I have two sons. They are as different as night and day. My youngest is sweet, loveable, easy-going, and finds joy in everything. My oldest we've nicknamed the “Evil Genius” is ambitious, self-confident, and suffers no fools. Whenever we mentioned Santa my husband and I were rewarded with major eye rolling and deep sighs from my oldest. At first we both tried to ignore it.
We both knew that our eldest had figured out the big secret. But I'd be damned(指责) if he was going to ruin it for his six-year-old brother who had plenty of Santa-loving years ahead of him. I looked at my husband in the eye and said, “I'll handle this.” to which he responded “Okay just be careful because I'm not sure he knows - he might just be acting like it.” But I knew. And I had it in my mind that he was about to break his younger brothers spirit and break the news to him. I was afraid he was going to take the Christmas spirit away from my sweet innocent youngest and stamp all over it. I had to protect him. I needed to control this now before it got out of control. I rushed into the play room where my oldest was playing alone. I looked him dead in the eyes and said: “Well you know Santa isn't real, right?” And as I stared at my eight-year-old son for what seemed like a long time of silence, his eyes started to fill with tears. And a tear dropped down his cheek when he screamed out, “He's not?” “Um well it's not that he's not real (shut up you idiot- stop saying he's not real), but he doesn't really make and deliver all the toys. Dad and I get some of them for you. So he's real. He's just got a little help from us.”
The Evil Genius wasn't buying it. He just sat there looking at me with an expression of doubt. You know when you make a terrible mistake but you can't stop yourself from making it worse? That was me because I just had to know. I had to know why he had seemed to be over Santa. So I asked him why he rolled his eyes and sighed every time his father and I mentioned Santa, to which he replied that kids at school had been saying Santa wasn't real but that he still thought he was.
Every one of us knows that Albert Einstein was a world-famous scientist. Perhaps we don't know much about his life. Here are some amusing anecdotes about him.
When he arrived in New York to be a professor at Princeton University, Einstein was anxious to avoid visitors and newsmen. So his friends took him off the ship secretly before it docked (靠上码头) and hurried him away by car.
Einstein said that only twelve people at that time understood his Theory of Relativity (相对论), although more than nine hundred books had been written to explain it.
Mrs Einstein admitted that even she did not understand the Theory of Relativity, but she understood something far more important for a wife;she understood her husband.
She used to invite some friends in for tea and then she would ask her husband to come downstairs and join them. "No!" Einstein would say with anger. He simply couldn't stand those "interruptions (打扰)".
But Mrs Einstein persuaded her husband with great patience and had him drink tea with them and take a good rest.
Mrs Einstein said that her husband liked order in his thinking, but he didn't like it in his life. He did whatever he wanted to.
Einstein had only two rules of conduct (行为准则):one was "Don't be restrained (限制) by any rule", and the other was "Be independent from the opinions of others".
Einstein led a very simple life. When he went out, he was always in old clothes, and seldom did he wear a hat. He liked to whistle and sing in the bathroom.
He shaved with the same soap as he used for his bath. It seems strange that the great scientist trying to solve the mysteries of the universe should consider that using two pieces of soap made life too complicated.
Einstein said he was happy because he didn't want money or titles or foolish praises. He made his own happiness out of such simple things as playing the violin and sailing his boat.
Einstein's violin brought him more joy than anything else in his life. He said he often thought in music and made his day-dreams in music.
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People in the US thought Ebola was only a disease, accompanied with fever and found in Africa at the beginning. 1 then a man from west Africa died from Ebola at a hospital in Dallas, Texas. And two nurses 2 for him became infected(感染) with the virus, which made the US government publish new guidelines to3 health workers．
Top American 4 have repeatedly said that most people have little chance of being infected．Experts have 5that Ebola can only be spread through infected person's body fluids — like blood．But it 6 many Americans are 7 what they have heard．
A recent survey found more than 80 percent of Americans believe that Ebola can be spread in many 8, including air forced through the nose or mouth. The Harvard School of Public Health 9 the findings. The study also showed that most adults fear there will be a(n) 10 of Ebola in the United States soon.
11 survey found that more than 70 percent of Americans would support calls to 12 travel to and from Ebola-affected parts of Africa.
Thomas Frieden heads the U.S．Centers for Disease Control and Prevention．When asked whether 13 officials had considered a travel ban, Mr．Frieden had 14 to say：“We won't be able to check travelers for 15 when they leave or when they arrive. We won't be able, as we do 16, to take a detailed history to see if they were17 when they arrive. When they 18 , we wouldn't be able to impose quarantine（强加隔离）as we now can if they have high-risk touch.”
Last week, President Barack Obama urged Americans not to 19 what he called “ panic or fear ”.
This week，the administration announced that all travelers reaching the United States from some African nations are 20 to pass through one of five airports.
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