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More trees will on 2010 Tree-planting Day.
Tom arrived at the bus station quite early for the Paris bus. The bus for Paris would not leave until five to twelve. He saw a lot of people waiting in the station. Some were standing in line. Others were walking around. There was a group of schoolgirls. Their teacher was trying to keep them in line. Tom looked around but there was no place for him to sit.
He walked into the station café, and he looked up at the clock there. It was only twenty to twelve. He found a seat and sat down before a large mirror (镜子) on the wall. Just then, Mike, one of Tom's workmates came in and sat with Tom.
"What time is your bus?" asked Mike.
"There's plenty of time yet," answered Tom.
"Well, I'll get you some more tea then." said Mike.
They talked while drinking. Then Tom looked at the clock again. "Oh! It's going backward (倒行)!" he cried. "A few minutes ago it was twenty to twelve and now it's half past eleven."
"You are looking at the clock in the mirror," said Mike. Tom was very sad. The next bus was not to leave for another hour. Since then, Tom has never liked mirrors.
A beggar was sitting at the train station with a bowl full of pencils. A young manager passed by and dropped a dollar in the bowl. Then he got on the train. Before the doors closed, something came to his mind and he went back to the beggar, took up some1, and said, "After all, you are a business person and so am I." Then he left.
Six months2, the manager came to a party. The beggar was also there in a suit and tie. The beggar went up to the manager and said, "You probably don't remember me but I remember you." Then he3about what had happened six months before. The manager said, "I do remember that you were begging. What are you doing here in your suit and tie?"
The beggar replied, "You probably remember what you did to me that day. You4the first person in my life who gave my dignity (尊严) back to me. You took some pencils and said some words to me. After you left, I5to myself, 'What am I doing here?6am I begging?' I decided to do something helpful to my life. Then I started working and here I am. I just want to7you for giving my dignity back to me. What you did for me changed my life."
Some teenagers think that newspapers are b and only for adults, but that's not true. There are many interesting stories in the paper. You just need to be clear about what you are looking at. "I s about half an hour reading newspapers every day." said 15-year-old Gao Ming from Beijing. "I'm i in things that happen at school." School news is just one kind of news story in newspapers. There is also world news: from international problems to pop stars.
Read the newspapers c and you'll find different types of articles, such as:
News stories—these stories are about events. Reporters try to explain all points of a story to help readers understand what happened. The reporters try to speak to as m people as possible. They also use pictures and statistics (数据) to show the readers that the stories are true. When we read these stories, we learn about the facts, not the writer's opinions.
Advertisements—don't get happy t early when you read these. Sweet words and lovely p are just ways to get us interested in products. People have to pay to put advertisements in newspapers.
They are only 10 and 7. But they have been on the covers of famous magazines. Malia and Sasha Obama are the world's most famous kids. They moved into the White House when their father Barack Obama took office. The people around them work hard to help them live normal lives (正常生活).
The Obama girls have already been in the media (媒体) a lot and won many hearts. "The Obama kids' heart-warming images helped their father win the election. No one could doubt (怀疑) these were great parents and that they have great girls," said Janice Min, editor of US Weekly.
Newspapers said that the Obama family will keep its habit of the past few years: dinner together, every night. The Obama girls will go on with their classes and soccer. President Obama will try his best to never miss a parent-teacher meeting at the girls' school.
Malia and Sasha will soon have to make new friends at school. "I don't think they'll get left out of anything," said Carol Weston, at Girls' Life magazine, "But you want to feel you're invited because you're you, not because of the White House."
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