Section(B) The Chunnel Queen Elizabeth and French President Francois Mitterrand will ride a train downward into the $15 billion Channel Tunnel today, crossing the English Channel by land for the first time since it was a marsh 8,000 years ago. Common...
Unit7 Section (A) A Rose Is a Rose Nothing says love like a dozen long-stemmed roses on Valentine's Day. More than a million roses will be sold during this festival for lovers, the biggest day of the year for the nation's rose industry. For rose grow...
Section (C) Reduce, Reuse, Recycle We recently participated in an environmental fair at the Mall (购物中心) of America in Bloomington,Minnesota, the largest indoor shopping center in America. After speaking with thousands of parents,children and...
Section (B)Changes in the Balance of NaturePerceptions are relative. A single tree may seem large compared to a person. If you compare it to a mountain, however, thelarge tree seems small. In other words, things in nature are large or small, new or o...
Unit6 Section (A) How to Prepare for Earthquakes Ideally, people would like to know when an earthquake is going to happen and how bad it will be. Inboth Japan and China, people have long believed that earthquakes can be forecast. In Japan, scientists...
Section (C) GenerationsMy mother called last week to tell me that my grandmother is dying. She has refused an operationthat would delay, but not prevent, her death from cancer. She can't eat, she has been bleeding, and herskin is a deep yellow color....
Section (B) Decisions of the Heart Assume for a moment that your 90-year-old mother has recently suffered a stroke. She is right-handed, and now she is unable to move her right arm and leg they are worthless to her. She canmake sounds, but she can't...
Section (A)Graceful HandsI have never seen Mrs. Clark before, but I know from her medical chart and the report I receivedfrom the preceding shift that tonight she will die. The only light in her room is coming from a piece of medical equipment, which...
Section (C)Life in Low-Grade Terror The phone rang, and I grabbed it as fast as I could. Thank you for calling the Psychic Network (通灵热线), I said as I started my presentation. I read tarot cards(塔罗特纸牌). I'm mixing the cards now;tell...
Section (B) Engelbreit's the Name, Cute Is My GameMary Engelbreit was a talented but struggling artist in her mid-twenties when she flew to New Yorkfrom her native Saint Louis, hoping to find work illustrating children's books her life's goal. So she...
