A: Hey, Linda. What are you doing?
B:
A: Electronic music? Why do you like such loud music?
B: Well, I don't think electronic music is noisy.
A: Relaxed? I don't agree. I just like pop music and I`m a fan of many pop singers.
B:
A: I like Westlife best. Have you ever heard of them before?
B: Yeah, of course.
A: Because they are handsome and dance well.
B: Oh. Here is a magazine about Westlife. I want to learn more about them.
A: Sure. I can lend it to you. Try to listen to their songs. Maybe you`ll like them.
B: OK, I will.
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A. Could I borrow it? B. Why do you like them best? C. I`m enjoying electronic music. D. Why do you like pop music? E. What kind of music do you like? F. Who is your favorite pop singer? G. It makes me relaxed. |
Have you ever heard of McDonald's? It is one of the biggest restaurant chains in the world. Now it has 1 in more than 100 countries.
The story of McDonald's started in the 1930s in Los Angeles, USA. Two brothers, Richard and Maurice McDonald, wanted to start a business. First, they tried opening a movie theater, but it didn't 2 . Next, they set up a food stand（摊位）in order to sell hamburgers and orange juice. 3 the food stand was successful, the brothers wanted something bigger.
4 , more and more people were driving cars. So the brothers decided to open a restaurant for 5 . The restaurant was called McDonald's Barbeque. 6 workers brought food like sandwiches to people who would wait in their cars.
After opening McDonald's Barbeque, the McDonald brothers had to 7 competition from many similar restaurants nearby. The needed to think about how they could make their restaurant 8 . The answer was to serve food 9 and more cheaply. They also gave their restaurant a new name—McDonald's. That made their restaurant popular.
Soon, other people wanted to copy their business plan. The brothers sold franchises（许可经营权）to open more restaurants. Later, Ray Kroc worked with the brothers. Kroc had big plans and wanted to open as many McDonald's as possible across the country. 10 making a great effort, he succeeded. He helped turn McDonald's into a famous restaurant chain.
Bigfoot Adventure（冒险） Enjoy a four-day trip along the Rushwater River. See where Bigfoot may look for food. Find Bigfoot's footprints. Maybe even see Bigfoot yourself. We provide tents and food. Bring strong boots （靴子）and raincoats. $570 for each person Phone:360-555-8899 E-mail: info@rushwatertours. com | Bigfoot River Safari Take a six-day boat trip along the Rushwater River. Stop at some places where Bigfoot might catch fish. Enjoy comfortable two-person or tree-person cabins（船舱）on the boat. You must be able to swim. $630 for each person Phone:360-555-1002 E-mail: reservations@bigfootrs. com |
For many years, thousands of people have gone to the North Pole（北极）in summer, but few in winter. In the winter of 1990, the French artist Jannot Derit was invited to have the opening of his exhibition（展览）in a building in the little village of Jukkasjarvi. The building, named the Arctic Hall, was made of snow. Many visitors went there. One night, a group of visitors decided to sleep in the Arctic Hall. The following morning, the brave visitors were very pleased with their experience and the idea of an ice hotel was born. Today, the ICEHOTEL is world—famous.
As soon as winter begins, a team of builders from all over the world come to Jukkasjarvi and they make the hotel for that year. As one part is completed, it opens to visitors, while the other parts are still being built. The first part is completed in December and each week after that a new part opens. The hotel isn't usually completed until January 7th. The ICEHOTEL is built under the open sky, using the natural materials of the winter season. So the completion date depends on ____ and sometimes the plan changes. In spring, as the weather gets warmer, hotels will melt（融化）.
No matter how cold it may be outside, the temperature inside the hotel is never colder than -5℃ to-8℃. Winter outer（外面的）clothes are included in the cost of visitors` stay at the hotel. If you are planning to come to the hotel, you can buy warm sweaters, socks and some other things on the ICEHOTEL website. They will be sent to your room when you check in.
How do blind people get around safely? Some people use special guide dogs. A well-trained dog knows how to help its owner cross busy streets and get from place to place. Some people use long white canes（手杖）to help them get around.
Guide dogs and canes are helpful, but there must be a better way for blind people to get around. A scientist in England thought so. His name is Waters and he studies bats（蝙蝠）. He knows that bats are able to fly in the dark. Besides, he knows that bats go by using sound to "see". Dr. Waters wondered if people could do something similar.
Bats make sounds as they fly. These sounds travel in waves（波）in the air. When the waves hit anobject such as a tree or house, they bounce back（反射回来）. The waves travel back to the bat's ears. A bat learns the location and shape of objects around it.
Dr. Waters talked to other scientists, including Withington from America and Hoyle from Germany. They worked together and invented a new kind of cane. They called it a "bat cane" because their idea started with bats. The new cane has a computer in the handle（手柄）. △ The sound waves hit objects and echoes（回声）back. This causes the handle to make sounds, which humans can hear.
With a little training, a person using the cane can easily tell where objects are and can "see" with sound!
From an early age, we were taught that if we wanted to be successful, we had to study hard and get good results at school. In fact, good students may just end up doing jobs they don't like, and some even lead an unhappy life. Why is it like that?
