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Extreme Sports (转载)

XIZAO2009-The Garden of XiangDragon — Mon, 21 May 2007 00:24:00 GMT

Nowadays more and more young athletes are taking part in the risky activities called “extreme sports” or “X-sports”.
In the past young athletes would play baseball. Today, they want risk and excitement---- the closer to the edge, the better. They snowboard over cliffs and mountain-bike down sleep mountains.
Extreme sports started as an alternative to more expensive sports such as golf. A city kid who couldn’t afford expensive sports equipment could get a skateboard and have fun. But now it has become a whole new area of sports, with specialized equipment and high levels of skill. There is even an Olympics for extreme sports, called the winter x-game, which includes snow mountain biking and ice climbing.
What makes extreme sports so popular? Because people love the risk. City people want to be outdoors on the weekend and do something challenging. The new equipment is so much better that people can take more risks without getting hurt. Sure there’s a risk. Once you go mountain biking or snowboarding, it’s impossible to go back to bike riding or skiing. It’s just too boring.
Now even the older crowd is starting to join in. every weekend, groups of friends in their early 30s get together. On weekdays they work as computer programmers in the same office. On weekends they rent mountains together.
Extreme sports are certainly not for everyone. Most people still prefer to play basketball or watch sports on TV. But it has been a fact that extreme sports are gaining in popularity.

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Unit Two:Life in the Fourth Millennium

XIZAO2009-The Garden of XiangDragon — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 12:48:00 GMT

I . Paraphrase
1.People living at the start of third millennium enjoy a world that would have been inconceivable to our ancestors living in the 100 millnnia in which our species has existed.

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补1.Science and technology coulde transform our world ------if it weren't for human nature.

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补2.Ignorance and myth have given way to an entraordinarily detailed understanding of life,matter and the universe.

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补3.Technology has shrunk the globe and stretched our lives and our minds.

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补4.Will our descendants live in a wired Age of Aquarius?

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补5.Will science explain the universes down to the last quark?

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补6.Will the Internet turn us into isolates who interact only in virtual reality,doing away with couples,families,communities,cities?

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II.Wrting about "The World Is Smaller, The World Is Bigger"

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Unit one :Some Meanings Of Authentic Love

XIZAO2009-The Garden of XiangDragon — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 14:12:00 GMT

I: Paraphrase anwser

1) In the public I can find something inner and more truthful in the other person that cover his true role.

2) I don't persist that you change your own personality and follow my expect to remodel yourself.

3) We each enjoy the enriching experience and will continue on kepping each personality.

4) If meaningless appears,love should be used for making life meaningful.

5) Love has no reason ,if it has,it is not true love.

6) If only my caring is more truthful ,it's not to grab hold of a person ,or bind him with strings attached.

7) Therefore ,it is not gald for me whatever you do to enrich your personality ,and I don't prevent you.

8) Love with no strings attached,if we give him love when we are demanded,it is not true love.

补) There is a paradox that  love needs both keeping together and alse keeping each independency .

II Writing ,Topic is "Some Mistaken Idea About Love"

         Love is romance ,trust and loyalty,but pople has a lot of mistaken idea about love ,there are three kinds of false love :dependeacy,power and addiction.
        We look at the dependency when people crave to be the center of their partner's entve universe.……
         We seek the power when ……
         We see the addiction when……
         There is a sentence:"e close with someone who makes you happy but be close with someone who can't be happy without you ……It makes a lot of difference in life ……,Love has no reason ,if it has ,it is not love" ----Skakespeare
        what is really all adds up to is love .Not love as it is described with such facility in popular magazines,but the kind of love that is affection and respect,order and encouragement and support.

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