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　　Collecting information about

　　(申请表)are closely connected, However, filling out an appheation fornt is much easier because you have total control and have enough time to think and plan.

That you are given a form to fill out does not necessarily mean that you have to answer all the questions in it. If the form contains unclear questions or lerms and conditions, you can make some changes before signing (签约)it, or refuse to answer some of the questions. What you must realize is that those terms and conditions have been written by highly paid lawyers.Each word is important, or it would not be there;and you can be sure that there is not anything there that is written with your interests in mind.

　　I know what I speak of because, as a lawyer for Litton Industries. I wrote the terms and conditions that were printed on the back of order forms, I wrote the most tiring terms and conditions anyone has ever seen. Still, 90 percent of the buyers would just sign on them without questioning anything, If anyone questiones them. We would reach an agreement on something that was acceptable to both siders.

　　So when you see a preprinted application that contains questions or terms and conditions, read it all and read it slowly. If you don’t like something, you can simply change the parts you don’t like, Remember that everything can be settled by discussion. To what degree it can be settled depends on your position(立场),of course, and that is something only you can determine.

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　　Department stores sell ready-to-wear clothing, which is also called ready-made-clothint. Such clothing is made in fixed sizes. Those people who find that ready-made clothing fits them well can save money by buying it. Most often. People do not fit exactly into a producer’s size. Their clothing must be altered(改变)to make it fit better, However, most alterations are not very expensive. The small cost of most allerations means that ready-made clothing can meet the needs of most custioners.

　　Those who can afford it often get someone to design and make their clothing. Such clothing is called custom-made(定做的). The person who makes it measures the customer,and then sews it so that it fits perfectly.Alterations are not needed. Custom-made clothing is largely sewn by hand. Has better quality,better material, and is of the style you have chosen. Of course, it costs much more than ready-to-wear clothing. You need to pay the difference for the special fitting and better skill that you are receiveing. This often means that you spend double or more than you would for a ready-made garment（衣服）.

　　Custom-made clothing is not always that much better than ready-made clothing. It costs more partly because only one garment has been made, just for you. Companies that produce ready-made products make thousands of garments at a time. This means they can buy large quantities of material. Workers cut each size by the hundreds. Companies work out ways to make the garments, quickly ly machine and pay workers according to their skill. Thus they can sell the finished products at a low price while still making money. Most of the clothing sold in the United States is made in this way. Customers gain from the lower prices which are made possible by mass production（批量生产）.It may or may not give them high quality.

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　　Unlike modern animal scientists, dinosam scientists cannot sit on a hillside and use telescopes to watch dinosaurs in order to know how they lived and whether they were good parents Instead, they have to search hard for information from dinosaurs’fossils(恐龙化石) because dinosaurs died out millions of years ago.

　　It’s very difficult for the scientists to reach an agreement because different results can be got from the same fossils, Many fossils of the same kind of dinosaurs have been dug out from one place. They might have formed when an entire group of dinosaurs got stuct(陷入)all st once. Or they might have been the result of dinosaurs getting stuck one after another over a course of a few centuries. Thys we can say that dinosaurs might have in the first case lived in big groups and in the second lived alone.

　　Though there are two different results, dinosaur scientists now generally agree that at least some kinds of dinosaurs lived in big groups. “That’s pretty much settled at this point.” Says Paul Sereno, A kind of dinosaurs called Sauropods left behind tracks in the western United States that appear to run north and south,suggesting that they even moved long distances together.

　　As to whether dinosaurs cared for their young, dinosaur scientists have turned to the closest living relativers of dinosaurs ― birds and crocodiles ― for possible models. Birds give a lot of care to their young, while crocoeiles just help their young to the water, The discovered fossils of dinosaurs sitting on their gees and staying with their young suggest the parents were taking care of their babies, but we still cannot say that all dinosaurs did the same.

　　There is still a long way to go before the above questions could be answered. Dinosaur scientists will have to find more proof to reach an agreement.

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　　Have you ever dreamed of having a fashionable watch of great value?

