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Celestial beauty scattering flowers—the stunt of dandelions
Xuefeng
August 16, 2002
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I remember that when I was young there used to be clumps of dandelions growing beside the aqueducts, on the ridges of fields, and on waste grasslands in my hometown. We called them“Spur Arrowroot” and a traditional Chinese medicine doctor called them “thistle”. They can be used as medicine. A perennial herb, dandelions have yellow or aubergine flowers. When the flower seeds are ripe, on the crown wi
Too young sometimes too naive !
Yes, my thought is too young before i get married. I think a lot of people have same feeling. I become more mature after marriage.
i was a half loser in marriage, because my shedule is totally different with my husband. i get up at 6 a.m--- sleep at11 p.m. While my husband get up at 4 p.m--sleep at 3 am. ok, it is no problem.i can endure it.
The big problem is: My husband never work. He go out drinking and smoking at night; Sleep in the day, watch TV at home all day
Animals’ instincts—revelation of the wisdom of the Greatest Creator
Xuefeng
August 16, 2002
That roosters can crow, bees can build honeycombs, chicks can break egg shells, and migratory birds can migrate doest not mean that these animals possess very great wisdom or are good at learning and summarizing experiences. Their instincts are the revelation of the Greatest Creator that has created them.
Besides the above examples of instincts, there are many other instances. Termites can build air-cond
Dear friends, I have been asked more than once to write a blog about the gerund and the infinitive. You know there are some verbs and adjectives followed by the gerund as well as the verbs and adjectives followed by the infinitive only. But the problem is that the lists from different sources are not exactly the same. So, I decided to choose the lists from the TOEFL Preparation Guide.
Some verbs can be followed either by the gerund or by the infinitive with no change in meaning:
to begin
can’t stan
I think the worst white page syndrome I ever had was when I started writing the college essay. I just didn’t want to sound like everybody else! It turned myself into knots for weeks to find the right way to get started.
In the end, I think I compared me gaining knowledge like the rising sun. Yep, I went that way. Man, I have no idea how I got into the college of my choice. Like that hasn’t been written ten thousand and two times before. What would have helped is if I would have known what some of
What is the secret of birds migration?
Xuefeng
August 16, 2002
As a young child, I used to see flocks of wild geese fly in the blue sky in my homeland in the late summer and early autumn. Just as described in the textbook of primary school, “Autumn is coming and it is getting cooler. A flock of wild geese is flying southward, sometimes in the formation of the fork and sometimes in a line.”
One day at the turn of the rainy and the dry season this year, I was queuing at a service stationinZimbabwe,
Life is unpredictable. At times it plays with us, exactly like it played with me today in the morning. I guess some of you know I have two kids (7 years old boy and 4 years old girl), so our mornings are usually pretty hectic. If I am not too tired, I prepare as much as I can in the evening to avoid stress or some unexpected moments in the morning as we all are in a hurry. Today we woke up, kid's clothes were prepared, I made breakfast etc., to sum it up... everything went smoothly. However, yea
Yes, I mean you could try guessing the meaning of a word that is unfamiliar to you. In fact, that is one of the reading skills. That is, you can try to understand what a sentence or paragraph means without looking up the unfamiliar words in the dictionary.
Try guessing the meaning of the words highlighted in bold:
1. 'The patient's care may be jeopardized, and the patient may be harmed.'
2. 'The health professional has a right to financial remuneration from the patient.'
3. 'No one at that time cou
My friends, I see that one of the sentences on my last test turned out to be a true toughie! What a great sentence! It has already made me write my “nightmare blog” and makes me write one more blog as we all buy some clothes/footwear from time to time and should know the appropriate vocabulary. Some EC members may think I went nuts, such things are well-known! Yes, they are, but if you read what I did, you will agree it is time to tell learners what words and expressions to use speaking about sh
The chick comes out from egg shell
Xuefeng
August 16, 2002
After 21 days of hatch by the hens, the yolk and egg white inside the egg turn into chick. Before it comes out of the shell, the chick has no connection with the world. Then how does it come out of the shell? From whom it learned the skills of breaking the shell?
