Joe was driving home on a country road one winter evening. He spent several months looking for a new1since the factory he had worked in was closed. It was cold and dark. Not many people had a reason to be on it 2 they were leaving.
At that moment, he almost didn't see a small car 3 at the side of the road. He thought the driver might need help, so he stopped in front of the car and 4. An old lady was in the car. At first she was worried. "He didn't look 5. He looked poor and hungry," she thought. He could see that she was 6. He said, "I'm here to help you, Madam." Then he looked around her car and found she had a flat tire. While Joe was 7the lady opened the window and began to talk to him. She told him that she couldn't 8 him enough for helping her out of trouble. Soon Joe was able to change the tire. She asked how much she owed him. Joe 9 thought about money. He told her that if she really wanted to pay 10 back, the next time she saw someone who needed help, she 11 give that person the help.
A few miles down the road, the old lady saw a small restaurant. She was so hungry 12she decided to eat something before she finished her trip home. The 13 looked very young and poor. After she finished her 14, she handed a 100-dollar bill to her. When the waitress went to get her change, the lady left 15 telling her. The waitress then found some words on a piece of paper, "You don't owe me a thing. Someone once helped me the way I'm helping you. "
When Joe got home. his daughter told him excitedly," Don't worry, dad. Someone helped me and we can support our life for a while. "
STUDY HELP
For many tests and exams, you are tested on your abilities to communicate successfully. In order to speak English fluently, you need to think in English. If you don't, your speech will be slow and it won't sound natural. Here are some things you can do to.
◆Look at objects around your home and school, and think of what they are called in English. Try to make a direct connection between the object and the English word.
◆When you are out in a public place, practice describing the things and people you see in your mind. For example, think, "There is a man walking down the street. He's wearing a suit. I think he is going to work. " Try to think in English first, not in your first language.
◆When you have to say something in English, think first and ask yourself "What words and phases do I know in English that I can use in this situation?" Try not to think in your first language and translate your ideas into English. If you do, you will get frustrated very quickly.
Try these tips and you'll soon find that you are thinking in English.
My dear boys and girls, good morning. Today I'm going to talk to you about my understanding of learning history.
Many of you may think it is a terrible thing to study history. You may often wonder why we students should study something that has nothing to do with our own lives. If you think that way. I should say you are far from the truth.
In fact, if we study history, we can learn quite a lot about personal stories and events of people just like us. The people who came before us helped build and develop the country we are living in. Their ideas often solved many of our problems and trouble. Studying the past helps us to understand what our ancestors' lives were like. And it also helps us to see how their experiences have shaped our own life.
To be honest, ▲ . Some of what we study in history helps us understand the mistakes of the past and these mistakes will help people not to do the same wrong things. People often learn from the past to have a better future.
Whether we like the subject of history or not, we must understand the importance of the events and the people who came before us. Our ancestors' decisions have influenced our own life. Similarly, the decisions of our own generation will finally influence those who come after us. In this only way, the world is truly connected.
History is not just a study of the past. History is the study of people, places, and events that can influence the future.
Now do you still think studying history is a sad thing? Or do you have any doubt about learning history? If you have any question, just fell free to ask.
At times we all get angry when we are driving. It might be because we are stuck in a traffic jam or stuck behind a very slow driver. It might be because we think another driver has done something very stupid and dangerous. Whatever the reason, it seems that getting angry in a car is something which happens more and more often and there is now a special term for it "road rage". What do we know about road rage?
There are two kinds of road rage: aggressive driving and aggressive reactions to the way other people are driving. Aggressive driving can take different forms:
·Driving much faster than the speed limit
·Increasing your speed very quickly.
·Changing lanes very suddenly and stopping another car.
·Moving into a parking space where another car is trying to park.
There are also different reactions to the way other people are driving. These include:
·Making rude signs at people,
·Shouting at people and hitting somebody.
·Driving into another person's car on purpose.
·Using a weapon such as a baseball bat, or even a gun or a knife.
Road rage is certainly not a joke. There have been accidents of road rage which have led to serious injuries and even death.
