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With the beautiful music, the first lesson of the new term in 2014 began at 8:05 on the evening of September 1st, 2014. The program includes four parts: be nice to your parents, be polite to others, love others and be self-improved. It really makes a great difference to the students and the parents' ideas. Family education plays an important role to the children. The "king" of fairy tales Zheng Yuanjie told us the story between his father, his son and him. His father helped him fill the pen in order to let Zheng focus on writing. His father set us a good example on how to be a nice father. Zheng is nice to his father, too. He bought a TV for his father and his son learnt from him. The moving story really touched my heart. It made me know how important it is to teach by precept and example role. Joey Yung told us that how her mother taught her to be a polite girl. We should think about others when we do something we like. We need try to be popular people. She reminded us of good manners in our daily life. Qin Yong, a famous rock star, gave up his career and put all his heart in educating his sick son. Though he felt too tired, he never quitted. It's his duty to bring his son up. When he found that his son made great progress, he felt very happy. The orphans' life made us deeply moved. From their father, we know that if we encourage a person, he will have self-improvement. From this program, we know that we should love the people around us. Then, our world will be better and better.

1. Why was Zheng Nice to his father?
2. What gift did he get for his father?
3. WHo learnt from the act?
4. What did Joey Yung mother teach her?
5. Was Qin Yong famous?
6. On what was he famous?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. His father helped him
2. a TV
3. His son
4. To be polite
5. Yes
6. He was a rock star

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Tom and Mike were good friends. Sometimes they were kind to each other, sometimes they were not. But all of their classmates said they were like brothers. One day they went out for a walk together. At noon they were very hungry and they went into a restaurant to have lunch. The waiter came up to them and asked,"What can I do for you?" "Please bring us two apples first." said Tom. When the waiter put two apples on the table, Mike took the bigger one at once. Tom got angry, "You are impolite,Mike. Why don't you take the smaller one?" Tom said. "But I am right."said Mike with a smile,"if I let you take first, which one will you choose?" "Of course I'11 take the smaller one. "said Tom. "Yes."Mike said,"If you take the smaller one,the bigger one will still be mine. Don't you think so?" "Oh!"Tom couldn't answer.

1. Who is Tom's good friend?
2. When are they kind to one another?
3. when did they get hungry?
4. Where did they have lunch/
5. who went over to them?
6. who took the little apple?
7. Who is impolite?
8. What did they ask the waiter for?
9. who took the big apple?
10. who got angry?

Numbered answers:

A: 1. Mike
2. Sometimes
3. Noon
4. a restaurant
5. The waiter
6. Tom
7. Mike
8. two apples
9. Mike
10. Tom

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arXiv (pronounced "archive") is a repository of electronic preprints, known as e-prints, of scientific papers in the fields of mathematics, physics, astronomy, computer science, quantitative biology, statistics, and quantitative finance, which can be accessed online. In many fields of mathematics and physics, almost all scientific papers are self-archived on the arXiv repository. Begun on August 14, 1991, arXiv.org passed the half-million article milestone on October 3, 2008, and hit a million by the end of 2014. By 2014 the submission rate had grown to more than 8,000 per month.

The arXiv was made possible by the low-bandwidth TeX file format, which allowed scientific papers to be easily transmitted over the Internet and rendered client-side. Around 1990, Joanne Cohn began emailing physics preprints to colleagues as TeX files, but the number of papers being sent soon filled mailboxes to capacity. Paul Ginsparg recognized the need for central storage, and in August 1991 he created a central repository mailbox stored at the Los Alamos National Laboratory which could be accessed from any computer. Additional modes of access were soon added: FTP in 1991, Gopher in 1992, and the World Wide Web in 1993. The term e-print was quickly adopted to describe the articles.

1. What's the main topic?
2. When did it begin?
3. In what month?
4. And day?
5. What was the rate of submission by 2014?
6. When did they clear half-million articles?
7. Who emailed TeX files around 1990?
8. What did those email cause?
9. What did Paul Ginsparg see?
10. And what did he do about it?
11. Where would they be stored?
12. What could access that?
13. Are there other access ways?
14. How many?
15. Which one came out first?
16. In what year?
17. How many years til the next come out?
18. What was its name?
19. When was the WWW added?

Numbered answers:

A:
1. arXiv
2. 1991
3. August
4. 14th
5. 8,000 per month
6. October 3, 2008
7. Joanne Cohn
8. they filled mailboxes to capacity
9. He recognized the need for central storage.
10. He created a central repository mailbox.
11. Los Alamos National Laboratory
12. Any computer.
13. Yes.
14. Three
15. FTP
16. 1991
17. One
18. Gopher
19. 1993