On a Tuesday night, a bus crashed(撞击)into a house. It1a six-year-old boy, David Molina, dead.
Josue Molina said, "The bus was out of 2 and it came to our house. My brother was walking in the room. The bus fell on him and then he 3 and got squashed(压扁).”
The bus driver turned the wheel(方向盘)suddenly when he 4 a man jaywalking(乱穿马路). As a result, the bus went into the bedroom Josue and David 5. Josue shouted, "Daddy！Mommy！My brother!"
Their father, Santos Herrera, tried to save them. "Herrera wasn't able to open the bedroom door, 6 he climbed through the window. At last he could only save Josue, "said Josue's mother.
Josue tried to 7 through the debris(残骸)to find David, "I tried my best but I couldn't find him. I wished there were no buses in the world, so he would still be with me. "
Neighbors tried to get David out as well, but 8 firefighters(消防员)were able to do that. Unluckily, the boy died 9 the way to the hospital. Police said the accident was caused by the jaywalking man who was also hurt. Josue said, "I don t want David to 10. I want him to stay with me. I'm going to miss him a lot."
Each nation has many volunteers who help to take care of others.They1books to the people in hospitals or homes for the aged.Sometimes they just visit them and play games with them or listen to their2.
Other young volunteers go and work in the homes of people who are sick or3.They paint，clean up.4their houses or do their shopping.
For boys who no longer have5 ， there is an organization called Big Brothers.College students and other men take these boys to baseball games or fishing places and help them to get to know things that boys6learn from their fathers.
Each city has a number of7where boys and girls can go to play games or learn crafts (工艺).Some of these clubs organize short trips to the mountains，beaches，or8places of interest nearby.Most of these clubs use high school and college students as volunteers because they are young enough to9the names of boys and girls.
Volunteers believe that the happiest people in the world are those who help to10happiness to others.
A: This office is in a mess! I'm a little embarrassed(尴尬的).
B: Don't be. Today is cleaning day!
A: I don't like cleaning day. But we need it every year.
B: Dirt(灰尘) gets into small places.
A: I know. Would you like to help?
B: Yes. Today will be fun.
A: So, where do we start?
B: You can clean out these old boxes of papers.
A: Some of these papers are really old. What can I do with them?
B:
A: That's a good idea.
| A. I like to clean. B. You could sell them. C. I never do chores. D. We should clean them. E. I think it's boring. F. Everybody's office is in a mess. G. I can clean your desk. |
Life is always full of stress these days. How do you usually solve your stress？Do you know doing housework is helpful in solving stress? In fact, doing something like washing dirty clothes may really make people relaxed.
"Doing some housework such as folding clothes or cleaning the room is a good way to face our stress without taking any medicine, "says Carol Clark, a successful psychologist(心理学家)in New York. She often advises people who are under lots of stress to try doing housework every day." While washing something, "she says, "you can imagine you re washing away some trouble in your life."
Do people all agree with her idea？Here are some ideas about it.
"Housework is the main reason for the stress in my life, "says Linda in France(法国)."Get me out of doing the housework and then I'll really be relaxed."
Gary is a single(单身的)father." So, a man pays a psychologist $200 an hour for his problem about stress. However, he is just told to go back home and do some housework. I really don t know who is crazier, the psychologist or the man!"
Alfred Nobel, the great Swedish inventor and industrialist, was born in Stockholm on October 21, 1833, but moved to Russia with his parents in 1842, where his father Immanuel, made a strong position for himself in the engineering industry. Immanuel Nobel invented landmine and made a lot of money from the government during the Crimean War, but went bankrupt soon after. Then, the family returned to Sweden in 1859, where Alfred began his own study of explosives in his father's lab. He had never been to school or university but had taught himself, and by the time he was twenty, he became a skillful chemist and excellent linguist, speaking Swedish, Russian, German, French and English. He built up over 80 companies in 20 different countries. He was always searching for a meaning to life. He spent much time and money working on how to end the wars and maintain(保持)the peace between nations, until his death in Italy in 1896.His famous last will, in which he left money to provide prizes for outstanding work in physics, chemistry, physiology, medicine, literature and peace, is a memorial to his interests and ideas.
And so, the man is remembered and respected long after his death.
A company, Guizhentang, has to face a storm of criticism(批评).The company is in the bear bile(胆汁)business. It has bear farms in which bile is taken out and used in traditional Chinese medicine and for other purposes.
Bile is a liquid that is produced in the liver and stored in the gall bladder(胆囊).In bears(and in humans too), bile is necessary to help digest(消化)fatty food. Traditional Chinese medicine uses bear bile to treat pain, fever and vision problems. Bile for traditional Chinese medicine used to be collected by killing bears, but it was discovered that bear bile could be got by keeping the bears alive and just
"milking" them by putting a rubber tube into the bodies of bears. Unfortunately, this is a painful process(过程)and bears have to live a life of suffering.
Animal rights groups want this practice to stop. They say it is cruel to treat animals that way.
Guizhentang disagrees. It says the practice isn't harmful and that it is actually helping bears. There are fewer Chinese black bears from which the bile can be taken, because man is taking over the forests that bears live in. The company says bear farms are a way to protect the species.
Anyhow, we should know that causing animals great pain is wrong. There are man-made substitutes(替代品)for bear bile that work just as well, so bear farms aren't really necessary. If Guizhentang really wants to protect black bears, they should perhaps think about getting out of the bear bile business.
①It is produced in the gall bladder.
②It helps digest fat.
③It can cure a person's eye problems.
④It's now got mainly by killing bears.
Cheetahs(猎豹)are the fastest animals on land.But as their living space has got smaller, they are in big trouble.They have to fight with stronger animals for food, and their number is getting smaller.
Cheetahs use their super speed to catch gazelles(羚羊)and impalas(黑斑羚), rabbits and other small plant eaters.
Cheetahs are fast, but they can only run for a short time.For example, during a hunt, they can run for only about 200 metres.They are sprinters(短跑运动员).
Once cheetahs start they can speed up quickly, and a few seconds later, they can run over 100 kmph.
They are good at running, but they aren't very strong in a fight.Sometimes they have their food taken away by lions or hyenas(鬣狗).
The plains that cheetahs and lions live on are becoming smaller and smaller.People are taking away the land.Because of this, cheetahs have to fight with lions and hyenas.There are fewer cheetahs since they have to fight with those stronger animals for survival.
