HENRY: (shocked) My dear, is that your papa?!
PORTIA: He's my stepfather, and the dearest one that ever was.
HENRY: Oh, my dearest dear sir, I regret what I said. You have got a job open that I want. OLIVER: Name it. HENRY: Son-in-law.
OLIVER: Well, well, well! But you've never had such a job before. How can I be sure you can do it successfully?
HENRY: Try me ... oh, do, I beg of you! Give me 30 or 40 years, and ... OLIVER: Oh, well, all right.
NARRATOR: Are Portia and Henry happy? There are not enough words in the biggest dictionary to describe it. Did the people of London have a good time with this bit of news? Yes. Portia's stepfather took that bank note. back to the Bank of England and cashed it. The bank note was then useless for money but was his wedding gift to the young couple. Yes, the bank note was worth millions of dollars, but not worth one tenth as much as how Henry felt about Portia. Unit 4 Astronomy: the science of the stars-Reading Task CAUGHT BY A BLACK HOLE
The spaceship warned Li Yanping and me to be ready as we were approaching (靠近) the \what looked like an empty space. Li Yanping said, \
mouth always needing to be fed. Those lights are things that are being pulled into it by the gravity of the hole.\the lights which seemed to be going fainter and fainter round the edge of the black hole. Just then the lights on our spaceship went out and the computer stopped working. What was happening? I tried to turn the spaceship away from the hole but it would not move. Would it eat us too?
Suddenly the spaceship jumped and began to move round the edge of the hole too. The gravity of the \spaceship moved round the black hole, I felt rather sick. My mouth went dry and I closed my eyes. All the stories about what happened when you were caught by the gravity of a \
But then the spaceship jumped again. This time it moved sideways and away from the edge of the \spaceship flying like a bird away from the \last we were able to look around us. Luckily the computer had started working again. We realized that we had discovered something new about \If you go inside the edge of a \escape; but if you do not, you may have an opportunity to escape. How exciting! Unit 5 Canada - The True North-Reading Task IQALUIT-- THE FROZEN TOWN
The reporter, Beth Allen, arrived in a northern community called Iqaluit
in Nunavut
Nunavut was created in 1999 as a
special area for Inuit people. Its name means \
in the farthest northeastern area of Canada, north of the Arctic Circle (北极圈), and is very cold - the average winter temperature in Nunavut is 35 degrees below zero.
Beth said, \there is a dog sled (雪橇) that can take me into town.\
The quiet man who had been on the plane with her said, \town, but I don't have a dog sled. Most people only use the dogs for competitions. Why are you visiting Iqaluit?\
Beth answered, \like to advertise it as a holiday place, but I think it's too cold.\
The man laughed. \too far north here for holidays but more and more tourists are coming. They like ice fishing and photographing polar bears. I stay as far away from polar bears as possible. I like my warm office and my warm house.\
Beth asked, \living? I thought you lived in ice houses.\
\hunted in winter, but not so many people do that now. The old men used to make one in a few hours. They used to live in skin tents in summer - the tents were easy to move so the people could follow the animals.\
A few minutes later they arrived in Iqaluit, a town with a population of 6,000, on Simon's snowmobile. It was two o'clock in the afternoon, but it was
already dark, and all the houses shone with bright lights. Beth said, \so dark? It's the middle of the day!\
Simon replied, \should come in June. The sun shines all night in the north then. That's why it's called 'The Land of the Midnight Sun'.\snowmobiles everywhere. There were even a few dog teams.