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小明是一个很喜欢运动的人。他每天都会去健身房锻炼。他不仅喜欢锻炼，还喜欢踢足球。周末的时候，他经常和朋友们一起踢足球。他的朋友们也都很喜欢运动。
有一天，小明和朋友们决定去旅行。他们选择了去北京，因为九月去北京旅游最好。他们提前预约了酒店，并且安排了一些旅游景点的参观。小明特别期待这次旅行，因为他以前去过北京，成都，重庆旅游，他觉得这次的旅行一定会非常有趣。
旅行的前一天，小明感到有些不舒服。他去楼下的药店买了一些药，还给公司请了假。虽然身体有些不舒服，但他还是决定按计划进行旅行。为了不让朋友们担心，小明没有告诉他们自己生病了。
旅行结束后，小明觉得自己真的很需要好好休息一下。他回到家后，把自己喜欢的礼物送给了家人，并和他们分享了旅行中的趣事。
阅读理解题：
1.小明最喜欢的运动是什么？
A. 跑步
B. 篮球
C. 足球
D. 游泳

2.小明和朋友们选择去北京旅游的原因是什么？
A. 北京的天气很好
B. 九月去北京旅游最好
C. 北京的食物很好吃
D. 北京的酒店很便宜


3.小明旅行前做了什么准备？
A. 买了新衣服
B. 安排了旅游景点的参观
C. 买了很多礼物
D. 学习了北京的历史

4.小明旅行前一天为什么去药店？
A. 买药给朋友
B. 给家人买礼物
C. 自己生病了
D. 买一些零食

5.旅行结束后，小明做了什么？
A. 继续和朋友们踢足球
B. 去健身房锻炼
C. 给家人送礼物并分享旅行趣事
D. 再次去旅行


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小明的运动与旅行生活

Sam is a meteor from outer space. After leaving his homeland orbit, Sam was pulled towards the nearest large planet. When entering Earth’s atmosphere, he faced so much resistance. This created extremely high temperatures which burned away layers and layers of his body. As a result, Sam, who used to be giant when floating in space, became so little that he could fit in a fisherman’s hand.
 
The overwhelming amount of pain Sam suffered as a result of his entry caused him to fall into a deep state of unconsciousness. When Sam struck the Earth, he was fast asleep. 

Waking up and opening his eyes, Sam sees nothing but a vast cloudless blue sky. An enormous wave of peace and serenity washes over him. He is like a newborn baby experiencing the wonder and mystery of life for the first time. For a few moments, this serene blueness the only mental phenomenon swimming around his meteor consciousness. Seconds later, questions appear. 

Where am I? What happened? What comes next?

Due to his traumatic experience, Sam has lost all memory of his life before coming to Earth. He rolls over and looks down the beach. There are some large laughing figures running around, chasing a flying red disk. Further away there are two large ones holding long boards under their arms while walking into the water. Closer to Sam, there are several little figures picking up other rocks and showing each other. 

“Wow, look at that one!” says one of the little boys. “It looks like emerald. With a little bit of sapphire too!” 

I wish that those boys will pick me up and take me with them… I want to explore, to see precisely what life on Earth has to offer…

“Come quick!” yells one of the boys, eagerly running straight to Sam. “Look at this one! It’s so strange and ugly, but fascinating at the same time!” 

“Grab it, quick! Before mom sees!” 

A distant voice calls for the two children to return to the family car. “Boys, we’re going now. Hurry up.” 

Being a Cloud

Sam the Meteor 

Numbers till one million, understand a newspaper article & w-questions, verb conjugations singular: (du) kommst, wohnst, arbeitest.

Paul is in the subway on his way to work. He's reading the newspaper: An article about burglars where Fritz is the police contact person. He is Paul's friend. Will he catch the thieves?
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Hawaii's regular sunshine, short rain showers and clean air come together to create some of the planet's best conditions for viewing rainbows. Rainbows are seen so often here that a University of Hawaii professor calls the state the "rainbow capital of the world."

"Hawaii has maybe the best rainbows on the planet," said Steven Businger, professor of atmospheric sciences at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

He has even created an app called RainbowChase to help people find rainbows in Hawaii.

Rainbows form when drops of rain refract sunlight into a spectrum of colors. The brighter the sun, the clearer the rainbow.

Hawaii's winds bring many small showers with enough blue sky between them for the sun to shine through. Conditions are best during the rainy season from October through April.