　　A small watchmaker in Switzerland in 1922 designed the first automatic(自动的)watch to show the day, month, and date, Only seven of these splendid watches were ever made and these watches were almost lost to history. Today, it is so hard to get an original (首批的) watch that some watch historians are even willing to offer $ 200,000 for one.

　　These watches attracted a lot of people for their splendid color, fashionable style, and new uses in the 1920s. The owners of the watches were admired and set apart from the crowd. Because the number of the original watches is very limited, owning such a watch will make you feel very special.

　　Today, you are offered the same kind of watch with improvement. It has a 24-jewel mechanical(机械的) movement, the kind desired by watch collectors, The watchmaker has made the movement of the watch much more modern with an automatic rotor(上弦装置) so that the watch never needs to be wound by hand. The Design on it. To get a watch in such a perfect designto know history and to wear such a watch will show your You can get the watch either in person or by mail all an affordable price. You will also receive good service from the watch seller. If you are not satisfied with the watch after you get it, you may simply return it within 30 days. Don’t miss the chance to realize your dream.

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　　It was a bright spring afternoon when Fieda told me she wouldn’t need me any more. I had just finished my four-hour work － 　　1　　 up and down the stairs of her three-storey home, cleaning the floor and washing the dished. She was 　　2　　 jeans and a sweater. Sitting at the table I had just 　　3　　 . a pile of papers spread around her. Her husband’a 　　4　　 was going to be reduced by thirty percent. And they were trying to live as if it had 　　5　　 happened. I felt sorry for her. but I also felt a sense of 　　6　　 .

　　I had been cleaning Freda’s house for five years and had 　　7　　 an unexpected relationship with the family. It was not just 　　8　　 I had become an expert at scraping（刮掉）dirt stuct to their wooden floor. 　　9　　 that I had learned exactly how to place toys on the girls’beds. It was 　　10　　 than that. For I felt I had become a part of their 　　11　　 .

　　Freda stayed at home with the kids, 　　12　　 I would often see her in the morning 　　13　　 Them to school. And I’d be there when they 　　14　　 home at lunch for sandwiches and piano practice. I had 　　15　　 them grow up. Now I 　　16　　still wanted to keep scraping away the dirt and dust for

　　I left Freda’s 　　17　　 relationship with my clients（主顾）. Who am I 　　18　　

　　Them? As a matter of fact. I’m 　　19　　 an employee － the lowest kind of employee. But I’m also a trusted 　　20　　 of the family. I can’t help worrying about what happens around me.

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　　Despite the high technology and investment(投资)in flood defences by the Envirunment Ageney.(环保局)，there is no way to stop all flooding-sooner or later nature will produce something that will beat even the strongest defences．

　　Warning people of this danger is very important if we are to prevent the greal loss of life seen fifry-three years ago. Indeed if the Flood Warning system that currently exists had been around on that eold, stormy night in January 1953 ,many lives would have been spare

　　The Environment Ageney took over the mle of flood warning in 1995 from the police who had to go door to door or sound alarms to get the news not.The service is being constantly improved and a combination of better technology and increased +investrnent following the Easter Floods of 1998 has led to the creation of Floodline and an autornatie(自动)messaging systenl that can warn thousands of people in very little time．

　　The Flood Warning team in Kent has also sent letters to the people living close to the rivers or the sea and invited them to join the AVM(automated voiee messaging)systern. Anyone chooeing to take up this free service will receive a recorded message directly to their home, business or pager telling them of the level of warming, giving them as much time as possible to carry out their flood plan and save iterns that cannot be replaced if lost or daraged, such as photographs or children’s farorite toys．

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　　There are two main forms of teaching in Notinghain University: serninar (研讨会)and leelure. They are very different from the sort of teaching most often used in schools and colleges．

　　In seminars you will be taught will discussion focusing on a lexl or lopic sel in sdrance in a Friendly and inforrrad alrnosphere. The purpoce is to provide an opportunity to try out new idesas and to think through diffieulties with fellow. Learners. Students develop friendsips through groups, as well as learning more about other people’s ideas. You can also know your tutors as an individual rather than a face at the end of the room．

