What makes a good reader? You can find the answer in Readers Club. Today, We have some books for you. Come and join the fun!
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The Old Man and the Sea won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953. A year later, Hemingway won the Nobel Prize for Literature. The Old Man and the Sea is generally considered to be his greatest achievement. The leading character in this book is a person, he can face difficulties and never give up. Hardback￥21. 70 Paperback￥16. 00 |
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Heart, written by Edmondo De Amicis from Italy, is a diary of an Italian boy Eric. In his diary, he writes about the greatest love in the world, love for the country, for the society, and also teachers' love, classmates' love, parents' love, children's love. Hardback￥27.20 Paperback￥16. 40 |
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Peter Pan, created by J. M. Barrie. Peter Pan is a young boy. He can fly and never grows up. He spends his never-ending childhood having adventures(冒险) on the island of Neverland, playing happily with children both inside and outside Neverland. Hardback￥22.70 Paperback￥14. 60 |
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Celebrity Biography, also known as" Three Giants", written by Romain Rolland, about three great men in different fields: Beethoven, Michelangelo and Leo Tolstoy. They all suffered (遭受) a lot in body and spirit, but never lost heart. Hardback￥26.20 Paperback￥15. 80 |
Club members will get a discount(折扣) of 10% for hardback books and 20% for paperback books. If you buy any of the two hardback books, e-books will be free for you.
A young man entered the last interview of a company. The boss found that the young man's school grades were very good.
"Did you get any scholarships(奖学金) in school?" the boss asked. "No," the young man answered. "Did your father pay for your school fees (学费)?"the boss asked. "My father passed away when I was one year old, so my mother paid for my school fees," the young man answered.
"Where did your mother work?" the boss asked. "My mother cleaned clothes," the young man said. The boss looked at the young man's hands. He had a pair of smooth and perfect hands.
"Have you ever helped your mother wash the clothes before?" the boss asked. "Never," the young man answered. "I have a request," the boss said. "When you go back home today, go and clean your mother's hands, and then see me tomorrow morning.
The young man felt that his chance of getting the job was high. When he went back. He happily asked his mother to let him clean her hands. His mother felt strange, happy but with mixed feelings. She showed her hands to the kid. The young man cleaned his mother's hands slowly. His tears fell as he did that. It was the first time he had noticed his mother's hands were so wrinkled, he realized it was this pair of hands that helped him pay the fees.
The next morning, the young man went to the boss. "I cleaned my mother's hands, and I now that without my mother, I would not be the person I am today, "he said.
"This is what I am looking for in my manager," the boss said. "I want a person who can pectate(感激)the help of others lo get things done. You get the job!"
We've all had bad experiences with restaurants, stores or hotels. Maybe you've been to a restaurant but it served terrible food. Perhaps you've been to a store with high prices and bad service. Or maybe you've booked a hotel and found out later that the room was nothing like the advertisement(广告).
These days, we have a better chance of stopping these unhappy surprises. We can do this by using apps. An app is a computer program on a smartphone. You can use apps to do almost anything. Apps can help you play games, get directions, talk to friends and so on.
If you want to find information about a store or a hotel, you can use a review app. Review apps help us know services and products before we hand over our money. After you go to a restaurant or stay in a hotel, you can post reviews with them. You can say anything you want. If you like the hotel, you can tell people that it was wonderful. If you think that the food in a certain restaurant was bad, then you can tell people not to eat there. Other people can read your reviews.
Many people do not use these review apps. These people think that it's a waste of time to look through websites and read reviews. These people like to go out and decide for themselves whether or not a service is good. However, review apps are getting more and more popular every day. Some apps are for exact services. For example, trip adviser gives attention to travel and good reader pays attention to books. There are also other larger apps, they provide information for. just about every service that you can think of.
The invention of barcodes (条形码) comes from a very simple idea. We only need to give each product a specific(具体的) number and print it. We could simply print the number itself. But this can cause problems. For example, an unclearly printed" seven" could look like a" one" to a computer. And "nine "looks similar to "six "if you turn it upside down. We need a better way of printing numbers so that they can be read correctly at high speeds. That's the problem barcodes solve.
