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Dear Michael,
I am very excited to know that you are going to organize a field trip for the class. Mr. Philip told me that and you with the detailed arrangement. I've already made it and left it here. Since we will after finishing the final test, we don't have time to discuss it. I would appreciate it very much if you could contact me and tell me your plan I can make a plan report before next Wednesday.
Yours,
Linda
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Dear students,
the school is going to be on summer vacation, our library will update the documentation on borrowing books. We strongly require that everyone all the books you have borrowed before next weekend.
In addition, we especially hope you students could check you have overdue books or not and return them in the separate office 303. Tomorrow we will put the list of the books on our website. We are sorry to bring the inconvenience to you.
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there is a new statue at the entrance of the teaching building? Now we want to collect ideas on naming it. We suggest everyone should 1 or 2 names and then hand them in tomorrow.
The name must be novel and meaningful. , we need every student to add your reasons why you that name. Detailed description will be appreciated. Tomorrow afternoon I will come to collect the names.
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To wish an actor prior to his going on stage to "break a leg" is a practice. A pretty strange wish, actually it is meant magically to bring him luck and make sure his performance will be a success.
From the superstitious viewpoint, that jealous forces, always present, are only too anxious to spoil any venture. A good-luck wish would alert and the evil work, a curse will make them turn their attention elsewhere.
The underlying principle is the belief that if you wish evil, then good will come. I'm sure it's called psychology these days.
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Mary Donaldson is concerned about , Sophia. Six months ago, Sophia came back from a party, upset and unhappy. From then on, she has been thinking of how to lose weight and become beautiful. She refuses to eat and keeps exercise. Sophia had always been a little heavy, so when she decided to go on a diet, Mary her. She felt that her daughter would look more attractive if she lost 10 kilograms, but Sophia has lost over 20 kilograms up to now and she is thin and sick. However, Sophia thinks that she is still heavy and refuses to start eating as usual. Sophia's mind the idea of losing weight. Mary regrets she has supported her daughter at first because Sophia is satisfied with her figure. Mary tries to tell Sophia that true treasure comes from within. face becomes beautiful when the person behind it is built with confidence, wisdom, and the joy of life.
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In the past years, humans have begun destroying rainforests in search of three major resources: land for crops, wood for paper and other products, and land for farm animals. The action affects the environment . For example, a lot of carbon dioxide in the air comes from burning the rainforests. People have a need for what they gain from cutting trees, but they will suffer from much more than they will benefit. , generally they can only use the land for a year or two. Rainforests are often called the world's drugstore. More than 25% of the medicines we use today come from plants in rainforests. However, fewer than 1% of rainforest plants for their medical value. It is extremely likely that our best chance diseases lies somewhere in the world's rainforests.
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Thanks to the ubiquity of text on the Internet, we may well be reading more today than we in the past. Nonetheless, it's a different kind of reading, and behind it a different kind of thinking - perhaps even a new sense of the self.
"We are not only we read," says Maryanne Wolf, a developmental psychologist in Tufts University. "We are how we read." Wolf the style reading promoted by the Net, a style that puts "efficiency" and "immediacy" above all else, may be weakening our capacity for the kind of deep reading that when an earlier technology, the printing press, made long and complex works of prose commonplace. When we read online, she says, we tend become "mere decoders of information". Our ability to interpret text, to make rich mental connections when we read deeply and without distraction, largely disengaged.