Some people have a very poor sense of direction. Unluckily, I am one of them. I have visited a place many times but I may still get lost there the next time.

When I was a little girl, I never dared to ask strangers the way. And so I used to walk around in circles and hope that by chance I would get to the place I was going to.

Now, I am no longer too shy to ask people for directions, but I often receive helpless or even wrong information. So I try to avoid giving people wrong directions. If anyone ever asks me the way somewhere, I would say, “Sorry, I am a stranger here.”

Once on my way to work I was stopped by a man. He asked me if I could tell him the way to the Friendship Building. I gave him my usual reply. But just as I walked on only a few steps, I realized that he had asked the way to my office building. However, I had no time to turn back and look for him. I was rushing to meet with someone at my office and I didn’t want to keep him waiting.

When I just got to my office, the secretary (秘书) showed in the man who had asked me for directions. Imagine how embarrassed I was and how surprised he was when we saw each other at the first sight.

THE CLOTHES SHOPS’ SUMMER SALE

Every kind for sale in the shop

Sale starts on July 15th and ends on July 29th. No telephone order during the sale. THE CLOTHES SHOP: No. 168 Park Street.

Opening Hours: Monday–Friday, 9:00 am. to 6:00 pm.

Saturday and Sunday, 10: 00 am. to 8:00 pm.

Learn about chocolate

Do you know how chocolate is made? Recently my class had a field trip to the Cad bury Chocolate Factory in Toronto, Canada. We were divided into 10 groups and visited an old building.     26     Then we got some ear buds (耳塞) to protect our ears from the noise of the machines. We also needed to wear disposable (一次性的) lab clothes and hair nets (发网) to make sure we didn’t dirty their work area.

After these preparations, we went upstairs and entered the chocolate-making area. The floor was filled up with many machines.     27     The whole floor only had two people working, because machines did most of the work.

Next, the guide explained the history of chocolate-making.     28     and there were more than 1, 000 people working in the factory. But now the factory is very different. It’s amazing how technology is changing people’s life.

Later, we saw the chocolate-making process. We got a cocoa bean, some powdered (粉状的) chocolate and a final chocolate product. I opened the cocoa bean and tasted it. It tasted bitter, kind of like dark chocolate.     29     The powdered chocolate tasted good already. It is a combination of cocoa beans, milk and sugar. The final product tasted delicious.

Finally, we bought some chocolate at a shop in the factory. It was at a very low price.     30     I also learned about the chocolate industry.

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How important is music? When they are asked this question, students and parents usually answer that music is nice, but not very important. It is often considered only as entertainment (娱乐), but not the first choice for education.     31     In fact, music education is necessary and important for all students.

Music tells us who we are. Music shows the creators’ thinking and valued, as well as the social environment it came from.     32     Rock music also stands for a lifestyle. The jazz influence that George Gershwin and other musicians introduced into their music is clearly American be-cause it came from American musical traditions.

    33     It explored (探索) the motive (情感的) meanings. Science explains how the sun rises and sets. We need every possible way to discover and answer to our world because no one way can get it all.

Music is a form (形式) of thought, as powerful as science.     34     Through the language we express our feelings, our ideas, our imagination and our hopes so that they can be shared with others. When we do not let our children receive good music education, we take away from them the meanings that music expresses.     35     Music does.

So music education is much more necessary than people realize.

Australia is the largest island in the world. It is a little smaller than China. It is in the south of the earth. Australia is big, but its population is small.     36    

Enough laws have been made to fight against pollution.     37     The sky is blue and the water is clean. You can clearly see fish swimming in the rivers. Plants grow very well.

Last month we visited Perth, the biggest city in Western Australia, and went to a wild flowers' exhibition. There we saw a large number of wild flowers we had never seen before. We had a wonderful time.

    38     In spring every year Perth has the wild flowers’ exhibition. After visiting Perth, we spent a day in the countryside. We sat down and had a rest near a path at the foot of a hill.     39     Suddenly we heard bells ringing at the top of the hill. What we saw made us pick up all our things and run back to the car as quickly as we could. There were about three hundred sheep coming towards us down the path.

    40     After a short drive from any town, you will find yourself in the middle of white sheep. Sheep, sheep, everywhere are sheep.

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