Astronauts

On July 20,1969,at least a half billion people in 49 countries kept their eyesfixed on television screens.Three American astronauts were waiting in a spaceship,Apollo 11,sitting on top of a rocket that was 36 stories high.Their destination:themoon.All those who were watching knew that the landing of men on the moon would     

稳定·激励·提高——私立学校教师队伍建设问题之管见

拥有一支素质高、结构合理的教师队伍,是一流学校高水平教育质量的保证,也是今日某些办学成功的私立学校得以生存和发展的生命力之所在。一般说来,由于在办学条     

Painting As A Pastime

A gifted American psychologist has said, Worry is a spasm ofthe emotion; the mind catches hold of something and will not let itgo. It is useless to argue with the mind in this condition. Thestronger the will, the more futile the task. One can only gentlyinsinuate something else into its convulsive grasp And if thissomething else is rightly chosen, if it is really attended by theillumination of another field of interest, gradually, and often quite     

A Tourist Guide

Carmen smihd as she watched the tourists get on board the big air-condi-tioned bus.When everyone was on board,Carmen entered and took a small raisedseat beside the driver.Here she could face the passengers as she spoke to them.“Good morning,ladies and gentlemen,”she said over a loudspeaker.“Wel-come to Mexico City.I am Carmen Campos,and I am your guide for this tour of ourbeautiful capital city.Today we are going to see the highlights of both the old and     

The Life of a Hunter

This was an important day for Alatook,an Eskimo boy.He ate his breakfastquickly.For the first time he was going to hunt seals alone.Because it was a verycold day.Alatook had to dress warmly.First he put on his fur-lined jacket.Then heput on his fur-lined mittens and boots to protect his hands and feet from the cold.Fi-nally he picked up the gun he had cleaned so carefully the day before.     

洁净煤技术与中国大气污染控制

分析了中国煤炭资源的煤质特征和洁净煤技术的发展现状，提出了中国洁净煤技术的发展重点，建议加大洁净煤技术开发和研究的资金投入和环保执法力度，从税收和资金方面支持环保建设项目，确保我国经济与环境可持续发展。     

Address upon Receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature STOCKHOLM,DECEMBER 10,1950

I feel that this award was not made to me as a man,but to mywork—a life's work in the agony and sweat of the human spirit,not for glory and least of all for profit,but to create out of thematerials of the human spirit something which did not exist before,sothis award is only mine in trust.It will not be difficult to fred a dedi-cation for the money part of it commensurate with the purpose andsignificance of its origin.But I would like to do the same with the ac-claim too,by using this moment as a pinnacle from which I might belistened to by the young men and women already dedicated to the same     

At the Stationery

Mr.Kim began to study English last month.After his first day inschool,he went to a stationery①store to buy some school supplies②.Hebought two notebooks with spiral bindings③.He prefered spiral bindingsbecause it was easy to take the pages out.He also got two mechanical     

Typhoon Rose

Typhoons in the northern part of the world have girls'names.Sometimes theyhave very pretty names.Rose is a pretty name,but there was nothing pretty aboutTyphoon Rose.It was the worst typhoon to hit Hong Kong in 1970s.It began to rain steadily early in the morning of Monday,August 16th,1971.Thesea in the harbour began to get rough and the ferry boats crossing the harbour rocked androlled from side to side as the wavez became bigger and bigger.There were queues ofpeople 100 yards long and eight people wide,waiting to buy tickets to catch the last fer-     

Who Caught the Fish?

Every Saturday morning Henry goes down to the river with his friend Charles.The boys have fishing-rods which their fathers gave them. They enjoy fishing. Theysit and watch their lines for hours. Sometimes they catch a little fish but often they donot catch anything. They like sitting and talking quietly by the water. It is cool anddeep.