TOURISM IN BALI

      Thousands of tourists go to Bali each year. They like to go on trips for the fun of seeing new and strange things, and .Bali is one of the places where they expect to see them.
There are many books on Bali that foreign tourists can buy before they leave their home towns. However, books cannot explain everything to them, so it is a very good idea for them to go to Bali themselves. The island offers them many good things to see. If it did not, people would not go there.

     There are many hotels where visitors can stay. The three-hundred-room Bali Beach Hotel is one of them. There are just enough hotels now. These hotels offer tourists guides who-speak English and other foreign languages. The government has given these guides training because tourists ask them many kinds of questions.

      Names like "Island of a Thousand Temple" and "Island of Gods" show visitors that. religion is an important part of life in Bali. Most of the Balinese people are members of the Hindu religion. They have religious ceremonies in their temples and other places almost everyday. When a person dies his family burn him in a cremation ceremony. so that his soul may enter a better place. However, this ceremony is not a sad one. Their temples are beautiful buildings and visitors always want to see them. The Besakih Temple is the most important.

       The Balinese people make beautiful pictures. carving arid other things that tourists can buy. Tourists generally want to buy these things for themselves and their friends, so they spend a lot of time in the shops.

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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 from the eggs. Each larva becomes a pupa,   which looks partly like a larva and partly like an adult bee. The pupa then becomes  an adult bee.  Worker bees feed the young,   clean and guard the hive;  and fly to and from  flowers.  They collect tiny grains of pollen  and a sweet liquid  called nectar for food. The pollen is food for young   bees. Worker bees use the nectar to make honey.  With­ out bees bringing pollen from flower to  flower, many plants could not make seeds.

    Queen bees and  worker bees  have stings. Workers   use their  stings  to  defend themselves and their hive.   A queen    uses their stings to kill other  queens.

    Most other kinds   of bees live alone instead of in  a colony. These bees make  tunnels in wood or in the ground. The queen makes  her own nest.

     People 'admire bees  for their  busy ways. People called beekeepers  keep bees for honey and  for the beeswax the bees use to build their honeycombs.

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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 into heat, light, motion, and other forms of Energy through natural processes, as well as by devices built by people.

     Electricity is an extremely versatile form of energy. It can be generated in many' ways and from many different sources, it can be sent almost instaneously over long distances. Electricity can also be converted efficiently in to other forms of energy, and it can be stored. Because of this versatility, electricity plays a part in nearly every aspect of modern technology. Electricity provides light, heat, and mechanical power. It makes telephones, computers, televisions, and countless other necessities and luxuries possible.

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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 the world's arable land is still tilled under conditions that do not permit use of expensive modern machinery. However, modern machinery is used extensively in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Western Europe, and Australia.

     Modern large agricultural implements, adapted to large-scale farming methods, are usually powered by diesel - or gasoline - fueled internal-combustion engines. The most important implement of modern agriculture is the tractor . It provides locomotion for many other implements and tan furnish power, via its power shaft, for the operation of machines drawn behind the tractor. The power shafts of tractors can also be set up to drive belts that operate equipment such as feed grinders, pumps, and electric-power generators. Small implements, such as portable irrigators, are often powered by individual motors.

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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 the case before the crowd came. He felt that it was a great job: He could sleep all he wanted, played and made fun of people and he drove bigger crowds than he ever did asi a clown.

    He pretended to be the gorilla successfully. However, eventually the crowds were tired of him for just swinging on tires, He began to notice that the people were paying more attention to the lion in the next cage. Not wanting to lose the attention of the audience, he decided to make a spectacular performance. He climbed to the top of his cage, crawled across a partition, and dangled from the top to the lion's cage. Of course, this made the lion furious, but the crowd people loved it. At the end of the day the zoo keeper came and gave him a raise for being such a good attraction. Well, this went on' for Some time, he kept taunting the lion, the audience crowd grew a larger, and his salary kept going up. Then one terrible day happened. When he was dangling over the furious lion, he slipped and fell into the lion cage. The clown was really in big terrible situation. He was terrified.

    Sooner the lion gathered itself and prepared to pounce. The clown was so scared. He could do nothing and he began to run round and round the cage with the lion close and closer behind. Finally, the lion could catch him. The clown started .screaming and yielding, "Help me, help me!”, but the lion was quick and pounces. The clown soon found himself flat on his back looking up at the angry lion and suddenly he heard a voice from the lion's mouth, "Shut up you idiot! Do you want to get us both fired?"

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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 goals in the frontest positton, Among those players only the keeper is allowed to keep the ball with his hands during the game, If the' ball is out of position. either on the left or right side, one of them accept the keeper must throw the ball into the field.

      There are some strict regulation that should be followed by the players. They are neither allowed to hit the opponent purposely nor do rude actions. An example of rude actions is an irresponsible sliding tackle. It happens when a player tries to prevent his opponent from moving further rudely . The referee will never tolerate the rude action and he will punish his team by giving a free kick to the opponent. If it is considered serious, besides a free kick for the opponent, the player will get a yellow card, or even a red card. The latter means that the player must leave the field Without being replaced. Another regulation is that fighting is prohibited, let alone hitting the referee.

     Every nation always tries to have the best team in the world and this must be proved in the World Cup event which is held once in four years. Brazil with its outstanding player, Pele, is the first country which has won and brought home the supreme World Cup three times. Other countries which also have good football teams are England, Italy, Germany, France, Argentina, Uruguay, and still many others.

    Football is usually played by men. Nowadays, however, there are many woman-football teams in the world. Football is also played by the blinds. People put some small bells inside the ball so that the players can hear and identify where the ball is. Some people say that it is not humane since the spectators are. amused and laugh at the, blind players movements. They propose that such a kind of game is banned forever.

     Have you ever heard about 'elephant football'? It has two meanings. Literally, it means a football game played by well trained elephants and figuratively, it is a football game where a strong team gives a big score to its opponent to help it join the next competition.

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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 news of the day. The editorial expresses the newspaper's opinion on a certain issue. The articles can be in various forms: economy and business development, religion, law, crime, and any other aspects of people's affairs. The classified ads contains various announcements and advertisements for job vacancies, services, offers, bargains, sales and other odd needs. The sport page informs the reader.of various news and events on sports, names of athletes and their achievements, and others. The lighter side usually contains fun items such as puzzles, crossword pieces, jokes, anecdotes, and so on.

Whatever form and type newspaper takes, it must prepare and present the news as interestingly as possible. We have the belief that the newspaper must inform our people about our development programmes. Although there are many kinds of newspapers, all of them are important for us. They help us keep up with what is happening around us.

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