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ngary. They studied in the same class and the same interest in physics brought them together and they became good friends. Before long they fell in love. In 1903 when Einstein was 24, he married Marits, who was 4 years older than he.

After their marriage, Einstein devoted himself to the research of the great theory. To give her husband more help, Marits gave up her own work, and became a good wife and assistant. She tried her best to encourage him whenever possible. She was sure that her husband would succeed. They often discussed the theory while walking outside or sitting together in the room. They even did that in their letters when one of them was away from their home.

In 1914, Einstein moved to Berlin and settled down there. At that time his theory proved to be correct and he had become famous all over the world. But it was not long before the First World War broke out. Marits as well as her two sons, who was on holiday in Switzerland couldn't come back to Berlin any more. The war not only stopped Einstein's work but also broke up the warm happy family. In 1919 Einstein and Marits had to get divorced (离婚).

1)、From this passage we can see that Marits was 27 when married.

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2)、We can learn from the passage that Marits was also a great scientist.

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3)、The last paragraph mainly tells us why Einstein and Marits got divorced.

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4)、Einstein and Marits got divorced because Marits didn't love Einstein after the war broke out.

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5)、The writer wanted to tell us that we should remember Marits when talking about Einstein's theory.

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's Day, a special day for lovers. The origin of this holiday is uncertain but according to one story it gets its name from a Christian named Valentine who lived in Rome during the 3rd century A.D. His job was to perform. marriages for Christian couples. Unfortunately, the Emperor of Rome didn't allow Christian marriages. So they had to be performed in secret. Finally Valentine was arrested and put into prison. While he was in prison he fell in love with the daughter of the prison guard. After one year the Emperor offered to release Valentine if he would stop performing Christian marriages. Valentine refused and so he was killed in February, 270 A.D. Before he was killed Valentine sent a love letter to the daughter of the prison guard. He signed the letter "from your Valentine". That was the first Valentine.

Today Valentines are cards usually red and shaped like hearts with messages of love written in them. On Valentine's Day tens of millions of people send and receive Valentines. Whether it is an expensive heart-shaped box of chocolates from a secret admirer or a simple hand-made card from a child, a Valentine is a very special message of love.

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2)、Valentine was put into prison because he sent a love letter to the daughter of the prison guard.

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3)、It is because he refused to accept the Emperor's offerthat Valentine was killed.

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4)、Valentines are cards usually red, and shaped like hearts with messages of love written in them.

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5)、People send Valentines to each other nowadays to celebrate Valentine's birthday.

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important way of reading a large, big-city newspaper is to put it into different sections. Can you find these separate sections: world news, national and local news, sports, business, entertainment, opinions, ads? Does your paper have other sections?

News stories give facts, not the reporter's opinions. Some newspaper editorials (社论) come out with the writer's name, but many newspapers only carry editorials without putting the writers' names on.

You can be a better reader if you know what to expect in a newspaper. For example, you can expect headlines to leave out unnecessary words. You can expect to find the most important facts in the leading paragraph (the first paragraph) of a news story. You can expect important news items to be on the front page. You can expect less important items to be on the inside pages.

Most of all, the more you know about news of the present time, the more you will understand what is in the newspaper; important stories are generally presented one day and followed up on following days. So, an important way to read newspapers is reading one frequently.

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2)、To design ads might NOT be a newspaper reporter's work.

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3)、From the text we know that newspaper headlines are what readers expect to read.

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4)、If you are reading for major facts in the news stories, you should read the front page.

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5)、The writer's suggestion to us is that we should read one newspaper frequently.

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ercent of the total area of the earth.

The average height of the land is about 750 metres above the sea level. The Eurasian(欧亚大陆的) land mass is the largest with an area of 54,527,600 square kilometers. The smallest continent is the Australian mainland, with an area of about 7,614,600 square kilometers, which together with Tasmania, New Zealand, New Guinea and the Pacific Islands, is described as Oceania.The total area of Oceania is about 8,935,500 square kilometres, including West Iran which is political in Asia.

The world's largest peninsula(半岛) is Arabia, with an area of about 3,327,500 square kilometres. The largest island in the world is Greenland, with an area of about 2,175,600 square kilometres.

The largest island surrounded by fresh water is the Ilha de Marajo (4,022 square kilometres) in the mouth of the Amazon River, Brazil. The largest island in a lake is Manitoulin Island (2,766 square kilometres) in the Canadian section of Lake Huron. This island itself has on it a lake of 106 square kilometres called Manitou Lake, in which there are several islands.

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2)、The area of Tasmania, New Zealand, New Guinea and the Pacific Islands adds up to about 1,320,900 square kilometres.

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3)、Oceania is made up of Australia, New Guinea and the Pacific Islands.

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4)、As mentioned in the passage there are several islands in Manitou Lake.

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5)、The largest island surrounded by fresh water is in a river.

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ren. Old people are often killed because they usually can't see or hear very well. Children are often killed because they are careless.

A car, truck or bus can't stop very quickly. If a car is going very fast, it will travel many meters before it stops. People don't understand this. They think a car can stop within a few meters. The faster a car is traveling, the longer it needs to stop. It is very hard for a person to know how fast a car is traveling.

The only safe way to cross the road is to look both ways, right and left. When the road is clear, it's safe to cross. The correct way to cross the road is to walk quickly. It's not safe to run. If people run across the roads, they may fall to the ground.

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2)、Old people are often hit by cars because they can't see or hear clearly.

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3)、It is likely for a car to hit people on the road because some drivers are too careful.

