Tahiti is 1 and largest island in French Polynesia. It is 4, 400 km south of Hawaii, and 5,700 km from Australia. The 2 is 45 km across at its widest point and covers an area of 1,045 square kilometers.
When you visit the island, you will find people here are very friendly. They welcome visitors 3 a special way. They usually play music, dance and give visitors flowers. The flowers they use are special, 4. They are called Tiare. These flowers live only in Tahiti. So people use them 5 visitors. It is popular with every adult, especially women. They like to wear the flowers behind one of their 6.
There are always a lot of interesting things for visitors 7 in Tahiti. 8 great places are waiting for you to dive around the island. When you are under water you can see all kinds of colorful fishes and many other 9 things. Most of the sea animals are 10 you. If you want to find a place to swim, have a sun bath or watch the beautiful sunset, Pointe Venus Lighthouse. a black sand beach, is a great place.
As a wonderful place, Tahiti is always waiting for you there.
It's known as "the City of Ice" for a good reason. The famous International Ice and Snow Festival opened on Thursday in Harbin, capital of China's most northern Province of Heilongiang. When most of northern China closes its doors to the cold winter wind, Harbin always comes to life
CCTV reporter Nie Jia is in Harbin, enjoying the charm (魅力) of this winter land.
Nie Jia said, "Welcome to Harbin, the city of ice in north China. The temperature now is -16℃, but it's the best time of the year for Harbin because it is the suitable weather to build a world of ice and snow. For me, I really can't wait to see what the festival has to offer. So follow me."
A Harbin resident (居民) said, "I feel very excited. Because ice and snow are important parts of our culture. They make our city more beautiful and through the festival people can feel the enthusiasm (热情) of the local people."
A tourist said, "My friend is from Guangxi. And I'm from Hebei. We have been looking forward to the ice and snow festival for a long time and we really enjoy the blue sky and white snow here.
Neel Sethi starred in Disney's cartoon The Jungle Book. The cartoon started being shown in theaters on April 15th. In this cartoon, Neel Sethi plays Mowgli, a boy growing up in the jungle with some wild wolves. When a big tiger named Shere Khan tries to kill him, Mowgli has to leave his wolf family. Along the way, Mowgli meets many animals. Some of them put him in danger, and others help him out of danger. Bill Murray, Lupita Nyong'o and Scarlett Johansson give their voices for the animals in the cartoon.
In fact, Neel finished most of his parts in front of a blue screen. Later on, people put his parts with the animals and jungle pictures together. In the movie, Mowgli enjoys living with the bear, Baloo, very much. Mowgli stays on the top of Baloo as they play in a river and sing The Bare Necessities.
"To do well in the movie, I ran and jumped around in my own time," Neel said. "So it really wasn't that hard to be Mowgli."
People were visiting a museum in a city. Suddenly, all the lights inside the museum went out. A moment later, the lights were turned on again.
At the same time, a basket flew out of the window. There was a painting in the basket! It was the Girl With a Pearl Earring (《戴珍珠耳环的少女》). It's a famous painting by Johannes Vermeer. But a painting that looked the same was still on the wall of the museum. The museum manager checked the painting on the wall and said, "The one in the basket is real. A thief changed the painting! Let's call the police."
A detective (侦探) came. He called the guards in the museum together and asked, "Do you have an alarm here?"
"Yes. And it rings when someone moves the picture，" one guard said. "Only our manager can move it. He has the key."
But the alarm didn't ring. "Does the alarm need electricity?" asked the detective, "Yes," said the guard.
The detective touched the painting on the wall carefully. His hands got some paint from it. Then he checked all the guards' clothes. There were some paint on a guard's clothes. "He is the thief, " the detective said.
Do you know why?
During the time of Jin Dynasty, there was a man named Le Guang. One day, Le Guang asked one of his friends to have dinner at his home. After dinner, his friend was back.
For a long time, his friend didn't come. Then Le Guang heard that his friend was ill, so he came to visit him. Le Guang asked him what was wrong with him. His friend answered, "Last time, at your home I found a little snake in the glass and I was ill after I drank the alcohol (酒)." Le Guang was very surprised because there wasn't a snake in the glass. Suddenly, he remembered there was a bow (弓) on the wall. There must be the shadow (影子) of the bow which looked like a little snake.
So Le Guang asked his friend to join him for a drink again. When the glass was full of alcohol, he pointed to the shadow of the bow in the glass and asked his friend to have a look. His friend shouted, "That is what I saw last time!" Le Guang laughed and took away the bow.
"Can you see the snake now?＂ he asked. His friend was surprised to find that the snake was gone. After his friend knew the truth, he was well.
For many years, this story has been used to advise people not to be too suspicious (怀疑的) easily.
Professor Xu Yuanchong was born in 1921. He is best known for translating (翻译) Chinese ancient poems into English and French. Xu took foreign language studies at Tsinghua University and then he studied abroad. After that, he became a professor in English and French.
During these years, he has been working on translating. Up to now, he has translated more than 100 Chinese classics from Chinese to both English and French. The first poem he translated from Chinese to English is Don't Cast Away in 1939. It's a poem written by Lin Huiyin. In fact, he translated this poem to express his love to a girl he liked. Though he failed, he got a life-time career in translation.
In 2007, Xu had a cancer. During the time, he did what he liked every day and didn't give up translating. What's more, he didn't go to sleep till three or four o'clock in the morning. He still held on to work over twelve ours a day. Also, he became the first Asian to win the"Aurora Borealis"Prize.
Almost everyone likes traveling. Some of like to visit famous cities and see beautiful views (风景). The provinces (省) in the southwest of China, for example, Sichuan Province and Yunnan Province, are famous their beautiful nature. Lots of people want to go on vacation there. But many people are not (interest) in famous cities. They like to have adventures (冒险) traveling in wild places. not everyone can do such adventure. It needs a lot of skills. Sometimes you will find (oneself) in danger. For example, maybe you will meet (snake) in those places. There also some other dangerous situations for people who don't have enough skills. On April 6, 2014, ten people from Hangzhou (decide) to explore a cave. But after a few hours, they found they couldn't get out. The government sent ten policemen and doctors (save) them. At last, they all left the dangerous place (safe).
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