　　Lectures are the most formal. There may be over a hundred in the audieace and the lecture will last about fifty minutes. The value of the lecture is that it ean present to a large number of people infornution which is not readily avsilshle in books, that it can give you an opportunily to hear a specialist develop a coherent(有条理的)argument, and that it ean show visual matcrial to a wide audience．

　　You typicrd week’s a work will feel strange after school or college since there are fewer timelzhled teaching hours. Each week in the first year you may attend about six lectures and four to six seminars or tutorials(辅导). For the rest of the time you are working on your own, doing the nccessary reading in preparation for tutorials or writing seminar papers. When writing an eassay or carrying out project work, you can often discuse with your about the ritle and topic．

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　　Cafe Hub

　　Next to the Castle lies The Hub, home of the Edinburgh lnternational Festiveal and one of the most talked about spots in lown. Our cafe in open every day for mouth-watering lunches, snncks and fine dining. Come in and enjoy the The liub, Casfleill. Royal Mile, Edinburgh. Open every day from 9:30 a. m. till late．

　　Tel: 0131 473 2067 www. Thehub-edinburgh.com

　　Farm Warid

　　Enjoy being “A Farmer for a Day”. Join in delivering and feeding our spring babis-bottle feeding sessions twice daily. Fun for all family. Horse Rides, BMX Bikes Cross Country Course, Tractor through 600 acres, New Adventurn Playground Naturn Trails. Full details on website．

　　Open:May-Oct Wednesdays to Saturdays and daily during school holidays 11 a. m.-p. m．

　　Tel:01797 260256/260321 www. Farmworld-rye. Co. uk

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　　As skies are filled with millions of migrating(迁徙)birds, Eutopean scientists say the seasonal weadcr appears to be strange; the fatter that bird, the better it flies．

　　The results of their study led to a theory opposite to a eentral one of acrodynamies(空气动力学), whieh says that the power needed to fly inereases with weight．

　　For birds, obvionsly, the cost of flying with heavy fat is much smalleg than we used to think. Resenrchers found that red knoll wading birds double their normal body weight of 100 grams before making their twice-a-year nonstop flight between the Brilish lsles and the Russian Arctic Distance; 5, 000 kilometers．

　　Another study in the magazine Naturn measured the ndvanrage of flying in an acrodynamic group which allows birds to save energy by flying smoothly and quielly in the lead bird’s air strearn．

　　Flying in groups, their heart rates were 14.5 pereenl lower than flying alone, according to Henri, a French scientist. The findings help explain how birds complets difficult migrations. Rescarehers had thought that thinner, stronger birds would have the best chance to survive．

　　The first study suggests that building up fat to be burnt as fuel during the migration is worth more than the energy it takes to carry the additional weight．

　　In the study, researeherd said their learn studied the birds flown at different body weights during 28 simulated(模拟的)flights. They foreed a small amount of special water into the birds’ bodies so that they could measure the amount of energy burnt during the flight．

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　　Getting paid to talk about the World Cup is a great job I’m not a football commentator(评论员),though-just an English teacher in japan．

　　I came to japan two years ago, and didn't think I would stay, but japan has that effect on you. People after endup tiving bere longer than they planned

I think it’s best to teach in a biggest eity where there are onther foreigners to mix with. Rather than a small town where English teachers often complain of feeling like a goldfish in a bovd Many people choose to live in Tokyo, of course, which is good for the nightlife factor. But I’d say that for geueral quality of living, cities of neither too large nor too small, like Sapporo where I live, are better choices．

　　I teach English privately, which means I’m my own boss. If you want to devote yourself to private teaching, it’s well worth doing a TEFL eourse first. Beeause your lessons will be much better for it. The problem with private teaching is finding students; it took me a year to build up a full schedule(日程表)of private lessons, so I started out teaching in schools part time．

　　Most of my foreign friends here work full-time for big English conversation schools. The salary is fine to live on. But whether you can save money depends on how much going out and traveling you do here．

　　The schools are reluetam to take time off –even teachers with tichets for the England-Argentina game had trouble getting the day off．

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