【正文】 ri:d??n]—measurable rain fall is believed to have been absent for `two million years↘. 。fr?uzn] blocks↘. Despite `all the water, however↗, Antarctica is technically [39。m?nid?] your time well↗, you will have︶a suc`cessful life. Try using `all︶of your `spare time/to practice English `crazily. Even a few minutes practice while waiting for the bus/↗can make `valuable learning time. BCan you remend some other ways of collecting materials?What can readers use The Library Computer System for?If I have some questions, where can I find you?The film industry in the 1930s and 1940s.More than 30 books.It’s cheap and convenient.At the back of the hall.Tidy up the library. CLinda often passed what she heard at the water fountain to others, which hurt some people sometimes, so Patty decided to teach her a lesson. One day he told a student at the water fountain that Linda got below an A in her history exam and that her parents might keep her at home for a week. Some time later the whole class knew the gossip. When Linda asked a friend, what the friend told her was that she heard Linda had failed in all her subjects and her parents were taking her out of school. 20 AAn`tarctica, the continent at the bottom of the world, is covered by an enormous [i39。f?:d] to waste time. Once time has gone by, it will `never re`turn. You can never turn the clock back. Time passes `very quickly. People say time flies↘. We should therefore [39。ben?fit] from︶it. BWhat’s wrong with the power station?What does nuclear power have to do with air pollution?Where is Radioactive pollution happening?Global warming.Near the city.Its water vapor or, steam.Radioactive pollution.The fighting from the Middle East. CA rich man found a poor man sleeping on the bench in a park every night dreamed to live in the big hotel where he lived. The reach man helped him realize the dream by paying for the best room in the hotel for a month. But just after several days, the poor man returned to the bench. When the reach man asked him why, he said that he dreamed he was lying in the hotel when on the bench, while he dreamed he was back to the cold bench when in the hotel, so he couldn’t get any sleep at all. 19 AMany people `value their time more than `anything `else in the world. Once time is gone, it can `never be replaced. Time is precious [39。benifit。heiv] /while eating in other countries. Knowledge of table manners /will show your international qualifications.`Don’t make noises with your mouth↘. `Close your mouth when eating↘. People make mouth noises/ because they eat without closing their mouths. When you drink your soup, `don’t sip it but swallow [39。bains]`science↗and `math with `literature [39。n?t??r?li] go to sleep/ and wake︶up `later than normal—for good biological reasons. BWhat else can help foreign language learners to learn vocabulary?Writing is very hard and boring, isn’t it?When did you leave Harvard University?At Harvard University.Watching movies in that language.10,000. By practicing more.Teaching more people Chinese. CJohn had to go to court because a person accused him of having building his house on his land. John could prove the land was his, but he knew the judge was greedy, so decided to take a gift for the judge. When the judge found there are two things in John’ pocket, which were likely more valuable than the money in the accuser’s wallet, he gave a judgment in John’s favour. When he asked John for the gift later, John took out two large stones from his pocket. 17 AHigh school students in `Asia /often do better than American students on international math↗and science tests↘. Experts say part︶of this is because schools in countries like China /do better at preparing [pri39。k?nsentreit] in many American schools have changed the start of their morning classes /from 7:30↗to 8:30 or even 9:00, hoping to get the `best possible teaching quality [39。k?nfid?nt]. If a request is reasonable /but you don’t want to do, offer an al`ternative, for example, “I don’t have time on Saturday↗, but I could do it one night next week↘.” BWhy have you e to Prague?Are you all alone by yourself?What is the topic of the meeting?The roads are quite narrow.Five minutes. Attend/Hold a meeting.Five people.Environmental problem. CAn old man wearing a long, white beard could fall asleep easily. He was very proud of both his beard and this ability. One day his grandson asked him where he placed his beard when sleeping, which he had never thought of. When he lay in bed that night, he was so confused about the question that he couldn’t go to his dreams. He put his beard under the blanket one minute, and placed the beard above it later. And then under once again. He didn’t sleep well the whole night. He was very angry and cut his beard early the next morning. 16 ATeenagers who`don’t get︶up early in the morning are`brighter and more suc` study of students’sleep by researchers in the USA/ found that teenagers who get︶up early are often tired [39。θ?r?ti]: stand up straight, straighten [39。f?:] to be in the audience instead, either by attending the games in person↗, or watching them on television↘. When there is an︶important baseball game or boxing m