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| Concorde's Birthday CONCORDE, the world's fastest passenger plane, will soon be over 33 years old. It first 1 on 2 March 1969 in France. Concorde was developed by both France and Britain. From 1956 these two countries had a 2 of a supersonic passenger plane. In 1962 they started to 3 together on the project. The plane 4 over 1.5 billion pounds to develop. It is the most tested plane in the history. It was given over 5000 hours of testing. Concorde flies at twice the speed of 5 . This means that it 6 only 3 hours 25 minutes to fly between London and New York, compare with 7-8 hours in other passenger jets. Because of the five-hour time difference between the USA and Britain, it is 7 to travel west on Concorde and arrive in New York before you leave London! You can catch the 10:30 a.m. 8 from London, Heathrow and start work in New York an hour 9 ! Concorde is much used by business people and film stars. Each Concorde is built at a cost of 55 million pounds. Twenty have been built so far. Air France and British Airway 10 the most. They each have seven planes. | ||||
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| From a plane we can see the fields, cities, mountains or seas below. 1 . People and man-made satellites have been sent out into space to look at the earth carefully and peep, and have learnt more about the earth in the last few years. The sea looks very beautiful when the sun is shining on it. 2 . 3 . It nearly covers three quarters of the earth. The sea is also very deep in some places. There is one place and at that place the sea is about 11 kilometers deep. The highest mountain in the world is about 9 kilometers high. If that mountain was put into the sea at that place,there would be still 2 kilometers of water above it! In most part of the sea, there are many kinds of fishes and plants, Some live near the top of the sea. Others live deep down. 4 . 5 . When people go down, the sea becomes colder and colder. Only some men go down into the deep sea. But, in 1970, five women scientists lived in deep sea for fourteen days.
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| School students in China have been learning dance for a year since 2008. Are they doing well? On September, 2008, a dance competition was 1 in Xi'an. Let's take a look. More than 2,500 students from 40 schools 2 the competition. The Middle School affiliated (附属的) to Xi'an Jiaotong University was the 3 of all the junior teams. The 100 students of the school were happy to 4 the first prize. They made their dance special 5 a "five Olympic rings" pattern (形状). They also 6 the waltz and the traditional yangge dance. No pains, no gains. The students said they had been practising for 7 half a year. "We were nervous at first 8 we didn't know each other," said Zeng Jingyi, a 13-year-old girl. "What's more, the boys were clumsy (笨拙的) and often stepped on the girls' 9 !" Only practice makes perfect. The students practiced more than three hours a day."Sometimes I saw boys playing basketball in the playground," said Xu Rui, a 13-year-old boy. "How I wanted to join them! But I didn't. Dancing can be 10 too. We should work hard for our school's honor." | ||||
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| Have you ever heard of the saying, "if you want a friend, be 1 !" what does it 2 ? There are many different things that you can do to 3 friends. You may find out what they are if you 4 someone make friends. Here is 5 one new teacher made friends with the 6 in her class on the first day of the school. When the bell 7 , the teacher smiled at all the students. Then she said, "Good morning. How nice it is to have all of you 8 my class this year! I want to 9 each of you very much. I am sure we will enjoy working together." The teacher smiled, used a pleasant 10 and acted 11 a friendly way. She told the students her 12 and wrote it on the blackboard. Then she told them something she liked to 13 and hoped to do with them during the year. The students knew that she liked many of the same things they like. Everyone felt that she 14 what she said. Each of them wanted to know 15 and be her friend. Then she let the students tell something about 16 . So they felt that the teacher knew them. Could you make friends as the teacher 17 ? How do you know and like your classmates? One 18 is to find out more about them. During the 19 you can talk to them. You may ask them their names and the names of the schools they went to last year. They want to know about you, too. You may tell them about your interests or your holiday experiences. It is often easy to be friends with people who have the 20 interests and play the same games. As you talk, the others may be thinking." I like to do. It should be fun to be friends with you." Remember! Just talking together in a friendly way is one good way to make friends. | ||||
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