Education in China Education in china today has been developing rapidly. In many provinces, it is compulsory and free. Most children start school at the age of six. They attend five years of elementary school and six years of high school. After gradu...
Dictation Instructions Listen to the following passage or together the passage will be read to you four times. During the first reading which will be read in normal speed .Listen and try to understand the meaning . For the second and third readings t...
Emotions According to psychologists, an emotion is aroused when a man or animal view something as either bad or good. When a person feels like running away from something he thinks will hurt him, we call this emotion fear. If the person wants to remo...
Re-employment of laid-off workers The issue of re-employment has emerged with large numbers of surplus labors having been laid off. There's no doubt that it would lead to endless trouble, if the surplus were not reorganized properly. In order to main...
Faces, like fingerprints, are unique. Did you ever wonder how it is possible for us to recognize people. Even a skilled writer probably could not describe all the features that make one face different from another. Yet a very young child -- or even a...
Physical activity Most young people enjoy some form of physical activity. It might be walking, cycling, or swimming , or in winter , skating or skiing . It might be a game of some kind football, hockey, golf or tennis., or it might be mountaineering...
An old man died and left his son a lot of money. But the son was a foolish young man , he quickly spent all the money, and soon he had nothing left. Of course, when that happened all his friends left him. When he was quite poor and alone, he went to...
A man and his car A man was travelling abroad(国外)in a small red car.One day he left the car and went shopping.When he came back,its roof(顶部)was badly damaged(毁坏). Some boys told him that an elephant had damaged it.The man did not believe...
The Sun A long time ago, people thought that the sun went around the earth. In some countries, people even said that the sun was God. They thought the God drove across the sky each day on a golden horse. Now we know the earth goes around the sun. It...
Can Animals Be Made to Work for Us? Can animals be made to work for us? Some scientists think that one day animals may be taught to do a number or simple jobs. They say that in a film or on TV, we may see elephants or monkeys, dogs, bears or other an...
Cool weather and Warm weather If you are like most people, your intelligence varies from season to season. You are probably a lot sharper in the spring than you are any other time of year. A noted scientist, Ellsworth Huntington 1876 - 1947 concluded...
Tropical forests in the world The world's forests are disappearing.As much as one third of the total tree cover has been lost, since agriculture began some ten thousand years ago.The remaining forests are home to half of the world's species,thus beco...
pigeons There are thousands of pigeons in any big city in the world. But did you know that this common bird is able to find its way home from even a hundreds of kilometers away? Just how pigeons find their way home is a bit of mystery. Some people th...
Whatever one does one should do it with confidence.If one has no confidence, there is little possibility that one can achieve anything when faced with hardships.This truth seems to be self-evident. In reality, however, we do see a lot of people who a...
Choosing a Career Choosing a career is one of the most important things in a person's life. Finding the right career, we will be happy and successful. Finding the wrong one, we will not be able to fully display our our talents. Unfortunately, many of...