Back in April 1939 and armed with $5,000 provided by the Rockefeller Foundation, professor Frank Cyr at Teachers College, Columbia University took a tour of ten states to make the research about school transportation problems. What he found was that many students had no dependable way to get to school and the ones who did often travelled in unsafe buses in the over 100,000 school areas.
Seeing a need to fix this problem, Cyr organised a meeting—one that would change the future of school buses forever. School officials and transportation experts met to set much-needed standards for buses, including those for colour, height and width as well as safety rules that hadn't been set before or that were different in every state.
There were many different bus colours in the US before this meeting; several areas even planned to have red, white and blue buses as a way of encouraging students to love their country. Cyr presented his new choice to education officials, a reported "50 shades( 色度) changing from lemon yellow to deep orange red". The matter was settled quickly. Yellow, or "National School Bus Glossy Yellow", was chosen because it was quite striking, making the school bus easy to be seen. Besides, it made the bold(黑体的), black writing on the side of each bus clear. (The bold, black writing gives information about each school area, telling students which school bus they could take during early morning and late afternoon hours.) Thirty-five states made the changes quickly, and every state took them on
board by 1974.
Being recognised as the "father of the yellow school bus", Frank Cyr has surely influenced your life if you ever rode a school bus or saw that noticeable colour pulling up to your stop on a dusky morning.
judge invite special congratulation express
It is almost five years since I begin to learn English.I'm glad to say I'm getting along good with it.But first I came across a lot of difficulties.I couldn't pronounce English words well,so could I remember the words I had learned.In class,I couldn't understand that the teacher had said.I almost lost heart when the teacher told me,"Keeping on,and you'll do well." I was great encouraged.I started working hard at English.Under the help of him and my classmates,I made some progresses.I'm very pleasing,and I will work harder.
Once,in a lovely garden,lived the most beautiful butterfly in the world.She was so pretty,and had won so many beauty contests she had become very proud.One day,the naughty cockroach(蟑螂)got fed up with her showing off,and decided (teach)her a lesson.
She went to see the butterfly,and in front of everyone she said that the butterfly wasn't really that (beauty),and that the butterfly only won the competitions because the judges had been paid.In (real),the cockroach was the most beautiful.
The butterfly was (anger) and said to the cockroach,"I will beat you in a beauty contest,with whichever judges you yourself choose."
"OK,I accept.See you on Saturday," answered the cockroach,and left without (wait) for a reply.
That Saturday everyone went to the beauty contest.The butterfly (arrive) completely confident of victory until she saw the judges were:cockroaches,worms and beetles.All of (they) preferred the ugliness and bad smell of the cockroach.
The butterfly was left (cry)and disappointed,wanting never to enter another beauty contest in her life.Fortunately,the cockroach forgave the butterfly for her pride and they became friends.
