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I wonder whether there is any girl or boy who does not like to see a rainbow in the sky. It is so beautiful.
There is a story, saying that whenever you see a rainbow you should run at once to the place where it touches the ground, and there you would find a pot of gold. Of course it is not true. You could not find the pot of gold or its end. No matter how far you run, it always seems far away.
A rainbow is not a thing which we can feel with our hands as we can feel a flower. It is only the effect of light shining on raindrops. The raindrops catch the sunlight and break it up into all the wonderful colours which we see. It is called a rainbow perhaps because it is made up of raindrops and looks like a bow£¨¹).
That is why we can never see a rainbow in a clear sky. We see a rainbow only when there is rain in the air and the sun is shining brightly through the clouds.
Every rainbow has many colours in the same order. The first or the top colour is always red, and the next comes orange, then yellow, and last of all, blue. A rainbow is indeed one of the wonders of nature.
¡¾Ð¡Ìâ1¡¿Children like rainbows because .
| A£®they are beautiful |
| B£®they are like bows |
| C£®they can find a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow |
| D£®they are good to crops |
| A£®a pot of gold | B£®a flower | C£®a rainbow | D£®a raindrop |
| A£®when it is raining heavily |
| B£®when it is snowing |
| C£®when it is cloudy |
| D£®when it is becomes fine shortly after raining |
| A£®A rainbow is like bow. |
| B£®A rainbow is the effect of light shining on raindrops. |
| C£®Every rainbow has different colours in different orders. |
| D£®A rainbow is one of the wonders of nature. |
| A£®yellow | B£®red | C£®green | D£®blue |
Cause and effect is one way to explain things that happen around us. Many things happen because something caused or influenced them to happen. Sometimes it is hard to look at a cause and find out what caused or influenced them to happen. Sometimes it is hard to look at a cause and find out what causes the effect. It may help you to start with the effect and use your reasoning(ÍÆÀíµÄ) skills. Think about all the things you know that could be reasons for the effect you can see.
For example, you may see someone putting on a heavy jacket. This is the effect. To look for a cause, think to yourself, ¡°What would take someone put on a heavy jacket?¡± Maybe the person is going outside into very cold weather. Maybe the person works in the penguin pen(Æó¶ìȦÑøµØ) at Sea World. Maybe the person is going to visit an ice skating rink where the air is kept very cold. All of these things could be a cause for putting on a heavy jacket.
Now, think about a second example. The effect is a boy named Abi has to go to the head teacher¡¯s office. What are the possible causes? Maybe he bullied(ÆÛ¸º) another student. Maybe he is just being picked up early. Maybe he is being given a prize!
Here is another example for you to think about its cause and effect. Cait, 13, was trying to fall asleep when her 8-year-old brother, Doug, came into her room. He looked around a bit, but seemed really out of it. Then Doug went back into the hallway and stood there looking straight up at the hall light for quite a while. Little brothers can be very strange, but this was really much too strange. Cait¡¯s father appeared and explained that Doug was sleepwalking. What¡¯s the cause end effect, could you tell?
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¡¾Ð¡Ìâ1¡¿According to the second paragraph, which of the following is an effect?
| A£®Someone puts on a heavy jacket. |
| B£®Someone works in the penguin pen. |
| C£®Someone will go outside into cold weather. |
| D£®Someone will go to visit an ice skating rink. |
| A£®He bullied another student. | B£®He is going shopping. |
| C£®His is being picking up early. | D£®He is being given a prize. |
| A£®He was going outside. | B£®He was reading a story. |
| C£®He was sleepwalking. | D£®He was looking for his dad. |
| A£®Tony got up and had a glass of water. |
| B£®We came home and found him sleeping. |
| C£®The ball was lost and a window was broken. |
| D£®Tim was late again and his teacher got angry. |
| A£®Truth and lies | B£®Work and sleep |
| C£®Cause and effect | D£®Life and dreams |
7 January, 2014
A new report says more and more international students are attending colleges and universities in the United States. It also notes a large increase in the number of international students from China.
These findings are from the latest Open Doors Report.
The report documents the record number of international students in the United
States during 2012, 2013 school year. It says more than seven hundred
sixty-four thousand four-hundred s
uch
students were attending American colleges and universities during the last two
years. That represents an increase of almost six percent than one year earlier.
On the other hand, the number of Americans studying overseas (º£Íâ) increased by one percent, which reached nineteen thousand this year.
The report says one hundred ninety-four thousand students at American colleges and universities were from
China. That is an increase of more than twenty-three
percent over the year before. Peggy Blumenthal, an expert(ר¼Ò) of international education, described the effect of
the increase in Chinese students.
"Now they have been coming for some time. But this year was the highest level ever." She says many Chinese families are able to pay for the highest-quality education for their children. The children mainly choose to study in America.
"We know many of them have enough income to be able to afford to send them anywhere in the world that they want to go. And for the most part, looking around the world, Chinese students still prefer to come to the United States as their choice."
Chinese students are not the only ones who want to attend American colleges and universities. After China, India sends the second largest number of students to the United States for higher education. India has about one hundred thousand students in American schools. South Korea is third with about seventy two thousand students.
Why do so many foreign students study in the United States? Peggy Blumenthal provides one reason.
"The advantage America has is that we have a huge system and a very perfect system. So there are over four thousand universities and colleges in the United States. Among them are some top ones in the world, and what that tells us is there is still a lot of room to host international students."
Foreign students represent less than four percent of the total student population in American higher education. And from Learning English, that's the VOA Special English Education Report. I'm Bob Doughty. Thanks for listening.
1.Bob Doughty seems to be ________.
A. an exchange student from the USA
B. an expert of international education
C. a viewer of VOA
D. a reporter from VOA
2.Which country below has the fewest students studying overseas?
A. South Korea B. India C. China D. America
3.Which is NOT the reason why so many Chinese students go to the USA for further study?
A. Lots of Chinese families are able to pay for the highest-quality education for their children
B. The USA has a huge and a very perfect education system.
C. There is a lot of room to host international students in the USA.
D. The USA has some top universities and colleges in the world.
4.Which of the following statement is true?
A. China has 122,000 more students than South Korea at American colleges and universities.
B. The number of Americans studying overseas is becoming smaller and smaller.
C. The number of Asian students has an increase of 6% over the past two years.
D. Most of the international students in the United States are Chinese.
5.This passage from VOA Special English is most likely to be ________.
A. An advertisement B. A radio programme C. A science report D. A tour guide