Grammar Smart 1

Parts of Speech Female: Parts of speech are what we call the basic building blocks of language. They are all words or at least made up of words, but they all play different roles in the sentence. The

Principles are Lighthouses

It was a dark and 1) stormy night. The officer on the bridge came to the captain and said, “Captain, Captain, there is a light in our sea 2) lane and they won’t move.” “What do you mean they w

The 1)Odyssey of 2)Homer

For ten long years the Greeks had battled against the 3) Trojans. For ten long years the soaring towers of 4) Troy had 5) withstood their attacks. Then suddenly in a flash of flame and a splash of blo

An Interview with Bill Gates

Before Microsoft came along, there really was no software industry. It was just a few companies selling very high-priced software only to companies, big companies. The idea of low-cost software that w

FOREVER YOUNG

God bless and keep you always May your wishes all come true May you always do for others And let others do for you May you build a ladder to the stars And climb on every rung May you stay forever youn

ginger beer

Good old fashion 1) ginger beer, just the thing to cool you down on a hot summers day, and we made this ourselves. In fact, its almost as much fun to make, as it is to drink. You can tell thats proper ginger beer, its got a real kick to it. You can

Closer to Me

Constantly girl you’re on my mind, And girl I think about you all of the time And even though words are hard to say, Girl I miss you, never thought I’d feel this way. BRIDGE If you keep on taking,

Tony Talk

Tony Provolone: Hello and welcome to Tony Talk, I’m Tony Provolone and with me today is Robert Foster, an American living in China. Robert, hello. Robert Foster: Hello. Tony: Robert, we know you ’

Spring

Springs are not always the same. In some years, April bursts upon Virginia hills in one 1) prodigious leap - and all the stage is filled at once, whole 2) choruses of tulips, 3) arabesques of 4) forsy

Stephen Hawking on Black Holes

By their very definition,black holes are 1) objects which are not supposed to 2) emit anything .It therefore seemed that the area of the 3) event horizon of a black hole could not be regarded as its 4

Talking with Giuliani

Journalist: When you realized that, you woke up and you heard that we were 1) striking at 2) Afghanistan, on behalf of New York City, your 3) reaction? Giuliani: I felt a sense of relief that we were

Mandy Moore，New Face on the Stage

Mandy Moore: If I had my way, I would sit here all day and just talk, talk, talk, talk, talk. Well, I basically got started in show biz by the time I was about nine or ten. I saw my first play when I

Tongue Twisters

Betty Botter Bought Some Butter Betty Botter bought some butter, “But”, she said, “the butter is bitter. If I put it in my batter, It will make my batter bitter. But a bit of better butter - Tha

Napoleon Hill’s Key to Seccess2

Forming a 1) Mastermind 2) Alliance A mastermind alliance is built of two or more minds working actively together in perfect harmony toward a common 3) definite objective. The mastermind principle let

Jack Welch

Throughout my 41 years at GE, I’ve had many ups and downs. In the media, I’ve gone from prince to pig and back again. And I’ve been called many things. In the early days, when I worked at our 1)

Round the World in 80 Days

But the 1) incredulous Stuart was not convinced, “It must be confessed, Mr. Ralph, that you’ve found a funny way of saying that the world has grown smaller! Because the tour of it is now made in t

Love is Just Like a Broken Arm

“But what if I break my arm again?” my five year-old daughter asked, her lower lip trembling. I knelt 1) holding onto her bike and looked her right in the eyes. I knew how much she wanted to learn

Heritage versus Marketing

“I have a dream...” It is among the most celebrated speeches in American history. “My four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin

No Milk Today

** No milk today, my love has gone away The bottle stands 1) forlorn, a symbol of the 2) dawn No milk today, it seems a common sight But people passing by, don’t know the reason why * How could they

The Acropolis

The 1) boldness and ambition of the Acropolis was funded by the 2) spoils of war, a war that determined the fate of Greece. In 480 BC, 3) Athens 4) lay in ruins conquered by the 5) seemingly 6) unstop