should start to use LEDs. LEDs consume (消耗）five times less energy (能量）than halogen bulbs and using LEDs would stop more than 15 million tons of carbon emissions a year. There were some ideas about the change.
Philips, a lighting producer, thought that people would save about £112 a year from the change because LEDs could work for longer hours than halogens and LEDs use less power.
However, there were people who disagreed with the change. Jonathan Bullock, a spokesman in the European Parliament told The Guardian, "It's not right to stop the use of halogen bulbs, because people will have to spend a lot of money buying expensive LED bulbs. Poor people will lose most from these kinds of changes. People should have the chance to choose their bulbs and we shouldn't make them change if they don't want to do it."
In fact, what he said seemed not to be a good reason. The price of each halogen bulb is often lower than that of an LED bulb. But halogen bulbs use more energy. They only last for two years but LEDs can be used for 15 to 20 years. Each British home has about 10 halogen bulbs and uses each bulb for around three hours a day.
The Diaoyu Islands, which lie in the East China Sea between China and Japan, have belonged to China since ancient times.
The islands are 120 nautical miles northeast of Taiwan, 200 nautical miles west of the Chinese mainland and 200 nautical miles east of Japan's southern island, Okinawa.
Geologically(从地理上来说), the islands are attached to Taiwan. The waters around the islands are 100 to 150 metres deep and there is a 2,000-metre-deep oceanic trench between the islets and Okinawa islands.
The islands have appeared on maps of China since the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). Fishermen from Taiwan and Fujian and other provinces have fished and collected herbs in this area for many generations.
Records about the islands came out in a book during the rule of Ming emperor Yong Le (1403-1424), more than 400 years before Japan says it discovered the Diaoyu islands in 1884.
Ted was in trouble. He drove a car for Mr. Clark, a rich businessman. He enjoyed his work, but he couldn't work when he drank too much. Once he almost fell into the river when he drove along the bridge. Mr Clark became very angry and was going to fire him. Ted had a big family and was afraid of this. He decided not to drink any more.Then Mr Clark told him to wait to be dealt with (处理). One morning Ted came into the office with two badly burned(烧伤的) ears.
"What happened to your ears?" asked Mr. Clark. "Well," said Ted. "I went to watch a football match yesterday while my wife was ironing clothes(熨衣服)at home. She had put the iron near the telephone. Our team lost the game and I felt sorry for it. As soon as I went into the sitting room, the telephone rang and I answered the iron!" "And what happened to the other ear?"
"When I put the iron down on the desk, the telephone rang again!"
The 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup started on June 7 and went on for a month. Teams from 24 countries met in stadiums (体育场）across France to decide which country had the best women's football team in the world.
It was the eighth FIFA Women's World Cup. The first of it was in 1991 and then it is held every four years. The 24 countries were in six different groups.
People's interest in the Women's World Cup this year was even higher. Over 720,000 tickets were sold. Tickets for the opening game between France and South Korea were sold out in less than two days. Hundreds of millions of people watched the game on TV and on the Internet.
The winning World Cup team got $4 million. The team getting second place got $2.6 million. Teams that didn't do so well got less money.
In all, the women's teams could get $30 million. Though it was twice as much prize money as that in the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup，it was still not much, if you compare it with the $400 million given to the 32 teams in last year's Men1 s World Cup.
Norway's Ada Hegerberg (some people believed she was the world's best woman player) didn't even show up at the World Cup. Norway was the first country to give men and women football players the same money, but Ms. Hegerberg didn't think that Norway did well, so she didn't play on the national team.
An old woman lost her son. She went to a clever man asked," Is there any way I can throw away my sadness?"
The clever man said to her," Go and bring (I) a seed from a home that has never known sadness. I will use it to drive the sadness out of your life." The woman went off (quick) to look for that magical seed.
First, she came to a (beauty) house, knocked at the door, and asked politely," Excuse me, I am looking for home that has never known sadness. Is this such a place? It (be) very important to me."
They told her, "You come to the wrong place."
And they began to describe all the sad (thing) that had recently happened to them.
The woman said to herself, " can help these people that have had such sadness like me?" She stayed to cheer them up before she went on looking for a home that had never known sadness.
But wherever she went, she found one sad story after another. She became so busy (help) other people that she forgot about looking for the seed. She even never (realize) that her helping others had driven the sadness out of her life.
