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A Mother’s Day surprise
The twins were filled with excitement as they thought of the surprise they were planning for Mother’s Day. How pleased and proud Mother would be when they brought her breakfast in bed. They planned to make French toast and chicken porridge. They had watched their mother in the kitchen. There was nothing to it Jenna and Jeff knew exactly what to do.
The big day came at last. The alarm rang at 6 a.m. The pair went down the stairs quietly to the kitchen. They decided to boil the porridge first. They put some rice into a pot of water and left it to boil while they made the French toast. Jeff broke two eggs into a plate and added in some milk.Jenna found the bread and put two slices into the egg mixture. Next, Jeff turned on the second stove burner to heat up the frying pan. Everything was going smoothly until Jeff started frying the bread. The pan was too hot and the bread turned black within seconds. Jenna threw the burnt piece into the sink and put in the other slice of bread. This time, she turned down the fire so it cooked nicely.
Then Jeff noticed steam shooting out of the pot and the lid starting to shake. The next minute, the porridge boiled over and put out the fire. Jenna panicked. Thankfully, Jeff stayed calm and turned off the gas quickly. But the stove was a mess now. Jenna told Jeff to clean it up so they could continue to cook the rest of the porridge. But Jeff’s hand touched the hot burner and he gave a cry of pain. Jenna made him put his hand in cold water. Then she caught the smell of burning. Oh dear! The piece of bread in the pan had turned black as well.
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Dave woke up at 7:00 a. m. He had been chatting with a friend on the computer
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Two boys did the English exam. While they were
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PETER WORDIE (Son of James Wordie, head of the Endurance scientific staff): My father never—to any of us, his children—ever discussed the Endurance expedition… He never let us read his log when he was alive. It was locked up.
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NARRATOR: One man above all bore responsibility for their survival: Sir Ernest Shackleton. A polar explorer with
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Lillie Marie Johnson clears her mind and closes her eyes and, suddenly, she is back inside the steamy summers of the 1930s, running barefoot over the Appalachian hills and down into the valleys beside her uncle — more like a brother, really —gathering
As she rocks (摇动) in her chair in the living room of her home just outside the Ohio River town of Marietta, she opens her eyes and understands
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I had the honour of sharing the classroom with a lot of extraordinary people. Some of them are currently my best friends and I’ve learnt a lot from each and every one of them. I feel so
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I have a good friend named Pearl, whose grandmother lives in a
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In China’s Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, there lived a man named Boya, who
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One evening after dinner, Mr. and Mrs. Bond called a family meeting. “We have to make a final decision”, Mr. Bond
Marc looked shocked, while his sister Rachel
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