A New Magazine on TV

London has a new magazine. But it is not printed on paper. Everyone who has a television can receive it because it is on TV. In order to read this magazine, you have to have a decoder.Each page of it is numbered, so you only have to dial the number to choose which subject you want to read about.     

A Complaint Letter（高二适用）

Dear Sir,I am writing to complain (投诉) about the service offered by your company.I told your Service Department on June 20 that my washing machine needed repairing. Your service engineers have since been here four times-on July 11, July 18, July 26 and August 6. The problem was found out on the first visit and the wrong parts were brought by different engineers on the two next visits. The correct part was fitted by the first engineer on the fourth visit.In short,my complaints are:     

A Train Accident（高二适用）

At least 275 people were killed and 460 injured in Monday‘ s head-on train coUision(碰撞) in eastern India and rescue operations were continuing, the Press Trust of India said yesterday.     

Less TV Reduces Kid＇ s Weight（高二适用）

PALO ALTO, California-Switching off the television may help prevent children from getting fatter--even if they do not change their diet or increase the amount they exercise, US researchers said last week.     

A Man Or A Mouse？（高二适用）

Are you a man or a mouse? When asking this question they want to know if you think you are a brave person or a coward. But you will never really know the answer to that question until you are tested in real life. Some people think they are brave, but when they come face to face with real danger, they act like cowards. Other people think of themselves as cowardly, but when they meet danger, they act like heroes.     

Jomestown（高二适用 ）

The development of Jamestown in Virginia during the second half of the seventeenth century, was closely related to the making and use of bricks. There are several practical reasons why bricks became important to the colony.     

Radar（高二适用）

Some radio signals(信号)are reflected(反射)when they meetsolid objects: for example, television signals are reflected when theymeet walls and houses, and when theymeet an aircraft in the sky. The picture     

The Attack on September 11th（高二适用）

New York. When the first jet struck 1 World Trade Center at 8: 48 a.m. on Tuesday, the people in 2 World Trade Center with a view of the instant dam-age across the divide had the clearest sense of what they,too,must do:get out fast.Katherine Ilachinski, who had been knocked off her chair by the blast of heat exploding from the neighboring tower, was one of those people. Despite her 70 years of age, Ms Ilachinski, an architect working on the 91st floor of 2 World Trade Center, the south tower,went for the stairs. Twelvefloors above her, Judy Wein,an executive,screamed and set off too.     

Ship Accident（高二适用）

YANTAI: At least 150 passenger‘s and crew aboard a ship on the Yellow Sea were found dead and more than 140 remain missing in one of the country‘ s worst maritime (航海的) accidents on November 24, 1999 near the port city of Yantai in East China‘ s Shandong Province. Rescue workers reported late yesterday that only 36 survivors had been found.     

The Water Cycle（高二适用）

Most of the earth is covered with water. About 70 per cent of the water on earth is in the oceans,but water also exists in rivers and lakes. It occurs as ice or water vapour in the air. All together, there are about 330 million cubic (立方体的) miles of water on earth.     

The Spring Festival（高二适用）

The Spring Festival , the traditional Chinese New Year's Day, is China's most important national holiday. Almost everyone in China's cities enjoys at least three days off     

The Devil's Cup（高二适用）

Did the arrival of coifee give birth to an enlightened Western civilization(文明)? Is coffee, indeed, the substance that drives history? In his merry and fascinating book, the American writer Stewart Lee Allen sets out to answer this profound question.     

Pioneering Spacecraft Landing Safely（高二适用）

The first test flight of China‘s manned space programme went perfectly as the country‘s unmanned spacecrafi(飞船) fell safely down in Inner Mongolia on November 21, 1999 after the first 21-hour travel.     

Mother＇s Day（高二适用）

An American woman Anna Jarvis ws the first person to decide that mothers should have a holiday in their honour each year.Miss Jarvis started her campaign in 1906 in her home city Philadelphia.She wrote thousands of letters to congressmen(国会议员）,city officials,teachers and newspaper publishers,     

Earth’s Surface（高二适用）

If a man in a spaceship looked down at the earth from many miles high above the island of Tahiti (南太平洋中的塔希提岛), he would see mainly water. He might think that the earth was a very very large ocean with little land.