I'm a fifty-year-old taxi driver and I've been working as it for thirty years. Even if I have met so many people, there is one who impressed me most.
One midnight in my first year, I was called to pick1up. The building was completely 2except for one light in a window as I arrived and parked my car at the side of the street. I walked to the door and 3. After along wait, the door opened. A small woman in her 80s stood in front of me4a small suitcase.
"Would you carry my suitcase out to the car?" she said. I took 5and gave her my arm. We walked 6to the street. She kept thanking me for taking care of her weak legs.
"It's nothing." I told her." I try to treat my passengers 7 I want my mother treated."
"You are such a good boy," she said. When we got in the taxi, she gave me an address. Then she asked," Could you drive through the downtown?
"It's not the shortest way, so it will be 8." I answered.
"I don't mind." she said." I'm in no hurry and money is useless for me. I'm on my way to a hospice*."
I saw her eyes shining with tears.
"I don t have any family left," she continued." the doctor says l don't have very long."
I quietly 9 the meter*. For 10, we drove through the city. She showed me the building where she had once worked. We drove through the neighborhood where she and her husband had lived. Sometimes she asked me to just slow down while she was staring into the darkness.
When the sun was coming up, she suddenly said," I'm tired. Let's go now." We drove in11to the hospice, saying nothing. When we pulled up, two nurses were. 12us. They helped her into a wheelchair.
"How much do 1 owe*you?" she asked me, reaching for her 13.
"Nothing," I said. Without thinking, I leaned down and gave her a hug. She also14, me tightly. 15 years passed, this old lady kept showing in my mind. I wonder how she was then, but I will never know.
A GLIMPSE OF WORLD FESTIVALS
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Rio de Janeiro: Carnival capital of the world Every year, 40 days before Easter, Brazil stops. It's time for the carnival! For four days from Saturday to Tuesday, Brazilians sing and dance in dancehalls and clubs, on the streets and beaches, or anywhere else. Rio de Janeiro is seen as the Carnival Capital of the world. It may begin 40 days before Easter, but the city begins preparing for the carnival several weeks before that. |
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Edinburgh Festival: The heart of Scottish culture The Edinburgh International Festival is a rich programme of classical music, theatre opera and dance in theatres in Edinburgh, over a three-week period in August. The festival try to use the arts to encourage 'the following of the human spirit', ordinary*people began to put on shows of their own and became a separate programme of small shows. |
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Korean New Year: Solnal Solnal is a time for Korean families to celebrate the lunar New Year. On New Year's Eve people put things on their walls and doors to protect families of the arriving year, then or New Year's Day, everyone must have a traditional breakfast of 'took-guk' -a thick beef soup with rice cakes and green onions. Everyone must eat in order of age, it also means becoming one year older. |
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Spain: Tomato Ooz Tomato Festival began on last Wednesday in August every year. It is the folk tradition of Spain's annual holiday. People describe it as a" tomato battle". On that day, lots of local Spanish and tourists, even elderly grandmothers have been seen in the festival. Remember that you must pinch tomatoes before youth row them to others in order not to hurt people. |
When a leafy plant is under attack*, it doesn't sit quietly. Back in 1983, two scientists, Jack Schultz and lan Baldwin, reported that young maple trees getting bitten by insects send out a particular smell that neighboring plants can get. These chemicals* come from the injured parts of the plant and seem to be an alarm. What the plants pump through the air is a mixture of chemicals known as volatile organic compounds, VOCs for short.
Scientists have found that all kinds of plants give out VOCs when being attacked. It's a plant's way of crying out. But is anyone listening? Apparently. Because we can watch the neighbors react.
Some plants pump out smelly chemicals to keep insects away. But others do double duty. They pump out perfumes*designed to attract different insects who are natural enemies*to the attackers. Once they arrive, the tables are turned. The attacker who was lunching now becomes lunch.
In study after study, it appears that these chemical conversations help the neighbors. The damage is usually more serious on the first plant, but the neighbors, relatively speaking, stay safer because they heard the alarm and knew what to do.