In some parents` eyes, school grades matter most for their kids. In reality, there are many things to consider besides the school subjects, for example, how to be a happy person, what to do to keep healthy, and how to get along well with others. This is to say, school is not just enough if you want to have a great life.
Doing well in school is different from doing well in life. Studies show that people who failed at school may not end up failing in life. You may have already known that some famous people, like Thomas Edison and Steve Jobs, didn't do very well at school or even failed to finish school. In fact, there are a lot more than just the big shotswho are successful in life without finishing school. They catch every chance to learn and finally make it to the top.
Life is really a long lesson, so long that you can't define（界定）a person's success by just one part of it. If you have already finished school, keep learning because what you have learned at school will never be enough to live a wonderful life. If you are still studying, whether you are good or bad at school, don't take your school results too seriously as long as you have put you heart into it. Keep learning to make the most of your talents. That's how you can live a happy and successful life.
A: Excuse me, Mary. Do you know ?
B: I`m not sure. It might be Gina's. I saw her looking for her schoolbag just now.
A:. Hers is brown, but this one is yellow.
B: Let's see . Oh! Here is a hair band. The owner must be a girl who has long hair.
A: It might Linda. Linda has long hair, and she is always forgetting things.
B: There are also several ping-pang balls in the schoolbag.
A: Then . Because her favorite sport is ping-pang.
B: You`re right.
Are you bored with your daily life? Try three things before you are 18 years old, or it's too late. First, learn to swim. ⑴This is so important that it can save your life. Make sure you do it. Second, try at least one kind of team sports. Being a good team player is an important skill in life. The advantage of team sports is that you can't just think of yourself, but have to work well with other people. Third, collect something. ⑵You could collect things that make you remember what you have done. Don't you want to try them?
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When a business owner, Alcide Dominique, found a helpless man sleeping in front of his officeone morning, he decided to do something for him.
Dominique allowed the manthere and did not disturb（打扰）him. Dominique andof his staff members Sean, gave the homeless man a hot meal and for a night's stay in a hotel. He formed a with the man, 33-year-old Jim Brown.
"All we were doing was just being a friend, getting him to eat and getting him a room," he said. "That's all that we wanted to do. " However, that isn't all that happened.
Sean took a video of the conversation between Dominique and Brown and shared it and the video became a hit.
Many online viewers（观看者）were moved and they also wanted to help Brown.
A GoFundMe website was up and it has raised more than $30,000 so far for Brown, who became homeless his grandparents died a few years ago.
Dominique and Sean are trying to find low-rent（租金低的）housing, a part-time job and transportation, like a bicycle or a car for Brown so that he doesn't stay homeless.
Brown is to Dominique for all the help from him, as well as Sean and the online viewers. " him and Sean, I`d be nowhere. Without you all, I would be nowhere," he said.
Chen Jinying who is called "Honest Lady" comes from Lishui, Zhejiang. She is 90 years old. She used to be a boss. After she retired（退休）, she opened a clothes factory and it went very well. But in 2011, her factory was in trouble and she was in debt（欠债）, so she had to sell her apartment and her factory to pay back her debt.
After ten years, she finally paid back all her debt. It's said that someone advised her to apply for bankruptcy（申请破产）, then she could avoid paying back her debt, but she refused. "I can't do that. When we`re in debt, we must pay it back. " The old lady sold most of her things to pay back the debt because of this faith. Some businessmen were so touched by this "Honest Lady" that they reached out to help her. When things became better, she gave away jackets worth more than 20,000 yuan to an old people's home and more than 140 persons received the warmth she passed.
Chen shows us how to be an honest and trustworthy（可信赖的）person. When one person loses his honesty, he`ll fail. The 90-year-old lady not only moves us, but also gives us a true lesson in honesty.
Walking is an important part of our daily life. But most of us don't give much thought to how we walk or whether we are walking correctly. Walking with good posture（姿势）is of great importance to us.
Why not use proper walking posture
Walking may seem like a simple activity and really, it should be. When you walk, why not get as many advantages that result from it as possible? First of all, proper walking poster will help you to walk faster and farther. At the same time, it is good for your physical health. Using proper poster will reduce（减少）pain, lower the risk the risk of getting hurt, make it easier to breathe, and increase energy levels. What's more, walking with proper posture will help you to be more confident and improve your spirit.
How to walk properly
Stand up straight.
Keep your eyes forward.
Keep your chin（下巴）up.
Relax your shoulders an push them back. Keep your stomach pulled in slightly.
Gently swing your arms back.
Step lightly.
What to do before and during the walk
Walking with proper posture is actually not a one-and-done process. It takes much time to practice it. Before you begin walking, set yourself up for the right posture. Each time you come to stop during your walk, such as when waiting to cross a street, do a posture check before you start again.
Walking with correct posture is not difficult to do, as long as you take more practice, you will make it.
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♦First of all, proper walking posture will help you to walk faster and farther. ♦It is good for your physical health. ♦Using proper posture will make you breathe . |
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Stand up straight. Keep your eyes forward. Keep your chin（下巴）up. Relax your shoulders an push them back. Keep your stomach pulled in slightly. Gently swing your arms back. Step lightly. |
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Walking with proper posture isn't a one—and—done process. You need to practicing it. |
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