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IQALUIT-- THE FROZEN TOWN The reporter, Beth Allen, arrived in a northern community called Iqaluit in Nunavut Nunavut was created in 1999 as a special area for Inuit people. Its name means Our Land in their language. It is in the farthest northeaste...
The next morning the bushes and maple trees outside their windows were red, gold and orange, and there was frost on the ground, confirming that fall had arrived in Canada. Around noon they arrived in Toronto, the biggest and most wealthy city in Cana...
A TRIP ON THE TRUE NORTH Li Daiyu and her cousin Liu Qian were on a trip to Canada to visit their cousins in Montreal on the Atlantic coast. Rather than take the aeroplane all the way, they decided to fly to Vancouver and then take the train west to...
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CAUGHT BY A BLACK HOLE The spaceship warned Li Yanping and me to be ready as we were approaching (靠近) the black hole. We could see some faint lights around what looked like an empty space. Li Yanping said, That empty hole is like a mouth always ne...
Last month I was lucky enough to have a chance to make a trip into space with my friend Li Yanping, an astronomer. We visited the moon in our spaceship! Before we left, Li Yanping explained to me that the force of gravity would change three times on...
HOW LIFE BEGAN ON THE EARTH No one knows exactly how the earth began, as it happened so long ago. However, according to a widely accepted theory, the universe began with a Big Bang that threw matter in all directions.After that, atoms began to form...
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Reading and Speaking Task THE MILLION POUND BANK NOTE Act II, Scene 4 NARRATOR: At the end of the month, Henry was very rich and didn't fear jail. Dressed in the finest clothes, he drove by the brothers' house in Portland Place and, seeing they were...