If you wish to become a better reader, here is four important things to

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remember about speed of reading．Know why you are reading, that is

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to say, what you are reading to find, will often help you to know whether

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to read rapidly or slowly．Some things should be reading slowly, such

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as directions for experiments．They are full of important informations．

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You must read them quickly enough to remember each important step and

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understand each idea．Some things should be read rapidly throughout,

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such as simple stories or everyday newspapers, because it are only

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telling you what is happening．A good reader is very like a good

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river．He must adjust his reading speed to fit her purpose and the

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materials he is reading．

Lake Ponkapog used to be full of birds and fish．Now there are a few

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of them．The lake is polluted．It is a color of dirty brown, and it is filled

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with strange plants．How did this happen?First, it must think

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about how water gets into Lake Ponkapog．Unless it rains, water

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comes into the lake from all around．In the past, there are forests

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all around Lake Ponkapog, so the rainwater was clean．Now there

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are many homes around the forests．People often use chemicals in their gardens．

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They use for other chemicals inside their houses to clean or kill insects．

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There are neither many businesses, which use chemicals in their machines

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or shops．Another chemicals fall onto the ground from cars or trucks．

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The rainwater will carry them into the lake．

World Cup is not a game that all the good players want to play most．

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It is held every four years．Only the better team can win the last

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game．Football game has the biggest group fans anywhere in the world．

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In 1998 World Cup started in French．Thousands of people went to

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the game or watched them on TV day of night．They all got very

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excited and hoped their favorite team become the world’s best

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one．After 44 years, China had reached the World Cup finals for the

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first time．Knew as a “miracle worker”, Boar is the only coach in

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history to take four different teams into the second round of the

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World Cup finals．Boar said, “Soccer in my life．I love my job．”

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The Chinese Nian came from the name of a beast that started to people

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on the eve of a new year．One story goes that the beast Nian in which had a very big

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mouth would take in a great people at one time．People were

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very afraid．One day, an old man came from their help and said he

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would stop all this．To Nian he said, “I hear say that you are very

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strong, but can you eat up all the beasts above the earth instead of

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people who are too weak to your enemy?” “Yes,” Nian agreed with

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him and went to kill many of the beasts on the earth．People were very happy

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because those beasts also did bad things of people from time to time．

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After, the old man, who was a god, rode on the beast Nian and left．

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“Guo Nian Hao” means “Go through the Nian safely．”

When I first learned to write in English, I ran into many

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difficulties．The main problem was in that I always thought

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in Chinese and tried to translate anything into English．

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My teacher advised me to keep my diary．I followed her

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advice and should put down 100 words or so each day．

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Soon I began to enjoy talk to myself on paper as I was

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learning to express me in simple English．One day I wrote

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a little story and showed to my teacher．She liked it

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very much and reads it to the class．All said the story was

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a good one．Their word were a great encouragement to me．

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