Experts think that one reason for road rage is that films show a lot of examples of fast and aggressive driving which seems to be positive. Experts also think that the punishments for dangerous driving are not serious enough. Experience shows that driving problems can be controlled, but it takes a long time. In the UK in the last 30 years, the police have been quite successful in reducing the number of people who drink and drive. They are now working to stop people using mobile phones when they are driving. Let's hope they can have the same success with the road rage.
①Mr James changed his lane suddenly while there was a car following.
②Mrs Smith shouted at another driver who was trying to overpass her car.
③Mr Miller drove so carelessly that his car hit an old man who was walking.
④Mr Green drove at 110 km/h while the speed limit is 70 km/h.
I live in Mentone, a quiet, simple, restful place, where the rich never come. I met Mark Toin Theophile Magnan, a retired, rich, old man from Lyons yesterday, in the Hotel des Anglais. Theophile looked sad and dreamy, and didn't talk with anybody else, which brought me back to the past.
A long time ago, Francois Millet, Claude, Carl and I were young artists-very young artists——in fact.
Yes, Francois Millet, the great French artist, was my friend.
Millet wasn't any greater than we were at that time. He didn't have any fame, even in his own village.
We were all poor though we had stacks and stacks of as good pictures as anybody in Europe painted. Once a person ever offered four francs for Millet's "Angelus", which he intended to sell for eight.
It was a fact in human history that a great artist would never be acknowledged until after he was starved and dead. His pictures climbed to high prices after his death.
Then we made a decision that one of us must die, to save the others and himself.
Millet was elected—elected to die.
During the next three months Millet painted with all his might, enlarged his stock all he could, not pictures, no! sketches, studies, parts of studies, fragments of studies, of course, with his cipher on them.
They were the things to be sold.
Carl went to Paris to start the work of building up Millet's name. Claude and I went to sell Millet's small pictures and to build up his name as well.
We made Millet a master. I always said to my customer, "I am a fool to sell a picture of Francois Millet's at all, for he is not going to live three months, and when he dies his pictures can't be had for love or money." Claude and I took care to spread that little fact as far as we could.
Carl made friends with the correspondents, and got Millet's condition reported to England and all over the continent, and America, and everywhere.
The sad end came at last, Millet died, not really. He became Theophile Magnan.
The pictures went up. There's a man in Paris today who owns seventy Millet pictures. He paid us two million francs for them. Do you still remember the "Angelus"? Carl sold it for twenty-two hundred francs. And as for the bushels of sketches and studies which Millet produced in the last six weeks, well, it would astonish you to know the figure we sell them at nowadays.
We are no longer artists and Millet dead.
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If you are tired of making human connections, Lovet can be a great choice for you. A Japanese company (发明) it in December, 2018. It is a friendly robot which can make (孤独的) people feel the love.
The (名字)"Lovet" comes from the two words——"love" and" robot". With two bright eyes and a (柔软的) body, Lovet moves around your house and asks you for hugs. It doesn't talk, but chirps.
Lovet follows you with the help of a (照相机) on its head. It also has abilities to tell who you are by reading your face. It can (甚至) remember up to 1000 faces.
The robot cannot help you with housework, but it will (发展) your ability to love. It moves around on three wheels and waves its two little (手臂) to show surprise and love, or to ask for a hug. It sleeps when it's hugged and it follows you when it is called. It is (害羞的) around strangers. When you open the door, it will hide (在……后面) you. If you want to make it laugh, just touch it.
Lovet will do all it can to fill you with joy.
Do you play Ant Forest? It is online game on Alipay. Players collect "energy" by (do) something environmentally-friendly. They can grow and water (they) own "trees" with the "energy". If the "trees" are big enough, Alipay some other companies will plant real trees in the desertarea of China. Every year millions of trees (plant) in this way.
This is part of China's tree-planting program. It (hope) to stop the desert from becoming larger. 1978, China has planted over 66 billion trees in the north. It is known as "the Great Green Wall". For example, Saihanba in Hebei Province was once a desert, now it has become the biggest man-made forest in China.
"China is making the world much (green) than before. It sets a good example and has many (lesson) to share with the world." said the United Nations Environment Program.
