These days many people are trying to lose weight. Studies show that a weight-loss program that relies only on dieting is less effective than a plan that includes physical exercise. For people who favor an aerobic program, cycling and swimming are good activities. Dancing can also slim you down. Some researchers have suggested that part of the added physical activity should be in the form of weig..

Most people feel stress at some time in their lives. In some situations, if we are rested and feel good about ourselves, a little stress will not be a problem. In another situation, if we are tired or feel unsure about our abilities, even a small amount of stress can cause problems. For example, we might begin to worry about things that haven't happened yet. We need to take care of our bodies. B..

What is a sense of humour? It is very difficult to define. But humour is international, The best way to communicate with a foreigner is to make him laugh. I think laughter must have been the original language of the Garden of Eden. This shows us the importance of laughter in society, and in international understanding. However, some people have a sense of humour, others do not. If someone has no..

Learning another language is important, because it enables us to communicate with people in a different country and to learn more about that culture. But the real importance of learning another language goes even deeper. It makes us realize the relativity of our values, be they cultural or linguistic. In this way, we come to understand that our way of looking at reality is not the only way, that..

English is a very important subject in schools throughout the world. There are hundreds of milllions of native English speakers in the world today, and hundreds of miillions more English speakers who have mastered English as a second language. English is spoken as a native language in more countries than any other language. What all this mens, of course, is that the study of English is very impo..

患失眠症 Dialogue Four Suffering from insomnia 病人：早上好，大夫 Patient: Good morning, doctor. 医生：早上好，哪里不舒服？ Doctor: good morning. What seems to be the trouble? 病人：最近有点失眠。 Patient: I’m suffering from insomnia. 医生：这种情况有多久了？ Doctor: How long have you had this problem? 病人：三个月了。 Doctor: Three mont..

I went out to dinner with some friends last night. We are at that restaurant by the river.The food was great. I had salmon,rice,agreen salad,and their special pumpkin pie. We stayed at the table talking for hours. It was a lot of fun.

In 1903, the first explorer to trudge across the McMurdo Dry Valleys of the Antarctic wrote, “We have seen no living thing, not even a moss or lichen." He greatly overstated his observations, however. To the expert eye of a biologist, with a little help maybe from a microscope, this ostensibly dead zone is far from lifeless. In the dry streambeds of the parched and frozen land live twenty spe..

There are four seasons in Japan. Spring usually begins in March and continues through April and May. In early spring, people can see the beautiful cherry blossoms. The summer months are June,July and August. In August, people often take a long vacation. Autumn begins with September,continues through October,and ends in November. In October, people enjoy the changing colors of the leaves. The wi..

Last year,I visited Seattle,Washington.My plane took off from the Osaka airport in the evening and arrived at the Seattle airport in the morning on the same day! That is because of the change in time zones.The airport is a little south of Seattle,so I took a bus to the city center.I stayed at a very nice hotel. It had a swimming pool on top of it. I love swimming,and it was nice to swim before ..