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　　有很多事情，我未曾想够、做够或体会够--朝阳、雨水、由成群飞翔的鸭鹅带来的季节性喜悦以及那些午夜的.神秘。我还需要时间读书、写诗、作画、观赏景色以及我所爱的脸庞。还有更多具有价 值的东西--那些我应该在自己内心发现的东西--心灵的宁静、耐心、优雅与仁慈。我要获取，我也要施予，然而还有许多值得为之而活--彩虹、闪烁的星星、 田野、山丘、希望、梦想以及人必须追求的真理。

　　Ill stay here-treasure every day and love the world in my own way!

　　我会在此--珍惜每一个时日并且用自己的方式惜爱这个世界！

　　I remember quite clearly now when the story happened. The autumn leaves were floating in 1)measure down to the ground, recovering the lake, where we used to swim like children, under the sun was there to shine. That time we used to be happy. Well, I thought we were. But the truth was that you had been 2)longing to leave me, not daring to tell me. On that precious night, watching the lake, vaguely 3)conscious, you said: Our story is ending.

　　The rain was killing the last days of summer. You had been killing my last breath of love, since a long time ago. I still dont think Im gonna make it through another love story. You took it all away from me. And there I stand, I knew I was going to be the one left behind. But still Im watching the lake, vaguely conscious, and I know my life is ending.

　　我仍清晰地记得故事发生的时候。秋叶翻飞，飘落一地。我们曾经孩子般戏水畅游过的小湖盖满落叶，在太阳下闪着光。那时我们幸福过。哦，我是这样认为的。可事实上你早就想离开我，你只是不敢告诉我罢了。在那美丽的夜晚，眼望湖水，恍惚中听见你说：我们的故事已到尽头。

　　雨水扼杀着所剩无几的夏日，而你很久以来也在扼杀我奄奄一息的爱。但我仍不认为自己会再去经历另一段爱情故事。你把一切都带走了。我只有悄然伫立，早已明白自己将会是那个被遗弃的人。而我依然凝望着湖水，恍惚中，我知道生命正离我而去。

　　Where do you like to live, in the city or in the country?

　　Most cities are centers of economy, trade, transportation or culture. With the development of economy and society, more and more people have flooded into the cities, which make the scale of the cities larger and larger. Surely, it is very convenient for shopping, education, business and so on. But it also has many disadvantages: the large population makes it crowded in each corner of the city; the big factories, too many cars, buses and trucks pollute the clean air; too much noise can make people mad. To live in the city, one even cant get enough room for living.

　　To live in the country is another thing. You can breathe the fresh air cheerfully, own a spacious house with a big backyard, and relax yourself in quietness. But when you want to go shopping, or take your child to school, perhaps you will complain about its inconvenient transportation, its remotenessI am an ordinary person. I am always longing for the peaceful idyllic（田园诗般的） life of the countryside.

　　Friday-the Thirteenth has long been considered extremely unlucky because it has some bad associations which came from mythology,tale of the Bible,and the customs and habits. According to the Bible,the Lord God created the first man,Adam.Then he took a rib from Adam's body and out of it created the first woman, Eve. It was said that Adam was created on a Friday and it was on Friday that Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit,and on a Friday they died.

　　Friday was also the common day in England for executing criminals , for which it was sometimes known as Hanging Day.

　　From the old Norse myth people got the idea that 13 people sitting at a table to have a dinner was unlucky. And this superstition was confirmed by the last supper of Christ and his disciples. Bible tells us that Christ sat down with his 12 disciples, which made up the number 13, at the last supper when Judas, one of the 12 disciples , sold his master for thirty pieces of silver. Christ was killed by nailing on the cross the following day on a Friday.