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Category: Reading
Breakfast
John Steinbeck
This thing fills me with pleasure. I don’t know why, I can see it in the smallest detail. I find myself recalling it again and again and each time remembering brings the curious warm pleasure.
It was very early in the morning. The eastern mountains were black-blue, but behind them the light stood up faintly colored at the mountain rims.
The Golden Gate Bridge
The Golden Gate Bridge is one of the architectural marvels of the Twentieth Century and a testament to human strife, as it was constructed during the years of the Great Depression. For years, the Golden Gate Bridge held the title as the longest suspension bridge in the world.
The Profession of a Teacher
Many roads are open before school leavers. They have all the opportunities for their all-round development. There are many universities, various educational institutions, and schools in this country.
My Watch
(After M. Twain “My Watch”)
My beautiful watch kept perfect time. But one night I forgot to wind it up and went to a watchmaker as I wanted my watch to be set by the exact time.
A Rainy Day Episode
It was raining hard, but when I went to get an umbrella, I found out that all the five umbrellas we had at home were broken and needed repairing. I decided to take them to an umbrella-maker.
Speed skating
Speed skating (or speedskating) is an ice skating race, usually around an oval course. Skaters compete against each other, and everyone travels the same distance.
Speed skating events almost always follow the Netherlands system, where skaters compete two-by-two.
Tea-Leaves
There was a time when drinking tea was almost unknown in European countries; many people had never even heard of tea.
The Young Shakespeare
(after R. Sisson)
The Roman Times In British History
In the early days of history (50 – 450) England was known as Britain and the people who lived there were the Britons. There were no big towns on the British Isles at that time. People lived in small villages along the rivers or near the sea. The Britons caught fish, grew wheat and had many pigs, cows and sheep in the meadows near the rivers and on the sides of the mountains. Later they learned to make things of wool and metal and sold them to the people who came across the sea.