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4)、To look both ways while crossing the road is the only safe way to cross the road.

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5)、It is not advisable for people to run across the road because they can't stop before a car hits them.

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big family--his parents, his brothers, their wives and their children. The family kept an elephant. The young woman soon took great interest in it. Every day she gave nice food to the elephant.

Three months later the woman quarreled with her husband and went back to her parents' house. Soon the elephant didn't want to eat and work. It seemed to be ill and heart-broken. One morning after several weeks the animal disappeared from the house. It went to the woman's home. When it saw her, the elephant touched her with his long nose. The young woman was so happy that she went back to her husband's home.

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2)、Only five people were there in the young man's family before he got married.

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3)、The woman left her new home because she was angry with her husband.

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4)、After the young woman left her husband's home, the elephant went to find a new home.

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5)、The young woman went back to her husband's home because the elephant had come to comfort her.

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d get sick if he continued like that, so she often tried to get him to take a vacation. At last she managed to persuade him to do so, and she hoped that he would be able to enjoy his vacation without any disturbance, so before they left, Mrs. Young went to see her husband's secretary. She said to her, "My husband needs a vacation very much, so whatever happens, please don't bother him with telegrams and letters about business problems while we are away. Just wait till we get back."

After Mr. and Mrs. Young had been away about a week, Mr. Young received a letter from his secretary which said, "Something terrible happened to your business, but I'm not going to bother you with it while you are enjoying your vacation."

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2)、Mrs. Young worried about her husband's business.

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3)、Mrs. Young was afraid that her husband's vacation might be spoilt.

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4)、The secretary didn't explain in her letter what had happened to Mr.Young's business, because she didn't want to spoil Mr. Young's vacation.

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5)、You can learn from the story that Mr. Young had a stupid secretary.

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A traveler came out of the airport. There were a lot of taxies. He asked every taxi-driver his name. Then he took the third one. It cost 5 dollars from the airport to the hotel. "How much does it cost for the whole day?" the man asked. "100 dollars," said the taxi-driver. This was very expensive, but the man said it was OK.

The taxi-driver took the man everywhere. He showed him all the parks and museums in the city. In the evening, they went back to the hotel. The traveler gave the taxi-driver 100 dollars and said, "What about tomorrow?" The taxi-driver looked at the man and said, "Tomorrow? It is another 100 dollars." But the man said, "That's OK! See you tomorrow." The taxi-driver was very pleased.

The next day, the taxi-driver took the traveler everywhere again. They visited all the parks and museums again. And in the evening, they went back to the hotel. The man gave the tax-driver 100 dollars again and said, "I'm going home tomorrow." The taxi-driver was very sorry because he liked the traveler and, above all, 100 dollars a day was a lot of money. "So you are going home. Where do you come from?" he asked. "I come from New York." "New York!" said the taxi-driver. "I have a sister in New York; her name is Susanna. Do you know her?"

"Of course I know her. She gave me 200 dollars for you!"

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2)、The traveler took the third taxi, because the third taxi-driver was a kind-hearted man.

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3)、Usually the cost of traveling one day by taxi may be less than $100.

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4)、The traveler's sister asked the traveler to give the money to the taxi-driver.

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5)、The driver was unhappy when he heard the traveler's last words.

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s outside the town. His parents have a farm and grow a lot of vegetables on it and they often sell them in the town. These years they've built a new building and bought a tractor, a motorbike，a color television，a fridge and other things.

Two years ago，Li Qiu began to study in a middle school. He does well in all his lessons and now he's becoming more and more interested in science. He likes to try out new ideas and hopes to be an inventor. This term he's learned electricity (电学). He always watches TV carefully. Last Saturday，when he came back home，his parents were working in the fields. He looked at the new color TV for a while. Then he began to take apart (拆) it. Three hours later his mother came in and saw him fixing the TV set. She was surprised and asked，“What are you doing here，Li Qiu?”

“I took apart the TV just now.”

“Don't worry about it，Mummy,” said the boy “I only want to know how it works.”

“Have you refixed it together?” asked Mum.

“No，Mum，” the boy said in a hurry. “Look，there are some parts left. I don't know where to put them.”

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2)、Li Qiu is in Grade Two now.

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3)、Li Qiu becomes interested in science because he wants to be an inventor.

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4)、Li Qiu thought he could refix a television.

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5)、In fact，Li Qiu has broken their TV down.

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on he became rich.

One day the weather was fine. There wasn't a cloud in the sky and the sun was very warm. The landlord was walking along a river with his friends, when, all of a sudden, he slipped and fell into it. He cried, “Help! Help!” One of his friends held out his hand and said, “Give me your hand and I will pull you out.” The landlord's head went under the water and then came up again, but he did not give his hand to his friends. Then another of his friends tried but the same thing happened.

Just then a farmer came over and saw all this. He knew the landlord very well. He said to the others, “Let me try.” He held out his hand and said to the landlord, “Take my hand and I will pull you out.” Hearing this, the landlord took the farmer's hand, and in a minute the farmer pulled the landlord out of the water.

All the others got very surprised at this and asked the farmer, “Why did he give his hand to you but not to us?” The farmer said, “You don't know your friend very well, When you say 'give' to him, he does nothing, but when you say 'take' he takes.”

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2)、Smith became very rich, because he never gave anything to anybody.

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3)、One day Smith was walking along a lake with his friends.

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4)、The rich man held out his hand when he heard “Take my hand.”

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5)、His friends knew the rich man very well.

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