Does this mean that plants talk to each other? Scientists don't know. Maybe the first plant just made a cry of pain or was sending a message to its own branches, and so, in effect, was talking to itself. Perhaps the neighbors just happened to" overhear" the cry. So information was exchanged, but it wasn't a true, intentional*back and forth.
Charles Darwin, over 150 years ago, imagined a world far busier, noisier and closer than the world we can see and hear. Our senses are weak. There's a whole lot going on.
Karie double-checked the words on her spelling test. If she got 100 points today, she would win her class's spelling competition and a brand-new dictionary. Also，Ms. McCormack had promised to do a handstand if anyone got a perfect score.
Three more words to go. N-i-c-e-l-y. Q-u-i-c-k-l-y. H-o-n-e-s-t-y. Wait! She had spelled honesty, not honestly! She erased the t-y and wrote l-y before handing in her paper.
After grading the test papers, Ms. McCormack walked into the classroom. Then, as if she were an Olympic gymnast*, Ms. McCormack's feet flipped into the air.
"Congratulations. Karie! You did it!" She announced while doing a handstand. The whole class cheered.
Ms. McCormack righted herself and presented Katie with her prize. It was a dictionary with the words: To Karie Carter, for her perfect score in spelling.
As soon as she arrived home, Karie showed Mom her spelling test paper and prize with excitement." Well done, Karie." Mon hugged her.
Karie smiled widely and scooped*up her cat." Can you spell nicely, Casper? And quickly and honesly, and…"
____▲____Honesly?
H-O-N-E-S-L-Y!
Karie threw the test paper into her schoolbag, rushed to her room and fell onto her bed. How could she tell the class she hadn't earned the prize after all? That McCormack did the handstand for nothing?
Then, Karie thought back to the last time her mother had bought her brother Kevin a pizza after his school play. They had almost reached home when Mom realized that the shop keeper had given them too much change." Let's turn around, "" Mom said. On the way back to the shop, Kavin kept saying, " But it's not our fault*. The shopkeeper should have been more careful."
Had Kevin been right? If he had been right, then it wasn't her fault that Ms. McComack had given her the prize. Shouldn't Ms. McCormack have been more careful when grading her test? Karie took out her pencil. If she put the missing" t" back in, no one would know.
The next morning, Karie got to school earlier than usual. Ms. McCormack was unlocking the classroom."" I can't keep this. I misspelled honestly and you didn't catch it." Karie said with her head down, giving her teacher the spelling paper and the dictionary.
For a moment, Ms. McCormack stood silently, reading the words on the dictionary. Then she took out her pen, crossed out the word perfect and wrote honest before returning the dictionary to Karie.
Karie's jaw dropped." I get to keep this? Honestly?"
"For honestly, no." Ms. McCormack smiled." But for honesty, yes."
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Back in 2008, Chinese singer Hua Chenyu was just 18 years old. He knew that the Bird's Nest was the (大的) stadium in all of China when the summer Olympics opened in Beijing. He never thought he'd get to sing there. But in 2018, Hua became the first singer born in the 1990s to hold a (音乐会) at the
Bird's Nest. He has shown since then that he has. a lot of talent (然而，尽管) his performance was a bit strange.
In fact, he has set (几个，一些) music-related records. On Dec 4, 2019, he released the song How I'd Like to Love This World on Net Ease's Cloud Music app. Within only half an hour, it sold more than 3 million (份), becoming the app's best-selling song of 2019. Written for people with depression, the song (鼓励) people to embrace*and love themselves as well as the world. More than 100, 000 (听众) have shared their feelings about the song. They said it was warm and touching, (甚至) bringing some of them to tears.
Hua had a hard time growing up. His parents got divorced when he was a child. The boy often felt (孤独的) at home, scared in the dark. Music (帮助) him get over his loneliness over the years. "I never feel lost, because I am focusing on what I like." He told The Beijing News.
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take a trip to Hill Park(九山公园) work as a volunteer(志愿者) at Red Sun Pavilion(红日亭)visit Zhu Ziqing's old house(朱自清故居) and Nanxi Museum(南戏博物馆) . … |
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Dear Jenny,
I'm writing to tell you about our activity "Learning while travelling around our hometown" this summer.
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Yours,
Li Hua