The chick’s dad is busy all day chasing after hens and thus never cares the chick’s life or death.Even if the chick’s mom keeps complaining to the chick’s dad for not attending
The old man was having lunch after his work at his farm when a car stopped in front of the front door of his farmhouse. He wondered because no one from the village would use the small street because they knew it as an one ways street. Its end is only few metres far from the house. "Maybe a stranger who got lost", thought the old man. He did not pay any further attention. He took a second portion soup from the sauce pan and wanted to continue eating.
A laughter of a child as bright as a bell made
The wisdom of bees
Xuefeng
August 16, 2002
What kind of house structure is most reasonable if we humans are to construct several hundred houses, every one of which is to accommodate only one person temporarily incapable of activity, all of which shall take the least material and labor, and all of which have the strongest structure, the most beautiful appearance, and the greatest cubage?
Should the houses be made of interconnected cylinders? No, the different sizes of man’s legs and waists may
My friends, the idea of this blog is not mine. One of our learners, our dear Bet, asked me why not to write a story based on the mistakes you all make in your comments, blogs, my tests and so on. I liked the idea at once as I usually joke about your mistakes trying to show what you say.
Well, for you to understand my humor, I am writing the wrong sentences together with my explanations.
- “I tried my pants”. This mistake hadn’t been corrected until I said the correct answer. To TRY may mean to TAST
The crowing of roosters
Xuefeng
August 16, 2002
Since I lived in the countryside when I was young, I remembered very well about the rooster’s crowing. Especially when I had to start out early, my diligent and kind mother would judge the time of day by rooster’s crowing, prepare breakfast and solid food in advance, and then wake me up.
The roosters crow three times each night at regular time intervals. The first crowing is at about half past three in the early morning, the second approximately at h
LIFE and death—a phenomenon puzzling mortals and laities
Xuefeng
August 16, 2002
This earth sees the birth and death of a huge amount of animals and plants every day and every moment. Life and death is a universal phenomenon in nature. Everyone has embarked upon the journey to death since the moment of his birth.
The happiness of LIFE and the sadness of death are the basic emotions of mortals and laities.
A family will be bursting with happiness at the birth of a baby and a family suffering loss of
The language of the universe, or perhaps, the language of God? What I am talking about here is Mathematics, the smallest element of the universe. I would say that if there is a God somewhere, his legacy would be mathematics. I do not deny God’s existence, but relations and patterns that mathematics can describe so well makes we wonder, Where does mathematics come from and how was it created? I am not a believer of the God described in the Quran nor in the Bible, and I am not a Atheist since I d
Whenever love was not love to start with,
when the love became toxic and unhealthy,
when it became unbalanced and pain,
when it became a living agony, a place not to be,
where do you stand?
where do you want to be?
when love is not love to begin with,
what you will do?
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When it comes to self-confidence,
you are happy you are never alone,
someone who continue criticising you and making you feel unhappy, complaining,
bullying you, comparing you continuously, not able to communicate or c
My friends, I hope you have had some rest from my grammar tests. So, I am back with my next grammar task for you not to relax completely. This time I have decided to add some Subjunctive and inversion. Please, be attentive as this test is not a piece of cake. You know my mistakes are unpredictable and there are a lot of them in each sentence. I have to admit using some of the sentences from your blogs as well as some your ideas. But we are a perfect team as you give me your ideas and inspire me
Two friends, Ramu & Raju lived in a village. They were born in a poor family. They together worked hard and made a lot of money. They were inspiration for others to work hard. They became richest people in the village.
They were lived in a small hut. After made a lot of money also, they continued to stay that small hut. They started searching girls for marriage one they reached marriage age. All rich parents wanted Raju or Ramu become their bridge groom for their daughters.
As per the wish from ri
