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Practicing yoga (瑜伽) is a helpful, popular way to keep fit. It has many followers around the world. There are many kinds of yoga. You may have heard of “hot yoga” before. Now, in India, a new kind of yoga, water yoga, is becoming more and more popular among the local people.

In the city of Agra, people practice yoga in water. It is more difficult to practice yoga in water than on land. But practicing yoga in water can be good for your flexibility (灵活性).

Harish Chaturvedi, a lawyer, teaches people water yoga for free―even the poor people can learn from him. “Water yoga can become more popular than other kinds of yoga, because the body does not get tired so quickly,” he said. “Everybody can learn to swim, but if they learn yoga at the same time, they will never feel tired.”

“The level of Oxygen (氧气) is very high in water, and you will not have any breathing problem,” he added.

Harish believes that water yoga really helps people to keep away from illness. He mainly trains children. He has classes at the swimming pool of a local sports room regularly. Many children are interested in it and come to team from him.

“Harish is very good at performing yoga in water,” said Sudhir Narayan, a water yoga student. “He is teaching children free of cost and that is a very good thing.”

“If I had one million yuan, I would buy you a palace! Do I have one million yuan? No, I don’t! So I only can spend ten fen on this short message, sending you my best wishes!”

Today, SMS—Short Message Service is popular, and China Mobile says that every second, there are 410 messages being sent.

Look around you! People are watching their mobiles, smiling or laughing. Thumbs (拇指) are moving quickly on mobiles, bringing happiness to their friends. Through SMS, we know the weather report, share jokes and news, express (表达) love and friendship.

SMS is becoming more and more popular. It is reported that 67% of young people like to send short messages to greet each other. Internet SMS will be more helpful to people. I am thankful for the progress because SMS saves me much money. Just on the top end of a thumb, so much joy can be found!

People all over the world eat rice. Millions of people in Asia, Africa and South America eat it every day. Some people eat almost nothing but rice.

Rice is a kind of crop. There are so many kinds of rice. Rice is grown in many countries, even in the southern part of the United States and in Eastern Australia.

No one really knows where rice came from. Some scientists think that it started to be planted in two places. They think that one kind of rice was planted in Southern Asia thousands of years ago. Someone in China wrote about it almost 5, 000 years ago. Another kind was probably grown in Western Africa. Other scientists think that rice came from India, and that Indian travellers took it to other parts of the world. There are two main ways to grow rice. Upland rice is grown in dry soil. Most rice is planted in wet soil. People in most countries do all of the work of growing rice by hand. In some countries, people now use machines on their rice farms. The farmers all use fertilizer. Some insects are enemies of rice. Farmers poison them.

People think the rice plant is important. People can use every part of the rice plant. They make animal food and rice oil from it. They also make baskets, brooms, roofs and other things for their houses. They burn dry rice plants for cooking.

My name is Huckleberry Finn. I live in the town of St. Petersburg in the state of Missouri. It’s a s    81     town but it’s near a very big river called the Mississippi. This is the story of a journey that I made down that river on a raft.

Tom Sawyer and I found $12,000 in a cave which made us rich. We got $6,000 e    82    . Judge Thatcher put it in the bank.

I didn’t have a f    83     or a home. My mother died a long time ago and then my dad, Pap, disappeared. I didn’t go to school like the other boys of my a    84    . I lived on the streets and in the woods.

Then a kind old lady called Widow Douglas invited me to live with her and my life c    85    . She gave me a bed to sleep in and bought me new clothes. She sent me to school every day. I didn’t like going there at first b    86     learning was very difficult. But when I could read and write a bit, I didn’t m    87     going. For me, eating my meals at the table and sleeping in a soft bed were the h    88     things. I missed my old life. Sometimes I ran away and spent a few days in the woods. I felt f    89     there and I was happy. I fished and hunted all day. At night I slept under the stars.

The months passed and w    90     came. The weather got cold. One morning I saw some footprints in the snow outside the widow’s house. There was a cross on the heel of the left one. My heart jumped. Only one person wore boots with a cross on the left heel! Pap!

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