Each number in a barcode is shown by seven same stripes(条). For example, the number "one" is shown in turn by two white stripes, two black stripes, two white stripes, and one black stripe.
A barcode includes different parts and each one provides a specific meaning. For example, 690-692 is the barcode for China. The next part tells you who produced the product. The final part is about the product itself. This is how barcodes work.
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A. It's also true for "three" and "eight". B. The first part of a barcode tells you where the product was made. C. Even if you turn it upside down, it isn't similar to any other number. D. Then computers can read it directly. E. These stripes are either black or white to show the number 1 to 9. |
Many people consider Albert Einstein(1879一1955) a genius (天才). This story about him shows that he is also a1scientist.
Einstein often2invitations to give speeches at different3. On these trips, his driver Hans often said to him, "It's a4to drive a genius like you, Dr. Einstein."
One evening, on their way to a university, Einstein said, "I'm so tired. I want to5giving the speech tonight, Hans, but I can't let my audience(观众) down.
"I know what to do," said Hans. "I can give the speech for you. You can6me. I've listened to your speech so many times7I've learned it by heart. No one knows you at this university, so they won't8."
So, they exchanged IDs. At the university, Hans was guided to the9of the hall. Einstein took a seat, listened to Hans give his speech without difficulty and10the applause (鼓掌) at the end.
However, before Hans left, a man shouted, "I'd like to ask you a question." He then asked a very11question and Hans had no idea what he was talking about.
Einstein's face turned white. "Oh, no!" he thought. "Now we're in12."
But Hans just laughed and said, "That's an easy question. Even my13can answer it. Hans, please…"
Einstein stood up and answered the question14They left the university, with Einstein15.A little while later, Hans offered to drive. "No," laughed Einstein. "It's a pleasure to drive a genius like you, Hans."
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One day, a farmer was walking along a road with his son Thomas. The father said." Look! There is a horseshoe. Pick it and put it in your bag." Thomas said. "It isn't worth(值得) the trouble." His father said but picked it up himself.
When they got to a nearby town, they had a rest. There the father the horseshoe and with some money he bought some cherries(樱桃). The father and the son continued way. The sun was up in the sky. And there wasn't a house even a tree, so they could not have a rest. Thomas felt too thirsty to walk on. At this time, his father dropped a cherry on the ground and Thomas picked it up and ate it. After a while, his father dropped another cherry and once again his son lost time in picking it up and it in his mouth. And so they went on. The old farmer dropped the cherries and the son picked them up.
When Thomas all the cherries. his father said to him, "My dear son, you had bent(弯曲) down earlier to pick up that horseshoe, it would not have been necessary for you to bend so many for the cherries. Always remember the lesson that anyone who does not worry about the little things will find that he cannot do the great things. "
"Thousands of children have begun getting a free lunch on school days under the government's free and healthy school lunch program," Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said Thursday.
"The program is for 7, 000 students at 31 schools right now. The number increase to 21, 000 students in 120 schools by the start of 2022,"Ardern said.
"Providing a free and healthy lunch al school is one way to help New Zealand become best place in the world for school children. is also a great way for local families to have jobs," she added.
"The program is one of 75 plans from New Zealand's CYWS (Child and Youth Wellbeing Srategy). It started last year developed with the money from 10, 000 New Zealanders including 6.000 young people," said Education Minister Chris Hipkins.
A: What are you going to do this Saturday?
B: .
A: Your primary school!? Why are you going there?
B: Because there is going to be a party for the old classmates.
A: Wow! That sounds great!
B: .
A: Of course, I'd love to. ?
B: Let's drive there.
A: Oh, no，we'd better not. .
B: Shall we take a bus or ride bikes?
A: . The weather report says it will be rainy and windy this weekend.
B: OK. Let's make it!
提示：1）When is the festival?
2）What do people eat and do on that day?
3）What do you think of the festival and why?
要求：1）文中不得出现真实姓名和学校名;
2）词数100词左右，开头已给出,不计人总词数。
Hi! Tom,
I'm glad to hear that you are interested in traditional Chinese festivals.
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Yours,
Li Hua
