A little boy was spending his Saturday morning playing in his sandbox. While creating roads in the soft sand, he1 a large rock in the middle of the sandbox.
The boy dug around the 2, managing to move it out from the dirt. With much effort, he tried to push the rock out of the sandbox. 3, he failed. The rock was too 4 for his small body.
As he 5 to accept his failure, the little boy dug, pushed, and pried, but every time he thought he had made some 6, the rock rolled and then fell back into the sandbox. The little boy 7 again and again, but the only result was to have the rock roll back.
8, he cried loudly. All this time the boy's father 9 him from his living room. The moment the tears fell, a sweet 10 rose above the boy's head. It was his father. 11 but firmly he said, "Son, why didn't you use all the strength that you had?" The boy replied with tears, "But I did, Daddy, I did! I have tried 12 I could do!" "No, son, you didn't," replied the father kindly." You didn't ask 13 to help you." With that the father 14 the rock and threw it out of the sandbox.
Are you discovering that sometimes you don't have the strength to move your "rocks" away? There is ONE who is always willing to 15 you with the strength you need. Don't forget that!
In August 2040, people in Garden City are buying their holidays, homes and cars on the Internet from QuickBuy. com. Here is a part of the website.
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The Magic Hotel in Garden City is completely underwater. It has fifty underwater rooms, a computer games hall and a shopping mall. There is also an animal animation center, where children can play with animals. |
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The house is "green". It has glass around it. The house saves heat because it stays under the glass. The heat is then used as energy to run machines in the house. All the walls are made of glass and you can move them, so you can have rooms any size you want. It is also smart. The fridge in the kitchen has a computer, connected to the supermarket's computer. It tells the supermarket's computer when you need more food. It only orders the food you like. |
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The CJ3 is a hydrogen car. Hydrogen cars cause less air pollution in Garden City. You can see where you are on an electronic map and you can see all the traffic ahead of you. It also has an Internet, so driver can get information about weather or even book a restaurant from the car. |
"If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden. "These words come from the author of the book The Secret Garden, first published in 1911. At that time, only the very rich in Britain had gardens. Very soon after this, homes with gardens began to be built. This is what started the British love of gardening! Today, millions of Brits like to say that they have "green fingers" with around half the population spending their free time gardening.
For many people in the UK, their garden is their own private world. Each spring, children plant sunflowers and wait to see which one is the tallest. Expert gardeners know just the right comer for roses and others spend hours trying to grow perfect vegetables to enter into competitions. And while many Brits like nothing better than spending their Sunday cutting the grass, some are happy just to sit under the trees and enjoy the beauty of the world around them.
But in cities, limited space has led to people looking for new solutions. Those without outside space can rent small pieces of land on which to grow things. Today, there are over 4, 000 people in
London waiting for such pieces of land. One recent idea has been to turn rooftops and walls into private gardens. These gardens have helped make the cities greener and improve air quality.
As well as being good for the environment, gardening is also good for the soul. What other free-time activity allows you to be at one with nature and create more beautiful living things? And if you're in any doubt about this, take a moment to reflect on this line from The Secret Garden:Where you tend a rose… A thistle cannot grow. "
Imagine someone offers you two plates. One plate holds a single cookie while the other holds three cookies. Which one would you choose? Unless you don't like cookies, you'll pick the plate with three.
Being able to tell more from less is one of the most basic math talents. And it's one that a surprising number of animals have. A robin will pick the piece of wood with more mealworms. A salamander will pick the container with more fruit flies.
Animals will even pick more of something when it means they get less overall. Horses, for example, will go for three tiny apples over two much larger ones.
But animals do not have math class—why would they need to count?
Being able to spot the larger of two groups is useful to animals in lots of ways. It helps them pick the bush with more berries, or run to the larger group of friends. Many fish, for example, join groups for protection. If a predator comes, a fish in a group of 40 is less likely to become lunch than a fish in a group of 10. So if a fish has a choice between two groups, it's better to join the larger one.
Many animals can also do a simple form of counting. keeping track of how many of something there is.
Even animals we don't usually think of as smart can tell the difference between one, two, and three. Fish and honeybees can be trained to get through a maze by choosing turns marked by a certain number of dots—to find the way out, they have to count.
Some animals, such as pigeons, parrots, crows, and rats, can count much higher than three. A pigeon can learn to peck a button exactly 24 times—no more, no less—to get a treat. It can even remember its place and continue counting if interrupted.
①It helps them enjoy more food. ②It helps them make more friends.
③It helps them stay safe from danger. ④It helps them get more treats.
One day, while my husband and I were passing a sporting goods store with a sign "Going out of Business" in a mall, I suggested looking around in it. But my husband said it was all overpriced junk.
With my promise of not buying anything, he agreed to wait in a coffee shop nearby.
I entered the crowded store, and strolled up and down All of a sudden, I saw the exact canoe which my husband had been longing for many years. I gasped and blinked three times. Yes, it was still there. My heart beat wildly. I quickly walked towards it and found out the price tag which said it was S6, 000 off.
Only S750?Must be mistaken!
I asked a young salesman named Mathew if there was anything wrong, but I was told it was new and was on clearance sale just like everything else.
After a check, however, he told me they made a mistake about the price which was supposed to be $4, 750.
With tears in my eyes, I said, "Of course, it was too good to be true. This is exactly like my husband's dreamboat. He's going to be 62 years old this Friday. He had to retire early for his health. It's been hard on just the pension but the stubborn old fool has been saving $10 every week for years. "My voice was lower and lower and then I walked away.
I was already at the mall door when Mathew caught up with me.
"Do you have $750 plus $25 for delivery and a bit more for tax, ma'am?"I gasped, "Yes. Yes. ""Well then, you just have your husband sitting on the front porch on Friday morning at around 10 o'clock when my dad and I come to unload his new boat." I started to cry. My old hand shook and I couldn't say a word for a long time.
Mathew swallowed and told me the story about his grandfather-the owner of the store, who had run it for more than 30 years, "He always promised to retire one day and would spend time fishing in a canoe. He ordered this one last year. But he died, sudden-like, just last week and never found a chance to use it. I think he will be very, very happy that your husband will get this canoe. You just have to promise that he will use it a lot. "
"I promise, "I said as I hurried to look for my dear sweet husband.
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People all over the world pay much attention to the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games.
When talking about what's the most popular design about the Winter Olympics (在之中) kids and teenagers, the answer must be the mascot.
Two years ago, a panda called Bing Dwen Dwen was (选择) as the mascot for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics. It wears a full-body "shell" made of ice. It looks like an astronaut in a space suit. It (挥动) its left hand to say hello. It has two red hearts in palms, sharing kindness and love, showing a perfect mix of winter sports and modern (科技).
The idea of Bing Dwen Dwen came from the traditional Chinese snack—bingtanghulu. However, a (简单的) snack couldn't stand for a country by itself. So Cao Xue, the president of Guangzhou Fine Art College, who created the mascot, and his 14-member team discussed (千) of times, they tried many animals and plants and at (最后) decided on a panda. Bing DwenDwen is designed to express the (精神) of the Olympic, (包括) passion, patience, friendship and common understanding to actively take part in the public.
Now the panda-shape mascot in an ice shell has been made into toys and (模型), as well as printed on notebooks, badges and bags. It is welcomed by people all over the world!
