Students from Leonia High School in New Jersey went to visit Notre-Dame Cathedral (巴黎圣母院). They talked 1 after the visit. They were glad. However, just 2 after they came out, there was a big fire. They were the last 3 to see the cathedral before it caught fire.
One of the 4teachers with the students, Bertolini, said, "I came here with four other teachers and 26 students. We are in Paris as a part of an 11-day French trip. We 5 about an hour in the cathedral before leaving it to go to dinner."
"We 6 there at about 6:20, and I guess the fire started around then," Bertolini said. "We walked to have dinner and met one teacher's sister at the 7. She was late and said it was because of the fire. People in the city were just afraid."
They 8 the cathedral. The teachers all talked to the students about the 9 fire and the teachers felt happy when they knew no one died in the fire.
Notre-Dame Cathedral is very 10 — about 12 to 13 million people go to visit it a year and it is home to paintings, sculptures (雕像) and other famous works of art.
People all over the world eat rice. Millions of people in Asia, Africa and South America eat it every day. Some people eat almost 1 but rice. Rice is a kind of grass. There are more than 7, 000 kinds of rice. Farmers 2 rice in many countries, even in the southern part of the United States and in eastern Australia. No one really knows 3 rice came from. Some scientists think that it started to grow in two places. They think that one kind of rice grew in southern Asia thousands of years ago. Someone in China 4 about it almost 5, 000 years ago. Another kind 5 grew in west Africa. Other scientists think that rice 6 India, and Indian travelers took it to other parts of the world.
There are two main 7 to grow rice. Most rice grows in wet soil. People in many countries do all of the work of growing rice 8 hand. This is the same way farmers worked hundreds of years ago. In some countries, people now 9 machines on their rice farms. People use every part of the rice plant. They make rice oil from it. They 10 make baskets, brooms and roofs for their houses. They burn dry rice plants in fires for cooking.
白处的最佳选项。
Once upon a time, there was a very old man called Yu Gong. He lived with his family in a village and there were two big and 1 mountains near his house. They spent a long time 2 to the other side.
One day, Yu Gong told his family that they must move the mountains to other places.3 this, everyone in his family was laughing at him. One of his sons said, "Are you kidding? ""No, I'm serious and all of you must do it with me. "Everyone was 4 at that time. They really didn't want to do it, but they had to do because the oldest man in the family was 5 important person at that time.
The next day everyone in Yu Gong's family started to dig the mountains. They put the stones and the earth 6 the sea. One day a man saw Yu Gong and his children 7 the mountains. He told Yu Gong he would never do it. But Yu Gong said though he was 8 and would die, his family could continue to move the mountains. Then they kept on digging day after day and year after year.
Finally a god was so moved by Yu Gong 9 he sent two gods to help Yu Gong move the mountains away.
The 10 reminds us that you can never know what's possible unless you try to make it happen.
Perhaps you have heard1about the Internet, but what is it?
The Internet is many different networks around the world. A network is a group of computers put together. These networks joined together are called the Internet.
2that doesn't sound interesting. But3we've joined the Internet, there are4things we can do. We can have a lot of5on the World Web. We can use the Internet instead of a library to6all kinds of information7our favorite sports or film stars and do some shopping on the Internet. We can send messages to other people8email. It's much cheaper and quicker than9a letter.
Thanks to the Internet, the world is becoming smaller and smaller. People can now work at home with a computer, getting and sending the information they need. They can buy or sell whatever they want on the Internet. But do you know much information is10English?
Mark lived in a village far away. One day he became very ill and everyone thought he would 1 soon. They sent for a doctor. Two days 2 the doctor came and looked over the sick man.3 asked for a pen and some paper to write down the name of the medicine. But there was no pen 4 paper in the village, because no one could write.
The doctor 5 up a piece of burnt wood from the fire and wrote the name of the medicine on the 6 of the house. “ Get this medicine for him, and he will get 7 soon. ” he said. Mark's family and friends did not know8 to do. They could not read the strange words. Then a young man 9an idea. He took off the door of the house, put it on his carriage(马车) and drove to the nearest 10. He bought the medicine there, and Mark was soon well again.
