Bees

    Bees are useful insects. There are about 20,000 kinds of bees, but only honeybees make honey.      Honeybees live in  groups called colonies. Each colony has one female queen bee, tens  of thousands  of worker bees,  and a few hundred males, or drones. Honeybees   live in hives. Inside their hive,   the bees make a honeycomb of  wax. The honeycomb   is a kind of bee apartment building,  full of six-sided   rooms  in which  the bees raise young   and store food.      The queen bee lays thousands of eggs. Worm like larvae  hatch...

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Electricity

    Electricity is one of the basic forms of energy. Electricity is associated with electric charge, a property ofcertain elementary particles such as electrons and protons; two of the basic particles that make up the atoms of all ordinary matter. Electric charges can be stationary as in static electricity, or moving as in an electric current.     Electrical activity takes place constantly everywhere in the universe. 'Electrical forces hold molecules together. The nervous systems of animals work by means of weak electric signals transmitted between neurons (nerve celis). Electricity is generated, transmitted, and converted...

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Agricultural Machinery

     Agricultural machinery devices are used to till soil and to plant, cultivate, and harvest crops. Since ancient times, when first culture began cultivating plants, people have used tools to help them grow and harvest crops. They used pointed tools to dig and keep soil loosened, and sharp knife like objects to harvest ripened crops. Modifications of these early implements led to the development of small hand tools that are still used in small-stale gardening, such as the spade, hoe, rake, trowel, and scythe, and larger implements, such as plows and larger rakes that are drawn by humans; animals, or simple machines. Much of...

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The Zoo Job (Funny Story)

     One day a clown 'was visiting the zoo and attempted to earn some money by making a street performance. He acted and mimed perfectly some animal acts. As soon as he started to drive a crowd, a zoo keeper grabbed him and dragged him into his office.       The zoo keeper explained to the clown that the ZOOIS most popular gorilla had died suddenly and the keeper was fear that attendance at the zoo would fall off. So he offered the clown a job to dress up as the gorilla until the zoo could get another one. The clown accepted this great opportunity. So the next morning the clown put on the gorilla suit and entered...

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SOCCER

     The title above might be unfamiliar to you, but if I change it into football, you will know what is meant. It is one of the most popular sports in the world. It is a game played by two teams, each of which consists of eleven players. It is played outdoor on a football pitch. A football match is lead by a referee who is helped by two linesmen.         Traditionally a team consists of a keeper, the last player who defends the goal and, prevents the opponent from scoring goals, two backs in front of the keeper, three centers in the middle of the field, and five forwards who are responsible for scoring...

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Our Newspapers

Nowadays, there is a great number of newspapers published in our country. Almost in each province, we have one or more newspapers published daily. There are two types of newspapers: national and regional newspapers. National newspapers report the news based on what happens in entire country, Regional newspapers report the news from the province or a certain city or town. But, both types of newspapers describe what happens in the country and in other countries. The arrangement of the newspaper usually consists of headlines, editorials, articles, classified ads, sports, and lighter sides. The headlines are usually. important plecesof...

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MAGAZINES

     There are magazines for the general reader as well as for the reader with a special interest. A news magazine gives articles on current events. A digest is a magazine that contains shortened articles from other magazines. Then there are magazines that give the news in pictures rather than in articles. A reader whose special is music may subscribe to a music magazine. It contains articles on music and gives comments on recent musical events. Women may subscribe to a magazine that is specially published for them, which usually contains articles on dressmaking, cooking, flower arranging. and the like., Children, of course....

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Cigarettes, Smokers, and Smoking

     Smoking is bad habit that is very hard to break. Smokers are very everywhere. Many people smoke just to socialized, but many others are too addicted to quit.      A cigarette is like a toxin hypermarket. You can find many kinds toxin in it : acetone, carbon monoxide, tar, arsenic, ammonia, hydrogen cyanide, and toluene. The tar itself contains more than 43 substances that can caused cancer. Scientist say that when we are smoking, we put more than 4.000 kinds of toxic materials into our body.       However, many smokers believe that cigarette with low tar is less dangerous. And so is a filtered...

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Ki Semar and Slamet Mountain (Folklore from Central java)

    A long time ago, Slamet Mountain was very high. It was so high that it could reach the sky. People heard that they could take the stars if they were on top of the mountain. But no one dared to go there.      The people were afraid that the Gods in heaven would be angry if people took the stars. However, the beauty of the stars made some monkeys dared to go to the top of the mountain. Led by their king, they went there and took some stars. Then, the sky became dark at night. People were sad and the Gods were angry!.        Batara Guru was the leader of the Gods. He held a meeting. He invited...

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Miser's Final Wish

     There was a man who had worked all of his life and had saved all of his money. He was a real miser when it came to his money. He loved money more than just about anything, and just before he died, he said to his wife, "Now listen, when I die, I want you to take all my money and place it in the casket with me. I wanna take my money to the afterlife."     So he got his wife to promise him with all her heart that when he died, she would put all the money in the casket with him.      Well, one day he died. He was stretched out in the casket, the wife was sitting there in black next to her closest...

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The Olympic Games

     There are various international sports events. Among these events are the Olympic Games. They are the biggest sports event in the world. They are held every four years. Many countries participate in these events. People like to watch them because they want to see the achievements of international athletes.      The first Olympic Games were held in Greece. Running was the only event in these games. They were not very glorious because besides there only being one event, the athletes participating were all men. The winner in these games did not get a medal or money from their country like today. They only got...

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Work and Careers

    Sometimes we say that someone we know is "a square peg in a round hole." This simply means that the person we are talking about is not suited for the job he is doing. He may be a bookkeeper who really wants to be an actor or mechanic who likes cooking. Unfortunately many people in the world are "square peg." They are not doing, for one reason or another. As a result they probably are not doing a very good job and certainly they are not happy.     Choosing the right career is very important. Most of us spend a great part of our life at our jobs. For that reason we should try to find out our talents and how we can use...

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Land Transportation

     Transportation is carrying something or someone from one place to another. It plays an important role in people's mobility. Going to school, the office, business or other activities needs good transportation. If they cannot reach a place on time, they will have many problems.       There are many kinds of transportation. One of them is land transportation. We can use animals (horse), carts, pedicabs or bicycles to go somewhere. These are called traditional transportation. We use these if the distance is not very far. If the place we want to reach is far, we can use modern transportation like motorcycles,...

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