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Tuesday with Morrie is a book which contains weekly conversation between Mitch and his favorite teacher Morrie. The weekly conversations focus the meaning of life. Arthur K argues that this book is about death, it is not pessimistic. Indeed, it is filled with joy and hope and encourages us (appreciate) what we have, and to make most of each day. Reading this book (make) Amy Wang feel as if she were woken up from a long sleep and she has been given a (deep) insight into the world. Marty's first (impress) is that the book is just made up of a collection of overemotional thoughts and messages, many of are repeated. But the book makes him stop and think about how much he (influence) by popular culture and the importance of creating his own values. Vivian thinks the book is very touching and one of the (lesson) is to keep in touch with the good people we meet as we go through life.
A growing number of Chinese tourists are helping to save a dying town, after a littleknown tourist attraction was featured on a number of Chinese travel blogs.
The residents of Sea Lake, a town of just 600 people, barely see travelers stop at their gas station while driving by, but the sudden influx of Chinese tourists is helping keep the town's economy alive.
The tourists come to see Lake Tyrrel—a shallow, salt crusted and often dry lake just out of town. According to a local teacher, Rachel Pearce, the extremely beautiful nightscape combined with the mysterious appearance of stars reflected on the salt lake gives people the impression of walking among the stars. Besides, the town is so far away that no light pollution ruins the particularly attractive views, and as it is situated in a barren (寸草不生的), dry part of the country, there are rarely any clouds to spoil the night sky.
The attraction's growing soughtafter status has resulted in the town's motel rooms being full almost every night, and while local farmers are suffering in a twoyear drought, tourism is keeping the town's agriculturalbased economy stable.
Despite the popularity of the town and its attraction, locals are still confused as to why their little town deserves so much attention. Sea Lake's population has fallen from around 1,200 a decade ago to 600 today. "We're still unsure why Lake Tyrrel is such a big, big tourist attraction," one local says. "It's quite a shock."
The victims were carried in one by one, their paws and fur burned, suffering from dehydration (脱水) and fear. Their caretakers1their wounds, and 2 them in baskets with the only thing that was 3—the leaves of eucalyptus (桉树)tree. As miserable fires have 4 more than 2 million acres in Australia, only dozens of koalas have been 5from the smoky trees and 6 ground.
Koalas, unlike kangaroos, birds or snakes, do not7 from fires but instead climb trees to the top, where they can curl themselves into a ball for 8 and wait for the danger to 9.
But during big fires, such as those that have burned in recent weeks, the animals are far less likely to 10. Even if the fire itself does not reach the tree _11, the animals may over heat and fall to the ground, where they can be burned to death.
The tough situation of the koala has raised 12 among scientists and conservationists (环保主义者). While koalas have developed to exist alongside the wildfires, they are facing new 13, not just from climate change but also from human development, which has dislocated Koalas' populations, 14 their ability to survive fires.
We have these 15 animals not found anywhere else on this planet, and we are killing them. This is a big wakeup call.
Arthur was messy. He didn't try to make messes, but he didn't try to clean up much, either. There were always small pieces of food on the table when he was done eating. His socks never made it into the hamper (洗衣篮). And he only picked up his toys when Mom threatened to throw them away. Most days, Mom followed Arthur around the house and cleaned up after him. She brushed the crumbs (碎屑) into her hand and threw them away after meals. She picked up his socks and made sure they got washed, dried and folded neatly before going back in the drawer. She often picked up his toys when he left them to do something else.
One day. Mom asked Arthur to pick up his toy trains. "Not right now," Arthur said. He was reading a comic book. The trains had been on the living room floor since the morning.
"You know what, Arthur? I'm not going to ask you again. I'm done cleaning today." And with that, Mom put her feet up on the sofa and picked up a book to read.
At dinner time, Arthur noticed that there was a big pile of crumbs at his place at the table. Mom's spot was nice and clean. Arthur didn't like the crumbs very much. After dinner, Arthur's feet felt cold. He went to his room and opened his drawer, but the drawer was empty. "Mom, where are my socks?" Arthur called.
"There weren't any socks in your hamper, so I didn't wash them," Mom said. Arthur felt unhappy. Now his feet would be cold, unless he wanted to wear dirty socks from the floor. He decided to stay barefoot.
When it was time for bed, Arthur said good night to Mom and turned to go upstairs. Arthur stepped right on his toy train in his bare feet. "Ouch!" cried Arthur. "That really hurt!"
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However, Mom was still reading and said nothing.
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"Mom?" said Arthur. "Tomorrow can you show me how to do the laundry so I can wash my socks?"
