The only survivor of a shipwreck was washed up on a small, uninhabited island. He prayed feverishly for God to rescue him, and every day he scanned the horizon for help, but none seemed forthcoming. Exhausted, he eventually managed to build a little...
Surely the most interesting part of Pamplona's San Fermin Festival is its focus on danger and death. Why would so many people, over hundreds of years, take part in something everyone fears? 当然，在旁普罗纳的圣佛明节中，最有意思的就是对危险和死亡的...
Last year around Halloween, I was invited to participate in a carnival for Tuesdays Child, an organization that helps children with the AIDS virus. I was asked to attend because Im on a television show; I went because I care. I don't think that most...
I am thirty-three years old，and I am so happy that I am not a mother. I do not hear a biological clock ticking，only the nerve wrecking ticks of bombs yet to explode. My friends are leaping whenever their cell phones ring.Where are you？No，you can...
I am dancing with my father at my parents fiftieth wedding anniversary. The band is playing an old-fashioned waltz as we move gracefully across the floor. His hand on my waist is as guiding as it always was, and he hums the tune to himself in a stea...
18 Hotel California On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair Warm smell of colitas rising up through the air Up ahead in the distance, I saw a 1)shimmering light My head grew heavy and my sight grew dim I had to stop for the night There she st...
17 No More Silent Spring Rachel Carson was a scientist and a bird watcher. She noticed, in the late '50s, the gradual disappearance of some birds, and linked it to our use of 1)pesticides. She wrote a book about her fear that 2)robins would sing no...
16 At Home in the Savanna My name is Dopal. Im eleven years old and I live in 1)Tanzania, in the heart of the African 2)savanna. Im a Masai. Masais are 3)nomads who travel all over with their animals, looking for 4)pasture. Our most wonderful and va...
15 Beijing- An Olympic Dream Comes True (1)Beijings Four Rivals In Asia, the city of Osaka represents the candidature of Japan, which successfully set up for last winter games in Nagano. Japan also hosted the summer games in Tokyo in 1964. Competing...
14 The Richest Town in America Wheres the richest town in America? WORTH magazine 1)unveiled its 6th annual list out of the 250 richest towns and the most valuable homes, and the winner is Jupiter Island, Florida, 30 miles north of West Palm Beach o...
