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All around the world, people drink tea. But tea does not mean the same thing to everyone. In

different countries people have very different ideas about drinking tea.

In China people like to have tea together with their friends. They may drink tea at any time of

the day. They only put tea leaves in their cups. They prefer the tea with nothing in it.

Tea is also important in Japan. It is very popular there. People drink tea every day. But they

have it in a way different from that in China.

In the USA people drink tea at breakfast or after meals. They usually use tea bags to make

their tea. Making tea with tea bags is faster and easier than making it with leaves in teapots.

E-mail is quick. It can take days or weeks for a paper letter to arrive somewhere, but an

e-mail will arrive in a few hours. With e-mail, you can also send copies of your letter to as many

people as you want. Now, you can even send pictures, sounds and short films in your e-mail. But

there are still some things that you can’t do with e-mail.

For example, you can’t send real things, like a stamp or a pretty leaf.

Of course, you can’t send an e-mail to someone who doesn’t have a computer, but as e-mail

is almost free, more and more people are using it. Maybe, one day, people will live and die

without ever receiving a paper letter!

Reading newspapers has become an important part of everyday life. Many people read

newspapers as the first thing to do in the morning. Others read newspapers as soon as they have

free time during the day so that they learn what is happening in the world. Sometimes, however,

we do not have enough time to read all the news carefully, so we just take a quick look at the front

page, at other times, we may be in such a hurry that we only have a few minutes to look at the

names of the passages.

Newspapers can be found everywhere in the world. We can get many different kinds of

newspapers in the big cities, of course, but in some of the mountain villages we can see fewer

newspapers. Today newspapers in English have the largest number of readers in the world. The

English Language is so popular that many Chinese students are reading newspapers such as China

Daily or 21st Century as they bring us more and more messages together with the Internet.

Most of us think that people are the most important things on earth, but we aren’t. We are

really much less important than plants! If all the people on earth die tomorrow, life will not stop.

The plants, animals and everything else will go on living. But, if all the green plants die, Earth will

become a very different place. The air will change and neither animals nor people will be able to

live in that air.

All living things need plants to make the right kind of air. But they also need them for

something else --- food. Living things need food to grow, but only plants can make their own food.

Green plants get light from the sun and water from the ground and turn it into food. Nothing else

can do that!

John, who was working a long way from home, wanted to send a letter to his wife, but he

could neither read nor write, and he had to work all day, so he could only look for somebody to

write his letter late at night. At last he found the house of a letter-writer whose name was Bill. Bill

was already in bed. “It is late,” he said. “What do you want?” “I want you to write a letter to my

wife,” said John. Bill was not pleased. He thought for a few seconds and then said, “Does the

letter have to go far?” “What does that matter?” answered John.” Well, my writing is so strange

that only I can read it, and if I have to travel a long way to read your letter to your wife, it will cost

you a lot of money.” John went away quickly.

Once there was a farmer who lived near a road. It was not a busy road, but from time to time,

cars passed the farm. Near the farm gate, there was a large hole in the road. This hole was always

full of water, and the drivers of the cars could not see how deep the hole was. Then when they

drove into the hole, they could not drive out because it was so deep. The farmer did not spend

much time working on his farm. He spent most of time watching the hole. When a car drove into it,

he pulled the car out and charged the driver a lot of money for doing this. One day, the driver of a

car said to him, “You must make a lot of money pulling cars out of this hole night and day.” “Oh,

no,” the farmer said.” I don’t pull cars out of the hole at night. At night I fill the hole with water.”

Mrs. Green lives in a small village. Her husband is dead, but she has one son. He is