I'm only a child and I don't have all the solutions,but I want you torealize that you don't, either! You don't know how to fix the ozone hole. You don't know how to bring salmon back to a dead river. You don't know how to bring back an extinct animal. If you don't know how to fix it, please stop breaking it! I'm only a child, yet I know we are all part of a family of 30 million species, and we all share the same air, water, and ground - borders and governments will never change that. I'm only a child, yet I know we are all in this huge family and should act as one single world towards one single goal. In my anger, I am not losing control, and in my fear, I am not afraid to tell the world how I feel. In my country, we make so much waste. We buy and throw away, buy and throw away. And yet northern countries will not share with the needy. Even when we have more than enough, we are afraid to lose some of our wealth, afraid to share.
Two days ago here in Brazail, we were shocked when we spent some time with some children living on the streets. One boy told us: "If I were rich, I would give all the street children food, clothes, medicine, shelter, and love." If a child on the street who has nothing is willing to share, why are we who have everything still so greedy? I can't stop thinking that these children are my age, and that it makes a big difference where you are born. I could be one of those children living in the favellas of Rio or a child starving in Somalia or a victim of war in the Middle East. I'm only a child, yet I know if all the money spent on war was spent on ending poverty and finding answers to environmental problems, what a wonderful place this earth would be! You adults teach us how to behave in the world. You teach us: not to fight with others, to work things out, to respect others, not to hurt other creatures, to share - not to be greedy Well, what you do makes me cry at night. You say you love us. Ichallenge you; please make your actions reflect your words. Thank you for listening. (adapted from Severn Suzuki's speech, June 1992)
Lots of people visit a unique hot spring in Kangal,Turkey. Believe it or not, small fish live in this spring. They are called doctor fish. The temperature of the water is 37℃. When you get in the water, a school of small fish come around your body and strike and lick it. It is these doctor fish that do much for skin care.
Early in winter, there appears a fantastic hotel in Jukkasjarvi, Sweden. It is built entirely of ice from the nearby river. By mid-December everything is ready for the first guests. The indoor temperature is -5℃, while the outside temperature is -30℃. The guests sleep in special sleeping bags on ice beds. In late April, the sun begins to melt the hotel. After a while, it returns to the river.
There is a special restaurant in Paris. You have to eat dinner there in the dark. You cannot bring in anything taht gives off light - a cellphone, a watch, a camera. What is it like to eat in total darkness as you feel for your knife and fork? Some people wonder if this is a proper way of eating food. The owner says, “The darkness helps you enjoy the food fully by only using your palate.”
Late in every August the world's largest tomato war breaks out in Bunol, Spain. Crowds of people throw more than 100 tons of rips tomatoes at each other. The only rule is that you have to squash the tomatoes before throwing them. This war ends up with a good laugh. People make friends again and go down to the river together to wash away the red sauce from their hair and bodies.
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587 名前：名無しさん＠英語勉強中 [2008/11/13(木) 15:13:52 ]
>>586 の 続きです Once there was a boy who loved a girl very much. The girl's father, however, did not like the boy, and he did not want their love to grow. The boy wanted to write the girl a love letter, but he was afraid that the girl's father would read it first. “How can I write her a love letter?”he said to himself with a sigh. At long last he came up with a good idea. He sat at his desk and wrote a letter to the girl.
The boy was right. Mumbling something, the girl's father opened the letter. It went: The great love I said I had for you is gone, and I find my dislike for you increases every day. When I see you, I do not like your looks at all and the only thing I want to do is to look the other way. I never wanted to marry you. Our last conversation was dull and in no way made me anxious to see you again. The girl's father read this much, smiling to himself.
588 名前：名無しさん＠英語勉強中 [2008/11/13(木) 15:14:49 ]
>>587の続きです The boy's letter continued: You think only of yourself. If we were married, I would find life difficult, and I would have no pleasure in living with you. I have a heart to give, but it is not a heart I want to give to you. I sincerely want you to understand I speak the truth. You will do me a favor if you consider this the end. Do not try to answer this. Good-bye! Believe me, I do not care for you. Please do not think I am still your loving friend.
The girl's father was pleased. He was sure the boy was no longer in love with his daughter. When he finished reading the letter, he gave it to her. The girl read the letter and said, “He loves me so much! I wish I could go out with him again!” Why was the girl so pleased? She and the boy had a secret way of writing to each other. She read the firse line, and than the third line, and then the fifth line, and so on, to the end of the letter.
Gerald Wilkinson, a professor of biology at the University of Maryland, decided to find out what was going on among the vampire bats. He spent many hours looking closely inside the trees where vampire bats were gathering. He also set up acolony at the University of Maryland so that he could keep a closer watch on particular individuals and which bats they fed and were fed by. Wilkinson noticed that sometimes one bat would do the feeding and at other times it would be fed by the others, and it was this difference that gave him a clue as to what was going on. プロビジョンレッスン９パート３前半よろしくお願いします
Picasso put all anger into the mural and finish it on June4. The mural, called Guernica, was three and a half meters tall and over seven and a half meters long. It was painted in black and white and shades of gray to create a sorrowful atmosphere. In Guernica you can see images such as a crying woman with her dead baby in her arms, a dead soldier, a feeling woman holding a lamp, a bull, a horse, and the flames of a burning building. When Guernica was exhibited at the Paris World’s Fair, in immediately caused a variety of reactions. Some said it was an excellent piece of work. Some thought it difficult to understand what the mural stood for. Although different people have different interpretations, Guernica is now interpreted as symbolizing resistance to and anger at fascism.
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595 名前：ずーの [2008/11/13(木) 18:56:39 ]
Guernica was moved around Europe after the Paris World’s Fair. Picasso hoped that Guernica would one day find a home in Spain. But he made it a condition that “the painting shall be turned over to Spain.” World War Ⅱ ended in 1945, but General Franco continued to rule Spain for the following thirty years. Guernica could not find a home in Spain and so was kept in the Museum of New York. After Franco’s death in 1975, when Picasso had already died, new calls were made for the mural’s return. In 1981, Guernica was finally taken to Spain. Now showcased at the Reina Sofia National Museum Art Center, Guernica is called one of the greatest masterpieces of the 20th century.
