New York City isn't the biggest city in the world, but it is the biggest city in the United States. Most Americans live in much smaller cities and towns, but almost 8 million people live in New York City. Why did so many people come to live in one place?
A look at the city shows us that New York City has a very good port (商埠). The Dutch (荷兰) settlers (移民) wanted to use it for business. In 1626, the Dutch paid (付钱) the Indians twenty-four dollars for the island of Manhattan. Its Dutch name was New Amsterdam. Then the British took the land in 1664 and changed its name to New York.
The United States became an independent (独立的) country in 1783, and New York was its capital for a short time. The city became so crowded that some people moved out to other places. But more people from other parts of the world are coming into the city every day.
Bob lives in the city centre. One Saturday, Bob decides to take a 1 through the countryside. After 2 hours, he sees a dog walking behind a man on the side 3 the road. As the car comes near them, the dog jumps into the road. Of course, the car hits the poor animal and kills it.
Bob stops his car and walks up to the man. "I'm very 4," he says. "Is there anything I can do? Will $10 5?"
"Oh, but ...," says the man.
"I should tell you ..."
"Stop! You're right. Maybe $10 isn't enough! That dog was your best friend!"
Bob then 6 $30 out of his pocket and gives it to the man. Then he thanks the man and drives away.
After Bob leaves, the man looks down at the dog and says, "I wonder 7 dog that is."
When you wanted to buy something in the past, what would you do? You would go out and buy them in a store or supermarket. But now in 21st century, there is a new w to do so－it is to buy it online. How incredible(不可思议), isn't it?
There are many good reasons to shop online. First of all, it is convenient. When you want to buy s, you do not need to go out, but to sit before your computer and look through the web pages such as Jingdong or Taobao. Then you c what you want and buy it with just a click of your mouse. Shopping online can help you save lots of time, money and energy.
In addition, a advantage(优点) of shopping online is that there are much more goods online which you have never seen in the store. For example, some books printed several years ago might not be sold in the stores, but you can buy them online!
Finally, because of the technology improvement(技术改进), shopping online has become s. You can check the information of the owner b you decide to buy and pay for the goods. You can make payment online and you don't have to w that your information may be stolen.
If you want to enjoy shopping, online shopping can help you to get what you want.
James Baker works as a diver. At the bottom of the sea, he looks for sunken（沉没的）ships. There's probably a lot of treasure (宝藏) on them.
When James dives, he carries an air tank and the air goes through a tube to his mouth. His friends often ask him, "Do you like your work?" "Yes, I do. It's interesting. But it's always dangerous to dive into deep water," he answered. "Why?" "Far down, a diver may get into trouble. The water is heavy and presses hard against him. He begins to feel so wild that he doesn't know what he's doing."
One day, James went down with his friend, Pat in a strange place.
Down, down, down they dived. It took them a long time to get to the bottom. On the bottom, they swam around and found an ancient ship. How excited they were!
It was a lot of fun to look for treasure on the ship. They forgot how long it was.
"It's time to go up now," Pat warned by pointing up. James saw his sign but didn't want to leave immediately. Just then a big black fish was swimming over him.
"Hi, guy!" James tried to greet the fish. He took his air tube out of his mouth and held it out to the fish! Pat saw this, quickly put the tube back into James' mouth and pulled him up. Up, up they went to the top at last. How good the fresh air smelled! Later, Pat said to James angrily, "You nearly killed yourself, Jim!" James laughed aloud as if nothing had happened. "There's nothing to laugh about. It's about life and death," Pat said seriously.
Hearing that, James felt sorry and said, " 87 ."