Visitors should look for rainbows when it's both sunny and raining at the same time. Rainbows will appear opposite the sun. They will seem larger and higher in the sky in the early morning and late afternoon, when the sun is lower on the horizon.

Rainbows are popular symbols of island life. Pictures of them can be seen on buildings and buses, and even on vehicle license plates.

"They cause us to stand still and for a moment, forget about the past and the future," Businger said.

There are about 20 names for rainbows in the Hawaiian language, including different words for different types of rainbows.

Sam 'Ohu Gon III, senior scientist and cultural adviser at The Nature Conservancy in Hawaii, said rainbows are considered a symbol of Kāne, one of the four main gods in Hawaiian tradition. The closer you get to a rainbow, the more likely you are to meet a supernatural force or a powerful person, he said.

A rainbow is also believed to show that an aumakua — a deified family member or family god — is nearby.

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Why Hawaii Is the 'Rainbow Capital of the World'

Poema 18, del libro Espantapájaros (1932), de Oliverio Girondo


Llorar a lágrima viva. Llorar a chorros. Llorar la digestión. Llorar el sueño. Llorar ante las puertas y los puertos. Llorar de amabilidad y de amarillo.

Abrir las canillas, las compuertas del llanto. Empaparnos el alma, la camiseta. Inundar las veredas y los paseos, y salvarnos, a nado, de nuestro llanto.

Asistir a los cursos de antropología, llorando. Festejar los cumpleaños familiares, llorando. Atravesar el África, llorando. Llorar como un cacuy, como un cocodrilo… si es verdad que los cacuyes y los cocodrilos no dejan nunca de llorar.

Llorarlo todo, pero llorarlo bien. Llorarlo con la nariz, con las rodillas. Llorarlo por el ombligo, por la boca.

Llorar de amor, de hastío, de alegría. Llorar de frac, de flato, de flacura. Llorar improvisando, de memoria. ¡Llorar todo el insomnio y todo el día!


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Sonidos de Buenos Aires: poema de Oliverio Girondo

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IELTS Preparation. Band 8-9 Answers. Part 3 - Gifts. Question 1

IELTS Preparation. Band 8-9 Answers. Part 3 - Ceremony. Q4-Q6.

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こんにちは！Atsushiです。
今日の北海道の天気は曇り。
気温は22℃。

同じような気温が続いています。
本州、東京や大阪などでは、30℃以上のむし暑い天気が続いているようです。

日本では、本当にむし暑く、よく汗をかきますが、北海道では、汗はあまりかきません。過ごしやすい天気です。

ですが、もうすぐ夏が終わり、きびしい冬へ向かっていきます。私ははじめての冬をむかえるので、すこし緊張しています。

今日は都道府県シリーズ6つ目の宮城県です。

広さ、面積は、7,200km2
人口は、228万人ですね、

県の木は、ケヤキ
県の花は、ミヤギノハギ

特産品は牛タンなどたくさんありますが、個人的には、
はらこ飯と、ずんだ餅が気になります。

はらこ飯とは、煮上げたサケ(salmon)といくらを、サケの煮汁で炊いた米の上にのせて食べるようです。おいしそうですね！

ずんだ餅は、宮城県を代表する郷土料理で、枝豆をたたいてつぶし、砂糖をまぜ、餅にかぶせたものです。私も食べたことがありますが、枝豆の緑色がきれいで、甘くておいしかったです。

次は観光地です。私が紹介する3つは、
松島
御釜
白石川の千本桜
です。

松島は、日本三景の1つ、といわれているぐらい有名です。
260ほどの島々があるその一帯を松島、といいます。
また、この島々は昔は陸地の山だったそうです。
今は海面が上昇して、上だけが島のように残っているようです。

御釜は、1,000年以上前の噴火の時にできたくぼちです。そこに雨や地下水、雪解け水が溜まって湖ができました。天気や気候で湖の色が変わるので、五色沼(ごしきぬま)というようです。

最後は白石川堤一目千本桜(しろいしがわづつみひとめせんぼんざくら)です。読み方がいまいちはっきりしないのですが、この写真を見つけた時にめっちゃ見にいきたい！と思いました。8キロぐらいの川沿いに桜が1,000以上並んでいるようです。桜が満開の時は、さぞ綺麗でしょうね！

はい、ということで、今回は宮城県について話しました。
2011年の震災の時にも大きな被害があった場所なので、今日話したこと以外にも、いろんな場所があります。

興味を持たれた方は1度調べてみてください。

ということで、今回も最後まで聞いていただき、ありがとうございます！

ではまた！


