Passage 50 Reading Nowadays few of us read books after we leave school. This is rather disturbing, for one should know that books are no less necessary to ones mental life than fresh air is to ones physical life. From good reading we can derive comp...
Passage 49 Natural Resources Through the changes in the ways of making living in a family over several generations, the cartoon aims at sounding a warning against mans wasteful use of natural resources and emphasizing the urgent need to preserve the...
Passage 48 Population Growth It is well-known that there has been a drastic increase in world population. But it is probably less well-known that the extinction rate of wildlife species is experiencing a parallel trend. Take the United States for in...
Passage 47 House and Home House and home are two words that have similar meanings. House and home both refer to places where people live. However, there is a difference between them. Home is often referred to as the place that we live in with our fa...
Passage 46 Automobiles It is impossible to say that any one man invented the automobile. Many individuals living and working in different countries and at different times contributed to its development. Many of the discoveries that went into the cre...
Passage 45 The Influence of Life In the early times when human beings hunted and gathered food, they were not in control of their environment. They could only interact with their surroundings as the other lower animals did. When they learned to make...
Passage 44 Gardening in America Believe or not, 43,000,000 Americans are gardening. That is about one in six. Gardeners, of course, come in many varieties. Not surprisingly, most of them are people who live in the suburbs, and enjoy planting flowers...
Passage 43 Our Concern The history of life on earth has been a history of interaction between living things and their surroundings. To a large extent, the physical form and the habits of the earths vegetation and its animal life have been molded by...
Passage 42 Sleep Why is it so difficult to fall asleep when you are overtired? There is no one answer that applied to every individual. It is possible to feel tired physically and still be unable to fall asleep, because while your body may be exhaus...
Passage 41 Apology Helps It is never easy to admit you are in the wrong. Being human, we all need to know the art of apologizing. Look back with honesty and think how often you have judged roughly, you said unkind things, and pushed yourself ahead a...
