What I Saw on the Hibiscus Airship

C. L. Heng

$43. 95

A girl on a great journey to find her destiny (命运), realizes the power of wrong doings, unsung heroes, and most of all, love. What I Saw on the Hibiscus Airship is a story of adventure and family.

The Tiger and the Leopardess

Ho Khong Ming

$23. 05

An old hungry tiger is on the hunt for a meal and meets an unhappy leopardess (雌豹). Can enemies trust each other? In this story, The Tiger and the Leopardess, will hate or love influence their relationship?

Privatization of Facility Management in Public Hospitals

Hong Poh Fan

$40. 65

Hong Poh Fan explores the changes public hospitals have undertaken (着手) to improve services in Malaysia. He shares lessons learned over a fifteen-year period of hospital privatization in this detailed examination of how to improve health care.

Escape to America

Tetsuo Fukuyama

$38. 45

Fukuyama decided to leave his homeland and experiment with a completely different lifestyle: living in New York City. This story of how the author's courage and determination helped him survive in difficult conditions will encourage readers to find their own happiness.

David Unaipon was an inventor and writer. He was the first Aboriginal (土著的) Australian to write published (出版的) books. He also worked hard to make life better for Aboriginal people.

David Unaipon was born in South Australia, in 1872. As a young man, he loved to read and was interested in science and music. He thought a lot about new ways to fix engineering problems. Between the years 1909 and 1944, Unaipon made nine important inventions. He also made drawings for a helicopter (直升机) design. He got the idea from the Australian boomerang (回飞镖) and the way it moved through the air. This happened in 1914, before we had helicopters.

Unaipon lived most of his life in Adelaide and worked for the Aborigines' Friends' Association. He worked and travelled around southeastern Australia for fifty years. Sometimes, while travelling from town to town, he was told he couldn't stay in a hotel because he was black, so he understood the problems of racism (种族主义).

In 1925, Unaipon became the first Aboriginal writer to be published. His first published writing was an article in Sydney's Daily Telegraph newspaper. The article had the title: "Aboriginals: Their Traditions and Customs". He wrote many other articles for newspapers and magazines, getting publicity about the rights of Aboriginal people. He also wrote about the need for white and black people to work together and the need for equal rights for both black and white Australians. He was well educated in both cultures, and in 1929 he helped with a government survey of Aboriginal health and interests.

David Unaipon died in 1967 at the age of 95, in the same year that Aboriginal people were first counted as part of Australia's population. In 1995, David Unaipon's picture was put on the Australian fifty-dollar note, with a drawing of one of his inventions.

Social networks are a big part of nearly every teenager's life in this day and age. Many teens have QQ, WeChat, or Weibo but little do a lot of teens know that they can be held responsible for everything they post for the rest of their lives. Everything you post online is part of a digital footprint that can always be traced (追踪) back to you. That includes every post, even every like, comment, favorite and forward that you have ever committed. All pictures you've posted or will post have been stored in a digital database, and it is the companies' right to keep all of these documents that you believe to have been deleted or hidden.

With every post comes a consequence; whether it is good or bad, what you post could be seen by anyone. That is why you have to be very careful of what you decide to post or comment.

If you think you are safe from Servite finding out about one funny comment you made six months ago on a meaningless picture, you are probably wrong. Recently, a senior, Aaron, at Servite learned this lesson the hard way this year. He wrote a series of ugly comments towards Connelly girls on a web page, ignoring potential consequences.

This student, however, did have to face consequences from Servite as he was removed from all of his leadership roles in the school. Surprisingly enough, he fully agreed with his punishment handed down by the administration and fully understood why he was given such severe discipline (处罚). "When you agree to come to Servite, you are agreeing to defend what Servite stands for," the young man said. "That continues from 8 am to 2 pm. It's at all times."

So, next time you're about to post something you think could be received as offensive or inappropriate, think twice, or don't press the "Send".

In the future your automobile will run on water instead of gas! You will be able to buy a supercomputer that fits in your pocket! You might even drive a flying car!

Not all past predictions (预言) have been proven wrong. A few of them have been surprisingly accurate. Some great thinkers predicted the arrival of the credit card, the fax machine and even the Internet-years before they happened. But for each prediction that has come true, some others have missed by a mile. Many of these predictions didn't consider how people would want to use the technology or whether people really needed these high-tech (高科技的) things in their lives or not. Let's look at some predictions from the not-too-distant past.

Robot helpers

Where's the robot in my kitchen? Nowhere, of course. And he's probably not coming anytime soon. Robots do exist today, but mostly in factories and other working environments.

Back in the 1950s, however, people said that by now personal robots would be in most people's homes.

So why hasn't it happened? Maybe because robots are still too expensive and clumsy. And probably the idea of robots cooking our dinners and washing our clothes is just too strange. At home we seem to be doing fine without them.

