Could it be possible to live in a house made of ice? What is it like to 1 on an ice bed? If you go to North Hotel, you can know more about the 2. North Hotel is a magic 3 for people. People from all over the world come to North Hotel to have so much 4 in the cold. What can you do in North Hotel? Here you can have dinner at an ice table, 5 movies in an ice chair, and even take a bath in a large ice box. Are you 6 about catching a cold? Well... you don't have to be! North Hotel has some different ways to keep you warm and makes you feel 7 all the time. You can live in this dream hotel for a few days and enjoy many 8experiences in the snow. It is not easy to 9 you about everything here at North Hotel. You can come to 10 it for yourself. Pack (收拾行李）now and get ready to be COOL!
The Internet has become part of teenage life. There's a report on 3,375 students between 10 and 18 years old in seven Chinese cities. It says that 36% of them believe they use the Internet often. While most of them get useful information and use the Internet to help in their studies, some are not using it in a good way. Many are playing online games too much. A few even visit Web sites they should not look at. Bad things can happen if young people spend too much time on the Internet.
In order to help young people use the Internet in a good way, some big cities have started to use a textbook on good Internet habits this term. The textbook uses real examples to teach students all about good ways of using the Internet. It gives useful advice, such as it's good to read news or find helpful information to study. Some students also make online friends. But if you are meeting a friend offline (离线), let your parents know.
Teachers and parents all think the E-book is a very good idea. It will teach students how to be a good person in the online world. It will be a guide for teens using the Internet and keep students away from bad sites.
From a plane we can see the fields, cities, mountains or seas below 100 metres. If we go into space, we see more and more of the earth. China launched its self- made “Haiyang-1B” oceanic survey satellite (海洋调查卫星）from the Taiyuan in Shanxi Province at 11:27 a.m. Wednesday, April 11, 2007. And people have learnt more about the sea in the last few years.
The sea is very big. It nearly covers three quarters of the earth. The sea is also very deep in some places. There is one place where the sea is about 11 kilometres deep. However, the highest mountain in the world is about 9 kilometres high. If we put that mountain into the sea at that place, there would be still 2 kilometres of water above it!
In most parts of the sea, there are many kinds of fishes and sharks. Some live near the top of the sea. Others live deep down. There are also a lot of small living things, and lots of fishes live by eating them.
The sea can be very cold. When people go down, the sea becomes colder and colder. Only some men can go down into the deep sea. But in 1970, five women scientists lived in the deep sea for fourteen days.
Jeremy was a strange and rich doctor. He spent lots of time planting trees instead of saving lives. He had a large field and wanted to make it a forest.
The good doctor had some interesting ideas about planting trees. He never watered his new trees. Once I asked why. He said that watering plants was bad to them, and that if you watered them, each baby tree would grow weaker and weaker, so you had to pick them out early on.
He had different ideas about how to water trees with shallow roots. “The trees without enough water had to grow deep roots for water under the earth by themselves. Deep roots were very important', He said to me once.
So he never watered his trees. What's more, he beat them with a roll-up (卷起 的）newspaper. I asked him why he did that, “I want to wake them up,” he replied. Jeremy passed away three years after I worked in another city. But the trees are growing big and strong now.
Now I have a perfect family. Mostly I pray (祈祷） that their life will be easy. But lately I've been thinking to change it. I know my children are going to face difficulties. They need to have a deep root so that when the rains fall and the winds blow, they can face it strongly.
Hands play an important part in our daily life. But do you know which of your two hands you use more? Very few people use both hands equally well. Most of us are right-handed. Only about five people out of a hundred are left-handed. New-born babies can take hold of things with either of their hands, but in about two years they usually use their right hands. Scientists don't know why this happens.
Monkeys are our close relatives in the animal world. Scientists have found that monkeys like to use one of their hands more than the other, but it can be either hand. There are as many right-handed monkeys as left-handed ones. Next time you visit a zoo, watch the monkeys carefully, you will see that some of them will use their right hands and others will use their left hands. But most of the people use their right hands better and this makes life difficult for those left-handed people. We live in a right-handed world.
About 70 million Americans are trying to lose weight. That is almost one out of three people in the USA. Some people go on diets. This means they eat less of certain food, especially fat and sugar. Other people exercise, take medicine, or even have operations. Losing weight is not easy, and it can also cost a lot of money.
But why do so many people in the USA want to lose weight? Many people worry about not looking young and attractive. Other people worry about their health. Many doctors say being overweight is not healthy. Almost 30 million Americans weigh at least 20% more than their ideal (理想的)weight.
In fact, the United States is the most overweight country in the world. Losing weight is hard work, but most people want to find a fast and easy way to take off fat. Bookstores sell lots of books, which tell readers how to lose weight. Each year, a large number of new books of this kind arc published. Each one promises to help people get rid of fat.
Many large cities in the United States have a place (call) Chinatown. People went there from China set up these places. For example, the Chinatown in San Francisco began in 1840s. The Chinese people came to America (look) for gold. Then the place they lived in later became known as Chinatown. Many Chinese people in these places helped (building) the first railroad systems across the United States. However, after the work (end) in 1869, many Chinese moved to the eastern and middle parts of the United States. We can also find Chinatowns in other (country). For example, the first Chinese people in London (arrive) in the late 18th century. Later, the Chinese people opened small stores and restaurants there. Chinatown around the world are not only places where Chinese people live and work, they are also places where (visit) can learn more Chinese culture and traditions.
