More than 6000 children were expelled(开除) from US schools last year for bringing guns and bombs to school, the US Department of Education said on May 8. The department gave a report on the expulsions as saying handguns accounted for 58...

Once there was a piano player in a bar（酒吧）。People came just to hear him play. But one night，a lady asked him to sing a song. I dont sing，said the man. But the lady told the waiter，Im tired of listening to the piano. I want t...

I would almost rather see you dead. Bobert S. Cassatt, a leading banker of Philadelphia, shouted when his twenty-year-old eldest daughter announced that she wanted to become an artist. In the 19th century, playing at drawing or painting on...

John Brown, an office worker, lives in Washington, He inherited(继承) $ 1,000, 000 when he was 23. He didnt feel happy at all. His college friends were looking for their first jobs, but he didnt have to. John decided to keep living a simp...

Sydney is a young city. Its history goes back just over 200 years. But inAustralia, it is the oldest city. It is also the countrys largest city. Sydney is the capital of New South Wales and the most populous(人口稠密的) city of Austral...

Unless we spend money to spot（认出，发现）and prevent asteroids（小行星）now，one might crash into Earth and destroy life as we know it，say some scientists. Asteroids are bigger versions of the meteoroids（流星体）that...

Rosa liked making up stories. She was so __1__ that her classmates believed her from time to time. In fact, the whole class believed her! At first she supposed it was __2__. Now, as she got up to __3__ before the class, She knew that make b...

In 1995，Ray Kroc visited a small restaurant in California.The owner of it was the Mc Donald(麦当劳)brothers. They built it by the road，so people could drive up to the restaurant，buy food without getting out of their cars and drive...

Christmas Eve means a warm get-together with friends,a candlelight dinner,or perhaps a celebration at a pub（酒馆）for students.But,for Cai Yingjie， the night has a different meaning:helping beggars（乞丐） and the homeless（peop...

Farley worked for the Canadian government. One day, he was __1__ to learn more about wolves. Do wolves kill lots of caribou(北美驯鹿)? Do they kill people? They gave him lots of food and clothes and guns. Then they put him on a plane an...