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That Isn’t Our Fault

Mr. and Mrs. Williams got married when he was twenty-three, and she twenty. of them.

Then the photographer gave Mrs. Williams a card and ’ll be ready next Wednesday. You can get them from studio.”

“No,” Mrs. Williams said, “please send them to us.”

She got into her car and drove to the photographer’“You I’m not going to pay for them.”

“Oh, why not?” the photographer asked.

““Well,”t our fault. Why didn’t you think of that before you married him?”

A Guide’s Answer

However, even Southerners have not forgotten their defeat, or forgiven the Northerners.

stories about how a few Southern soldiers had conquered powerful forces of At last, one of the tourists, a lady who came from the North, stopped the guide and said to him, “ But surely that the Northern army must have won at least one victory in the Civil War?”

“Not as long as I’m the guide here, madam,” answered the Southern guide.

A Qualified Pilot

The captain of a small ship had to go along a rocky coast, but he was unfamiliar with it, so he tried to find a qualified pilot to guide him. He went ashore in one of the small ports, and a local fisherman pretended that he was a pilot because he needed some money. The captain took him on board and asked him where to steer the ship.

After half an hour, the captain began to suspect that the fisherman did not really know what

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“Are you sure you are a qualified pilot?” he asked.

“Oh, yes,” answered the fisherman. “I know every rock on this part of the coast.”

Suddenly there was a terrible crash from under the ship. At once the fisherman added, “And that’s one of them.”

Living Things React

You and all organisms live an environment. An environment is made up of everything that surrounds an organism. It can include the air, the water, the soil, and even other organisms.

An organism responds to changes in its environment. When an organism responds to a change, it reacts in certain ways. All living things respond in some way.

Have you ever noticed how plants and insects respond to light? Plants bend Insects fly toward light.

other ways do you respond to changes in your environment?

Flowering Plants

What are the parts of a flower?

eggs. Many animals love flowers’1.

2. 3.

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5.花蜜，甘露

6. rub 磨擦

Finding the Direction and Location

How can you tell which direction? By day, look for the Sun. It is in the east in the morning and the west in the afternoon. At night, use the Big Dipper to help you find the North Star. It would be better to bring a compass because its needle always points north.

How do you know how far you have gone? You could count every step. Each step is about two feet. You’d better wear a pedometer which is a tool that counts steps. If you know where you started, which direction you are heading, and how far you have gone, you can use a good map to figure out exactly where you are.

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Today there is a new way for travelers to figure out where they are. It is the GPS. It has 24 satellites that orbit the earth and constantly broadcast their positions. Someday you may carry a small receiver as you hike and use GPS to find out if you are there yet!

Useful Words and Expressions:

1. dipper北斗七星

2. compass 罗盘

3. pedometer 步数计

4. GPS= Global Position System全球定位系统

5. orbit 轨道，绕……轨道而行

6. receiver 接收器

Waves

How does light get from the sun to the earth? How does music get from the the audience? They move the same way-----in waves!

through walls, but sound waves can. That is why you can hear in another room even though you cannot see them. The energy of some waves An earthquake produces seismic waves.

Shake the spring to transfer energy to it. What spring bounces up and down in Light waves travel 300,000 kilometers miles) per second! They can also travel earth!

Useful Words and Expressions;

1. destructive 破坏的

2. seismic地震的

3. vacuum真空

Soils

There are kinds of soils. Different soils have different types of rock and In some places, soil layers are very thick. Lots of plants grow in places with a thick soil layer. In dry and windy places soil layers are much thinner. Layers of soil on mountains are thin because gravity pulls the soil downhill.

The type of soil in a particular place affects what kinds of plants can grow there.

Useful Words:

1. clay 黏土，泥土

2. loam 肥土

3. layer 层

4. gravity 地心引力，重力

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5. downhill 往下

Crisis

Life is a contest! Who will win? A bluebird and sparrow both compete for space to build their nests. A fast-growing maple tree and slower-growing dogwood compete for the sunlight they both need. Oil competes with coal and nuclear power as an energy source for electric power plants!

There is a problem. There is a limited amount of space for birds, sunlight for trees, and energy for people! If we do not cut back on our uses of some of our resources, someday they will be gone!

How can we use energy today and know we will have enough to go around in the future? We can choose alternate, or replacement, energy resources. It takes the earth millions of create coal, oil, and gas. They are nonrenewable resources.

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