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When the Quaker Elizabeth married Joseph Fry, it seemed as if her life would be comfortable and peaceful. However, Elizabeth was not content with her easy life and her growing family. She saw many poor people living near her and she wanted to help th...
I enjoyed English, biology, and chemistry at school, but which one should I choose to study at university? I did not know the answer until one evening when I sat down at the computer to do some research on great women of China. By chance I came acros...
It is 5:45 am and the sun is just rising over Gombe National Park in East Africa. Following Jane's way of studying chimps, our group are all going to visit them in the forest. Jane has studied these families of chimps for many years and helped peopl...
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IQALUIT-- THE FROZEN TOWN The reporter, Beth Allen, arrived in a northern community called Iqaluit in Nunavut Nunavut was created in 1999 as a special area for Inuit people. Its name means Our Land in their language. It is in the farthest northeaste...
The next morning the bushes and maple trees outside their windows were red, gold and orange, and there was frost on the ground, confirming that fall had arrived in Canada. Around noon they arrived in Toronto, the biggest and most wealthy city in Cana...
A TRIP ON THE TRUE NORTH Li Daiyu and her cousin Liu Qian were on a trip to Canada to visit their cousins in Montreal on the Atlantic coast. Rather than take the aeroplane all the way, they decided to fly to Vancouver and then take the train west to...
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CAUGHT BY A BLACK HOLE The spaceship warned Li Yanping and me to be ready as we were approaching (靠近) the black hole. We could see some faint lights around what looked like an empty space. Li Yanping said, That empty hole is like a mouth always ne...