Today I Ate A Rainbow is a useful game about our health. It makes eating a rainbow of fruit and vegetables fun for kids! In the game, the teachers or parents use a colorful rainbow chart and brightly colorful magnets(磁铁). They know about the fruit and vegetables they eat the whole day, "Sometimes it can be really difficult to get children to eat fruit and vegetables," says Mrs. Welles. "My little son is weak, and he doesn't like fruit or vegetables. He likes to eat junk food. I think this chart can help him know about how much fruit and vegetables he eats every day. I'm sure the idea can work well. "
Fruit and vegetables have vitamins(维生素), minerals(矿物质) and nutrients(营养物). Many nutrients give fruit and vegetables their bright colors. The brighter, the better! The chart is made up of these important colors: red, orange, yellow and green. The different bright colors show the different nutrients that each fruit or vegetable has. So we can use the rainbow colors as a guide to know what we should eat today.
Mr. King lives in a city. He owns some shops and makes a lot of money. His son, Mike, studies at a middle school. The boy likes everything but studying. He doesn't listen to his teachers in class and he never finishes his homework on time. He always plays football when he has any free time. He can never pass the exams. Mr. King is so busy with his business that he has little time to stay at home. He never pays any attention(关心)to his son's studies, so he doesn't know how he is doing.
One day Miss Read, Mike's teacher, telephones Mr. King. On the telephone she tells him all about the boy's studies. She wants him to try to help his son at home. When the man hears this，he doesn't feel very happy. In the afternoon when his son comes back from school, Mr. King gives him a good tellingoff(责备), but soon feels sorry for it when he sees Mike crying in the bedroom. The next morning, before Mike goes to school, he says to him, "Study hard and I'll buy you a car when you pass the exam next year. "
Another term is over. Mike doesn't pass the exam once more. Mr. King has a look at the school report for a few minutes and then he asks his son, "You don't pass the exam again，Mike. What did you do this term？" "I learned how to drive a car, dad, " answers the boy.
As an English learner, I used to translate（翻译）an English sentence into Chinese word by word when I wanted to recite it. Later, I found it not clever to learn English in this way. Take the sentence"How do you do?"for example. If you look up each word in the dictionary, one at a time,what's your translation? It must be a wrong sentence in your own language.
Languages do not just have different sounds,and they are also different in many ways. It is important to master the rules for word order in the study of English, too. If words are put in a wrong order in the sentences, the listeners can't understand the speakers' sentences easily. Sometimes when the order of the words in an English sentence is changed, the meaning of the sentence is changed, too. Let me give you an example.
She only likes apples.
Only she likes apples.
In the process of learning English, you must try your best to get the spirit of the language and use it as the English speakers do. If you can do this,you will be closer to learning it well. Would you like to have a try like this now?
O. Henry, a famous American writer of short stories, was born in North Carolina in 1862.
O. Henry was a pen name. His real name was William Sydney Porter. When he was a young boy, he did not go to school for long because of being born in a poor family, but he tried to teach himself everything he needed to know.
When he was about 20 years old, O. Henry went to Texas. There he tried different jobs. He first worked on a newspaper, and then had a job in a bank. But he got himself into some trouble. Some money went missing from the bank. O. Henry was believed to have stolen it, so he was sent to prison(监狱). During the three years in prison, he learned to write short stories. After he got out of prison, he went to New York and went on writing.
He wrote mostly about New York and the life of the poor there. People liked his stories, because almost all of them finished with a sudden change. This made the readers surprised.
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