Telephones of tomorrow

In 1964 an American company introduced the video telephone. They said by the year 2000 most people would have a video phone in their homes. But of course the idea hasn't caught on yet.

Why? The technology worked fine, but it overlooked something obvious: people desire for privacy. Would you want to have a video phone conversation with someone after you just stepped out of the shower? Probably not—it could be uncomfortable! Just because technology doesn't always mean people will want to use it.

And finally, how about that crazy prediction of the flying car? It's not so crazy any more! But a flying car remains one of the most wonderful technology ideas to catch our imagination. Keep watching the news or perhaps the sky outside your window to see what the future will bring.

One of my earliest memories was watching my mom talk on our old phone. I was fascinated that she could talk to someone who wasn't actually in the room with her.  I wondering how she managed to talk with someone she couldn't see.

 Later, we had mobile phones that could be carried around the room. Then came computers and smart phones. These days I can send an e-mail around the world in a second. My daughter's smart phone has a hundred apps and a dozen social media accounts. She stores all of her information in a mysterious place known as "the cloud", where she can take it out at any time. It seems that we are more connected in this world than ever before.

 Few take the time to talk face to face. Instead of looking into the eyes of our loved ones, we stare at our screens. It seems as if the most connected generations are also the loneliest.

Don't let technology take our time and ruin our life. Make the time to meet, to pray and to communicate with each other. Take a walk on the beach with a friend. Have a long conversation with the phones off and the hearts on.

Remember that we are here to love each other, help each other and make this world a better place.  But when it can't, turn it off.

A. That was a long time ago.

B. Connect offline as well as online.

C. Smart phones have both advantages and disadvantages.

D. We should communicate with each other with phones off.

E. When your technology can help to do these things, then use it.

F. However, what bothers me is that we rarely associate with each other nowadays.

G. When she left the room, I slowly walked over to the phone and stared at it for a while.

I had been staring at the white walls of the video game store for about two hours since lunch. It was a very 1 day. I glanced at the table in front of the store, and my heart 2. It was the donation table for the victims of Super Typhoon Yolanda and even though I had donated what I could, I 3 felt sad whenever I saw the people on the TV suffering.

I was broken out of my thoughts when the doors got open. Customers, 4!

It was a small girl with her mother. I5 her mom. I got to know her when she was selling clothes she 6 herself at the market.

The daughter just had a7 and her mom finally had 8 money to buy a PS3 and some games.

The girl skipped to my counter. She9 her backpack and pulled out a console (操纵台盘). Her mom handed me the games.

"Can I10 this?"

"Sure, sweetie."

I11 the console and the games, and nothing was opened. According to our 12, I returned the 13 to the girl. And she ran off as 14 as her little feet could take her. The mom explained, "She wants to sell her birthday 15, so she can donate to the 16. "

She was17 to give up her favorite games and gave to those 18. That's real generosity out there.

While I was watching her 19 to the girl at the donation table, I was reminded that even though there are a lot of 20 people in the world, there are still those people just like that little girl.

Traffic jams (堵塞) are a common problem in larger cities. In some cities, traffic jams get so bad during rush hour that it is sometimes (fast) to walk than to drive. Traffic accidents are also a problem. Sadly these problems are not easy to solve. However, a traffic system (系统) being tested in several cities in Northern Europe has led to some surprising (result).

The system (call) "shared streets". It is a system that has very few traffic laws. As a result, shared street areas have no traffic lights or street signs. Although most people would expect this to cause the number of traffic jams and accidents (go) up, until now has been a great drop in both. One reason (be) that the shared streets system encourages people to be more (care). Without traffic rules, people slow down and pay more attention each other. Normal traffic systems, on the other hand, depend on signs,  people often miss or don't follow, leading to accidents. Also, the shared streets system decreases (减少) traffic jams because without fixed (固定的) parking spaces, it is easier for cars to move around (free) when there is a lot of traffic.

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删除：把多余的词用斜线(\)划掉。

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注意：

1．每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

2．只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。

Last Saturday I went camping with several friends. In the later afternoon, we put up our tent in the middle of a field. Then we cooked a meal over an open fire. The food smelt good. After a meal, we told story and played games by the camp fire. At the eleven o'clock we felt tired but we put out the fire and got into our tent. Lie in our warm sleeping-bags we slept soundly. At midnight one boy woke up and began shouting. The tent was full water! We got out of our sleeping-bags and hurried outside. It was raining heavy. A stream had formed in the field, that wound its way across the field and flow under our tent.

1）介绍写邮件的目的;

2）晚会的时间和地点：9月30日晚6点、学校报告厅;

3）晚会内容：同学们表演节目、吃月饼和赏月。

注意：

1）词数100左右；

2）可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；

3）开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。

Dear Mr. Henry,

……

Yours sincerely,

Li Hua