Metro Pocket Guide
Metrorail（地铁）
Each passenger needs a fare card to enter and go out. Up to two children under age five may travel free with a paying customer.
Fare card machine are in every station. Bring small bills because there are no change machines in the station and fare card machine only provide up to ﹩5 in change.
Get one of unlimited Metrorail rides with a One Day Pass. Buy it from a fare card machine in Metro stations. Use it after 9: 30 a. m. until closing on weekdays, and all day on weekends and holidays.
Hours of Service
Open: 5 a. m. Mon-Fri. 7 a. m. Sat-Sun.
Close: midnight Sun-Thur. 3 a. m. Fri-Sat. nights
Last train time vary. To avoid missing the last train, please check the last train time posted in the station.
Metrobus
When paying with exact change, the fare is ﹩1. 35. When paying with a smatTrip@CARD the fare is ﹩1. 25.
Fares for the Senior /disabled（老年/残疾）customers
Senior customers 65 and older and disabled customers may spend less money on their ride. On Metrorail and Metrobus, use a senior/disabled fare card or SmarTrip@card. For more information about buying senior/ disabled fare cards, or Smar Trip@cards and passes, please visit MetroOpenDoors. com or call 202-637-7000 and 202-637-8000.
Senior citizens and disabled customers can get free guide on how to use proper Metrobus and Metrorail services by calling 202-962-1100.
Travel tips
Avoid riding during weekday rush periods -before 9: 30 a. m. and between 4 and 6 p. m.
If you lose something on a bus or train or in a station, please call Lost & Found at 202-962-1195.
About ten men in every hundred suffer from color blindness in some way. Women are luckier; only about one in two hundred is affected in this matter. Perhaps, after all, it is safer to be driven by a woman!
There are different forms of color blindness. In some cases a man may not be able to see deep red. He may think that red, orange and yellow are all shadows of green. Sometimes a person cannot tell the difference between blue and green. In rare cases an unlucky man may see everything in shades of green -- a strange world indeed.
Color blindness in human beings is a strange thing to explain. In a single eye there are millions of very small things called "cones". These help us to see in a bright light and to tell the difference between colors. There are also millions of "rods", but these are used for seeing when it is near dark. They show us shape but no color.
Some insects have favorite colors. Mosquitoes（蚊子） prefer blue to yellow. A red light will not attract insects, but a blue lamp will. In a similar way human beings also have favorite colors. Yet we are lucky. With the aid of the cones in our eyes we can see many beautiful colors by day, and with the aid of the rods we can see shapes at night. One day we may even learn more about the invisible （看不见的） colors around us.
Happiness is for everyone. You don't need to care about those people who have beautiful houses with large gardens and swimming pools or those who have nice cars and a lot of money and so on. Why？ Because those who have big houses may often feel lonely and those who have cars may want to walk on the country roads at their free time.
In fact, happiness is always around you if you put your heart into it. When you are in trouble at school, your friends will help you; when you study hard at your lessons, your parents are always taking good care of your life and your health; when you get success, your friends will say congratulations to you; when you do something wrong, people around you will help you to correct it. And when you do something good to others, you will feel happy, too. All these are your happiness. If you notice them, you can see that happiness is always around you.
Happiness is not the same as money. It is a feeling of your heart. When you are poor, you can also say you are very happy, because you have something else that can't be bought with money. When you meet with difficulties, you can say loudly you are very happy, because you have more chances to challenge yourself.
So you cannot always say you are poor and you have bad luck. As the saying goes, life is like a revolving（旋转） door. When it closes, it also opens. If you take every chance you get, you can be a happy and lucky person.
Everyone needs to know how to prevent a fire. It is also important to know what to do when it 1out.
Every year, over 11, 000 people are killed or injured in house fires. These2could have been stopped. Smokers who are careless 3 about 200 deaths and over 6, 000 fires. More than half of those who die in fires are killed by smoke.
You need to realize how quickly a spark（火花）can become deadly. It can take away the air you need to 4. It can make so much smoke that it can kill someone in seconds, faster than the fire itself.
If fire breaks out, do not attempt to fight the fire unless it is small. 5putting out a small fire with water. If the fire has spread, shut the door on it. Warn everyone else in the building and6them to get out. You should leave and dial 911 for the fire department.
Before going into a room, 7the door. If the handle（把手）is hot, do not open it! Put clothing or a wet towel at the bottom of it to 8 smoke out. If the door is not hot, open it slowly. If there's a rush of smoke or heat, 9it again and shout to warn others inside. Now open the window and shout "Fire!". See whether you can drop safely to the10. If you are not on ground level, lower yourself at arm's length before dropping. Once outside, stay outside and make sure the fire department is called.
Friendship is one of the most important things in everyone's life. is very difficult to find a better definition（定义） of friendship. A true friend is the personcan share all our sadness and double all our happiness. In time of trial, he or she is always at our side to give us his or her help and comfort. （know） how valuable friendship is, we should be very （care） with our choice of a friend. We should choose those people with a good character as our friends, but we must try to avoid making （friend） with a bad man. Besides, we should forgive their mistakes and try to help them as much possible.
A true friend can always be （trust）, loved and respected. If you tell a friend your secrets, he or she won't tell others. Friends share their joys unhappiness. They help each other when they are trouble, and cheer each other up when they are sad. most important thing is that a friend always understands you. In conclusion, when you have made a good friend, don't forget him or her.
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