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It was 3.21 a. m. when nine-year-old Glenn Kreamer awoke to the smell of burning. Except for the crackling （爆裂声）of flames somewhere below there was not a sound in the two-storey house at Baldwin, Long Island.

A new English telephone service thatallows listeners to learn English throughrecorded conversations between native English-speakers and a Chinese translator opened recently in Beijing．
2857Oriental English Telephone Service consists of 10recorded programmes，three of which are in cooperation with the Patrick English Network，the N

Psychology（心理学）is the study of the mind and mental activities．Psychologistsare interested in why some things make you sad，but others make you happy．Theywant to know why some people are shy，but others are quite talkative．They want toknow why people do the things that they do．They also test intelligence（智能）．
Psychologists deal with

The London Stock Exchange has alwaysbeen famous as a place for men only，andwomen used to be strictly forbidden to enter．But the world is changing dayby day，andeven the Stock Exchange，which seemed to be a man's castle，is gradually opening itsdoors to the other sex．On 16th November 1971，a great decision was taken．The Stock
Exchange Cou

As the American people's concept of being polite is different from that held in China，I'd like to discuss with you the use of“please”，“excuse me”and“thank you”．I have noticed that the Chinese people use“please”as often as we do on most occasions．But on some occasions they don't use this word．For instance， Chin

“I would almost rather see you dead.” Robert S. Cassatt, a leading banker of Philadelphia, shouted when his twenty-year-old eldest daughter announced that she wanted to become an artist. In the 19th century, playing at drawing or painting on dishes was all right for a young lady, but serious work in art was not. And when the young lady’s

Thanksgiving Day is always celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November. It is the most traditional of American holidays. The first Thanksgiving was held in Massachusetts in 1621. After a year of great hardship, the Pilgrim(朝圣) colonists(移民) wanted to give thanks to God for their first harvest. They invited their Indian friends to join

E
Children have their own rules in playing games. They seldom

A
Dolphins (海豚) are not fish, but warm-blooded animals. They live in groups, and speak to each other in their own language. In this they are like other animals, such as bees and birds. But dolphins are very different from

It is important that all the details you include in a paragraph are relevant and support the main idea of the paragraph (expressed in the topic sentence). Read the following paragraph and cross out the sentences and clauses which you consider irrelevant. The topic sentence has b

Students who will go to university talk about what they expect and want from the experience.
IMOGEN CASEBOURNE
I see my degree as

Time and time again, one may be warned, “Your name will be Mud.” Many have used the expression in the mistaken belief that it has something to do with the kind of dirt found in the streets or on unclean river bottoms. But the expression comes from the name of Doctor Samuel Alexander Mudd, a physician who fixed the broken leg of John Wilk

There are many famous museums throughout the world where people can enjoy art. Washington D. C. has the National Gallery of Art(美术馆); Paris has the Louvre; London, the British Museum. Florida International University (FIU) in Miami also shows art for people to see. And it does so without a building, or even a wall for its drawings and pa

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Some time ago I discovered that one of my chairs had a broken leg. I didn't think there would be any difficulty in getting it mended, as there are a whole lot of antique(古董) shops near my home. So I left home one morning

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Most British telephone cards just plain green, but card collecting becoming a popular hobby in Britain and collectors even have their own magazine, International Telephone Cards. One reason for their interest is that car